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by robk 9y ago
Anker has some serious quality issues now, or at least it feels like that with fakes on Amazon. It's hard to tell what's geniune Anker anymore, but I've had really bad luck w/ low quality build of some stuff I've bo
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by robk 9y ago
Britain and the Commonwealth feel especially bad with onerous and arbitrary requirements on passwords and such.
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by robk 9y ago
It's not just the USA where this kind of thing is happening nowadays.
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British man arrested for not giving up passwords at Heathrow to police(theguardian.com)
25 points by robk 9y ago|3 comments
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by robk 9y ago
Definitely does not pay well in UK
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by robk 9y ago
Leverage is the exact point. The problem is that due to their compassion and altruism they have no leverage. Design a system where doctors have to choose between destroying themselves and saving patients and they ethically are forced to des
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by robk 9y ago
Opening counts as active.
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by robk 9y ago
Wanna try cleaning toilets yourself for 12 hours for free? Happy to have you over my house in that case!
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Bills before the California Legislature would crack down on NIMBYs(citylab.com)
170 points by robk 9y ago|316 comments
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by robk 9y ago
It is truly a beautiful place. So vast and empty. Here are the pics I took https://secure.flickr.com/photos/robk/sets/72157635153819347...
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by robk 9y ago
What? I can't think of a single person who uses this and I have lived here ten years. I once got one for a corporate account and it was atrocious with required plug-ins for ie
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by robk 9y ago
Fraud fraud fraud. These are 99% pump and dump schemes.
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by robk 9y ago
Wear and tear. The ones I know say that they don't want renters wearing the interior
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by robk 9y ago
The super rich don't want a place dirtied by renters. It's perfectly rational. They'd rather it empty and pristine.
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by robk 9y ago
Nowadays every login requires a 2fa with a sms so got to have that phone handy to login. And as a bonus juggle multiple ids if you have a business account too in addition to your personal returns. Pure crap.
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by robk 9y ago
Sadly British and other Commonwealth countries like Australia seem way too overrepresented in crap like this. Something about British culture leads to atrocious ignorance of security.
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by robk 9y ago
There aren't really any facts here just pure emotion that you would hear in any industry where costs are cut. I've no idea how fairly these pilots are paid. But surely there are regulations about pilot rest just like on commercial
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by robk 9y ago
Thanks!
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by robk 9y ago
This is horrible horrible news. It was stupid when they did it from the middle east and even stupider now from Europe where security is the same as in the USA.
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HBS contributed to every bad thing in American business in last century(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by robk 9y ago|0 comments
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by robk 9y ago
God view is a fairly common term though in many products. Nothing innovative from Uber in that usage
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by robk 9y ago
But then Infosys sets up Infosys University and calls all their applicants students
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by robk 10y ago
Can anyone suggest a Chrome extension that flags or blocks any non ascii URLs?
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by robk 10y ago
Cash bar is poor form
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by robk 10y ago
Arguably Friendster failed due to its interminable scaling issues
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by robk 10y ago
This is really an overreaction I believe. I know many many Muslims who regularly go from UK to the US without any hassles at all. Of course as a non-Muslim I'm always terrified by these stories but the odds are very very low - you&#x27
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by robk 10y ago
UK rail privatization was/is a good thing. UK rail used to be atrocious when it was state run.
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by robk 10y ago
I think it's just cultural. British Airways has the same reputation for tinkering with oem stuff and generally making it worse or at least harder to maintain requiring specialist in house engineering.
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by robk 10y ago
Anecdotally I've heard about more people moving to uk from America than leaving uk for EU over the last few months.
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by robk 10y ago
I think it's really hard for a layperson to detect these. I've been checking for months my change and still havne't spotted a convincing example. Every blog or page explaining them requires generally deep knowledge around wha

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