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by dazc 4y ago
Plenty of refurbished ThinkPads available in A1 condition for less than half price of a new machine. I would recommend you buy from a specialist retailer rather than ebay though. You may pay a bit more but you are more likely to get a good
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How do you pick out someone as being homeless? I'm in the UK and (accepting in the US it may be different?) there is a common misconception that people who sit in shop doorways begging for money are 'homeless' people when, in
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by dazc 4y ago
A lot of forums seem to have gone the same way where volunteer moderators start running the show and sideline/sensor anyone who doesn't agree with thier views. HN benefits from having a paid moderator who doesn't participate
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Yes, of course, but I'm mentioning an every day scenario as opposed to a hypothosis.
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Indeed, I have an ongoing subscription with zero expectation of winning but I do sometimes enjoy thinking 'what if'. Considering how much money I throw away on streaming subscriptions I barely use, books I never get beyond the fir
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by dazc 4y ago
You can witness people buying lotery scratch cards every day in the UK and wonder why people are so dumb given the odds of actually winning a big prize. But then bear in mind that this person maybe has a big bill to pay and only £5 to their
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Recovering one service from one source is a lot easier than recovering two at the same time from one single source.
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by dazc 4y ago
Rule #1: Domain registrar and DNS should never be the same source. Rule #2: See Rule #1 Rule #3: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/protect-domains-that-dont-send-e...
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by dazc 4y ago
Prime have been moving towards pay-extra for new releases (for example, top gun 2) and added subscription channels. Not sure why Netflix didn't go down this route since it seems to be a no-brainer?
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by dazc 4y ago
One of my favourite books is Longitude by Dava Soble. It's 224 pages yet conveys an epic and detailed account of an event in history that played out over a century. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Longitude-Genius-Greatest-Sci
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Perhaps I'm mis-remembering but I was certain that the abundance of cheap gas was one of the main arguments for closing down a lot of mines that were considered to uneconomical as a result. Maybe we were also importing cheaper coal fro
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This may be true but until there is a suitable alternative most of the developed world will continue to use it. Europe is now at a critical point where choosing not to burn coal is going to have a high economic cost that many people are not
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You can skip the first 10 or so paragraphs, for sure, and miss nothing.
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True, abbreviated accounts are basically you're cash/assets position on one day of the year.
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We generate a lot of this electricity by burning gas which we have to buy from the market where prices are set relative to global supply and demand. This is why we originally stopped mining coal - because Russian gas was so cheap at the tim
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latham_Report Latham identified industry inefficiencies, condemning existing industry practices as 'adversarial', 'ineffective', 'fragmented', 'incapable
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by dazc 4y ago
We get this in the UK too but often it's someone driving the car and a kid that gets out and actually delivers the paper? We also have car washes that are either 100% automated or have 6 guys all cleaning one car. You can guess which i
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by dazc 4y ago
Sometimes in life you realise you're the only person who cares or is doing the right thing. This applies to just about any field of work you can think of and yet the world keeps turning regardless. May sound obvious but try and find so
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Doesn't always work, BBC is top result for some controversial queries. Enough said...
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> My buddies and I want to start a company as we are all in the same position, but we have no grand ideas... Just improve something that already exists then.
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Thinkpad, if you don't need the latest spec then you can buy refurbished business class machines almost as good as new for a third of the cost. Not a 'cool' choice but for spec and performance per $ you're not going to g
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by dazc 4y ago
Negative SEO is proving to be quite effective in having entire sites being removed from Bing and, subsequently DDG. Obviously, Bing/DDG isn't the intended target - just that Google is better at ignoring such attacks.
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These people never consider the possibility they will actually hit something, their driving skills being so above average and all..
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I see this nearly everyday and wonder how it took billions of years to produce a species which is so dumb?
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Pay someone to plant a tree and voila! your site is carbon neutral...
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There is no incentive to arranging a downvoting scheme targeted against a random poster on HN or Reddit, there is, however, a great incentive to do the same against a commercial competitor in Google search results. Negative seo is a thing a
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It's just another hoop to jump through.
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Because it was gamed.
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> I guess Guardian must be the seller? Not likely but oh the irony? Maybe it just expired and no one realised the value of a two-letter .com?
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In a year's time you'll still be reading the same complaints about search quality though for the simple inescapable fact that there is little incentive for anyone to write impartial and authoritative reviews for anything that is i

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