GJim

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   by GJim 8mo ago

   True It’s also worth pointing out that as the luddites campaigned for unemployment compensation and retraining for those displaced by the new machinery… this probably made them amongst the most forward thinking and progressive people of the
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   by GJim 8mo ago

   Aaaah, so you're a waffle man.
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   by GJim 8mo ago

   > If transporting something from Shenzhen to Franfurt is cheaper than transporting the same thing from Krakow to Thessaloniki - means that EU has fucked up Ummmm. No. It means the United Nations Universal Post Union international trea
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   by GJim 8mo ago

   "British accent" Who uses this term? English, Welsh and Scottish accents sound nothing like each other!
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   by GJim 8mo ago

   > You don't screw up something this major Liz Truss begs to differ.
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   by GJim 8mo ago

   Try reflecting X-rays or gamma rays and you will understand why.
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   by GJim 8mo ago

   FFS. Please re-read what was written by typhon . And then take your prejudice elsewhere.
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   by GJim 8mo ago

   Please re-read what was written by typhon and take your prejudice elsewhere.
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   by GJim 8mo ago

   Nice bit of agism there.
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    by GJim 8mo ago

    That humour isn't your strong point? EDIT: Or on a serious note, perhaps its your sense of smell?
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    by GJim 8mo ago

    Earl Grey isn't tea. It's talcum powder.
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    by GJim 8mo ago

    > Content creators I'd argue the very words creating "content" implies something commercial is already in mind and is a driver, rather than just doing your own thing online and not caring (such showing a video of your ba
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    by GJim 8mo ago

    > it is immediately assumed as CGI Remember seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark , watching Indiana Jones being dragged under a lorry by his whip and thinking "wow, that's a brilliant stunt"? Remember (or did you forget) seeing
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    by GJim 8mo ago

    > sellout trash A trifle offtopic, but..... In the 1990's and for us Gen-X'ers, the worst thing you could do was to sell out; to take the mans money instead of keeping your integrity. Calling people and bands 'sell outs&#x
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    by GJim 8mo ago

    I really don't know how to respond to such a naive interpretation of what I have written.
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    by GJim 8mo ago

    > I have yet to find a device or tool that would discover such hidden cameras. eh? IR based camera lens detectors are available for < £10 https://duckduckgo.com/?q=camera+detector&ia=shopping&iax=sh...
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    by GJim 8mo ago

    What is the point you are tyring to make?
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    by GJim 8mo ago

    > I feel like people forget that so much of what they blame on social media now existed with television TV news/documentary broadcasts have a "fairness doctrine" in most of the democratic world [1], meaning both sides of p
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    by GJim 8mo ago

    You are being downvoted by those who see the world solely though American eyes and with only recent experience of American politics to draw on. I know HN is USA centric, but bugger me! I didn't expect to see such a narrow viewing of th
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    by GJim 8mo ago

    > it would be possible for volunteers to build an archive site of it It would. But you are forgetting the whole editorial trust thing, which is what made it so useful and well cited.
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    by GJim 9mo ago

    Woooooossshhhhhhhhhh
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    by GJim 9mo ago

    > there's a push to end with VPNs in the UK and in the EU No there isn't. Governments discussing such things doesn't _remotely_ mean there is a political will for them, or that they will be voted into law. Governments are
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    by GJim 9mo ago

    And removed from positions of authority or facing trumped up (heh) charges or threated with $1Billion lawsuits for speaking out against the president/prime minister. Happens all the time in the EU.
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    by GJim 9mo ago

    > The agent looked at me, confused, and said "so... you don't want to get on the plane?" Brit here. That's simply the British way of "calling you out" on your bullshit. Had you given a legitimate reason not
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    by GJim 9mo ago

    Its a real life 3D save icon.
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    by GJim 9mo ago

    > after asking AI about this Seriously? I thought HN readers would have more sense than that.
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    by GJim 9mo ago

    > The US sees in the ballpark of a hundred million tourists, business travelers, and migrants per year American exceptionalism at its finest! You do realise the vast majority of those "tourists, business travelers, and migrants&quot
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    by GJim 9mo ago

    > "drive-by downvotes" A meta-moderation system (allowing moderators up/down votes to be randomly audited) would help stop this happening. Those who remember the old Slashdot meta-moderation system will know how this works
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    by GJim 9mo ago

    Only twenty? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday
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    by GJim 9mo ago

    > It is definitely not legal tender. "Legal tender" doesn't mean what you think it means. It has nothing to do with what coins/notes are in circulation or commonly accepted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi