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by dazc 4y ago
I'm in the UK. If you give me a passport as ID I have no way of knowing if it is genuine. If you present a company letterhead I can, at least, check the company exists, verify your name is the same as a registered director and also see
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by dazc 4y ago
Same way a passport is, I guess? 99% of organisations that ask for a passport image have no way of knowing whether it is fake or not, a letterhead is slightly easier to mock up though.
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by dazc 4y ago
The Gov't believed it was tax avoidance for the simple reason that it was. It is still possible to build a business in the UK the old fashioned way of working hard and making personal sacrifices.
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by dazc 4y ago
Look at Ireland, low corporation tax (we won't even force you to pay it at all if you're big enough) and a booming economy - producing feck all. If it wasn't low taxes that achieved this then what was it?
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by dazc 4y ago
Food is commoditized to the point where a lot of it involves slavery (Southern Europe) or exploitation of the state welfare system (UK), etc. So not quite the same. Without homes to rent there would only be homes to buy and live in, taking
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by dazc 4y ago
Showing my age, but back in 1976, where I lived, water was being brought in by tanker day and night during the hottest summer on record. I'm not saying privatisation has been a glowing success but supply issues were much worse in the d
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by dazc 4y ago
For domestic customers there is a price cap. Business users are at the mercy of the market with deals available for 12 monthly contracts. My office contract has just renewed at over 130% last year's deal. The alternative would be to ha
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by dazc 4y ago
Seen this on a couple of sites. In one instance I submitted a support ticket that went unanswered for a while and then, out of the blue, good news - the issue has been resolved and you should see your site appearing in search results very s
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by dazc 4y ago
Especially since it has been tried and that is exactly what happened.
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by dazc 4y ago
Look forward to multiple sites with just one link on each page then. Any kind of well-intentioned rule you set can be figured out and gamed.
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by dazc 4y ago
> Why hasn't DDG grown internal search competency? Maybe because it's already a profitable business model as it is?
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by dazc 4y ago
You can access a monzo business account on the web to access statements and such. I believe they also have an emergency web access feature for personal accounts. https://monzo.com/blog/2018/06/13/how-to-g
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by dazc 4y ago
I have a monzo personal and business account and I haven't had any major issues. As a former Barclays customer, they'd have to be fairly terrible to be any worse though. I did try an open a Starling account once but they claimed m
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by dazc 4y ago
I found Anne Boden a tad disingenuous, mentioning 'the book' at every opportunity. Tom sounded more genuine, to me.
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by dazc 4y ago
You get this in the UK too; libraries have become spaces for everyone to enjoy with the inevitable consequences. Around ten years ago I didn't have the money for an office so would work a few hours each day in the 'quiet' sec
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by dazc 4y ago
It was irony
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by dazc 4y ago
The Guardian is second only to Wikipedia when 'here is a link to prove I am right...' comes into play.
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by dazc 4y ago
It also make laundry more efficient since you can get away with just throwing everything in together.
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by dazc 4y ago
From the bottom comment: 'Watching the drivers head movements has kept me safe so far, as has watching the front wheels in the absence of an indicator signal.' This could be useful at roundabouts in the UK where the default behavi
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by dazc 4y ago
A lot of actors lie about their age so I wouldn't hold out too much hope on getting an accurate result on that one. I get your point though about the multiple results for something where there clearly is no authoritative answer.
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by dazc 4y ago
Kind of similar for me but my cars tend to get hit now and again a lot whilst parked. One time almost written off because it was hit at high speed and the offender kept on going despite leaving several piece of his own car at the scene. The
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by dazc 4y ago
> 'Even getting them to pay for insurance is hard enough, how difficult do you think it'd be to get them to pay £10k fine?' In a lot of cases the fine for having no insurance is lower than the insurance would have cost. In
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by dazc 4y ago
Maybe not a long term alternative but taxing drivers behaviour via extreme penalties rather than the type of fuel or vehicle they use would not only raise revenue but may also encourage people to drive in a safer and more fuel-efficient man
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by dazc 4y ago
Alicante/Valencia mainly but, yeah, I lived in Galicia for a while also. Two different worlds in many ways.
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by dazc 4y ago
I'm guessing the composition is dictated by local average conditions. It rains a lot in the UK and freezing ground temperatures are common in the winter too. I lived in Spain for a while and non-average weather such as a day of heavy r
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by dazc 4y ago
> I'm amused there's no mention of brexit. I feel that's left the public conscious already... Don't worry, there are people who will bring it up over and over again. Unless inflation, low pay, expensive housing, the e
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by dazc 4y ago
Sadly, there are some landlords who do feel entitled to be making a living from renting out a single house. OK, this may be an extreme but it pretty much sums up the parasitic nature of our dysfunctional housing market.
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by dazc 4y ago
I remember looking for casual work ten years ago and a lot of jobs had hours arranged to specifically attract people who were happy to have their income subsidised by benefits. Since there were plenty of available workers it was a good game
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by dazc 4y ago
Yes https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/19642710.speed-camera-campa...
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by dazc 4y ago
I can appreciate that policing reviews at scale is difficult but why does amazon need to have 10,000 options for every single thing? If you want to create a system where the only differentiator is the number of positive reviews then you are

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