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by tobylane 8y ago
Not really. Adblock made deals with advertisers so people have to use Adblock Pro, and avoid Adblock awesome because it has adware. Same for uBlock. edit: To make my point clear: it seems unfeasible to weed out bad actors without relying on
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by tobylane 8y ago
That requires centralisation because either trolls will affect the filter or the list won't be updated.
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by tobylane 8y ago
How do you deal with trolls going around filters? I'm sure most of us did that in the past, some of us were young teenagers in the time of auto moderated live chat.
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by tobylane 8y ago
Agreed. I backed out of reading about Aether when I read peer to peer. I require moderation. It's not what makes it, but what it makes that I'm focusing on.
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by tobylane 8y ago
These companies grew up with local data protection laws. UK's Data Protection Act 2018 implemented GDPR, repealing the DPA of 1998, which repealed the DPA of 1984.
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by tobylane 8y ago
"The Art of the Impossible: MC Escher and Me - Secret Knowledge" a two video BBC documentary from Penrose on his work and communications with Escher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7kW8xd8p4s
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by tobylane 8y ago
This gives no weight to subjective value, such as its sentimental because your grandparents are buried there.
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by tobylane 8y ago
Is that reducing the personhood of companies? (I consider that a good goal.) Saying that you must be a company to drill oil, and companies can only buy leasehold, not freehold.
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by tobylane 8y ago
They've aged well because they were deemed worth saving after several decades. Since Penn, Euston stations the interest in saving as much as possible rather than just the best examples has caused some lesser quality old buildings to be
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by tobylane 8y ago
Boroughs aren't allowed to permit development that would make any of the Thames path private. The path isn't always the riverbank but close enough.
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by tobylane 8y ago
There's sticker price and there's what buyers with the ability to negotiate pays. I hear the government healthcare suppliers (Medicare, Medicaid and VA) aren't allowed to ask for lower prices for bulk despite being some of th
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by tobylane 8y ago
>The purpose of set0 in the debugger is that users often write programs that refer to $0. For example to display a usage string or maybe they change the behavior based on how they were called. So this helps in making these programs act t
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by tobylane 8y ago
Apple collects $3b a week from iPhone sales, compared to that $1.22 peak where they only take 30% (or less for old subscriptions). It doesn't seem close enough.
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by tobylane 8y ago
Site looks great. I'd shrink the footer. Content wise it's hard to know how to judge it. London has decent restaurants from nearly everywhere, but some of the best are not central (New Malden for Korean, Green Lanes for Turkish).
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by tobylane 8y ago
The police and CPS don't name them, but MPs do for political reasons. Even if everyone couldn't, MPs can say things in Parliament more freely than outside.
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by tobylane 8y ago
An earlier commentator linked to the UK's effort: https://data-in.place/ . Can you give an example of the misuse? Even if there was, surely the benefits outweigh? Transparency is often underrated. Another angle: Maria B
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by tobylane 8y ago
Sorry, I meant the smear campaign. It doesn't sound like the Guardian.
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by tobylane 8y ago
Can I read about this somewhere? Did the Observer write about it?
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by tobylane 8y ago
Different meaning of language. If you're American, is May the prime minister or the president of the UK?
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by tobylane 8y ago
I believe it's normal to use the language of the context/subject, that a brand new Congressman is part of the US government but the chairman of a Parliament select committee isn't. Other times that chairmain could be consider
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by tobylane 8y ago
Closest thing I can name is the Roku4.
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by tobylane 8y ago
I haven't seen Seinfeld yet but I intend to. "Whoever is first to do something isn't likely to be the best at it, simply because everyone that comes after is building on their predecessors' work. Named after the sitcom S
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by tobylane 8y ago
No need to assume (especially with such a low number). http://gridwatch.co.uk/ has nuclear, solar and wind at 18%, 6% and 15%. Wind reached 37% this year, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home
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by tobylane 8y ago
>the USA and Europe were dominated by left wing parties (arguably Europe still is). Not by European standards. France has a centrist leader. UK, Germany, Italy, Austria, Spain and others have right wing parties in power.
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by tobylane 8y ago
Can you give any examples?
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by tobylane 8y ago
How would a company focusing on those risky people succeed in the market? Conversely, how would a newcomer with competitive rates afford to serve these risky people?
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by tobylane 8y ago
Contactless may help you here as it doesn't give your real CC details to the machine, it generates numbers on the spot.
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by tobylane 8y ago
I paid for alcohol in multiple countries between 18-21 years old. Do you think the US Gov cares that much about anything non-terror to seek foreign transactions?
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by tobylane 8y ago
What about London, where there's competition but they're all selling abroad so that a tower can be fully sold but still vacant? That is the cause for British dislike towards the developers.
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by tobylane 8y ago
Business sales in the UK are usually 'as a going concern' where the new owner takes the responsibility. House of Fraser was specifically bought differently, making it notable.

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