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If you are selling a house you have to list on rightmove. You're not going to choose to list on fewer sites. The question then comes if you're selling, why list anywhere else. As a buyer it's terrible - I want to be able to s
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The problem with that is it reduces the visibility of public news even further. You can have a pulitzer prize winning report onto council corruption, but if only 50 people read it it doesn't really matter.
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There's also issues when the watched are funding the watches. If the council funds the newspaper, then the newspaper reports badly on the council, then the council can reducing funding for the newspaper. You need it to be independent,
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It's a problem with pretty much anyone. Things are bad from a fundamental structural failings for decades, elect new person, don't see immediate turn-around, they're massively unpopular. The only way out of this is if you suc
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Yet these laws and general direction have been in place through half a dozen prime ministers, including ones initially very popular (Johnson especially, but Cameron wasn't particularly unpopular until the brexit mess)
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Assuming everyone on a BBC comment section is from the UK, that's 90% not Scottish and 10% Scottish In 2024 the SNP got 30% of the vote, the big unionist parties having more than 2 votes for every 1 nationalist.
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America is a country which thinks buying cheap tat from China with American Flags on is patriotic
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> incredibly over priced snake oil. Military grade snake oil? When I see "military grade" I assume overpriced $30,000 hammer
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> This is expensive, but I found it to be the only viable solution to this problem. Is it really? £150 on backmarket for a phone which will last 10 years doesn't feel expensive. Makes sense to me to run any banking on a secure devi
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I did NY to Miami in 2024, I was working in NY one week and Miami the next, made sense to me to have Sat morning down town in New York, then sit in a private hotel room with great food for 24 hours before arriving in New York Sunday evening
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"centrist dad" is apparently an insult
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The inner pane (isn't it plastic?) is far easier to replace when some annoying kid devices to scratch their tag into it with a nail file.
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We've seen that some open source licenses make way for American money to steal the monetisation -- Elasticsearch found this to their peril when Amazon swooped in and offered it as a service The other problem is the ability for American
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He had dementia that bad at 57? Ouch, that's not nice. My grandmother has been in care since 2020 and no idea who anyone is (forgot kids, husbands, etc), but at least she was in her 90s when it started going bad.
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n ipv4 /32 is roughly equivalent to an ipv6 /56 or /64 You'd typically block an AS - i.e. every IP originating from AS12345. That's just as easy on v6 as v4.
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127.0.0.1 x.com in the hosts file does the job for me, but then I just want to avoid drive-by twits rather than see what they are saying
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A CEO is probably more relatable to the guy who cleans his office than the guy who owns the company. £4.4m/yr PAYE will grow your wealth per year the same as much as having £30m in a reinvesting fund. If you had £30m you'd be well
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If a company is willing to spend $5 to force you to watch an advert, then they are expecting more than $5 from you in return.
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> I personally have the exactly same issues as above when I look for example for open source libraries/programs for a task. There are popular ones, there are obscure ones, they are stable ones, etc. The search space is so big and co
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Adverts I specifically request are fine. Trailers for example -- I specifically go to youtube to find trailers. Or I'll go to rightmove if I want to look at adverts for houses. I'm happy to spend both time and even money on seekin
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Yet at a mere £4.4m a year to become a billionaire a FTSE100 boss would have to work 227 years before looking into tax. As it stands someone on £4.4m a year only picks up £2.4m, with £2m going to the taxman, as well as an extra £660k the em
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The entire VC industry is political and very much on one side. Anything that raises questions about that needs to be buried
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Sure, but I'm sure you've heard of Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber.
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> It turned out I hardly can find an artist I recognize I've heard of 9 of the top 10 and 15 of the top 20 at https://chartmasters.org/most-monthly-listeners-on-spotify/ You might not listen, but surely you hav
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How does someone learn the colour grading, the editing, the scripting etc? Almost entirely by studying other peoples works, the rest by doing something and getting feedback on it.
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> Sometimes it is illegal to use that space to hang clothes Ahh, land of the free Based on my knowlege of New York apartment buildings, there are shared laundry rooms, thus New York City has fewer dryers per capita than Alabama. Clearly
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> Matt Yglesias keeps telling us that America is richer than Europe because we have many more dryers Or perhaps America is poorer because they lack an outside space to hang clothes?
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100g interconnects are very cheap, but I'm more talking about oversubscription in the ISP network -- as they have multiple peering and transit arrangements it's clear that if you have 10,000gbit worth of customers, you don't
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VPNs as a technology, gre/ipsec and wireguard. I assume others. VPNs as a youtube sold service. Mullvad/mozillavpn for one I get an IP of fc00:bbbb:bbbb:bb01::1 and it uses NAT66 to place me in New York despite being in the UK
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Then you are a terrible parent and your kids will get their social activities through detention as they can't do homework.

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