almostkindatech

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Hackers say they breached Italian state email to target Revolut 'crypto whales'(ft.com)
2 points by almostkindatech 1d ago|0 comments
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by almostkindatech 2mo ago
No, you're right, it's a typo
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by almostkindatech 3mo ago
Agreed when it comes to the City of London (for anyone not familiar, this means the financial centre). It can feel pretty grim walking there at times. Elsewhere though, possible to plan continuous walks through greenish spaces. One starting
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by almostkindatech 3mo ago
Strangely enough, you can get it cheaper (in £ at least) by signing up to a paid Revolut account and getting the FT sub for free.
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by almostkindatech 6mo ago
Gibson also had the 'ugly t-shirt' in Zero History, designed to mess with facial recognition https://www.wired.com/story/facial-recognition-t-shirt-block...
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by almostkindatech 7mo ago
> never stand out or make a fuss I always enjoyed this aspect of being in Tokyo. Similar to rayiner's comment, I'd then get a huge shock on return to Europe. But I was also struck by the flip side of this when reading Murakami&
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by almostkindatech 9mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46384153
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by almostkindatech 10mo ago
And now the chair of the OBR has had to resign over it https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/dec/01/keir-s...
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by almostkindatech 10mo ago
If by 'much of the info' you mean policy changes, those are deliberately leaked by the politicians, not civil servants or their family members. They do this to test reactions and frame the debate.
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by almostkindatech 10mo ago
May be mixing-up the company change with the IDE: Posit, the company, was named a few years ago, whereas Positron, the IDE, is new.
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by almostkindatech 10mo ago
If you sign-up for a free account you can read FT Alphaville, which is the blog-style section of the FT containing articles like this one
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by almostkindatech 10mo ago
It's FT Alphaville, which means it's only supposed to be a blog-style comment on the HSBC report
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by almostkindatech 10mo ago
And as it won't be obvious to everyone here: Alphaville is one of the few free parts of FT online. You need to create an account to access it, but don't need a paid subscription.
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by almostkindatech 10mo ago
FT Alphaville is the (very good) blog-style section of the FT, so this point is meant slightly tongue-in-cheek, as Bryce hints at himself.
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by almostkindatech 1y ago
Yes, Borges' and Lewis Carroll's stories are playful illustrations of 'the map is not the territory'. Or you could say they show that the map cannot be the territory.
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by almostkindatech 1y ago
Or read anything by Will Self
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by almostkindatech 1y ago
Might be worth looking at groundhog, if you want a 'time machine' less likely to have a commercial motive