djmobley

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by djmobley 6y ago
The primary constraint on housing supply in most developed economies is planning restrictions, and those could be lifted with the stroke of a pen. Allow densification, abolish green belts, reduce the friction and cost of obtaining planning
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by djmobley 6y ago
Not if you are able to charge enough, and reinvest the funds such that low-risk investment returns will cover the cost. Combine that with underlying costs (storage, data transfer, computing power) which are trending downward and there’s no
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by djmobley 6y ago
I gather they’re going for an endowment model, and the pricing is reassuringly expensive. That said, storage is one of those things that feels as though it should be charged on a subscription basis.
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by djmobley 6y ago
I gave up waiting and switched to an AMD card for the native macOS support. No regrets. Everything works flawlessly out of the box and I no longer have to wait for Nvidia drivers before installing updates.
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by djmobley 6y ago
That’s an awful lot of data transfer for a low cost instance. I think most providers would find a way to pull the plug on that kind of usage.
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by djmobley 7y ago
In the UK it is absolutely a thing. Why would it not be a thing?
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by djmobley 7y ago
Are there really no free credit cards available in your country? In many countries paying with a credit card gives you greater legal and fraud protection. Also helps build your credit rating.
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by djmobley 7y ago
At $30/barrel they’re selling oil at a loss, not building up wealth to invest elsewhere.
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by djmobley 7y ago
GNU's Not Unix!
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by djmobley 7y ago
It looks as though the designers wanted to be bold and drop the “BMW” text but were overruled.
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by djmobley 7y ago
This is fantastic investigative journalism. Full credit to those who made it happen, whose actions look likely to save lives.
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by djmobley 7y ago
> If you only use your TV(s) [...] to watch recorded content or streaming content over the Internet, you don't need to pay it. If it is recorded, you are correct, but if you are streaming live TV via any online service (not just iPl
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by djmobley 7y ago
Monzo report to TransUnion and Experian (as of last month), but not Equifax. Starling report to Equifax and TransUnion, but not Experian. I don’t believe Revolut report to anyone.
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by djmobley 7y ago
There are other implications to switching banks, e.g. credit reference agencies will often deduct points if you frequently switch current accounts and/or don’t have at least one long-standing account. Also worth noting many of the chal
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by djmobley 7y ago
I’m bullish on autonomous electric vehicles making these kind of neighborhoods perfectly sustainable and, for many people, preferable to higher density walkable neighborhoods.
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by djmobley 7y ago
Worth noting Revolut do not have a UK banking licence, and your funds with them are not protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).
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by djmobley 7y ago
I was glad when Apple “slowed down” my old iPhone. It fixed the sudden shut down issue for me that was driving me insane. The shut downs were unpredictable and rendered my phone unusable until it was plugged in to charge. It would have been
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by djmobley 7y ago
I see it as part of a general trend whereby Apple are locking down macOS and making it more akin to iOS. Think System Integrity Protection (SIP), the read-only system volume introduced in Catalina, etc. All good for security and your typica
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by djmobley 7y ago
If you’re the kind of large organisation that is considering SAP, the only real competitor is Oracle, which is just as bad. The implementation of any ERP system is bound to be extremely painful. It’s big and complex and involves lots of cha
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by djmobley 7y ago
> It's a real headache to use and completely confusing. You could say the same about Vim. I suspect there are workflows and shortcuts heavy SAP users have learned over time that make them highly effective, and they are now resistant
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by djmobley 7y ago
Not a great choice of name given the existence of https://www.snowflake.com
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by djmobley 7y ago
Everything in one colo facility with no geographic redundancy?
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by djmobley 7y ago
> The current government recently placed Greenpeace, Extinction Rebellion and cycling advocacy group Critical Mass on a terrorist watch list (even though it admits they aren't terrorist groups). No they didn’t. They placed their sym
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by djmobley 7y ago
Indeed, a throwback to the internet of yore.
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by djmobley 7y ago
OpenCore works in the same way as Clover in this respect. You still need to provide a serial, MLB, etc. If you configure everything correctly, you should have no issues using Apple services.
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by djmobley 7y ago
The aversion may also be down to the fact apartments are typically sold on a leasehold basis, often accompanied by exorbitant ground rent and service fees. I wouldn’t even call it owning a property, when you are obliged to pay £200+ in rent
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by djmobley 7y ago
Sounds like this is all the money being poured into television and film content by Netflix/Amazon/Apple etc. trickling down.
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by djmobley 7y ago
For domain registrations I use a mix of Namecheap, Cloudflare, GoDaddy and Name.com, and haven’t had issues with any of them. Gandi is the only domain registrar I’ve had an issue with.
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by djmobley 7y ago
Gandi have something of a cult following, but in my only experience with them they literally lost my domain name during an inbound transfer. Their response was awful and rude and completely unprofessional. I never got my domain back. Based
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by djmobley 7y ago
A requirement of the CC-BY-SA license is that any works which build upon the material (e.g. this NPR article) must also be distributed under the same license.

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