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by dazc 3y ago
Sites are delisted from Bing & DDG as a result of negative SEO attacks. I've experienced this multiple times and responded to a couple of threads on HN about it. The attacker doesn't care about your Bing listing, it's an
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by dazc 3y ago
The right candidate for this kind of job is unlikely to be motivated solely by money, so the fist person that shows up may not be that bad?
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by dazc 3y ago
First Direct is a bit of a niche though.Customer service is expensive because 90% of it is dealing with the same stupid questions over and over again. You will get to the point in any business where it isn't feasible to pay human being
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by dazc 3y ago
The original laptop for kids in a school environment was the Intel Classmate and that was a serious piece of crap. Then came the iPad, less said about that the better. Chromebooks are many times better than this and have the added benefit o
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by dazc 3y ago
Obviously, I'm not a school admin but I would wager replacing a fleet of cheap Chromebooks with Macbooks (or any big brand Windows machines) would not work out cheaper, or less burdensome, or anywhere close.
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by dazc 3y ago
I have two Chromebooks, both over 8 years old. The eldest, an ASUS, I gave to my dad and he uses it everyday. Aside from the odd security issue (he'll install any extension he's told to) it works just as well as it when it was new
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by dazc 4y ago
At least we can rely on the BBC to give us some great tips, such as... 'How can I save money on my food shop?' 'Look at your cupboards so you know what you have already'
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by dazc 4y ago
I've travelled by ferry to both Northern and Southern Ireland several times and have only been searched once. This was on a work journey where it turned out my colleague had a criminal record. This was 10 - 12 years ago so perhaps thin
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by dazc 4y ago
That actually didn't work out too bad, did it?
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Please don't give them ideas.
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by dazc 4y ago
'Eventually the big brands themselves had to lower the quality of their products to be able to compete with the generic products...' I remember some brands lowering the quality of their product long before all of these random Chin
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by dazc 4y ago
If someone could come up with a tool to overcome my fear of failure that would be great.. Create a startup that offers a platform for individuals to engage in intellectual pursuits without fear of failure by providing them with a safety ne
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by dazc 4y ago
'I really wonder if it was really all worth it.' You concede your marriage suffered and suggest the impact on your health was negative, but both of these things could have happened if you were just surviving in a low paid regular
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by dazc 4y ago
You will cope with it better than you currently think you will. It could be still a long way off though, so make the most of the time that remains.
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by dazc 4y ago
'Beyond that I have running theory that noise cancelling contributes to my depression by further enforcing a sort of isolation.' You may be onto something there, stop doing it for a while and see how you feel. What's to lose?
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by dazc 4y ago
As a middle-aged person with tinnitus, don't do this. If your work environment requires it then find some other work. Damage to your hearing is permanent and can make your life a living hell. Once you get the symptoms it's too lat
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by dazc 4y ago
Not defending Mr and Mrs Sunak, which is another story, but the UK Domicile thing has been around for many years and no Govt, left or right, has ever attempted to change it.
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by dazc 4y ago
Or, as we say in the UK, get a f***g life
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by dazc 4y ago
I'm not in the US
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by dazc 4y ago
What their fav celebrites say -v- what 'the media' says?
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by dazc 4y ago
Are you sure about that? If I break out of the poverty cycle who am I going to vote for?
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by dazc 4y ago
I had to search who this person is, and I still could not care less.
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by dazc 4y ago
Like that wasn't already happening?
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by dazc 4y ago
'Then actual regular customers got fed up with the businesses getting a huge influx of entitled assholes...' I've heard it said many times that the worst customers are the ones who've paid the least.
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by dazc 4y ago
Only 3 left...12 people looking!
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by dazc 4y ago
The ones that stayed in business did. Discounting for businesses is like a drug, easy to get addicted and rarely ends well.
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by dazc 4y ago
I did this with a DIY themed blog a few years ago, not out of any principal but because I had another income stream. Fast forward to today and several similar sites have popped up with content that is the same as mine but re-written to loo
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by dazc 4y ago
Yes, you are correct but I doubt Google would be such a huge enterprise relying on these subscription-based products where there is already a lot of competition.
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by dazc 4y ago
'I'm in the UK and they've always asked how many miles I expect to drive during the policy.' The other year I put down 10K as rough estimate and after 4 months realized I'd already done 8K. Changing the policy to co
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by dazc 4y ago
In the UK, the main expense is a hire car for several months and legal expenses for when that nice chap you had a slight collision with claims he and all his 4 friends suffered whiplash injuries. What car you drive and how much it costs to

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