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by mprev 7y ago
You’ve written this twice in this thread but how do you square it with this: https://freenode.net/news/pia-fn
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by mprev 7y ago
Skip to around 15 minutes in unless you like watching terrible smartphone footage of a bunch of people standing around waiting for the truck to turn up.
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by mprev 7y ago
What "great products" need to go through MLM? Arguably, it's easier than ever to launch a product direct to buyers. And it's neither easy nor cheap to build a multi-level network of distributors. None of the UK-active ML
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T-Mobile's CEO John Legere in Talks to Be WeWork CEO(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by mprev 7y ago|0 comments
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by mprev 7y ago
I want transparency from my government. Would I want an unwavering commitment to do everything in the open from my employer? Clearly people who joined GitLab knew that was the deal and, while I see the point you're making, VC-funded c
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by mprev 7y ago
I think that’s the joke.
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Ask HN: Is social media useful to your career as a developer?
3 points by mprev 7y ago|5 comments
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by mprev 7y ago
I often read comments where people say something along the lines of, “X is considered impossible with current technology but I bet the intelligence agencies have had it for years”. It seems reasonable that incremental developments might hav
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by mprev 7y ago
I'm not defending it but The Register is, avowedly, aiming to be the tabloid of tech news.
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by mprev 7y ago
People already pay for Meetup.com. As an organiser I think I'm paying around $180 a year and that limits me to three meet-up groups under my ownership. From what I've seen, no one is complaining about paying for Meetup's serv
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by mprev 7y ago
You only paid if you wanted to contact people. ITV bought it and, even at the time it was obvious, had no idea what to do with it. It seemed like a lot of those early 2000s British tech businesses, like Jungle.com, where there could’ve been
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by mprev 7y ago
Which part of Bluetooth do you dislike? These days it’s more like a family of standards.
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by mprev 7y ago
We had one of those. Terrible bit of equipment. Flimsy plastics, never stayed upright, no tools. Waste of money.
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by mprev 7y ago
This isn’t how the IOM’s status came to be, though. Man has been an independent state for longer than the UK has existed. Now, the question is could it realistically exist without the support of the UK? We could ask the same question of San
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by mprev 7y ago
A stretch if you have the context of a US reader but imagine if the chief medic in the UK were called Dr Pepper and, well, the rest writes itself :)
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by mprev 7y ago
Forgive the OT comment but in the UK we have a soft drinks manufacturer named AG Barr, most famous for Irn Bru. I spent a few moments trying to understand what had led to the manufacturer of Tizer, Irn Bru, and various other traditional Bri
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by mprev 7y ago
I’d love to read more of your take on Improbable.
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by mprev 7y ago
The Fermi Paradox always strikes me as hubris. As Douglas Adams wrote, “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's,
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by mprev 7y ago
Do you have any medical training and direct access to evidence or did you investigate this in the same way that Reddit caught the Boston bomber?
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by mprev 7y ago
I buy DVDs of TV shows then never watch them because all my TVs have Netflix and Sky but there’s just one DVD player.
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by mprev 7y ago
Would a new HD version have a new copyright date?
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by mprev 7y ago
I was involved, briefly, in the worker cooperative scene in the late 90s in the UK. One was an ISP but the rest I interacted with were non-tech. I loved the idea but the practice always seemed so far from the ideal. What I saw were one or t
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by mprev 7y ago
AFAIK the Manx pound is not Sterling, although it is in parity with Sterling. Manx pounds are not legal currency in the UK but UK pounds (whether the notes are English, Scottish, or NI) are legal in the Isle of Man. https://en.wi
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by mprev 7y ago
It is illegal in many countries but it happens nonetheless.
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by mprev 7y ago
We’ve been through several CRM evaluations since Highrise went into maintenance-updates only. During that time, we’ve seen some terribly unintuitive software and other offerings that look as though they’ll be great but lack some key feature
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by mprev 7y ago
Sideloading of apps is, at best, a niche interest.
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by mprev 7y ago
The Virgin brand means two things: the company is paying 1% of annual turnover to Virgin Group and Branson himself is happy for the company to carry the brand. Nothing else links the various Virgin companies. By this stage the brand is basi
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by mprev 7y ago
Either you’re pretty young or you’ve been lucky. Unlimited broadband was not the norm in the UK around ten years ago.
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by mprev 7y ago
Doesn’t that go for just most 1980s computing platforms? The Mac is kind of an aberration in surviving and the PC survived through early cloning.
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by mprev 7y ago
That feels a bit like saying that the Tesla Roadster should have been a British style electric milk float. They both have electric power trains but it misses the point of what made the Roadster so interesting.

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