Symbiote

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by Symbiote 1mo ago
Meta is an exception. They intentionally ignore robots.txt rules. (No second chances, I blocked their whole IP range.)
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
Against what person or entity?
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
The UK chose that approach, not the EU.
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
The page you cite says it was due to the threat of Iceland leaving NATO etc.
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
I found this site which claims (AI generated) to have analysed the domains they are registrar for: https://phishdestroy.github.io/trustname-evidence/ > Registrars are not passive infrastructure. They are the first a
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
My employer's site has no banners, since we decided not to use any tracking. We measure our success based on enquiries, orders and so on, not the number of hits to the website.
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
Some friends, and possibly a local metal bar, were referring to Easter as Zombie Jesus Day. Why would atheists be offended?
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
The British case was overturned on appeal. (Crazy that it had to go that far though.) I can't find much left or right coverage of it, there's so much news coverage in the way.
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
The equivalent in Britain would be a Switch card in the 1990s, the UK's native debit card system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch_(debit_card)
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
A Giro card is a debit card.
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
I understood it. The bar with the privacy principle didn't accept cards, and had a sign to that effect on the bar.
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
IBAN is less adopted than I expected -- Europe, the Middle East and progressing in Africa, plus a few others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bank_Account_Num...
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
I have an account in Denmark which charges for outgoing transactions, 3 DKK. (€0.40.) I think I have the choice to pay a monthly fee, nominate it as my official account for receiving my salary, or pay for the transactions. I choose the last
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
What about a principled stance that a payment should remain anonymous, without being logged by a domestic bank, let alone a foreign company. I used to go to a bar in Copenhagen with that principle.
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
I assume it means converting PDFs transaction statements provided by banks into spreadsheets which accounting software can import.
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
Correct, Suica is faster than Oyster (card), which is faster than paying with bank cards or phones in London. (I haven't used the NYC system.)
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
Some scientists, amplified by journalists. Other scientists at the time were predicting warming. https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/1hajzg9/here_is_th...
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
Clearly, yes. Unless you're claiming your personal experience invalidates a long running, well regarded statistical analysis.
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
> billionaires and centi millionaires I think you mean hecto-millionaires.
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
Prusa's printers also worked out of the box. They cost slightly more, and their staff aren't volunteers.
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
Average speeds are higher in the UK than Italy. My brother in the UK has 1Gb/s fibre in a village of less than 100. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_...
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
In Denmark many retailers pass on the charge for business cards. For example it's often printed on the bottom of a restaurant menu.
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
In Copenhagen mine is billed individually, and is 75kr for 1Gb/s. About $10. Otherwise the same system.
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
An earlier version of the article was published in 2015: https://web.archive.org/web/20190606165920/https://dfarq.hom...
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
And as a result of that, Amex is often not accepted.
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
In Denmark most retailers will pass on the surcharge they get from accepting a foreign (non-EU) card with higher fees. You see at the bottom of restaurant menus a note stating this. It also applies to Danish business credit cards, as those
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
It's configurable on any terminal that supports it — obviously the terminal is designed so it can be used in a restaurant, or for paying in a shop, or paying a fee to the government. (To give an example of where even Americans don&#x27
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by Symbiote 1mo ago
High speed trains can be over 16MW on 25kV AC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_374 (16MW) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500_Series_Shinkansen (18MW)
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Is there a pending AI 'debt bomb' crisis? No. This isn't Enron 2.0(theguardian.com)
5 points by Symbiote 2mo ago|5 comments
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by Symbiote 2mo ago
In case you hadn't noticed, within the last 20 years the UK made an enormous constitutional change by leaving the EU.

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