MistahKoala

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by MistahKoala 8y ago
I've never used Netflix, so I've no idea what the comparison means. I'm assuming there isn't a subscription fee to access free podcasts, though.
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
Although I like the control and portability of having my own domain, as a less technologically-proficient user on a shoestring budget, I've found it more challenging to set up and configure on shared hosting services. There's a ne
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
Individuals who run their own business are far more vulnerable to the harm form GDPR than well-resourced enterprises are. And as an individual consumer, I'm comfortable in saying that it is a really not great law for me (ie, YMMV). It&
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
This proposal has a very French flavour to it. Hopefully it won't affect us in the UK, but my fear would be that it leads to more walls being put up around content and services for EU Internet users, as has happened with GDPR.
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
Not bad for general queries, but still not suited to specific, local and timely queries - at least, in the UK, anyway. Even whilst searching with country-specific settings, most results tend to be American. Also, I miss pagination of result
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
I dislike the way fledgling projects don't provide any details about pricing. Even if they haven't figured out the model they want to go with, just a simple statement saying as much is helpful and transparent.
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
Presumably the design/visualisation one.
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
I don't think that's too unreasonable. I only spent a short amount of time with iOS, but I soon gained the impression that it was unintuitive and that there was perhaps an emphasis on superficially clever stuff at the expense of k
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
And libertarians aren't necessarily or typically objectivists.
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
> And you can tell because they're kicking ass when it comes to iOS devices. They're so far ahead in certain areas, it's not even funny. I'm not convinced of that. I bought an iPhone for the first time a few months a
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
I returned to Macintosh in 2015 after a 15-year hiatus, buying a late 2013 MBP. Having seen the absolute abortion of a device in the most recent MBP line-up and the glaringly obvious neglect of the platform, I feel like I've swapped on
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
Some people seem to be missing the context of my point, so I'll re-state that I'm struggling to think of any UK-based business or important organisation that relies on .EU. Non-UK users of .EU aren't germane to the issue here
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
But still not in the UK or affected by these changes.
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
Well, the EU aren't leaving the EU, are they? So far as I'm aware, no local government in the UK uses .EU as they're on the .GOV.UK SLD.
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
I struggle to think of any business or important organisation that relies on .EU for its identity and operations - the only ones I've seen use it are political campaigns. Presumably the answer is to just use a proxy register based in t
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
There's a whole 'sub'-culture around very young (as in, pre-teenage) toy and unboxing vloggers who have got themselves (and/or have been enabled by parents) on to this YouTube production treadmill (not exclusively YT, bu
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
I'm a bit wary of some of the suggestions here. I'm a similar position to you (at least, when it comes to maths). The difference for me is that I'm fairly certain that I'm one of the least accomplished people responding
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
It wasn't the comment about banking itself, but invoking the (debunked) trope about the Rothschilds that I took exception to.
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
More or less was going to comment along similar lines. I'm probably the radical opposite (Northern, unemployed, mediocre education) of a stereotype of its readers, but the FT is probably my preferred newspaper source these days because
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
I was expecting to see some mention about the Russian government's public reaction to such a move. It has the appearance of both a snub to Russian culture and pride, and further encroachment of Western institutions.
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
> Anyone knows what's next for Inbox? Getting canned?
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
I wasn't expecting to see such a low-quality comment like this on HN.
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
> When I lived there the place was infested by young people doing tons of drugs and partying in the common areas The impression I get is that these are living arrangements for people who enjoyed shared accommodation at university and wou
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
Is this something that users will have to opt in to to use or will it be a seamless integration with existing applications? i.e., will it require the download of a new app or will it just be something that extends Android's existing me
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
This doesn't sound substantially representative of my experience of being presented with this earlier today. As far as I can recall, I was presented with two options: enable facial recognition; and reviewing my other options (which I c
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
What a depressing way to spin what are otherwise reasonable questions and comments seemingly addressed by the report. Just as depressing is to see that a microbiology PhD is making her living by recycling clickbait content written by someon
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
Sounds almost like a protection racket. "Nice pizza shop you got there. Be a shame if someone was to burn down its search engine rankings and hold unclaimed profiles to ransom".
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by MistahKoala 9y ago
I believe you that there are 'countless studies' - whether they do show a link is debateable; the number of studies doesn't signify all that much on its own, other than the issue being belaboured by its proponents in gender s
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by MistahKoala 9y ago
Are there any games reviewers out there who actually enjoy the play aspect of games without any hand-wringing?
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by MistahKoala 9y ago
My bad. To clarify, something that is 'summoned' is ordered. Nothing has been ordered by the committee in respect of his anticipated evidence.

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