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by dazc 5y ago
If the price of a house was directly related to its actual building cost, and considering how much deposit one needs nowadays, it isn't a bad idea.
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by dazc 5y ago
Without saying how much you asked for, this is a non-story.
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by dazc 5y ago
> Why is Russia losing so many tanks? Maybe this... 'The US supplied Ukraine with 2,000 Javelin anti-tank missiles at the start of the conflict and has since sent at least 2,000 more.' 'The UK has also sent at least 3,600
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by dazc 5y ago
> No one had ever considered the juxtaposition of homelessness and wealth in San Francisco until Elon came along. Yet few of these people have ever considered doing anything about it?
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by dazc 5y ago
10 years ago I was homeless and broke, please don't take offence on my behalf.
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by dazc 5y ago
> The collective knowledge gained in making quality automobiles since Toyota started until now is widely available... Yes, this is a fair point, I do concede.
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by dazc 5y ago
Since you were never going to join their mailing list, no, you are simply saving them bandwidth. What you don't realise is that x number of people join the list and x number of people tolerate being spammed with 'did you know we s
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by dazc 5y ago
> Toyota and Honda economy cars are assembled with more rigorous quality standards than a $100k Tesla. Not playing devil's advocate for Tesla here but how long have Toyota and Honda been building cars? It's true that every iter
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by dazc 5y ago
Many of these business go bust - so yes, maybe they should do just that?
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by dazc 5y ago
Fair comment. I think we can agree there are case where such things can be used to great effect but that there also are businesses throwing money around and hoping something sticks. One big mistake businesses make is seeing another business
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by dazc 5y ago
> 'It's not that these companies love throwing their money away. Maybe there's just something they know that you don't?' Those companies that have a Sign-up for our email and get 10% off your first order pop-up,
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by dazc 5y ago
Nothing, which is why you may get to the point where you're advertising to protect your brand rather than advertising to build your business.
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by dazc 5y ago
Just selecting 'sold by amazon.co.uk' returns 4,000 results. It's no surprise that that the incentive to manipulate ratings far exceeds that of just producing a good value product. https://www.johnlewis.com/se
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by dazc 5y ago
If you are a solo developer you are going to be inundated with complaints from clients who've recently discovered their pagespeed score is only 97%. They will be particularly aggrieved that the Google are saying their FCP and CLS are i
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by dazc 5y ago
> We live in a world where exceeding this particular "limit" by 60% is not only safe, it's common. It's funny how there are so many road accidents caused by people with this very same attitude. Since it isn't the
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by dazc 5y ago
We are talking about speeding drivers here. The worst case scenario is that they get a small fine and may modify their behaviour as a consequence. Let's not descend into extremes.
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by dazc 5y ago
I believe the ideal use case for this app is on residential streets where the chances of impact with a pedestrian or child playing are sufficiently high to warrant a low speed limit? Anyone who chooses to exceed this limit in such an area I
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by dazc 5y ago
> Firstly, anything which normalises surveillance by citizens on citizens is a death spiral for society. Do you also condone citizens witnessing other crimes and doing nothing or is your opinion limited to dangerous driving only?
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by dazc 5y ago
You can submit evidence like this to the Police in the UK and they may act on it. Incidentally, I was involved in a heated discussion with someone the other week about her poor parking. Turns out she sent webcam footage to the police and I
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by dazc 5y ago
> The subscription service that is supposed to not show ads shows ads.. Absolutely correct and totally ridiculous, although they do make the distinction of calling these ads 'promotional messages'.
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by dazc 5y ago
As a former Barclays customer I can confirm this. Last year I changed from self-employed to limited company and changing my business account at Barclays proved to be impossible despite always previously being in credit with no issues at all
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by dazc 5y ago
I suppose you are right but it just seems like one of those 'clock wasn't broke so why mend it' situations.
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by dazc 5y ago
The only clothes I need to renew are socks and underwear. I have enough smart, casual wear to last me the next decade at least.
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by dazc 5y ago
Marks and Spencer are one of many brands that pivoted from quality to crap yet saw no significant decrease in customer loyalty.
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by dazc 5y ago
Correct, but didn't they say support would end at some near future date? This leaves it open to the whims of a random developer to provide an alternative and to continue support.
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by dazc 5y ago
He may just have gotten bad contractors. A friend of mine lives in a council run appartment in the UK and some simple jobs that have been carried out on his building have run into years, with multiple people on site every day (mostly doing
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by dazc 5y ago
Many were solidly built but it's all about location in this instance.
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by dazc 5y ago
I had a twitter account once upon a time and never really used it. After a couple of years I logged in to see if it was still active and, low and behold, I was following a bunch of random celebrities and bands. Hasn't this kind of thin
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by dazc 5y ago
> "The classic editor will probably always be around, it's just a wrapper around TinyMCE..." So why not just keep it as an option? Is it because 90% of current users would just do that? Adapting to the block editor hasn&#x
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by dazc 5y ago
Procrastination stems from a wide spectrum of underlying causes though, from serious depression to temporary boredom. I've experienced both extremes and one is much easier to manage than the other. Changing your job may, sometimes, be

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