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by mpclark 13y ago
I'm the same -- I never allow websites to riffle through my contacts, and would certainly never give up access to my email account to do it. However, mobile apps have a much easier time of it. Looking at the contacts stored on one&#x27
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by mpclark 13y ago
To be fair, The Telegraph is still considered a "quality" paper, not a tabloid.
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by mpclark 13y ago
I don't see this as bashing -- it's incredibly civilised and rational, and a sign of a country that is relaxed about its position in the world. If only we were all like that.
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by mpclark 13y ago
Yes, Elite was a triple-A player and a very well respected UK games publisher back in the 80s.
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by mpclark 13y ago
>the reality is that we've failed. I'm seeing this a lot lately. Paraphrasing UK driving test examiners, it should be "You didn't FAIL; you just didn't succeed this time."
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by mpclark 13y ago
Yes, but the clipping services needed to purchase a license to do this. In the UK there are two special bodies that handle this: the Newspaper Licensing Agency and the Copyright Licensing Agency.
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by mpclark 13y ago
Oooh, that could be a controversial point of view. I've done a fair bit of the stay-at-home dad thing and I found it HARD. There something unremitting about dealing with the demands of small children while trying to keep the house clea
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by mpclark 13y ago
We could call these local hubs "shops"
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by mpclark 13y ago
Yes, I believe that is the origin of the phrase "reined in". Reining in is the act of pulling on the reins to stop a horse.
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by mpclark 13y ago
Hahaha! Very funny. Perhaps we'll move away from consuming things that need to be manufactured and towards digital goods instead.
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by mpclark 13y ago
I'd recommend Stripe unequivocally. I've been using it in the UK since it was in beta with no issues at all. The whole experience has been joyous, which is very unusual in the payments arena IME.
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by mpclark 13y ago
I was at a start-up that was essentially a bunch of young lads who had all been close friends since school. Without going into too much detail or focussing on the human tragedy, one of us died in an accident and, looking back, I think it re
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by mpclark 13y ago
Events like this will just gradually erode Kickstarter's reputation until its business dwindles as more and more people start to regard the whole idea as too risky. Kickstarter doesn't need to act to protect backers, it needs to a
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by mpclark 13y ago
It's the other way around, really. News organisations want to be relevant, so will all have been looking around for Cyber Monday stories. This "narrative shift" is just a way for Amazon to make sure the stories that ran prior
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by mpclark 13y ago
The rotors can be made safe enough. It is more a question of the damage it can do by falling out of the air or causing some other accident.
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by mpclark 13y ago
What, just a story to make sure Amazon dominates the media on Cyber Monday? I'd say your analysis is bang on. The lesson to learn here, folks, is that this is one of those themes that just keeps on giving. Any time you need some quick
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by mpclark 13y ago
I don't feel comfortable voting unless you make me log in with Facebook or Twitter...
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by mpclark 13y ago
That makes sense, and I'll be the first to admit my understanding of French law was not as clear as it should have been, but the line between "criticise" and "insult" is very fine. For instance, my understanding is
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by mpclark 13y ago
Point taken, but that case did also generate huge controversy and a change in the law in an attempt to stop such an oddity occurring again.
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by mpclark 13y ago
This is sort of true. I ran a publication there for a few years and there are a lot of lines you cannot cross, lines that don't exist in the UK or the US. One I particularly remember (though I can't quote it exactly) is that you c
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by mpclark 13y ago
Do people really do this? Maybe I'm a bad boss, but I wouldn't dream of calling staff out of hours for stuff like this...
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by mpclark 13y ago
Indeed, but harmless generalisations and simplifications like this are part of the art of making it read like a newspaper article rather than a contract.
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by mpclark 13y ago
Well, good for you. I see a company that tries very hard to educate its customers and keep them on the straight and narrow.
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by mpclark 13y ago
Surely the price is only half the equation, and you have to consider the volume too? Could it not be the case that while they could find buyers for some of the shares at $46, they could only guarantee selling all of the shares at $26?
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by mpclark 13y ago
Maybe every Kickstarter should have a 30% (?) margin put on top (ie ask for $10,000, your target becomes $13,000) and this is paid out as a second tranche on delivery of the project. It's all added complication, though.
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by mpclark 13y ago
What an amazing article. It has tied together a bunch of seemingly separate ideas that I've often wondered about, and I feel measurably more intelligent having read it.
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by mpclark 13y ago
Blimey! What are the chances of that?
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by mpclark 13y ago
Not quite, but everyone and his brother will be able to start issuing NFC 'cards' that work with existing contactless terminals. Think PayPal, Square, your favourite loyalty programmes etc etc. And there's no need to negotiat
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by mpclark 13y ago
Yawn. Wake me when somebody has some actual verifiable details.
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by mpclark 13y ago
I'm pretty sure it is to do with keeping the volume of support calls down; they try to lock down everything they can.

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