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Foreign landlord fails to pay taxes, CRA goes after tenant
Can't they put a lien on the big, solid, not going anywhere asset the landlord happens to have in the country?
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Foreign landlord fails to pay taxes, CRA goes after tenant
Can't they put a lien on the big, solid, not going anywhere asset the landlord happens to have in the country?
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Microsoft leaks 38TB of private data via unsecured Azure storage
The exposed data included backups of personal information belonging to Microsoft employees, including passwords for Microsoft services, secret keys, and an archive of over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages originating from 359 Microsoft employees.
In an advisory on Monday by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) team, Microsoft said that no customer data was exposed, and no other internal services faced jeopardy due to this incident.
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US issues first ever fine for space junk to Dish Network
Should the fine not be the cost of a mission to move the satellite? It's within our technology now.
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Why BBC doesn't call Hamas militants 'terrorists' - John Simpson
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The well known phrase is "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter". I Imagine from their point of view, Israel is the 'terrorist' group, routinely bombing apartment buildings etc and that their actions are a proportionate counter (recent events nonwithstanding!)
Both sides of the current conflict have/are committing atrocities, but the reporting of those atrocities should be as factual and unbiased as possible.
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I notice Indians speaking English tend to speak very fast. Are the Indian languages simply spoken faster?
I read something ( similar to this) about the maximum data transfer per second in different languages being basically the same.
Some languages with less nuance, or fewer letters/syllables have less information per syllable, but tend to speak faster, while more 'complicated' languages have more information per syllable, but tend to speak slower.
The general trend was a maximum amount of speech 'data' that could be processed by an average human brain per second.
No idea how this would relate to second languages, and how people with 'fast' languages react to speaking 'slow' ones. Would be cool to see some data/research on it. Anocdotally, a lot of people struggle to understand Indians speaking English, is that because of the accent and/or poor English (second language, don't diss them!) or because they are speaking faster than our natural language data speed?
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The U.N. says the Israeli military told it that all of northern Gaza has 24 hours to move south.
The cynic in me says that Israel will now say that anyone left is a legit target/Hamas supporter, even though it's completely infeasible for most of the population to get out in time.
Then after a huge number of deaths, once they control northern Gasa, they will say (because of continuing Hamas attacks) that it's not safe to return. (But mysteriously is for Israeli settlers)
This only makes the Palestinians less likely to leave ....
It's going to be a bloodbath. Hopefully afterwards it will have been enough for some kind of pro-peace faction to become popular on both sides.... Not holding my breath though.
If this does go bad (worse) I hope that the international community condems both sides, they need to be encouraged (if not forced) to find a peacefull solution.
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I didn't read the TOS for Baldurs Gate 3 until now
I think this was one of the few EULAs I actually read though, mostly to see if I was going to sell my soul to them as part of it.
Did not, but was not disappointed, their lawyers definitely got to have some fun.
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Do people run lower roleplay focused D&D?
I would argue that most D&D games are roleplay light - it's MUCH easier to just run a mechanical game than one with lots of roleplay.
I can give you session after session of dungeon crawling, or low level story stuff, but trying to put together a campaign with good (consistent) characters with motivations and personalities is incredibly difficult.
The reason you hear about all the roleplay heavy ones (critical role etc, or even stories from other people's campaigns) is because they stand out as being special, exceptionally well done games.
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Microsoft estimated Valve’s revenue in 2021 at $6.5bn Interesting to see another view on the scale of Valve’s business
I assume that's gaming revenue not total?
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[GLOBO] RBR ultimatum: If Perez doesn't finish the WDC in #2, Ricciardo gets the seat in 2024.
Putting Riccardo straight back in would be brave... Might not be much better.
I guess that experienced drivers have a few years each of good driving before max destroys their confidence and skill, not sure if Riccardo is still up there though?
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Why BBC doesn't call Hamas militants 'terrorists' - John Simpson
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While us Brits love to complain about the BBC being biased (probably an actual issue for internal UK politics) its good to remember that it's still a world leading media outlet, and one of very few that can be considered not to be push an agenda. (I imagine I can find a lot of people that can probably disagree with that too....)
Even Routers has started editorialising, and I thought they were just meant to be raw facts!
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Williams have announced Logan Sargeant will be replaced for the remainder of the 2024 season by Franco Colapinto
In my opinion: about time. Sargent wasn't fast and he crashed almost as much as Maldonado. I guess the car write off on Saturday was the final straw.
Never heard of the new guy though.
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Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs get two additional years of warranty coverage
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It may be that other companies can compete using ARM/RISC architectures. The only reason the current duopoly exists is the cross licensing between x64 and x86, now that apple has proved ARM can be competitive we will see what happens there!
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Why the internet make it hard for people to self-promote
The quality of things being self promoted will on average be lower than that of content being posted by other people. (If your posting other people's content, it's because you think it's good, if you are posting yours it's just because you made it)
This isn't necessarily a problem, in a small community it adds content and helps the poster grow their skills. But in a larger community it can result in a lot of low quality content.
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Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive
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The historic high salary for COBOL Devs etc is also partially due to them mostly being old and extremely experienced senior devs
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Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker
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Probably just deleting it 😂
It's a shame, the original windows.phone concept was great
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What was the original use of the ‘☠️’ emoji?
The skull and crossbones has pirate connotations. Or just for danger/death.
It was added to Unicode in 1993 so it's an original emoji.
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fuck Adobe and fuck their licensing
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You have probably never 'owned' a computer game. Even when you had discs/cartridges you owned the disc/cartridge, but had a single license for the game.
That's why it was technically allowed to copy the disk for your own use, but not to share - you only had one license.
Steam is the same, just without the disk.
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WeWork plans to file for bankruptcy as early as next week, source says
Any idea if this is a proper (shut down) bankruptcy, or a get cheaper leases bankruptcy?
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EK is Imploding: Not Paying Employees, Partners, & Suppliers | Investigative Report
Sounds like a prelude to bankruptcy. Also sounds like an incredibly badly run company. Difficult business to be in though I guess.
I wonder if their lawyers are getting paid...