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by llimos 3y ago
Since it's not possible to sell the same physical item more than once without some intervening event, it's not that ambiguous!
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Zaka: The volunteers giving dignity to Israel's dead(bbc.com)
3 points by llimos 3y ago|0 comments
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by llimos 3y ago
MS Access might be the thing for this. Not used it in decades but loved it back then. Best of both worlds as long as it's for a single user.
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by llimos 3y ago
Israel - yes, very much so. The worst in the world by some metrics[1]. From 2010-2020 housing prices went up 345% and wages went up 17%. And it got way worse since that article was published. 20% a year has been the norm. [1] https:&#x2F
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by llimos 3y ago
I've always been most successful at work in places where I don't care about the result and I'm just enjoying myself.
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Covid has broken the social contract between parents and schools(capx.co)
15 points by llimos 3y ago|19 comments
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by llimos 3y ago
There are very few problems that cannot be at least slightly improved with a good cup of tea.
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by llimos 3y ago
Yes, of course. But parts of the discourse make it sound like we need to reduce our energy usage as some kind of 'moral imperative'. They give the impression that they'd be disappointed if everyone could get everything they w
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Do heat pumps work when it’s cold?(newstatesman.com)
5 points by llimos 3y ago|0 comments
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by llimos 3y ago
I hope we can also make the cultural shift towards the goal being clean, plentiful supply as opposed to constrained demand.
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by llimos 3y ago
> They are the people who are actually reading the conference blurb. They look at email on their phones with greater intensity than ever happens at the office. They endlessly circulate the room, like bits of plastic in the ocean waiting
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by llimos 3y ago
What about delegated account access? Is that considered a login, given it wasn't using the credentials of the account being accessed?
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by llimos 3y ago
I'm reading "— and it’s also a lot of fun, too." and picturing the stony-faced committee meeting where they decided to write that.
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by llimos 3y ago
I wish sol.exe still opened up Solitaire. The original one.
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I watched society collapse at Stansted Airport(spectator.co.uk)
12 points by llimos 3y ago|9 comments
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by llimos 3y ago
Fun fact: Before WordPad there was Microsoft Write. Typing 'write' in the Run dialog still opens WordPad today. They kept the alias for 28 years.
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by llimos 3y ago
They do. The problem with the internet is not the technology, but the content. So, no internet, smartphones, TV, or even mainstream newspapers (they have their own). But there's no issue with flip-phones, modern cars (including EV[1]),
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by llimos 3y ago
Related TED talk, well worth watching: https://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_the_transformative...
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by llimos 3y ago
Internet cafes are thriving in areas of Israel with a large Charedi/ultra-Orthodox Jewish population. Many choose not to have internet access at home for religious reasons, and in some communities there is a certain amount of social pr
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by llimos 3y ago
Reminds me of this classic April Fool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_PK1eDQyVg
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by llimos 3y ago
> Time is precious, you don’t get more of it. In this particular example, the time saved on the download will go towards the noble cause of ... playing video games? Is that so much better use of time than the wait for it to download?
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Sadiq Khan tried to ‘silence’ scientists who questioned Ulez claims, emails show(telegraph.co.uk)
10 points by llimos 3y ago|1 comments
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Zoom orders workers back to the office(bbc.com)
4 points by llimos 3y ago|0 comments
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by llimos 3y ago
You don't have a contract with the network. The advertisers do. The network is committed to deliver audiences to the advertisers in return for money. The way they do this is by showing content that the audience wants to watch. You don&
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by llimos 3y ago
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
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by llimos 3y ago
This is just weird because there has been a chat app as part of Office since 2007 (Office Communicator, then Lync, then Skype for Business, then Teams). That's way before Slack even existed. Is the claim that it's anti-competitive
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Nigel Farage's Coutts bank account closed because he 'didn't align' with values(telegraph.co.uk)
7 points by llimos 3y ago|6 comments
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How to stop banks’ new social credit system(thecritic.co.uk)
4 points by llimos 3y ago|1 comments
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by llimos 3y ago
When did we move to a "do whatever you think you can get away with" model of society? Maybe I'm naive but I think there used to be at least a modicum of self-restraint on this kind of thing. Sure, people always tried to make
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by llimos 3y ago
The mocking is usually because they don't like the person, and would attack whatever they do. Not because they don't like the idea or the fact that they changed their mind. Unfortunately a lot of public debate today is built aroun

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