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by ta1243 1y ago
Losing or winning a pint or two once or twice a week isn't the end of the world. The pools involved putting numbers into coupons and sending them off each week, it cost you £2 or whatever, and that was it for the week. Modern sports be
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by ta1243 1y ago
Why? IPv4 works. IPv6 often doesn't. I'd love to see a benefit in ipv6, I see no benefits at all, I can't run an ipv6 only network, so I have to run ipv4, and everything I need runs on ipv4, why do I need to double my workloa
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by ta1243 1y ago
Genies are tricky to get back in the bottle - especially when you can just as easily go to a company based in the Caymen Islands or wherever and spend that way. Phones allow you to gamble from anywhere on anything. You could ban advertising
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by ta1243 1y ago
I agree, a conspiracy theorist would suggest it's a deliberate move to reduce the amount of people talking about it, in media, amongst friends etc. There are some people who swear every other word when talking to friends and family. Fi
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by ta1243 1y ago
That would be https://marshallbrain.com/manna
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by ta1243 1y ago
I'm in Thailand, my Laptop is in Singapore time, my DNS is routed via a UK provider but my IP via Thailand. It tells me > October 14, 2025 00:15 - 01:30 United Kingdom Time
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by ta1243 1y ago
In the 80s and 90s in the UK you just signed. The card imprint was embossed by the machine which put it onto the carbon, and that was sent off to the bank for payment later in the week, like cheques. I last used a carbon credit card in the
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by ta1243 1y ago
The UK has a standard list of sites that need to be flagged "over 18 only in the uk", that's the list of sites that will need to be added to a list which ISPs can block by default. Putting the onus on the ISPs operating in th
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by ta1243 1y ago
They could have insisted websites include something like a TXT record saying they are "for over 18s only". Or even come up with a standard saying "this website is suitable for under 18s" under a dns record. Then the bill
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by ta1243 1y ago
Sure, and I actually have less of an issue with gambling than I do with social media companies and indeed advertising companies in general, but in both situations it's a massive unaccountable corporation abusing people for profit.
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by ta1243 1y ago
It's an optional contribution to public funds and billionaire owners. Nobody wins from say facebook, but at least taxing sports betting raises money for public services.
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by ta1243 1y ago
Auction prices went as high as $60. That's $5/month for a year and that covers it. Of course prices have collapsed since then, and in real terms are back or below 2019 levels
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by ta1243 1y ago
An IP address costs $20-30 to buy. $1 a month would fund it in 2 years. Your ISP doesn't do statics, but not because of the cost.
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by ta1243 1y ago
Employees aren't fungible.
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by ta1243 1y ago
Companies hire juniors at low rates, but then when they like them they don't increase the rates. Instead the juniors leave for another company.
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by ta1243 1y ago
Nice website you have there, shame if something happened to it
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by ta1243 1y ago
And when you use decent protections against the worst bad actors on the internet (dns blackholing, adblocking, cookie dropping/corrupting, vpns) cloudflare again causes problems Just be a good little consumer.
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by ta1243 1y ago
Reality is that digital ID (and far more) is owned by American corporations already. A digital ID (but not a physical card) may be the least worst option.
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by ta1243 1y ago
So you rule out LVT because it can't be implemented. What makes you think your list is more likely to be implemented?
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by ta1243 1y ago
Hence platforms like axate, which make micropayments trivial. Want to read that NYT article? Fine, pay the 30 cents and read it. Want to read all the NYT articles? Subscribe for $20 a week. If Youtube wasn't owned by an advert company
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by ta1243 1y ago
> At the heart of that problem is housing unaffordability. High housing prices do nothing more than steal from the next generation and bring us closer to having a divide between landed and unlanded people. I'd completely agree here.
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by ta1243 1y ago
Agree. Democracy is the worst form of Government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time
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by ta1243 1y ago
10 years ago a couple of sites I occasionally viewed used "agate", which is now called Axate. https://www.axate.com/ It worked well, I loaded it with about $3 and used it a few times. Clearly not something publish
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by ta1243 1y ago
Awesome, yes I see it's open source. I was thrown off by other comments talking about "They are starting to tighten the screws"
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by ta1243 1y ago
From one walled garden to another?
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by ta1243 1y ago
Political officers on ships was quite normal in the cold war, makes sense to have political officers in companies too.
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by ta1243 1y ago
Absolutely, yet it's a requirement for many people.
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by ta1243 1y ago
Idiocracy TV https://blog.codinghorror.com/content/images/uploads/2007/01...
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by ta1243 1y ago
Lots of things will break if you disable ipv4, including my work provided zscaler windows laptop (and not break in the good way where it fails open when you block traffic to zscaler nodes on your router) Very little will break if you disabl
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by ta1243 1y ago
I don't want to be messing around with "forget my password", or having to remember what email I set up for it. > some infobox on the app's most attention-requiring screen, and an email telling me I'm gonna be cha

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