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by dave2000 11y ago
"But, why were the Japanese more appreciative of the insect kingdom than Westerners?" I'm not sure why the author believes the preceding paragraphs makes that case.
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by dave2000 11y ago
What if I connect to your PC using a vpn so it looks like it's just you watching it? I tried connecting to the UK national lottery from abroad via a VPN to my home PC and they could tell.
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by dave2000 11y ago
How can sites tell you are using a VPN?
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by dave2000 11y ago
I can't help but think that there's no difference between good streams and bad streams. The system should automatically track and handle abuse so that it's not possible; as soon as you say things like the purpose of this or
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by dave2000 11y ago
Change my number...to what? They're already calling at random, or have got "my" number, so that changes nothing. Threaten to/actually sue...who? Number withheld; comedy foreign accent. I'm going to hire a private de
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by dave2000 11y ago
We should probably feel sorry for them. In many ways, they're the victim. Actually, muggers too. I understand some of them came from broken homes and didn't have the same advantages you or I had. If you don't give muggers
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by dave2000 11y ago
> If you're being called extremely consistently at the same > inconvenient time, then your case is extraordinary, take > some measures to make sure the company doesn't call you > again (no call list, whatever else)
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by dave2000 11y ago
Yes, but I don't care about them in any way because of the way in which they've chosen to get their bills paid. A quick "no thanks" gets them on the way to harassing the next person. And we don't want that, do we?
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by dave2000 11y ago
I used to pass the phone to my daughter and told her to mimic his accent, ask silly questions like "where's my pizza" etc. It's the little things that make life worthwhile, isn't it?
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by dave2000 11y ago
I'm not saying gmail (google) spam people; i'm saying that not using gmail because you don't want google to know your contacts is silly. it doesn't matter if google knows that you, for instance, are in my contact list. t
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by dave2000 11y ago
If people have my contacts details that's not really a problem for me. A friend once said he wasn't going to get a gmail account because he didn't want Google knowing all his contacts but Google already had them because they
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by dave2000 11y ago
Eh? Just ignore them. No need to actively deny anything. My attitude; it's just LinkedIn. Accept everyone, you never know when someone will be useful in finding you a job, which is all I use LinkedIn for. Turn off all email notificatio
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by dave2000 11y ago
I don't get any emails from Facebook. Have you not set up the account the way you like it? Do you still have stock wallpaper, ringtones etc on your devices? I find out about events in Facebook at the right time; when I'm using Fac
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by dave2000 11y ago
I've whitelisted all the JavaScript on the site and now an additional annoying box with "keep in touch" is floating over the centre of the page, and if I scroll the page underneath up and down so that the box doesn't cov
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by dave2000 11y ago
Is there supposed to be a free book here? The page doesn't work on mobile; I zoom in and a rectangle on the left pointlessly expands, covering the screen.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Hacker Daily? Keep up, grandpa! I'll be launching Hacker Hourly in about 20 minutes. Enjoy your retirement!
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by dave2000 11y ago
Everyone's different. Check out this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Carter He died at 103, still working (composing). Not many composers get stuff they wrote in their 60s and 70's described as t
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by dave2000 11y ago
Age discrimination is a thing but the idea that you work for a company to benefit them and not yourself is something that's taking a painfully long time to sink in for a lot of people. Perhaps for older people they were brought up to
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by dave2000 11y ago
The title has Scott Meyers in it. That's all I needed to know.
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by dave2000 11y ago
The police ask to be police; I don't care about occupational hazards; I'm more concerned with people going to work and not coming back home because of a cops paranoia or attitude problem. And it's not interesting to me to d
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by dave2000 11y ago
You can't explain away the massive discrepancy between the UK and the US simply by saying it's because the police face more people with guns, I'm afraid, although clearly the ridiculous US gun laws are implicated. There&#x27
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by dave2000 11y ago
> Have we really reached this level of paranoia? Watching the news in the US from the UK, it's pretty clear that you (in the states) long ago reached the point where it's not even paranoia any more. The police there killed mor
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by dave2000 11y ago
No, you can't just say that without backing it up. The Guardian (good, left-leaning UK paper) can't go more than a few days without a deadline like "We're all [name of someone who just died and who you've never he
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by dave2000 11y ago
Well, in that sort of situation you'd probably just get stabbed.
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by dave2000 11y ago
"I've done this, to fix the problem." "Ah yeah, no need; that problem's been discussed in the past". "Ok, what happened" "IT...WAS...DISCUSSED!"
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by dave2000 11y ago
It happens in London too. It's just bad manners to sit and loudly play your poor taste in music out loud on a bus or train rather than on headphones. It's not limited to any particular racial group though; it's usually just y
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by dave2000 11y ago
You've got to love "style". It's just text. How do people manage to screw up something so simple?
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by dave2000 11y ago
Only pdf format download? Why not epub/mobi? PDF is a terrible format and it's not like there are tables etc to maintain.
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by dave2000 11y ago
I love the PDF format as much as anyone, but surely this would have been better as a HTML file; indeed, just about any other format?
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by dave2000 11y ago
Yes. If everyone could afford a perfect copy of Picasso's Guernica they would. It would affect the art market but not the quality of the art itself.

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