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by rocketbop 3y ago
I assume they will claim a mistake transfer if you claim and ask you to send it back to another account. It’s a small amount of probably fraudulent money, but small enough that you might just do it. And I guess the hope is enough people do
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by rocketbop 3y ago
The change came 30 years ago in the UK.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
But the shops do open on Sundays in the UK. And in most European countries now.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
I think Berlin is a dysfunctional city but it’s not just the government. It’s baked into the DNA of the city. So you find wild dysfunction in the civil service, and resistance to making anything more efficient. The story of how the repeated
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by rocketbop 3y ago
Doesn’t sound like a core market for Eminem. I mean, I find it hard to think of use cases where an artist will really lose out in business terms because someone chooses an AI version of their music over the original. In this case I suspect
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by rocketbop 3y ago
Telegram is a good place to order drugs in many cities. Just look for groups near you and there’s a good chance you’ll find an active group advertising their warez. You can DM them and likely they’ll deliver, cash on delivery.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
I’m not sure that’s like for like. Moving state in the US is not comparable with moving between European countries because of linguistic differences. Moving to another city in the same country is popular. And even in terms of not moving cit
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by rocketbop 3y ago
Well you can actually buy a $4000 Casio GShock. They also have the Casio Oceanus line which are fancy and expensive. The $20 Casios are just the gateway drug and a lot of people with one Casio tend to have many.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
Swatch Group is so huge with so many brands like Omega, Longines, Hamilton, etc, I’m sure they look at the market holistically.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
This doesn’t ring true to me at all. My Irish high school friends have scattered to the winds. And in my adopted European city everyone I know is from somewhere else. Europe isn’t one thing though maybe where you are your scenario is the no
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by rocketbop 3y ago
> I'm just imagining these "ghost AI artists" who publish catalogues of music using the audible likeness of more prolific artists. Possibly so, but who is the market for such a catalogue? I don’t see how the artist is goin
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by rocketbop 3y ago
Cost of living seems to vary as much if not more than by if and when you bought your house than where you live in Western Europe at the moment.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
Having worked for a rival, I can confirm that all recipes for these mealbox companies do actually get made and tested in the test kitchens.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
Teachers aren’t robots, it’s not just an important to have a bum in the seat. The quality of the teacher has a large impact on student outcomes, and if reasonable wages aren’t available many potentially excellent teachers will do something
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by rocketbop 3y ago
They had similar vices ...
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by rocketbop 3y ago
I knew of London Fields for a long time before I got around to reading it, but I hadn't known it was an actual place until then. Always thought it was an intriguingly evocative title, and I suppose that was intentional.
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Martin Amis has died(theguardian.com)
119 points by rocketbop 3y ago|28 comments
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by rocketbop 3y ago
I don’t think this works in academia.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
> A direct-to-IRS e-file system is wholly redundant and is nothing more than a solution in search of a problem," said Rick Heineman, a spokesman for Intuit, the company behind TurboTax. "That solution will unnecessarily cost ta
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by rocketbop 3y ago
I guess there isn't really a good alternative to Photoshop, so in the end everyone had to accept the subscription model. There are at least 10 viable DAWs on Mac, so people can move away if necessary and go to Cubase, Live, or somethin
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by rocketbop 3y ago
That's an excellent point. Automatic app updates can be turned off on iOS, but there isn't a an easy way to allow them but with exceptions.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
Logic used to cost far more than that. When Logic 6 came out it sold for $999 and was a great deal because they’d finally bundled all the plugins and synths in to one package. To buy the whole package before than was thousands.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
It was strange thing to say, even from a business point of view as given his position, he's well placed to make substantial income from live performance and streams regardless of the outcome. I suppose it was hyperbole to illustrate th
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by rocketbop 3y ago
> The regulations get updated, you aren't stuck on usb-c. Isn't there a chicken and egg problem there - no one will release products with new power interfaces, because they aren't releasable in Europe. I suppose such produ
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by rocketbop 3y ago
I would assume it’s the same as book translations, the point isn’t to translate it directly but in a way that makes sense in the target language. Although maybe a lot of subtitles for lesser TV and movies don’t have a lot of human input and
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by rocketbop 3y ago
It seems like this is true, and depressingly short term thinking on the part of governments. Social housing can be an asset for the state, and if not profitable at least less costly in the long term than current piecemeal approaches.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
If the state lets social housing be purchased then its stock of rentable housing diminishes until it needs to start renting out private properties, which means the taxpayer effectively paying investors' mortgages. If instead the state
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by rocketbop 3y ago
Yes sure. I mean, many people hadn’t had an incentive to buy for several years and then a much improved machine came along, and many people bit. I certainly did, after years of hating my 2016 MacBook Pro.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
Also a lot of people bought M1 Macs in the previous year because they were the first good Macs since 2015, and didn’t need to buy again.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
I agree the score is really excellent.

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