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by jsty 7y ago
Paying for something with £50 notes is a nerve-racking experience rivalled only by attempting to attempting to spend Scottish notes in England (I usually chicken out and just deposit them all at a bank)
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by jsty 7y ago
> are they usually that messy looking? They don't really look much like that. See: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/current-banknotes I'm hoping the fact that's just the concept art means it&
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by jsty 7y ago
> Perhaps poor customer service should be considered an indicator that an antitrust breakup is needed It'd be a fairly unreliable indicator in and of itself though wouldn't it? Just think of all the businesses that position the
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by jsty 7y ago
If you're of the age or condition where you're living in a retirement home, there's likely the additional costs of at-home care, panic / fall systems, etc. to add to your "living in a house" costs.
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by jsty 7y ago
To be honest, it sounds like quite a lot of big 'luxury' blocks of flats (gym, pool, cafe / restaurant, concierge) with a slightly higher class of building management than usual (the centralised cleaning and interior decorati
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by jsty 7y ago
I know there's some flats you can buy in London close / connected to some major luxury hotels that provide that. E.g. https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/luxury/property/1125m-apa...
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by jsty 7y ago
Might be different in other countries, but in the U.K. at least I believe the highest-ranking member of staff is usually the steward / majordomo.
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by jsty 7y ago
Given that one of the few things I still get text messages for is two-factor authentication codes from people who should know better (looking at you financial institutions ...), SMS can't die soon enough from my POV. Although replacing
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by jsty 7y ago
Any privacy regulation that could be circumvented by simply transferring the data offshore surely wouldn't be worth the paper it's written on. The GDPR certainly doesn't allow this.
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by jsty 7y ago
Which is quite something considering the dog and pony show that is the recruiting process of most large orgs. One suspects that if OSS developers routinely offered to invoice for "software support" rather than requesting a donatio
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by jsty 7y ago
Someone might want to correct me on this, but I believe most use the public suffix list: https://publicsuffix.org/
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by jsty 7y ago
Whilst perhaps a bit tangential to what you're looking for, "Database Reliability Engineering" by Charity Majors is an excellent read, and has a chapter covering all the major steps in improving observability in existing apps
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by jsty 7y ago
Also being able to control everything via Siri with actually competent speech recognition is a godsend compared to the several minutes of shouting in various accents that most in-built voice control systems require. The need for internet ac
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by jsty 7y ago
> Assuming this is naivete and not a deliberate attempt to mislead I sincerely hope it's neither. I'm well aware that a third party can't direct Mozilla as to how to channel its resources. They can however ensure there are
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by jsty 7y ago
Firefox is an open source project. I'm sure if you pitched in with time and / or money to maintain said features, they'd be much less likely to disappear.
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by jsty 7y ago
I thought I remembered the general gist of the argument, and a quick HN search for "brain speed light" [0] brought it up as the first result ... so probably pure luck! [0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=brain%20spee
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by jsty 7y ago
> I once saw a comment similar to yours on HN, and there was a very good reply that critiqued the idea This one? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20219354
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Is it time to shed our anonymity online?(ft.com)
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Confidential company documents exposed in public sandboxes(blog.cylab.co)
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by jsty 7y ago
Honest question - If you don’t care about making any money, why can’t Duck Duck Go afford you?
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by jsty 7y ago
Yes, under "related party transactions": https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1533523/000119312519... "We are party to lease agreements for four commercial properties with landlord enti
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SoftBank ‘operating group’ to forge alliances between its startups(ft.com)
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by jsty 7y ago
They are. Relevant support page for those who are curious: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/202249734-C...
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4 Reasons Lyft Is Smart to Pay AWS $300M(lastweekinaws.com)
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by jsty 7y ago
Cutting out the middleman and their profit margins is almost always going to be cheaper if you have the requisite scale requirements. Depending on what your workloads are (particularly non-bandwidth intensive), that scale can be pretty damn
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by jsty 7y ago
Because doubling, quadrupling, etc. the number of servers is quick and has a well-known cost compared to going for a complete re-write in another language? I'm a massive go and rust fan, but I don't expect the entire world to be r
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by jsty 7y ago
Don't give the MPAA / RIAA any ideas ...
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The Collaborative Web – How Galois Is Organised [pdf](galois.com)
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by jsty 7y ago
I'm guessing it's https://www.timothyferris.com/
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by jsty 7y ago
Barring a rather spectacular feat of engineering, the UK won't be relocating itself from Europe any time soon (much to the chagrin of those who seem to want to plonk us next to Singapore ...)

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