alva

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by alva 7mo ago
Wonder how they will classify 'cousins' given its unfortunate prevalence in the UK
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by alva 8mo ago
Fun idea for a book.
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by alva 8mo ago
Excellent, thank you. This had be causing me headaches!
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by alva 9mo ago
Passport equivalents go back to 1350BC
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Show HN: PDF Products Pro – Sell PDFs Securely on Shopify(apps.shopify.com)
1 points by alva 1y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Alva Digital Downloads – I built a better way to sell files on Shopify(apps.shopify.com)
2 points by alva 1y ago|0 comments
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by alva 2y ago
Just what i needed to read today, thanks.
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by alva 4y ago
MS?
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by alva 4y ago
Definitely. I mean check out some of the recent winners of the US National Debate Championships. https://youtu.be/fmO-ziHU_D8?t=34
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Iranian Prison Hacked – Real-time footage from control room leaked(twitter.com)
12 points by alva 5y ago|1 comments
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by alva 5y ago
I do not think successive UK governments have had enough of a long term strategy to do this consciously (though I would love to find out it was a deliberate), but I think the Battersea / Nine Elms development is a fantastic way to expl
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by alva 5y ago
I used to work in a small hotel as a student. Most of my job was taking guests' luggage up 4 flights of extremely narrow stairs of the historic building. The only guest who ever tipped me (not common in my country) was Anthony Bourdain
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by alva 5y ago
> Buying bananas has no relevance to climate Can you explain why? All the bananas in my UK supermarket are flown from Africa. > minimise use of cars and planes
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by alva 5y ago
X = 1 is not exponential growth
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Saudi Arabia plan for a 100-mile, car-free linear city(dezeen.com)
1 points by alva 6y ago|0 comments
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by alva 6y ago
> wearing masks not true at least in Stockholm
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by alva 6y ago
Maybe it is not particularly high crime because police get 28% of the budget.
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by alva 6y ago
> Is it fish caught in that same day like you can get in any Greek taverna in the Cyclades? Yes >Or frozen fish brought in from half a continent away? You can get that too. The negative response you are getting from users is because y
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by alva 8y ago
> There's net migration into Poland Wrong. Poland -0.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2017 est.) https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... > That image of Poland as an unat
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by alva 8y ago
> Good luck with that. Since the Brexit vote net-migration for the UK is over half a million people, your native Poland is still suffering huge negative net-migration. "Despite Brexit" the UK attracts top talent from across the
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by alva 8y ago
Can't help but look at the density of regions like India and think it will brew trouble. I wonder what the correlation is between population density and violence, I imagine quite strong.
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Match Group stock plummets 20% after FB enters Dating(google.co.uk)
2 points by alva 8y ago|0 comments
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by alva 8y ago
The Herdwick Shepherd is one of my favourite twitter accounts. How different our perspectives on life must be. Him outside dealing with the ups and downs of life, death and weather on a daily basis. Me, sat in an office reading a flexbox ch
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by alva 8y ago
Beta will be released at the end of next month. If you are interested in signing up you can do so on the page or by saying hi at distrindex (at) gmail
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by alva 8y ago
DistrIndex facilitates crowdsourced indexing of P2P networks. Discovery and quality of content varies widely across many torrent networks, resulting in a multitude of usually shady magnet sites or high quality but closed communities like Wh
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by alva 8y ago
My biggest frustration is some of the questions came close to forcing some real answers, the biggest being data deletion. Zuckerberg was always extremely careful when it came to questions of account deletion. One question asked "when
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Ask HN: Is Twitter broken today?
3 points by alva 8y ago|2 comments
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by alva 8y ago
Number 1 is to stop reading opinion sections altogether. Another is to get your main news from wire services like Reuters. This will keep you up to date with the main events. I tend to gravitate towards financial news services as well now,
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by alva 8y ago
Many people really do not want to think about these things and the potential consequences. History has shown things can break down hard and quickly when there are a multitude of seemingly small bit widespread grievances. This is likely ex
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by alva 8y ago
Fantastic project. Well done.

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