becasse

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by becasse 14y ago
British people generally like the old British "Imperial" system. It's ours! Millimetres and grammes are associated with Napoleon and the E.U. (which are also unpopular in the U.K.). In British supermarkets, milk is usually sold in pints, ex
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by becasse 15y ago
tl;dr - What d'you mean stealing address books is wrong?! Everyone else is doing it!
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by becasse 15y ago
Unfortunately, no company really gives a shit about this law (unless it suits them , e.g. when you complain about something, often they hide behind it as an excuse for not telling you something). Because no-one ever checks up on them.
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by becasse 15y ago
They do fall in the same category, because of the Data Protection Directive. This is not a law , but all EU states interpreted the directive, and enacted it into law, and the law in each country is now basically the same.
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Hacker News is international
2 points by becasse 15y ago|1 comments
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by becasse 15y ago
I have exactly this mapping defined in my .vimrc ... " 'Inside-line' operator-pending-mode mapping onoremap <silent> il :<C-U>normal! ^v$h<CR> onoremap <silent> iL :<C-U>normal! 0v$h<CR&#6
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by becasse 15y ago
This article has been linked to 1,210 times on hacker news alone since it was first published 4½ years ago (according to Google: https://encrypted.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&s... ). It's fascinating how excited people get wh
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by becasse 15y ago
> Traveling to a country which you are not a citizen of is not a right, it's a privilege. Sort of. But we are all citizens of the world. States are just arbitrary things made by ... historical reasons, I dunno why. This reason is the
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by becasse 15y ago
I'm British, and I've lived between Holland, Italy and France for a few years. I don't think it's really true that the British are more racist or narcissistic. I think they are more fake, and more arrogant. I think the racism is really a
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by becasse 15y ago
The UK and Ireland are both outside the Schengen treaty. When you take the ferry from Britain to Ireland, if I remember rightly, the customs ask you if you are British or Irish. British / Irish citizens don't have to show a passport, but
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by becasse 15y ago
I was surprised when I saw: 12 minipacks in a lovely big pouch Multi-Colour 12x5g * £11.50 * 12 minipacks in a lovely big pouch Black and White 12x5g * £12.50 * er,... that's strange . Why would the black-and-white ones cost one p