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by geden 9y ago
Depends here you are. I have 20+ British / American friends in Berlin none of whom speak fluent German and get on just fine.
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by geden 10y ago
I'm very curious about what you consider to be "the best scifi, the really good stuff". Could you name some examples? Very few decent SF scripts go into production, even fewer with such amazing talent on board (Villeneuve, Jo
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by geden 10y ago
My own experience and observation - http2 is going to very awkward to enable on Centos until openssl is updated to 1.0.2. (supporting ALPN as required by Chrome). I'm not prepared to custom compile something like openssl, especially wh
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by geden 11y ago
Erm. Where in the UK does that happen exactly?
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by geden 11y ago
I'be been struggling with procrastination for 25 years. It's quite miserable not least because it's clearly self perpetuated. I'm deep in a quest to slay the beast at the moment and just a few hours ago read this, which
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by geden 11y ago
Vinyl's awkwardness and the rituals around it are a way of expressing dedication to music and expression dedication to music is a way of differentiating yourself. Vinyl use (or often just purchase and displat) has become the mark of so
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by geden 11y ago
Property in Cambridge is also very expensive.
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by geden 12y ago
Thank you for sharing that. Could I ask how you and your children cope with the boarding aspect of Summerhill. This was something my wife and I fundamentally disagreed on. (Un)Fortunately the cost of Summerhill made this a moot point. The u
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by geden 12y ago
Ok so this is basically the Summerhill school model. If I could chip in with a data point and my own point of view for the doubters... I visited Summerhill and spent a day there and attended one of their famous Meetings. I experienced it as
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by geden 12y ago
The difference is, despite straw bales being an excellent building material (especially with regards to heat and sound insulation, cost & carbon), that has indeed been used for at least a hundred years, there's a huge amount of res
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by geden 12y ago
depends on the intent. the use and intent of 'crazy' here is a dramatic / stylistic one to do with making the writing interesting.
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by geden 12y ago
And the detail behind the technique: http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_uk/blog/witness-the-an... and Clark - Superscope http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKYrwuxLZtY
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by geden 12y ago
DRM in iTunes was solely at record companies request. Not an Apple choice. This has been repeatedly covered before. http://news.cnet.com/Apples-Jobs-calls-for-DRM-free-music/21... I would argue that Apples strength is
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by geden 12y ago
I'm British and as far as I could see, when visiting in the 80's my very middle class dutch cousins in Eindhoven and Amersfoort practically lived on Chocoladepasta and Hagelslag sandwiches. http://stuffdutchpeoplelike.c
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by geden 12y ago
No. Meditation is also about controlling distraction.
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by geden 12y ago
I've recently started using Citymapper for iOS and have found it to be quite simply the most useful app on my phone. 'Next level' usefulness, stemming from great UI that shows you the time and cost (in money or calories!) of
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by geden 12y ago
The indies just want the same deal as the majors get. Fair and simple.
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Cutting edge Canvas, WebGL and SVG app released on Github by Warp Record Label (github.com)
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by geden 13y ago
Island is amazing. I wish I had one of it's parrots.
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by geden 13y ago
Interestingly several of my wife's hotmail using Facebook friends accounts appeared to have been owned last night. Has someone found a new similar exploit?
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by geden 13y ago
erm, it's time to at least start finding out!
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by geden 13y ago
well it's not just about boredom, it's about the feeling of connectedness to others.
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by geden 13y ago
This Englishman too. Sweetened oat porridge is for children :)
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by geden 13y ago
why not go the whole hog and start thinking in terms of what the whole of humanity stands for and not just America. it's time to move past territorial / tribal groupings. for extra brownie points we could start thinking in terms o
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by geden 13y ago
I'm from the UK and have just spent a long weekend in Barcelona and made use of the Vodafone £3 deal and I have to say it made a massive (positive) difference to the experience, much greater than I thought it would. This is compared to
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by geden 14y ago
IMAP & SMTP have been down for at least an hour in the UK :(
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by geden 14y ago
I've just checked with linode - the backup price is shifting too, so the cost will not increase. They have not updated their FAQ yet. --------------- Hello, The backup prices are shifting just as the RAM prices shifted, so Linode 1GB backup
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by geden 14y ago
I think only freaks / hobbyists / throwbacks will end up owning cars. You don't have a personalised power station do you? Transport is just a means to an end. They'll be new and cheaper ways of signalling status with driverless cars, equiva
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by geden 14y ago
You're ignoring the very lucid point he's making. Why is that? As a UK citizen I've never had to endure such nonsense around health. I don't know what's weirder, that such a crazy system was allowed to evolve or that people defend it.
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by geden 14y ago
which came first - the controlling mother or the breakaway child?

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