Normille

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by Normille 4y ago
>Do you not realize that the US is the only reason Russia doesn't steamroll all of Europe? Do you not realise the US is the only reason Europe doesn't enjoy friendly relations with Russia and access to that colossal mar
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>Europe is sitting on the needle of russian gas/oil. Where is US here? reply er... behind the scenes, manipulating conflicts, to their own advantage. As fucking usual.
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If you've signed up for a payment plan for £xx/month and overnight it goes up to £xx+30%/month in August, with the threat of another similar price hike in January, it could be argued that the energy companies broke the contra
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> That feels more honest than stealing their gas and then not paying for it. Sure, they're probably ripping me off. Doesn't mean I should do the same. This kind of supine attitude is why 'The Great British* Public&
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>the comparison with the Poll Tax is somewhat irrelevant because the poll tax was 100% dreamed up by the govt... So was the decision to fight an economic war against Europe's major energy supplier >Energy is however a
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That's what I've been saying for months. But, in spite of the general intelligence level of HNers when it comes to debating most subjects, their faith in the integrity of the 'Good Ol' US of A' is unshakeable. PS: i
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At what stage did we move from; measuring a city's or region's industrial strength by what it actually produced --to measuring it by how much money could be squeezed out of venture capitalists on the strength of an idea for someth
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>Can you tell me how you did this? It'll be a bit help! Sorry. It was a few months ago, so I can't remember the intricate details. And my config [as I said previously] was slightly out of the norm. But I did use this si
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I'm surprised no-one in the comments has mentioned MailInABox [0]. On recommendations here, I switched to it 2 or 3 months ago from Gmail, after Google announced they were going to start charging for Gmail on custom domains. I'd
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Oh well. At least they've avoided having their economy destroyed by the US for having the 'wrong kind of political system' For now.
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Actual title "Years after shuttle, NASA rediscovers the perils of liquid hydrogen" Why did you rewrite it as incomprehensible gibberish?
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I'd agree as far as the "i" part of "iPhone" goes. In my opinion, the internet is right up there with the greatest inventions in human history.
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Can I import my 'stuff' from Instagram?
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Now you're nit-picking. Your original comment was that Apple had rewritten history to make the iPhone seem revolutionary, when it wasn't. Which I disagree with. As another old fart, I was there at the time and remember just how re
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>What a terrible leader How can you say that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMrhoOHNOrI Sorry. I couldn't resist dredging up this old classic. It used to be compulsory viewing any time Steve Ballmer was me
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>Apple have successfully rewritten history here, like victors often do Nope. See my previous post on this. I'm unfortunately old enough to have been around and involved in Apple forums pre-iPhone and there's no re-writi
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No matter what your opinion of Apple [and mine is pretty low!] it's churlish to deny this. Yes, people wil point out that Phone X had a touchscreen, Phone Y had a browser, Phone Z had something else. But the iPhone was the first phone
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And thanks to those people who have to have the newest shiny-shiny and allow themselves to be 'milked' that I can pick up a few years old ex-flagship model on eBay for a couple of hundred £££ or less. So long may it continue.
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Thanks for the replies and suggestions. I've just had a quick look at the blurb for each one, so could be wrong, but all of those seem to require manually building an index of titles / keywords/ etc which the scripts referenc
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Self-Contained Search for Archived Static Site?
2 points by Normille 4y ago|3 comments
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It didn't help that the girl also had Tourette's and compulsively repeated the phrase "I'm sorry. I don't know that" whenever spoken to.
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>I think you are overthinking it. Possibly. But isn't there also a tradition [also seen in China] where, faced with high levels of state censorship, the press turns to historical or mythological figures to make allegorical
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Russia Today – Surprisingly Honest Mikhail Gorbachev Obituary(gorbachev.rt.com)
6 points by Normille 4y ago|17 comments
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I think this is quite subtly done in a way. Given that we know Putin isn't Gorbachev's biggest fan, won't be attending his funeral and, in fact, seems to hold him responsible for USSR/Russia's loss of position as a
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What about NATO domination in Europe? Why can so many of you not see [beyond simplistic 'goodies' and 'baddies' labels] how much Russia feels threatened by that? Imagine if the cold war had been 'won' by the ot
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Hmmm... that's odd. So you can try it on Linux for the penalty of a 500MB download --which isn't too bad. But if you want to try it on OSX, you have to download Xcode? --which is pretty off-putting.
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Probably to the same extent as the writers of 'How to become really rich, really easily' courses are really rich. Which always makes me wonder why they need to try and earn money selling self-help courses.
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I don't know about the niceties or otherwise of the language. But the fact that you need to install the huge bloated whale that is Xcode [about 5GB, last time I looked], just in order to try it, means you've got to really want t
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>The only bad thing about this affair is that some countries are trying to substitute their Russian gas for Azerbaijani gas, which is just as bad war-of-aggression wise , even though that is of course further away from Europe. Ye
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>Does Russia have to invade Ukraine? Does it have to keep killing civilians? You're changing the argument. I'm not arguing whether Russia was morally right or wrong to invade Ukraine. I'm arguing that Europe [in pa

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