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Comment #48512118
See also: https://pdfa.org/resource/pdf-2-0-application-note-002-assoc...
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Comment #48512049
Yes this is already possible. You can look up the ZUGFeRD standard for an example of how this is done for German invoices.
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Comment #47871989
A similar thing happened in France in the 1850s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_French_Wine_Blight
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Comment #47753435
I own {{mylastname}}.com and have been making a small social network for everyone who shares my surname. (it's rare) I'm using Facebook's NLLB to translate posts to different langu…
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Comment #47372088
It's a good time to be Messer. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/us-just-sold-heli...
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Comment #45524719
I suspect this is true for almost every somewhat relevant subreddit. Everything has been captured, someone has taken control of the politburo and is defining the message. I've been…
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Comment #45306207
Just make it an auction that runs every month.
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Comment #44637198
You could also add face up or down.
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Show HN: Add a Pixel, the internet's pixel graffiti wall
Here are the keyboard controls: Arrow Keys: Pan the camera left, right, up, or down. WASD: Move the reticle (once a pixel is selected) up, down, left, or right. Enter/Spacebar: Add…
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Comment #44220777
We are running out of floppy disks. No one makes them anymore, and there is a finite supply of existing inventory.
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Comment #42102818
"Turn roll Nate roll some little" might be burned into my brain now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSWZduStYs
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Comment #41732778
It seems like it worked out quite well for Cloudflare. You typically only increase bounties if you aren't seeing the results you want.
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Comment #41708592
You need to take the long view. The United States is the only global superpower because of our economic might. If other countries catch up to us, they will start to test the waters…
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Comment #41708057
The port would not be run by the federal government. Pass an infrastructure bill that funds port automation and gives a healthy wage for ~30 years to any longshoreman who is either…
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Comment #41707979
The federal government should buy out the union
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Comment #41707870
From a national security and economic perspective we need to automate the ports.
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Comment #41405814
It's approximately one kilometer.
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Comment #41404663
A mile is 5,280 feet and a kilometer is approximately 3,280 feet. If you need to do rough conversions just think of a kilometer as slightly more than 3/5ths of a mile.
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Comment #41353115
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34904207/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/825214/atorvastatin-out-... https://www.statista.com/statistics/825187/lininopril-out-of... https://ww…
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Comment #41352243
Would you rather live in the world where we don't have a solution or the world where the solution is expensive now but will eventually become cheap?
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Comment #41144211
I think we're on the verge of drastically increasing survival rates for people with Glioblastoma. It's an extremely aggressive form of brain cancer with an estimated average surviv…
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Comment #41093579
There are many situations where renting is advantageous to owning.
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Comment #41045009
In practice performance problems are a nonissue. Your API should consist of start time and duration because that is how people think about appointments and meetings. (An hour long …
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Comment #41044411
You don't want to store two dates for an event. It's easier to store the start time of the event and a duration for the event. This will make the logic for updating your events sim…
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Comment #39625535
I think you could extract Vanadium from seawater by farming sea squirts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanabin