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by gib444 5mo ago
I've always wondered about that and how human fear may override training and advice. Seems like you would be fighting the part of your brain telling you it's (solely) /your/ building collapsing and you need to get out An
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by gib444 5mo ago
What dosage? > in the UK where it's usually gloom & drowsy Luckily this is only September through to July :) ... :(
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by gib444 5mo ago
Everyone knows US people tip heavily, and aren't as price conscious. This has revealed your ignorance unfortunately
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by gib444 5mo ago
They're all just in it for the love of making customers happy, for sure. Amazon actually donates all their profit to charity. Bez os is currently building a foundation to shift all his wealth to, and he's going to become an alpaca
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by gib444 5mo ago
How convenient using a term that can't/won't be translated to "propa ganda" . How meta lol. That page is probably the most perfect demonstration of any concept which exists on Wikipedia
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by gib444 5mo ago
And AWS heavily pushes a complex lambda solution stringing together as many chargeable AWS services as possible for a simple requirement Their interests are often not your interests. In this case they want you to unnecessary money on useles
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by gib444 5mo ago
> If you look at the countries who stayed out of both wars (Sweden, Switzerland)…they are currently the tech hubs of Europe. They both have more unicorns per capita than the US. And in absolute terms, the UK has the #1 number of unicorns
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by gib444 5mo ago
You'd have thought the "£" would be a massive hint. Guessing they didn't even get beyond the title on HN Lol
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by gib444 5mo ago
Virgin (cable) gigabit is definitely pointless due to the latency. Not to mention the congestion and outages A good Openreach ISP (FTTP) however, fairly worth it on a good deal. You get more upload with more download bandwidth, so if you do
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by gib444 5mo ago
Yeah agree with the legacy image of Worldpay. The payment page is straight out of the early 00s. N.B. though, the Government does/did use Worldpay Started in 1997, got bought out by a US company in 2018. RIP. The founder, Nick Ogden cl
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by gib444 5mo ago
You mean like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collection_of_Internet_Connect...
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by gib444 5mo ago
I would take "automatically reported to the authorities" with a pinch of salt (in this sphere, "nudging" people with lies is de rigueur [0]). Not that I'm arguing the UK isn't accelerating further into an autho
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by gib444 5mo ago
> Is there a company that’s basically like “Stripe but British-owned”? British payment processors usually sell out / get taken over by US firms Checkout.com isn't terribly British just headquartered there (Swiss guy founded it
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by gib444 5mo ago
Got to love the people taking a swipe at the company. They found their market, can't you just be happy for them? They're hardly the only company in the world to only deal with bigger clients. This site regularly dunks on European
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by gib444 5mo ago
It's pouring it down, cloudy, windy and -3.5c deviated from average temperatures here in the UK: very much not summer, I agree!
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by gib444 5mo ago
Total non sequitir but: fine - thanks for asking daddy!
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by gib444 5mo ago
> Ask anybody who works in the tourism sector if they would prefer American (USA) tourists or some of the nationalities you mentioned. Their answer will be the Americans. Because of their money. If USA folk were poor, their opinion would
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by gib444 5mo ago
Special shout-out to the BBC who just embellish and release ahistorical nonsense, brainwashing kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M-qsVS8zeU On top of ton of social programming with an overrepresentation of eg mixed race
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by gib444 5mo ago
And The Times and The Sun aren't even British. They're owned by News Corp which is American And The Telegraph is about to become German GB News is quite likely Russian ultimately lol
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by gib444 5mo ago
Why? Did nobody vote for trump so it's a statistical impossibility? Trump voters are too stupid to fill in a passport application form? All Republican voters are too poor to travel? Spit it out mate don't be shy.
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by gib444 5mo ago
I do enjoy it when people arrogantly assume ignorance, and not many years of experience travelling and witnessing different cultures. I even called out very specific behaviours but you're trying to dismiss me by implying I'm tarri
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by gib444 5mo ago
LOL, this subthread is someone asking about whether they're welcome But yes we're acutely aware many don't care whether they are accepted it or not. That lack of consideration is not hidden at all > As long as a foreign vi
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by gib444 5mo ago
A Steam Deck is as vital as food or fuel...?
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by gib444 5mo ago
I'd say as about the same kind of unwelcome as before. Fundementally the US traveller is the same kind of US traveller as before But then I don't live in eg Portugal where the effect of US immigrants has been felt more strongly
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by gib444 5mo ago
Yeah but that doesn't mean we also don't dislike people from the US. It's a shock to many but there are Europeans who dislike both US politics and the average US citizen who flashes cash, doesn't learn the language, does
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by gib444 5mo ago
> When Americans analyze a small shop in a foreign country, time stops counting itself on clocks and pondering its own dull finiteness. Now it can pleasurably yawn into the holy hollowness of the 30-plus questions the tourists are asking
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by gib444 5mo ago
Another generic, useless comment which absolutely refuses to mention any particular aspect, eg how your life has been improved. It's so tiring And when pushed all we get is another teaser of "Significantly increased my productivit
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by gib444 5mo ago
Exactly my thoughts lol
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by gib444 5mo ago
> but your reasoning is very American. For god's sake how ridiculous. Give over What's your basis for commenting on us Brits? You can't even spell UK correctly (we don't use full stops. That's an Americanism &#x2
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by gib444 5mo ago
Good thing the post is about the UK and we here are capable of staying on topic

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