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BBC Radio 4: Anti-Establishment and Uber-Capitalist(bbc.co.uk)
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by aspidistra 13y ago
I can't be the only one who thought of the Mad Men "Carousel" pitch. [1] The stylised photos on this website are in the same genre as those Don Draper used. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWyLaXCV2_s
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Who Needs Clicks? Blogger Vi Hart Goes Wildly, Dramatically Dull(npr.org)
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by aspidistra 13y ago
You don't know how long they have been sitting there, or whether they are taking regular stand-up walk-around breaks. It's fine to sit on a bench or a chair for a short period of time. You might as well say they shouldn't all
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by aspidistra 13y ago
http://ismyshiftkeyonornot.com/ ;-)
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"New" Pacific Island Consumes Its Neighbor(earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
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by aspidistra 13y ago
Gandi does, and you do not need to buy webspace from them. Just registering a domain there will get you 5 free mailboxes and 1000 forwarding addresses. https://www.gandi.net/domain
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by aspidistra 13y ago
Thanks for commenting. I don't think there is a misunderstanding, but just to clarify, I was taking issue with the article author's description of Switzerland -- not your choice of where to set up shop. I can see why Switzerland i
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by aspidistra 13y ago
> arrangements are being made to incorporate a nonprofit for Ethereum in the legal free-for-all of Switzerland Swiss Law might be a bit idiosyncratic but I would hardly call it a "legal free-for-all".
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by aspidistra 13y ago
> I think the problem is thinking of people in terms of rankings. Yes, that's exactly what I meant.
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by aspidistra 13y ago
Everyone I meet is not better than me.
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Should You Use The Snooze Button?(youtube.com)
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by aspidistra 13y ago
> Do people really put their photos on their resumes?? Pretty standard practice in Germany.
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EuroVoc: multilingual thesaurus of the European Union(eurovoc.europa.eu)
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by aspidistra 13y ago
You took the words right out of my mouth. The chirpy music, too, but the kid's "How was that?" at the end tipped me over the edge. It's one thing to be fed a dose of cute, another to have a tonne of it shovelled on you.
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by aspidistra 13y ago
> some other gadget tucked in a drawer somewhere in your house It's designed with a loop so you can hook it somewhere handy. They show this in the video at 1m27s.
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by aspidistra 13y ago
For UK readers and or football fans, the Alisher Usmanov mentioned, who now controls VKontakte, is the same Alisher Usmanov who owns a large stake in Arsenal FC. He also owns a stake in Odnoklassniki, another Russian social media site, whi
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Canary Islands make Postgres default database(joinup.ec.europa.eu)
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by aspidistra 13y ago
The link to some videos of it in action is tucked away in the footer on the homepage: http://macaw.co/videos/
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Flying Upside Down(theatlantic.com)
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by aspidistra 13y ago
The Spanish region of Extremadura: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnuLinEx http://gobex.es/salaprensa/view/press/press/detalle.php?id=8... (I think other Spanish regions have talked a
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by aspidistra 13y ago
You're right: it is wrong to suggest that Google is deliberately malicious here. But again, you can have the best intentions in the world and still be discriminatory. I think it's important to separate the two terms: malicious sug
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by aspidistra 13y ago
> imperfect systems don’t imply malice. ... but they can still discriminate. In some jurisdictions, such as the UK, intention or malice is not required. If Google has a policy or system that disadvantages a group of people who share a pr
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by aspidistra 13y ago
In the UK, at least, "discriminate" is the right word because it is possible to discriminate indirectly. This is defined in law. If you have rules that apply to everyone but disadvantage people who share a protected characteristic