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by wastedhours 6y ago
You say that, but I was once driving on a dark, national limit road through the forest one night - and had turned off my full beams because I'd just passed a run of cars coming the other way. I caught a glimpse of a pedestrian and inst
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by wastedhours 6y ago
In the UK we were doing Jap-style and had Max Power long before F&F. Fast and the Furious might be responsible for widening the pool of people though. Although in my experience, the modding scene didn't actually massively increase
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by wastedhours 6y ago
The almost wholesale shift of obnoxious drivers moving from BMW M cars across to Audi's RS line after Top Gear started mocking the former and talking up the latter was a fast, pronounced change. Apart from that, not sure. Top Gear was
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Cannot agree more with the concept of just showing up. It's remarkable what you can get done by being, friendly, open, honest, just asking, and then delivering.
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by wastedhours 6y ago
> they assume that the public is aware that they are a Wirecard AG Brand Or perhaps masking that situation under the COVID situation for those who don't know about Wirecard's involvement?
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by wastedhours 6y ago
I've noticed airlines started doing this as well - I think there might be logic in it, especially from a terminus. I'd wager people would subconsciously assume the train just "appears" ready for their journey without thi
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Not only that, but either reporting it or not reporting it could also be considered bias. Could a legitimate news organisation (considering it'd be the biggest news of the day) justify not covering it, or moving their coverage to Page
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by wastedhours 6y ago
I used to imagine out entire households with the Argos catalogue. Even down the choosing the toaster and bed linen. The nostalgia is strong, but I agree, it's not been replaced by anything approaching the same experience for laid back
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by wastedhours 6y ago
> More likely your having to work by converting a kitchen table (wrong height) or your bed room if say you live in a 1 bed flat. > Its even worse if your in a couple or a flat share where several people are competing for space and wif
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by wastedhours 6y ago
> Working remotely has a very high cost, but it only gets visible in the long term. True, but it's not clear that cost is higher than working in an office over the long term. In true internet-discussion fashion, there's lots
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Same, my old home team used to have a pitch on the smaller end of the spectrum and you could really see the impact it had on teams who were used to having space to build up plays. The home fans were also much more in their faces (though it
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Surely there's evidence they're both trying ?
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Documentation as a sales and SEO tactic has been undervalued for so long that it's surprising it's taken this long for projects to clock onto the fact. It's definitely a great trend for questions to be answered by the right c
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by wastedhours 6y ago
I love Bear, and would pay them more than twice as much as I do if they had an Android app as well.
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Actually, that's how lots of graduate recruitment is moving to, looking at those contextual elements now (such as value add, and performing better compared to relative median). Sometimes this means that someone graduating from a univer
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by wastedhours 6y ago
> Learn to cook I full support and advocate for this - however, eating out is often an experience vs just having a nice meal. I love cooking, but occasionally a nice meal out is preferable. In the absence of that, my bank balance has gro
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by wastedhours 6y ago
> This ends up being one of the biggest reasons I enjoy living in Thailand Only visited briefly, but was going to post that they seem to get it right in Thailand. Some of the best restaurants are on the porch of someone's house, the
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Fair points, and I think we're arguing around a few percentage points of anecdata on either end. > you'll have more bad shots than good For me, using a basic machine and a stepped burr grinder I had substantially more "ok&
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by wastedhours 6y ago
For fast and cheap you can't overlook Romania, in the cities I've been in, the speed has been exceptional and reliable (which is more than I can say for most British internet, excluding the FTTH our current flat has). E.g. https:
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Not necessarily - if you catch it on unsuccessful login attempts and have no evidence they got into the account, it's likely they moved onto the next email address in their list and you can still go in and delete the account pre-compro
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Before the lockdown and WFH, I'd say about half my work-casual wardrobe ended up being Uniqlo. Very good quality, good design, and as you say, there's nothing obnoxious about their branding. If they had a similar free delivery opt
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by wastedhours 6y ago
I always used to collect any of those niche trade publications I could - you can learn a lot about an industry from the trade pubs (it's like a microcosm of supply chains and inside information). Personal favourites were ones specifica
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by wastedhours 6y ago
True, though I've spoken to a number of brands who had the same experience as well. Also the same experience of the quality of traffic being terrible for the cost as well.
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by wastedhours 6y ago
The barriers for shifting cash around were really high, and only allowed at half ends where it had to be returned centrally and then reallocated based on business case. Less than a certain amount and you literally couldn't move it out
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by wastedhours 6y ago
True, but if you're ok with an 70-80% good espresso, it's much more attainable at £200 for a cheapy machine and entry level burr grinder than some comments imply. It might be more worth it to someone to enter at this price point t
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by wastedhours 6y ago
And they prefer you to be managed by a salesperson over letting you be self-serve as they tie you into a guaranteed spend with them. I spent years trying to untangle us from their managed services, but couldn't as they batched all disc
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by wastedhours 6y ago
> that's less than 10% of profs at big name research-driven schools From my experience that extends quite a bit further than that too even for a university that wasn't research heavy. I'd argue about half of my lecturers a
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by wastedhours 6y ago
> avoid manual espresso machines - even with consistent top quality semi-auto machines good espresso is not easy I was always able to get something I enjoyed drinking out of an entry level, single boiler, home espresso machine. It was
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Sure, all those things are normal happenings - they're not really cause of concern for most people. We're not at that point for drones yet, at all. Of course a boat skimming on a lake at night is fine, a pedestrian walking down th
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by wastedhours 6y ago
> They determined no illegal activities were conducted by flying a fleet of drones in a low-population rural area so... And they determined that by investigating (which is what we're discussing here). I'm not arguing about it&#

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