aigo

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by aigo 5y ago
Just as no-one would begrudge a dominated race from poking fun at the dominant race, I don't see why you are so on your high horse about the dominant age group getting the same. 'Punching up' is fair game where I come from. I
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by aigo 5y ago
I could substitute it for child, another group of people who are broadly less likely to know where the setting is, and it wouldn't be offensive that way either.
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by aigo 5y ago
Most of the rest of the world has no idea what -60°F means either
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by aigo 5y ago
How many of those are there? I've never encountered more than maybe one or two. Even illegal premier league streaming sites don't mind adblockers.
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by aigo 5y ago
Me too, ad blockers and all my media on Plex, etc. For me it's only when I watch live sport that I see adverts now, which I quite like, it's like a little window into what most other British people are seeing when they watch TV al
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by aigo 5y ago
> iPad can't receive images over Bluetooth Christ. We were sharing images over Bluetooth between mobile phones when I was a teenager in about 2005.
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by aigo 5y ago
Revenue? The fine. Reputation? The outage. Companies who host on AWS don't care that the retail arm abuses its market position, they care about reliability.
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by aigo 5y ago
Don't forget clients too - looking at you DBeaver
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by aigo 5y ago
1 in 6 adults in the UK have poor literacy skills [0] so it's important for the Gov website to clearly give information to people who maybe don't have the best comprehension even in their native language, especially when it comes
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by aigo 5y ago
I have a Giffgaff SIM for this reason. The expiry is 6 months and I have remembered to use it within that period so far. Not ideal but I would imagine you need a 2FA code more regularly than that. I wonder if used with a smartphone (mine is
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by aigo 5y ago
Any company has to follow the law where they operate. Being an American-headquartered company doesn't really mean anything in this context.
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by aigo 5y ago
That's really interesting and completely the opposite to here. In London, most stolen bikes are expensive (or expensive-looking) and they are primarily resold within London.
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by aigo 5y ago
We have had this level of professionalism in London for some time now. It's not necessarily true that you must ride an older, uglier bike, though this will work. All that is needed is to be the least stealable bicycle in the rack. In m
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by aigo 5y ago
It's wild. I believe the cup is somewhere between double espresso and Victorian teacup.
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by aigo 5y ago
This is basically the case for every search I make now. Recipes, how to guides, DIY, programming, you name it. The SEO spammers have taken over the world.
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by aigo 5y ago
I"m doing by bit for those lighting sockets, I've just had about eight or ten installed all around my house. Turning on lamps from the wall light switch as you enter a room is a massive quality of life upgrade.
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by aigo 5y ago
I ride my bike like a Dutch person, which is to say I ride it everywhere. The infrastructure is getting better BUT I live in the borough of Waltham Forest which is miles ahead of anywhere else I have seen in the UK. Every main street has a
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by aigo 5y ago
Anecdata: I've been riding a VanMoof ES2 around London for 2 years with no issues at all
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by aigo 5y ago
Yes, you're right, here is far better than the FT. Badly phrased on my part I think. If you have a subscription and aren't using github/iamadamdev/bypasspaywalls then you can block or mute individual users.
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by aigo 5y ago
Tech workers salaries are going up everywhere, though, and it's happening in other industries too. It can't be because of Brexit that a bartender in NYC is getting paid more, but they are.
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by aigo 5y ago
The top-rated comment on this FT article [0] spells it out really quite clearly. English regions used to receive funds of £1 billion a year from the EU regeneration fund for poor regions with the final year om 2018 the final figure being £
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by aigo 5y ago
The quote in my post about funding can no longer happen. The EU only funds research at EU universities, and UK universities aren't that any more.
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by aigo 5y ago
> Almost my entire R&D team who received PhDs from British universities had them funded by the European Union Well, there you go.
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by aigo 5y ago
How does 'bypass paywalls clean' differ from the 'original' one by github.com/iamadamdev?
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by aigo 5y ago
The web is now completely unusable without uBlock Origin and I Don't Care About Cookies. I honestly don't know how people go about their day without these things, especially on mobile.
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by aigo 5y ago
The window, and the ways political agents try to move it in one direction or another, explains a lot of modern discourse It intersects with Chomsky's ideas about manufacturing consent quite nicely too
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by aigo 5y ago
The MSFT team themselves have some of the best extensions. The remote pack - containers, SSH, docker - is fantastic.
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by aigo 5y ago
I'm the same, except the YouTube. I just love information, so I watch a lot of documentaries. Outside of the top shelf of TV (Sopranos, Wire, Succession) it's all incredibly formulaic and boring.
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by aigo 5y ago
Fun fact: At M&S, 12% of payments taken online for delivery to London addresses are paid by Amex. The rest of the country? <3%.
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by aigo 5y ago
The Times of London does this, and so does The Telegraph. Most of my subscriptions go via PayPal or Google so I can just cancel the payment and eventually my service will be cancelled for lack of payment.

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