Normille

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by Normille 6y ago
I'm a bit of a self-confessed grammar nazi. So I like to see people caring about the correct use of language. But I can't help but think those penning such articles as this should maybe set their sights a wee bit lower. In a world
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by Normille 6y ago
Can you cite any documentary evidence for these Chinese threats, dating back to the 1960s? I'm not saying you're wrong but China in the 1960s was an unindustrialised, agrarian 3rd-world country which was barely able to feed its ow
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by Normille 6y ago
>What we do know is that Britain violently subjugated HK, but before they left they liberalized the place to a greater degree than the CCP would have... Funny how Britain was happy to rule over Hong Kong for centuries without introducing
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by Normille 6y ago
I've not read the article, as the whole 'Social Meeja Influencer' thing makes me want to vomit. But if it's reporting that a load of vacuous self-obsessed morons are losing the obscene amounts of money which they earne
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by Normille 6y ago
>Decades ago it was essential to have an e in your name Then, for a while, it was de rigueur to drop the 'e' out of your name; flickr, tumblr, grindr... etc.
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by Normille 6y ago
It's a bit of a stupid concept though, isn't it? A man bought a domain name called "shippingsupplies.com" so he decided to get into shipping supplies and now he's a zillionaire? So, assuming, as the article suggest
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by Normille 6y ago
Not all the new TLDs are terrible. A few of the short ones like <dot>me [for a personal site], or <dot>info for a reference site are OK. But I think a lot of the other ones do sound really dodgy. If I saw a link to a company web
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by Normille 6y ago
I've looked at that pool.com site a few times, out of idle curiosity. Every time I do so, I never fail to be amazed at the absolute mountain of complete junk domains that <someone> <somewhere> has registered. They seem to f
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by Normille 6y ago
Nope. Accept language[s]are as expected: en-GB,en;q=0.9,ga;q=0.8,es;q=0.7 I could be wrong. This is a complete guess, but my suspicion is that Yandex Browser is doing some very lazy checking of a user's language preferences and default
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by Normille 6y ago
Yandex Browser has been serving me up random websites in Russian for years now. I don't know what algorithm it's using to do so. My system language, browser language and Yandex profile language are all set to UK English and I&#x27