darkclarity

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by darkclarity 11y ago
As far as I know, Virgin is pretty much a franchised brand. Their trains are run by other transport companies, their cable TV is run by another telecoms operator, their banks are run by another institution etc.
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by darkclarity 11y ago
If I ran a business (or invested in one) that was already successful and had a promising future then I wouldn't make it public. I can understand Uber and Airbnb staying private, less so for Snapchat.
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by darkclarity 11y ago
Bear in mind that the web based interface offered by email services is an email client, which you have no control over.
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by darkclarity 11y ago
The way I got out of those sorts of issues was by noticing that the medical system is inadequate. It is geared towards hiding symptoms with drugs - to get people back into work, even if those people are a mess inside. It's all down to
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by darkclarity 11y ago
With a lack of religion, people naturally seek idols to look up to and create a focus in their lives. That said, it can go too far and look like a cult. The more I read about behaviour, history and psychology, the more I realise just how sp
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by darkclarity 11y ago
Life's so much easier when you are plugged into The Matrix. Now take your drugs and return to complacency. Ahem.
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by darkclarity 11y ago
A similar thing happened to me with Google Images. They were unintentionally a major source of my traffic. Some years ago Google changed their Images service so that it continued to take images from other websites but was very unlikely to s
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by darkclarity 11y ago
Online storage is a physical object that requires dedicated infrastructure, whereas software can be built and forgotten about.
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by darkclarity 11y ago
Bit of a thinking-outside-the-box suggestion here, but have you tried something like mindfulness? Allergy, inflammation and stress seem to be linked in some way, so changing your mindset might reduce the response that you are blocking with
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by darkclarity 11y ago
Yep. It's a gentrification that has been chipping away at different aspects of the Internet for as long as I can remember. A struggle between the pioneers who have learned to live (and even flourish) within the chaos, and the rest of s
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by darkclarity 11y ago
I suspect a lot of the problems with trolling is inexperienced users not realising that the Internet is the technology equivalent of the wild west. They sign up for services, post all their details and make the sort of off-hand comments tha
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by darkclarity 11y ago
Cadbury's chocolate now reminds me of the stuff I used to find in cheap advent calendars and low end pick 'n' mix.
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by darkclarity 11y ago
It's absurd and mocks authority, which are staples in British (not just English) humour.
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by darkclarity 11y ago
It's weird how 'the cloud' has put people into the mindset where email isn't just a complementary service that runs alongside the web server and just works. Nope. Sign up for a third party service and if you're seri
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by darkclarity 11y ago
Similar for me, but I resisted using cards in real life from the beginning. I use them exclusively for internet transactions. I just don't like the idea of giving up a freedom of anonymity, yet I notice others are seemingly jumping at
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by darkclarity 11y ago
As the article suggests, I think it's just code. The recruiter is being subtle in case the employee overreacts and passes on the message to the candidate. Contractors are expensive, more experienced, less malleable and can give other e
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by darkclarity 11y ago
This is the primary reason why I deleted my Facebook account. I couldn't stand the thought of being run over some day and having no way of stopping the creation of a virtual memorial owned by Facebook's stakeholders. I'd be t