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by squiffsquiff 3y ago
Are you aware that in order to use many models of TV at all, you are required to connect them to the internet?
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by squiffsquiff 3y ago
Pretty clear that this is going to run into Disability Discrimination laws with neuro diverse candidates. Autistic and blind/partially sighted people aren't likely to have 'typical' body language. Deaf and hard of hearin
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by squiffsquiff 3y ago
Then it was noted incorrectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGKVQNtkdzw https://loudwire.com/rolling-stones-once-wrote-rice-krispies...
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by squiffsquiff 3y ago
Current versions of MacOS allow you to have a slideshow for your wallpaper
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by squiffsquiff 3y ago
This is a fairly loose thing to say. Firstly no the UK doesn't have a judicial system. There are separate legal systems in England & Wales, in Scotland, and in Northern Ireland. Amongst many other issues, The Post Office has a hist
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by squiffsquiff 3y ago
And which of those is a marketable IBM product that 'normal' people have heard of? Red Hat was an acquisition.
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by squiffsquiff 3y ago
Struggling to understand why this is relevant for discussion on hackernews
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by squiffsquiff 3y ago
You make it sound like AOL was cool before the Time-Warner merger and people didn't joke about e.g. the free trial CD's
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by squiffsquiff 3y ago
So there was a single specimen ever seen - in 1862. Can we really be confident that this was a separate species and not some mutation of some other species?
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by squiffsquiff 3y ago
I get all the 1000 variations on the same shit product with ridiculous brand names on Amazon UK
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by squiffsquiff 3y ago
Everything old is new again. I used to think that the Etherkiller was a joke... http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/
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by squiffsquiff 3y ago
Definitely not in the UK either
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by squiffsquiff 3y ago
I think that the elephant in the room here is "Why are cover letters required at all?". If it is relevant work/career/etc. experience then it should be in the CV. CV's are expected to have a clear structure and addr
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by squiffsquiff 3y ago
So an illustration of the sheer inhumanity of some work environments
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by squiffsquiff 3y ago
Madoff pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 150 years in prison, forfeiture of US$17.179 billion, and a lifetime ban from securities industry. He died in prison after serving 11 1/2 years. Sam Bankman-Freid was orginally arrested in the Ba
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by squiffsquiff 3y ago
Not sure why you're talking about US law here. USA doesn't even recognise ICC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_Internat...
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by squiffsquiff 3y ago
You realise that the subscriber count is typically showing only the subscribers from your own instance?
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by squiffsquiff 3y ago
A 'Delta Force' if you will
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by squiffsquiff 3y ago
My solution: https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes (i.e. I use this. I did not create it)
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
Parents said "ground breaking" which is fair. 'Innovative' though? Apple are fantastic at making success out of a polished second entry to the market, e.g. the iPhone wasn't the first mobile phone, nor the first to
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
This is blogspam from a life coach/ influencer isn't it?
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
A lot of commenters seen to be missing that the question is being asked with reference to a Starbucks in France. iPlayer applies geofencing comparable to many other streaming services. Yes they pursue people in the UK regarding watching wit
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
This is unlikely to have been an Apple pay specific issue. There's a lot of transaction pattern matching on card payments in the UK. You may get your transactions blocked if the card provider thinks they're suspicious. You can con
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
You're comparing Google how it was then. Not how it is now
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
It was an honest attempt on the crawlers' part and it was a more level playing field. If you didn't find what you wanted on lycos, you could look on Yahoo or Alta Vista or WebCrawler or something instead. For a time there were met
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
Not really everyone's familiar with the example of cooking recipes being breakfast with the author's life story in order to improve their position in Google rankings, but it's far more prevalent than just recipes. Today I tri
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
IIRC this is similar to the experience with Windows where people have been struggling for years to get consistent patch states
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
Captain: Move 'ZIG'. Captain: For great justice.
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
> basically eligible for the notice period, which is 2 weeks That depends on the contract. 2 weeks might be typical for a US contract but it can certainly vary. > You could perhaps sue for other losses due to breach of contract but it

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