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by iso1210 5y ago
My kids have no concept of linear TV. My 9 year old came back and told me that a friend had a broken TV as when they turned it on, the program was already half way through. Their 'channels' are netflix, amazon and disney. When I h
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by iso1210 5y ago
If you have freedom of movement over a large area, if you don't have breakdown of law and order, if people don't start lynching others when they come into their area.
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by iso1210 5y ago
I have a rock that deters tigers you might want to buy
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TK1476 in 2006. Flying from an EU country to Turkey on a major airline. "Italian Interior Minister Giuliano Amato reported that the hijacker slipped into the cockpit with a package which could have been a bomb when flight attendants op
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by iso1210 5y ago
House price doesn't matter, it's the deposit. HTB may have pushed up the house price by say 30%, but it meant the deposit was lower (12k rather than 18k) and the repayments were lower for the first 5 years.
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by iso1210 5y ago
1 ton tungston rod wouldn't burn up.
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by iso1210 5y ago
> since you can easily inspect the envelope for evidence of tampering Except that's not true. Often envelopes can be opened and resealed without any trace, meaning contents can be read or changed.
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by iso1210 5y ago
Fixes in the UK now are typically 2, 3, 5 or 10 years, certainly not life of mortgage. Idea is that prices increase and you repay the mortgage and you remortgage onto a better rate (so start with 90% 5 year fix, after 5 years you've pa
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by iso1210 5y ago
Any tech that can send a 1 ton roadster to mars can crash a 1 ton roadster into Buenos Aires at 20,000mph
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by iso1210 5y ago
> For a small village of less than 5,000 people nowhere near any sort of city or population centre, this seems like a lot. Not really, people want to live there, and can now live there while working in a decent job, raise a family, send
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by iso1210 5y ago
> HTB is a disastrous policy that did nothing but to increase the prices of properties. It let me buy a property which I wouldn't be able to without HTB, therefore your statement is objectively wrong. > And commuting towns aren’
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by iso1210 5y ago
Median weekly earnings for full-time employees reached £585 in April 2019, an increase of 2.9% since April 2018 [0] That's £30k a year. [0] https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor...
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by iso1210 5y ago
When I was young my outgoings were mainly the cheapest rent I could find. And maybe a slice of avocado toast once a week /s This is because rents rise to the amount someone is willing to pay, which is basically what they earn, because
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It's not a lot to be fair, and interest rates are below inflation.
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by iso1210 5y ago
Depends how often you need to be in London, 2 bed terrace, £270k https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/111488087 40 minutes to Fenchurch Street (little less for Docklands), £65 per week//£2600 per year. 2 be
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by iso1210 5y ago
The idea is that two people on an average London wage should be able to afford to live in an average home in London. The truth is they can - if they can get the deposit together (which is trivial if you have parents you can live with for a
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by iso1210 5y ago
> even with HTB which is a terrible policy the people who can afford to buy are already in the top percentiles What a load of rubbish. HTB really helped us when buying by giving 5 years of interest free We bought a 240k house with a 12k
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by iso1210 5y ago
There aren't mortgage tax credits in the UK, and I have no idea what you mean by "eco regulation shenanigans"
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by iso1210 5y ago
> Round here in Cornwall the jobs are things like surf instructor, supermarket worker, barperson, etc. That's not gonna stretch to the local house prices. That was the case. A colleague of mine, originally from St Just, moved to Lon
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"Between 2012 and 2013, McDonald’s reached agreement with the Kentucky Labor Cabinet to pay $29,000 in back wages to 203 affected workers" So basically you steal the money, and if you're caught (unlikely), you just have to gi
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by iso1210 5y ago
> Finally, I point out that liberals are unlikely to win the abortion issue in any other way. This isn't an issue in most countries
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Funny how the people who complain the loudest about companies deciding not to associate tend to the be most rabbid free-market anti-government people. Godaddy isn't by any means a monopoly. The barrier of entry into hosting DNS is triv
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by iso1210 5y ago
The best way to block samsung is to not spend any money with them. The next best way is to not connect your (non-samsung) smart TV to a network.
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For the last 70 years America, it's politicians, media, and cultural exports (holywood) has claimed to be the "leader of the free world", the "global policeman", a defender of democracy, a champion of liberty, a kni
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by iso1210 5y ago
> I live in London too and I'm baffled by the lack of tall buildings in pretty central parts of the city. The real solution is more supply. I just spent 5 days in London and was shocked at how many tall buildings there were that wer
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Saudi Arabia was the primary source of al-Qaeda funding. The majority of the hijackers were from Saudi, as was Bin Laden. When he was eventually found it was in Pakistan. At least invading Afghanistan made more sense than invading Iraq.
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by iso1210 5y ago
These devices pretend to pay attention to HDCP, tell the tranmitting device "oh yes I'm good", but then ignore it.
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I don't care as I don't use an android as I don't trust google and actively dislike the entire advertising industry and its drain on society. It wouldn't surprise me if google did that. It should surprise me if my oven o
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Bearing in mind 10,000 [0], for anyone who's confused, hunter2 is a reference to an irc conversation submitted to bash.org back in 2004ish, the definitive "paste your password" thing. http://bash.org/?244321
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As you control your pi, you can control ethernet over hdmi

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