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by robk 10y ago
Free healthcare at the point of use won't survive in the long term. Too little funding and too much use. There's no negative externality from people abusing it.
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by robk 10y ago
It's a hell of a lot easier to do a chargeback in the US vs the UK.
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by robk 10y ago
You can work it out from dfj espirits blog post. They're a publicly traded VC.
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Another DDoS affecting Linode today(status.linode.com)
1 points by robk 10y ago|0 comments
515.
by robk 10y ago
Seemed pretty likely though don't you think?
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by robk 10y ago
Because those old mincab services were TERRIBLE. Calling to book late at night with unknown arrival times and being forced to ask everyone at the party "hey what's the post code here?" wasn't fun. Bye bye Swiss Cottage M
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by robk 10y ago
That's the goal of the EU though over time - to erode the tax sovereignty of member states. It's inevitable.
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by robk 10y ago
This seems like a pretty good development overall - more people looking at application security across the org is a good thing imo especially if it can provide another layer of defence for where the app developers missed something or around
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by robk 10y ago
You should absolutely go to Syria and report back how much better it is and how much more free you feel there.
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by robk 10y ago
Unless you're trying to go somewhere important like say TXL airport. Sorry! That'll take an hour since you have to go train to train to bus!
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by robk 10y ago
On the plus side, it's a nice way to keep people from using your terminal. They sit down then get a scared look on their face and quickly give you back control of the machine ;)
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by robk 10y ago
This keyboard style is absolutely amazing. I had pre-carpal style pain in my hands for years and tried every other keyboard out there, including all the ergo ones that came highly recommended. This is the only one that actually stopped the
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by robk 10y ago
Thanks for writing this in a neutral tone without insulting those whose political persuasion you disagree with since you fled to one of the coasts.
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by robk 10y ago
Do you have a source for that bootstrapping comment? I'd love to hear more if it's documented anywhere.
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by robk 10y ago
Didi was last valued at $28b according to press from June. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ywang/2016/06/17/didi-in-valuati...
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by robk 10y ago
From about 10+ years ago it seems something to do with Outpost.com? http://forums.macnn.com/79/developer-center/268919/unofficia... https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zPU6DcS9MN0C&pg=PA2
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by robk 10y ago
I think this is exactly right. It's a decent face saving move for Uber to have some sort of outcome in an otherwise very very difficult market where they were losing. Seems like the investors in Uber China could have done better to jus
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Hailo takes fight to Uber with Daimler deal(964eagle.co.uk)
2 points by robk 10y ago|0 comments
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by robk 10y ago
How is this America's fault?
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Gaining control of a .int TLD(thehackerblog.com)
5 points by robk 10y ago|0 comments
531.
by robk 10y ago
Seems like one of the auto-cancel scripts (probably one of the ones for fraud purposes) may have gone off the rails over the holiday. AdSense Ops is indeed global but presumably they're asking the PM/Eng team in Mountain View what
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by robk 10y ago
And another https://medium.com/localglobe-notes/stay-calm-and-make-lemon...
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A London VC's Perspective on Brexit(medium.com)
4 points by robk 10y ago|1 comments
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by robk 10y ago
How's that? An American company doesn't charge VAT unless they have a EU subsidiary. UK would be closer to that treatment
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by robk 10y ago
They already have low paid customer service and ops in Ireland. They won't get engineers to move to there. Like finance guys and the promise of tax free living in Dubai - at the end of the day they don't twant o be in a backwater.
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by robk 10y ago
When did King go bankrupt? They came close when private but kdon't now what you mean here
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by robk 10y ago
Nikesh was a very different kind of leader inside Google and many would disagree about him being a Google culture fit very well. Sales at Google is run almost arms length from core eng
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by robk 10y ago
I'm curious where one could actually place this volume of short sales on ETH if true.
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by robk 10y ago
Bad anecdotal. Europe is even worse in ways - I'd kill for Precheck at LHR or CDG
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by robk 10y ago
I'm often crossing all those borders and can say unequivocally that Canada and Australia have some of the absolutely most nasty border guards.

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