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by colourgarden 6y ago
It's been a few years since I read it but one of the early topics in How To Win Friends And Influence People is on a similar track to this: You can't make people do something. They have to want to do it (unless you're the b
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by colourgarden 6y ago
> The idea you can simply shut down the economy at will and balance it with relief doesn't make economic sense. Of course it doesn't. Governments all over the world aren't making decisions for the benefit of the economy ri
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by colourgarden 6y ago
Yawn. When I read such low-effort comments, I wonder if the people writing them ever read the article or if their job is just to spout off uninformed opinions.
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by colourgarden 7y ago
Somewhat related - the CSS Working Group maintains a list of design mistakes they and their predecessors made. https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes
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by colourgarden 7y ago
Norton went bankrupt. N26 are choosing not to operate in the UK any longer.
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by colourgarden 7y ago
My favourite part of the entry is that it lead me to the discovery of the UK Roundabout Appreciation Society. Never change Britain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout_Appreciation_Societ...
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by colourgarden 7y ago
> The transport must run regularly, not just as a one-off event.
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by colourgarden 7y ago
That's not strictly true, unfortunately. Court cases have been brought and won against companies who do not acquire explicit consent from their users when storing information in cookies. Companies then build solutions in reaction to th
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by colourgarden 7y ago
Note that a SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN is shown when trying to access tink.com at the moment. Says the certificate is only valid for cloudfront.net. Edit: the website itself also returns a 403.
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by colourgarden 7y ago
My immediate reaction to your comment was "How do you not know that?!" (I'm sorry.) However, if people frequenting a tech forum are not aware of the privacy benefits that Firefox has been pushing for a long time now, we as &q
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by colourgarden 7y ago
Do you have a source to disprove or challenge the UN's definition of torture? Solitary confinement is often used during war. That Assange is incarcerated in a civilian prison doesn't necessarily diminish or change the effectivenes
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by colourgarden 7y ago
FYI the “we save you money” link on the homepage leads to a 404 - https://prospect.org.uk/about/well-save-you-money/
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by colourgarden 7y ago
"Kevin is not a name but a diagnosis" is a well known saying amongst school teachers here in Germany.
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by colourgarden 8y ago
> I have a bit of a flat foot but otherwise no pain at all. Should i keep wearing them for health's sake? Will my feet eventually adapt to them and stop hurting? Also experienced this (also flat footed) but the pain passed after a c
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by colourgarden 10y ago
Whilst 'three' is better than 'col-3', it's still based on a 12-column way of thinking. Try Avalanche ( https://github.com/colourgarden/avalanche ) for a grid system based on percentages or fract
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Show HN: Avalanche CSS grid system(github.com)
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by colourgarden 13y ago
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