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by lb1lf 1y ago
“Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.” Edward, Lord Thurlow c.1850
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by lb1lf 1y ago
It does indeed open your web browser and send you to the book's page on the Kindle store. Just checked. (Kindle for iPhone v7.31.3)
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by lb1lf 1y ago
Seeing just this taking place was one of the highlights for me when visiting the Musée d'Orsay last year - seeing people sketch and watercolour in several of the galleries made the museum become so much more alive.
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by lb1lf 1y ago
I hated the one on F-15 Strike Eagle II on the C64; game itself was great, but you needed to look up in the manual what colour deck crew vest was displayed on the screen prior to the game starting. I played it on a B&W TV.
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by lb1lf 1y ago
Any large, hierarchical organization is likely to end up resembling this, be it public or private. By the way, this American is Norwegian and didn't even set foot on US territory until my early twenties... :)
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by lb1lf 1y ago
As for your last point, Solzhenitzyn said something memorable about that - 'We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too,
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by lb1lf 1y ago
It presumably is, as the effort is kept up despite the cost and inconvenience. My guess would be that the plan is mostly to ensure that when a new release premieres in theatres, going to a theatre is the only way to experience it in high qu
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by lb1lf 2y ago
And night mode! A killer feature I’ve missed on any car I’ve driven since. (Quite simple - kills all instrument lights except speedo. If something happens which requires your attention, the relevant instrument comes back to life. Makes driv
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by lb1lf 2y ago
The taxman thought of that - at least in some jurisdictions. In my native Norway, if you are a professional and do work benefitting yourself, you are supposed to pay VAT on the value of the job you did, even if it was done after hours.
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by lb1lf 2y ago
Recycled anecdote from an earlier time this was discussed on HN: While a student, I looked after the apartment of a friend of mine, who was overseas. When he moved there, we were _just_ able to eke his sofa around the last corner from the s
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by lb1lf 2y ago
Perhaps pretending to be someone capable of recovering the amount owed would be both more efficient and less illegal? 'Hellraisers MC Collection Services LLC'?
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by lb1lf 2y ago
Don't be too hard on him. For sufficiently large values of zero, you don't really need to check...
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by lb1lf 2y ago
Not on Git, but I was curious and grepped through the Siemens S7 repository I maintain at work; we've been using the same comment practice since forever, with the date in ISO8601 format. (Since before ISO 8601 even was a thing!) Oldest
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by lb1lf 2y ago
'Corporations have neither bodies to be punished or souls to be condemned. Hence they do as they please.' -Edward, Lord Thurlow.
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by lb1lf 2y ago
There's this quip (sounds like something Ambrose Bierce would say) Edit: It was G.B. Shaw! 'Patriotism is the conviction that the country of your birth is superior to others because you were born in it.'
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by lb1lf 2y ago
As for obsession with in-house movements, I like to observe to the obsessed that the most in-house brand of them all are... ...Seiko. They even make their own lubricants. (Wearing a nifty Seiko as I type this, but also own a handful of othe
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by lb1lf 2y ago
I have the Norwegian Warp 4.0 CD in a box in my parents' attic; I'll try to dig it out when I go to see them for Christmas. IBM were so eager (understandably so) to gain market share that I simply called their Norwegian office and
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by lb1lf 2y ago
OK, poor choice on my part. Let's say that your correspondence with the neighbour's wife, or for that matter your love E-mails to $CONSENTING_ADULT_OF_SAME_SEX got aired. Point is, there's all sorts of communication we desire
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by lb1lf 2y ago
While that is undoubtedly true, Leica never really catered to the 'I could do with a dedicated camera' crowd, but rather to the 'I am passionate about photography and am reasonably well-heeled' or 'I am obscenely ri
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by lb1lf 2y ago
There hopefully is, but it never ceases to amaze me how many, even highly intelligent, reasonable people, buy into the 'I don't do anything illegal, hence I have nothing to hide and off to the races we go' mindset. Heck, even
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by lb1lf 2y ago
'Corporations have no bodies to be punished nor any souls to be condemned, hence they do as they please.' -Lord Thurlow, late 1700s.
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by lb1lf 2y ago
Not at all, the labour market takes that into account, to the extent that if you're available to start working tomorrow, everyone is jostled off balance and chances are you will be asked to begin in three months, anyway.
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by lb1lf 2y ago
The NRK story says it happened Monday, November 11th. I am surprised the other sources left it out; 5Ws an'all.
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by lb1lf 2y ago
Bosch is a huge company, and attitudes vary across divisions. I've been spending more time than I care about talking with their hydraulics division - Bosch/Rexroth, earlier known as Mannesmann/Rexroth. Their manic attention t
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by lb1lf 2y ago
Indeed! Then there is all kinds of specialty sands - say, when replacing the sand in our local athletics union long jump pits, I learned that one should use sand from river beds (as opposed to sand crushed at a plant) as the river sand is m
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by lb1lf 2y ago
That is true, but given the current level of trust between Russian and 'Western' authorities, would it not be prudent to assume the vessel is indeed a threat and keep it away from infrastructure and the general population if at al
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by lb1lf 2y ago
-True, but I believe (at least this holds true for me) - the tinkerability, if you like, of ICEs is much higher. You can work on them at home, install all sorts of modifications and upgrades - real or perceived - to a much larger extent tha
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by lb1lf 2y ago
Oh, they will be, no worries - doubly so as the fuel they need goes from being a necessary evil of civilization to a niche product for enthusiasts. There's going to be along tail of ICE vehicles out there, though - say, I have a tracto
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by lb1lf 2y ago
Presumably as Porsche is not about efficient transportation; it is about emotion, driving as an experience, making a statement, etc. Chances are there will be - or, at least, Porsche appears to bet there will be - a sufficient number of wel
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by lb1lf 2y ago
In a somewhat related vein, the wonderful Ootside[0] website gives you the weather with a Scottish twist. Mostly, the weather around where I live is described as 'Mostly shite'. [0] https://ootsi.de/

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