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by dpwm 5y ago
From the decision on the application for permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court [0]: > The applicant describes himself as a “journalist in new media”. Whatever that may involve, it is relevant to distinguish his position from that
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by dpwm 5y ago
I can think of a reason why I would take it out: it’s an easter egg – i.e. unnecessary – that has already caused a problem once in a way that was not foreseen. Of course there may be some that have been using the existing behavior as a conv
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by dpwm 5y ago
It would be interesting to let consumers have access to adtech tools. Instead of a subscription, I could set bidding limits on the ads that would have been shown to me. I appreciate there are commercial reasons why this won’t happen, but it
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by dpwm 5y ago
The problem with this is that Netflix Originals apparently gets slapped on stuff that Netflix bought post-production or financed as a co-production.
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by dpwm 5y ago
The kind of content that works well for Netflix does not work so well for me. They introduce just enough content that works for me that I don’t cancel the subscription. I still find it a marvel that despite the majority of content introduce
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by dpwm 5y ago
Many legit sellers – big names in all sectors – use the listings merging feature, from kindle books that are almost unreadable to network equipment that has variants with very different qualities. In many cases, Amazon is the seller. As a c
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by dpwm 5y ago
Yeah, I confused myself and put an edit in there. I first thought it was just ignoring the Z then giving out a UTC object. Now I realize it was doing what I expected it to: parse correctly and hand out a local time.
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by dpwm 5y ago
[EDIT] Realised this is the behavior I would expect. Parse is doing what I would expect it to, taking into account the given time being UTC. It's then returning an object that's in the local timezone. Still goes to show just how c
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by dpwm 5y ago
Thank you for posting this. I had not appreciated the scale of this. There are 368 episodes, spread over almost seven years.
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by dpwm 5y ago
It appears he started on Bloomsday 2010, and in episode 321, from 2016, he remarked in an introduction that he planned to finish it within ten years from then – which Wikipedia cites as evidence of it being "planned" to run to 202
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by dpwm 5y ago
Scottish students still have to pay sometimes very high accommodation fees, and this is usually done through a loan. Example: I studied in Edinburgh from 2008–2012, but was from Wales. I had to pay around £1800 per year tuition fees, but ac
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by dpwm 5y ago
Never worked at google, but I use their services and moved country recently. > The workaround is to use different accounts, each with MOP from different countries. Pretty sure IP doesn't matter. Maybe it has changed, because this wa
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by dpwm 5y ago
> I think the practicalities of the unwinding are actually central to the key point of all this: what do we do about it? I don’t think you can unwind – you can create a more unfair or less unfair society, but even how you measure fair is
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by dpwm 5y ago
I actually consider this the most honest critical reply, even if it runs counter to my values – so I upvoted it. I don’t believe that the policies were unenlightened, or accidental, or coincidental. I think they were the result of immense e
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by dpwm 5y ago
How do you define prosperity? GDP seems a flawed metric when discussing plunder: of course country A forcing country B to mine or farm will increase the GDP of country B. I believe it requires either supremacism, inconsistency or hypocrisy
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by dpwm 5y ago
> Race is a relatively new dimension in this conversation, largely imported from the USA. Conventionally, English society is divided by class, not race. Absolutely, and the class structure in the UK is very still prevalent and cohesive.
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by dpwm 5y ago
The entire ideology is so inconsistent that it can only seem like it might work if you wilfully ignore vast swathes of evidence. Britain’s imperial past and present provide a perfectly adequate explanation for the UK’s relative prosperity.
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by dpwm 5y ago
> That's the UK govt standard for document/data exchange. Short, simple and open. Get the basics right first then tackle the complicated stuff. Which would be great if they actually followed their guidance. In reality, the UK W
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by dpwm 5y ago
I read it as anyone – including spammers – who puts link in will get a head request to it from the email provider, thus providing information – even if just that the address is real. However, the absence of a bounce probably also does that,
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by dpwm 5y ago
This article seems rather poor quality and devoid of much content. It reads like an infomercial script. The use of the first- and second-person gives it a real amateur vibe, and at times the tone approaches condescending. A few example para
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by dpwm 5y ago
There’s an awful lot of companies that use this as their deployment method. People of requisite cautiousness will vet the shell script – but I suspect most will not.
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by dpwm 5y ago
> Does France require this information for French citizens who no longer live in France, but moved to (for example) the United States 20 years ago? No, my understanding is only if you actually have income from France – such as rental in
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by dpwm 5y ago
> I believe most EU countries aren't that interested in that information. France at least appears to be interested, requiring you to explicitly list every foreign place you can stash money on tax returns every year. If you have a
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by dpwm 5y ago
I would be surprised if Amazon had the same non-negotiable-take-it-or-leave-it terms with Bose as it has with others. Which raises an obvious asymmetry: Amazon makes no guarantee that it is not offering more favourable terms for bigger supp
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by dpwm 5y ago
I think I’ve seen it more directly with Amazon sellers including discount vouchers that only work on their own store.
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by dpwm 5y ago
This is an interesting perspective. It fits with my understanding of traditional retail as pretty brutal for new entrants, taking more of a cut and putting up a much higher barrier to entry than Amazon. Ebay may have lower fees, but Amazon
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by dpwm 5y ago
> That seems like legitimately monopolistic behavior and something that is illegal and should be stopped. IIRC they do something like it with books through Kindle Direct Publishing: you have to sell on Amazon at the lowest price availabl
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by dpwm 5y ago
As you rightly point out, WordPress has a sweet spot of providing control over content to the customer. The problem I see is that, in many instances, WP is pushed by dodgy developers running a template for what is a static site. This is e
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by dpwm 5y ago
The old method used to be template matching, and it probably still works well enough for problems like this. There are almost certainly now better approaches possible using Machine Learning. In my experience, the main challenges with proble
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by dpwm 5y ago
Some are not really pre-paid, you have to go online to activate them, or have to order them online, or have few options but to top up by card. However, I just looked into it some more and it appears you can still buy prepaid cards by cash a

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