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by kjjw 13y ago
Their agenda here is completely reasonable. Successive UK governments have failed to address a crisis in housing. Yes, a crisis.
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by kjjw 13y ago
I don't know if you are the only European that likes Hershey's chocolate, but being a European that has tried Hershey's chocolate, I can say with confidence that you are completely nuts.
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by kjjw 13y ago
I'm from the UK. Our chocolate has taken a beating lately, and in fact there was a call from some part of the EU establishment to ban UK chocolate manufacturers from calling their chocolate 'chocolate'. Instead they would hav
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by kjjw 13y ago
Absolute nonsense.
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by kjjw 13y ago
"There's some question as to whether he should've left the scene or not and I think there's some discussion to be had there" What a weird place America must be.
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by kjjw 13y ago
Here's my favourite quote: "My overall impression is that it does not matter what mistakes the USA makes, because they will be faithfully copied in Europe only 20 years later. Europe can learn an immense amount from the United Sta
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by kjjw 13y ago
" the word user is perfect French. Then I discovered that it is also perfect Russian and the two of us also know more Japanese than you think. Well the mere fact that that little word is not translated, but it is taken over as a foreig
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by kjjw 13y ago
From the article it appears the screen's 'distraction' is not their only concern. Also of concern is the layered interface which requires one to navigate down several levels of menus to do things such as 'turn the fog li
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by kjjw 13y ago
Are you 5?
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by kjjw 13y ago
Get out more.
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by kjjw 13y ago
Oh, and it was the usual culprits: right-leaning press, both the reactionary, hateful kind (Daily Mail), and those that should know better (Telegraph.) And of course there was the undertone of anti-big-government there. People tell me I sho
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by kjjw 13y ago
Used to be offered in schools in the UK, probably still is. There was huge media coverage of the faux science that fingered MMR specifically for a link with Autism, which resulted in a large backlash and calls for alternatives. I forget if
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by kjjw 13y ago
As someone living in urban England, receiving a constant 60mbit/s, I completely agree!
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by kjjw 13y ago
Ha, yeah, very funny.
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by kjjw 13y ago
Hello from the rest of the world outside of your small part of North America!
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by kjjw 13y ago
You think there's no difference between "exists" and "planned to exist"? Thank you very much for making me realise I am wasting my time reading Hacker News comments.
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by kjjw 13y ago
What an utterly daft mix of hate-backed nonsense and false statements. "all they want is TV and quite often dole money." Please, take your small mind elsewhere.
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by kjjw 13y ago
"As soon as Soylent is successfully shipping safe product" Ha, good one!
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by kjjw 13y ago
Bad point. Make time for cooking.
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by kjjw 13y ago
Yawn.
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by kjjw 13y ago
Here's a useful link: https://www.gov.uk/redundant-your-rights/redundancy-pay So it seems that if you are temporarily unpaid or on reduced pay for 4 weeks in a row, or 6 weeks non-consecutively in a 13 week period
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by kjjw 13y ago
There is such a law in the UK and it is based on a minumum number of weeks pay plus a week for each year worked. Something along those lines, anyway.
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by kjjw 13y ago
Pretty sure there's an EU directive covering this but whether or not it is implemented into law in all member states, I don't know. That said I have a lot of friends across Europe and I can say that they all live in a country wher
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by kjjw 13y ago
Untrue.
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by kjjw 13y ago
Thanks for an interesting comment among what will surely be a pile of modern libertarian disbelief and nonsense about to be poured all over this thread.
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by kjjw 13y ago
The removal of all responsibility from my life would leave me dissatisfied. For me a rich life involves interconnectedness with other people - families, kids, friends, colleagues. That interconnectedness gives rise to responsibility. And th
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by kjjw 13y ago
I'm sorry but there is a very obvious and clear distinction between these two forms of surveillance. The first monitors public space, the second does not. To me it is not obvious that "my rights" have been affected by the mon
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by kjjw 13y ago
I'm 30 and partying until 10am or having only a few hours sleep leaves me incapacitated for a few days. I'm healthy, have an athletic build, get exercise, etc. I just can't do without sleep anymore. While my income has greatl
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by kjjw 13y ago
I wonder if they have a termination case. You never know, maybe this will break the system.
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by kjjw 13y ago
There's something quite funny about putting these documents up on Google Docs.

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