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by ch215 4y ago
This reminds me of the 'Library of Mistakes' in Edinburgh, a free public library which promotes the study of financial history. https://www.libraryofmistakes.com/
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by ch215 4y ago
This is known in the craft as monologophobia. Theodore Bernstein, a NYT journalist, who coined the phrase, described a monologophobe as someone 'who would rather walk naked in front of Saks Fifth Avenue than be caught using the same wo
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by ch215 8y ago
Though I don't think something must be hard to be worthwhile, I think there's something in what you say. 'Trust in what is difficult' is a theme in the works of one of my favourite poets, Rainer Maria Rilke. It is the
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South Korean firm's 'record' ransom payment(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by ch215 9y ago|0 comments
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by ch215 9y ago
After years of distro hopping, I settled with Elementary: https://elementary.io/
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Campaign to stop Google and Facebook destroying journalism(pressgazette.co.uk)
3 points by ch215 9y ago|0 comments
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by ch215 9y ago
The trade magazine, Press Gazette, recently launched a campaign to 'stop Google and Facebook destroying journalism' http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazette-launches-duopoly...
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The Times and the Sunday Times Are Now HTTPS(medium.com)
1 points by ch215 9y ago|0 comments
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France Lets Workers Turn Off, Tune Out and Live Life(nytimes.com)
1 points by ch215 10y ago|0 comments
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The garden shed full of helping hands(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by ch215 10y ago|0 comments
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by ch215 10y ago
The code for HN is available at http://www.arclanguage.org/arc3.1.tar .
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by ch215 10y ago
Field Notes get my vote. Expensive but unrivaled quality. You can leave one in your back pocket for a month and it won't fall to pieces. https://fieldnotesbrand.com
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by ch215 10y ago
To clarify, I want to shine a light on results wrongly removed: cases where freedom of expression, and the public interest in remembering, outweighs the right to be forgotten.
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by ch215 10y ago
The opening of the Dhammapada sticks in my mind: "All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
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Ask HN: How to find results removed from Google under 'right to be forgotten'?
55 points by ch215 10y ago|40 comments
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by ch215 10y ago
This is more general writing advice, but you won't go far wrong by following George Orwell's rules: :: Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. :: Never use a long word where a
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by ch215 11y ago
That's right. The Welsh Government gives millions to big business. A few years back, for example, they handed Ford £10 million to keep one of its factories open. Taxpayers' money is also spent on subsidising low pay in the private
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by ch215 11y ago
I spent a fair while thinking about this one for my first job in journalism--after all, what good's a reporter without questions. In the end, I asked the interviewers how they got their break in the industry. I think it worked well, I
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Red tape and a three-year FOI battle with Cabinet Office(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by ch215 11y ago|0 comments
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City AM becomes first UK newspaper to ban ad blocker users(theguardian.com)
2 points by ch215 11y ago|0 comments
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by ch215 11y ago
I've had mental health problems and, family aside, nothing--not exercise, medicine nor therapy--has helped me more than having work to do. There's a lot to be said for having a job to set your mind to.
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Matt Drudge: I don't need to be 'liked'(youtube.com)
2 points by ch215 11y ago|1 comments
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by ch215 11y ago
In a nutshell: I can't. Some say there's no such word but I can't magic up the infrastructure needed. The firm I work for is hundreds of years old and it's an idea that only such an institution could implement. Thanks
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by ch215 11y ago
Thanks for your sage words. It's not massive money in the grand picture, I know, but neither is it insignificant in a rapidly declining industry, such as print journalism. However, I glady take your points aboard and I'm glad I as
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by ch215 11y ago
Thanks for your thoughts, you make good points. I'll likely play it safe and ask my manager to send it up the chain to the appropriate person. It's not so much about having no trust in my superiors. I work at a newspaper company b
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by ch215 11y ago
Thanks for your thoughts, sound advice. It's not something I want to jump into. You are likely right about trying to target the "right" person.
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Ask HN: Should I take an idea to the chief executive?
2 points by ch215 11y ago|9 comments
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by ch215 11y ago
I'll add two that have yet to be mentioned: moreutils and youtube-dl.
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by ch215 11y ago
Looks like I'm in the minority in agreeing with the author's sentiments. It's a counter-intuitive argument but I'll try to make it... I'm of the motherfuckingwebsite.com school of thought--an evangelist for simple d
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by ch215 11y ago
The Hardened Gentoo project page has a lot of useful information, guides on using Pax, grsecurity and so on... https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened

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