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by dazc 4y ago
Not parent but any decent airbnb in Europe is likely also listed on other platforms. Those that are not, avoid.
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by dazc 4y ago
:)
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by dazc 4y ago
Inflation has risen to 9.1%.... from 9% in April.
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by dazc 4y ago
Warren Buffet is probably not a great surgeon though?
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by dazc 4y ago
> ...whose practice was a convenient 10-minute walk from Mitchell’s home, Not a good criteria for choosing a dentist. My dentist is a 4 hour drive away. I moved 10 years ago and I prefer the inconvenience over the risk that someone else
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by dazc 4y ago
> I'm not comparing my life with someone so far away from my life as there is just no relation. The person so worse off may not be so far away as you imagine.
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by dazc 4y ago
99% of the world's population would happily trade with you, just focus on this.
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by dazc 4y ago
It's likely going to be a long road to profitability so pick something you're going to stay interested in whether it makes money or not.
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by dazc 4y ago
Is a 'millionaire' a 'wealthy citizen' these days? In the UK this means you can buy a decent home for cash and still have to work for a living?
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by dazc 4y ago
There are situations where a dishonest worker/business owner will harvest credit card numbers but you are correct in that this represents a very small percentage of card fraud cases.
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by dazc 4y ago
Just for balance, it works fine in the UK if you accept it's not going to find results that don't actually exist - like a '10 Best Bikes under $1,000' article written by someone who's gone out and bought 10 bikes wi
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by dazc 4y ago
So they have lost a a bit of volume to a number of recent upstarts - well, who could have thought it? [Curtesy of Barry Schwartz, a career copy/paster.]
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by dazc 4y ago
You don't know you're poor unless people around you have more money than you do.
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by dazc 4y ago
Telecoms companies do usually require a signed credit agreement. Which is how they are able to make these threats.
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by dazc 4y ago
This is fairly common practice with utility companies and banks. I don't think Google have latched on to this scam yet but I'm sure they will eventually. AFAIK (in the UK, at least), for an account to affect your credit record, wi
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by dazc 4y ago
I think it's people that are the problem. Car drivers will do the craziest things just to avoid being delayed by a few seconds and the well-being of anyone who gets in their way is of little consequence. As a pedestrian, ironically, on
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by dazc 4y ago
> 'What's the difference for an end user except for the extra dot?' You hold the domain at the whim of whoever controls the top level. Likely, they'll be less reliable than an official registry.
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by dazc 4y ago
You are selling the rights of registration rather than the domain itself. So yes you are buying the domain so long as you keep paying the registration fees and comply with the rules set by the domain registry.
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by dazc 4y ago
Roads seem plenty busy at weekends though?
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by dazc 4y ago
It's a proxy war and the simple aim is to inflict as much damage on Russia as possible from a safe distance. There are obvious risks, of course, not least that some career politicians will end up looking foolish, but that hasn't s
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by dazc 4y ago
The more complex they make it the more likley you are to rely on their automation tools. Just make sure your credit card limit is high enough.
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by dazc 4y ago
Blocking the user agent in my WAF is the only thing that actually worked. So, I'm sure you're right and I am just a random outlying case.
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by dazc 4y ago
What's stopping you, they crawl your site day and night and sell the data they have harvested at a vast profit. They don't even respect robots.txt.
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by dazc 4y ago
Speaking as an 'older person', many of the opinions I held as a 'younger person' turned out to be completely wrong. That's the problem with being 'older' you get the benefit of experience and seeing how ce
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by dazc 4y ago
'...and just a google search away. Oh, the irony!
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by dazc 4y ago
No it doesn't, it is just another income tax.
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by dazc 4y ago
Counter point - older people's votes should be weighted the other way because they have contributed far more in taxes, done more productive work and may have even fought for your right to complain.
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by dazc 4y ago
Older people are far more likley to actually vote, period.
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by dazc 4y ago
It's ironic that I know someone who lives in a building where sprinklers have been retro-fit in the most incompetant and chaotic manner you could imagine. The problems within the UK construction industry go far, far beyond the implemen
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by dazc 4y ago
People seem to want to move in with everything aready done, shiny kitchen, fitted carpets, etc, etc. This would be great if houses were built like Toyotas - but they're not.

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