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by gandalfian 2y ago
Also a rare UK success story in brute force lawmaking. People used to hack phones IMEI all the time, lots of utils available. Then anything relating to changing an imei was heavily punished and it all stopped. Nobody would host a utility o
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by gandalfian 2y ago
Remember Grant Shapps the previous industrial strategy minister and current defence minister used to sell courses on how to make £20,000 on the internet in a month. £400 for the course. So this is not really that surprising.
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by gandalfian 2y ago
"I kinda wonder what will happen to TSLA if Musk were to just _walk away" Merge with Toyota, sort out reparability issues, slap ten year warranty on cars and put up prices 15%. Dominate the profitable middle of the market as produ
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by gandalfian 3y ago
"with renewables". (Not sure the headline makes sense without that?)
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by gandalfian 3y ago
€ so european? A Nissan leaf can be €5000 but will probably only do 70 miles to a charge. A Corsa-e knock off Peugeot, 4 years old can be €10,000 just. I think they will get cheaper.
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by gandalfian 3y ago
Or Shakeyourbed, Makeyourbed and Uptobedyougo, according to some children's classes...
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by gandalfian 3y ago
15 years ago awesome. Last time I used it too many adverts inserted? Rumour has it that their main business is predatory African money lending. Which is just weird.
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by gandalfian 3y ago
The house costs a euro. The legal and conveyancing fees of a house purchase are several thousand euros. That's before you start renovating.
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by gandalfian 3y ago
Rental income already pushes most private landlords into a high tax bracket. Probably at least 20% of rent goes straight back to the government in tax. If the tenant was paying mortgage payments or social housing rent instead then no tax...
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by gandalfian 3y ago
Advertise a house to rent in Cornwall and you will get 30+ enquiries in 48 hours and have to suspend the listing before getting overwhelmed. A third of them will have always dreamed of moving to Cornwall. A desperate third want to overfill
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by gandalfian 3y ago
Yeah he means fixed. It's a common way to stop bookshops being squeezed out. They abolished it in the UK in the 90s which combined with internet sellers emerging led to the odd effect that book prices didn't really rise for 20 yea
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by gandalfian 3y ago
<I never understood why trains are so expensive in England> Given passenger numbers increasing in the last couple of decades have given trains huge economies scale reducing their costs and yet fares go up, public subsides go up and tr
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by gandalfian 3y ago
Yup, any astrological phenomenon seems to attract clouds here. The red arrows too.
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by gandalfian 3y ago
>"My question is: how have Tether managed to turn a profit on billions of dollars of long treasuries when the same thing literally bankrupted several banks"< Perhaps they bought short term treasury bill so they redeemed them
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by gandalfian 3y ago
It's slightly vague over whether these are still traditional passbook accounts. Or if the passbook is now a symbolic token to make people comfortable.
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by gandalfian 3y ago
The brother inkjet I purchased four years ago was much harder to get fake chipped cartridges for than previous models. I got there I the end but at greater cost than I expected. I wouldn't buy another basic brother inkjet any more. In
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by gandalfian 3y ago
I had an HTC TyTN II windows mobile 6 CE mobile phone. Basically same year as original iPhone. IE was rapidly abandoned and unusable. But with Gmail + activesynch it was like a blackberry with instant email. Opera mobile worked as well as m
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by gandalfian 3y ago
At a guess he didn't buy it a decade ago...
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by gandalfian 3y ago
While impressive to be boring electricity use was about 30GW but direct heating by gas and oil consumption was another 150GW or so. Heat pumps might reduce that in theory but still quite a way to go...
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by gandalfian 3y ago
Trouble shooting a relatives apartment I found the internet through his power line adapter was slow because it was connecting to an apartment four floors below... Who actually had a smarter internet connection but sadly at that distance the
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by gandalfian 3y ago
I always wonder what the COP efficiency of my fridge is. I mean a minisplit AC is about 3 to 1. A fridge is basically a small version of the same heat pump. So you would think solid state might actually be less efficient, though quieter and
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by gandalfian 3y ago
"Really surprised at how rural postmen are using their own cars." In rural areas independent people bid for routes. So they provide their own vehicle and are independent contractors.
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by gandalfian 3y ago
"Hmm... 2006, huh. I wonder what happened then for it to change. " Well he remarried in 2006 having been widowed two years earlier. Neither he nor his friends were getting any younger. So it all sounds pretty unremarkable.
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by gandalfian 3y ago
The terrible irony is now nobody reads Usenet because of the spam. But people continue to endlessly automatically spam because Usenet is picked up by web indexers like Google who read the spam links. So Google dejanews has killed the very t
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by gandalfian 3y ago
I miss Psion which ironically abandoned the market because they thought Microsoft would dominate it. Some of their ease of use has never been replicated.
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by gandalfian 3y ago
Nobody has cracked the usb stick that might have bitcoin on it. But they are volunteering themselves to try if the owner will let them. Which so far he won't.
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by gandalfian 3y ago
The traditional basis of gin is basic industrial alcohol. The berries are just the flavouring.
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2000Ad announces retirement of John M. Burns(2000ad.com)
107 points by gandalfian 3y ago|20 comments
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by gandalfian 3y ago
‘No more robots, no more trains’ – 2000 AD wishes a very happy retirement to the legendary John M. Burns 9th October 2023 Earlier this week, John M. Burns, one of Britain’s great comic artists, whose work has thrilled and amazed for more th
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by gandalfian 3y ago
The Machine Stops, 1909 by E M Forster (room with a view/Howard's end) could almost be a sequel to this. Ideas are often older than we think. (Short story/novela length. Not a gripping read but a nice quick length and intere

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