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by aspidistra 12y ago
As well as those listed by other commenters, there are other FON collaborations listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTFON#Collaborations Belgium, Germany, Greece, Jersey...
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British Council propaganda films from 1940s(vimeo.com)
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by aspidistra 12y ago
People think it is a magical black box because the code in the parent comment, and in the thread you linked, is three and a half years old, and HN does not run these days on exactly the same code that was open-sourced in news.arc.
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by aspidistra 12y ago
It's one thing to charm writers. But what about charming readers, too? As a reader I am not charmed. I find it all too similar and slick. It is "designed" to within an inch of its life. The text and pictures don't seemed
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by aspidistra 12y ago
I'm not exactly sure what you are asking. But almost all of the things on that page -- standing orders, direct debits, day to day banking, maintenance, transactions -- are free of charge at most UK personal current accounts. The only t
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by aspidistra 12y ago
You might get a massive increase in personal freedom and privacy from using bitcoin. But there is a difference between Pure Bitcoin, so-to-speak -- everyone is their own bank -- and a bitcoin-based service. On Circle's website, it stat
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by aspidistra 12y ago
Every time I read an headline about "bringing bitcoin to the masses" I'm reminded of the saying that you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. > "We don’t think consumers should be charged for u
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by aspidistra 12y ago
The Motorola site has Phones4U in the Retailers drop down. Phones4U have it listed at £89.95 SIM-free. http://www.phones4u.co.uk/Black/p/MOTEBLCK?packageType=FTC&t... (scroll down to "Other ways to buy&qu
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by aspidistra 12y ago
Two other Black Cab app startups: Get Taxi http://gettaxi.co.uk/ Hailo https://www.hailocab.com/london I believe these have faced some resistance in some cities even with a strategy of working with licensed
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by aspidistra 12y ago
Neither the Channel Islands nor the Isle of Man are in the UK.
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by aspidistra 12y ago
You didn't mention that you thought the app was simple. You said you thought running crowdfunding for it was dishonest and immoral. In any case... Parsing 35TB of HTML, JavaScript and images, and then releasing that as structured data,
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by aspidistra 12y ago
There's a section on the page called "Why Kickstarter?" I don't think there's anything dishonest and immoral about the reasons given there.
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by aspidistra 12y ago
The HN guidelines specifically ask submitters to take the title out: If the original title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link anyway. http://ycombinator.com
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by aspidistra 12y ago
> -b /- root(b^2-4ac to the tune of Pop Goes the Weasel Woah. In the UK the most we got was SOHCAHTOA: "Smiles of happiness come after having tankards of ale", or "Some old hag cracked all her teeth on apples".
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by aspidistra 12y ago
IANAL, but I was also able to find Knol from Google on the UK IPO search: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/4/EU006911796 and the OHIM website, which as I understand it covers Europe-wide trademarks: http
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by aspidistra 12y ago
"We are in no way affiliated to the discontinued Google Knol." Google trademarked Knol back in the day (2007). A USPTO search shows it is still live: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=480
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by aspidistra 12y ago
Just checking department: do you have permission from the copyright holder(s) to publish this?
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by aspidistra 12y ago
With the austerity measures in place in the UK in recent years there have been a few cases of despair at councils closing their swimming pools and leisure centres to try to cut costs. This is often despite fewer and fewer people attending t
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by aspidistra 12y ago
The class was usually split up in to groups of about 10, depending on age / proficiency. There'd be a teacher leading each group. There would also be the lifeguards from the pool. If I remember rightly, this was at least two, if n
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by aspidistra 12y ago
>> Why? I suppose there's the argument that most of the earth's surface is covered in water; it would be useful to not be afraid of it, to know how to move in it, and to be confident doing so. But then, I grew up on an islan
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by aspidistra 12y ago
> In the UK, learning to swim is part of the national curriculum, unlike the US. More details on exactly what kids in the UK are taught: Swimming and water safety: All schools must provide swimming instruction either in key stage 1 or k
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by aspidistra 12y ago
For great examples of these principles in videogames, see World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck (1992) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Illusion_Starring_Mick... and Disney's Aladdin (1993)
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by aspidistra 12y ago
As I understand it, yes, you would still have final control. When you click on the plugin icon in the browser toolbar, a popup box displays all the trackers Privacy Badger has found. There is a slider next to each tracker, with three states
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Ways to stop the U.S. from becoming a Piketty-style oligarchy(washingtonpost.com)
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by aspidistra 12y ago
Related Github profile lists location as "La Plage Digitale, Strasbourg". Googled that + Appsdeck, discovered La Plage Digitale is a coworking space. Found a couple of articles tagged Appsdeck, which led me to Yann Klis: https:&#
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by aspidistra 12y ago
Unless Bertolt Brecht is writing it.
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by aspidistra 12y ago
To be fair to EFF, it is explicit about what it considers that strong commitment to be: publishing this DNT policy notice on the domain: https://www.eff.org/dnt-policy Quote: What does the dnt-policy.txt promise mean? Po
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by aspidistra 12y ago
> People keep confusing the adserving/retargeting sector with the identity-sector (Google, Facebook). Can you blame them when the latter keep buying the former? Google bought Doubleclick. Twitter bought MoPub. Facebook bought Atlas.
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by aspidistra 12y ago
Maybe it's a bug. FTA: This is an alpha release; we've been using it internally and don't think it's too buggy. But we're looking for intrepid users to try it out and let us know before we encourage millions of peo
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by aspidistra 12y ago
> Don’t be surprised to see Twitter become more YouTube-like, turning its home page into a real-time news platform accessible to anyone, whether they’re logged in or not. I'm sure the home page (i.e. twitter.com) was like this at

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