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by bapbap 8y ago
Ah, it makes sense to do so but I'd imagine this practice would affect consumer confidence in Sold by Amazon options given time.
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by bapbap 8y ago
I've wondered if Amazon co-locates its own stock with that of Fulfillment By Amazon stock which would mean you could end up with anything as long as it looks similar and has the same SKU.
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by bapbap 8y ago
I agree, something more like Volvo's "Pilot Assist" makes sense to me.
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by bapbap 10y ago
It may not be possible but you could ask if a small part of the office (in the corner or more secluded) could be earmarked as a concentration "zone". It's not for people to sit there all day every day and take up residence in
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Ask HN: How to structure or display complex rules/information
1 points by bapbap 10y ago|0 comments
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by bapbap 10y ago
Is there any reason why I should have any sympathy? From my basic understanding, these companies engineer their structures and finances in weird and wonderful ways to reduce their tax bill. Fair enough, they have the global reach and luxury
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by bapbap 10y ago
Yes, the way I imagine most people will take this story is that Apple avoided taxes but really Ireland allowed them to contrive a tax structure that resulted in a lower tax bill. Apple must have known this would happen some day, I'd im
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by bapbap 10y ago
No fine for Apple. Apple can almost look entirely innocent on this, they asked Ireland to look at how they've structured their tax affairs knowing full well what impact this would have on their tax bill. However Ireland agreed to it,
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by bapbap 10y ago
The money paid will go to Ireland. Ireland allowed Apple to structure its tax affairs in a way that reduced their tax bill which is a great incentive to maintain a presence there. The EU has now determined this was an illegal tax benefit pr
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by bapbap 11y ago
It's worrying how much mileage "think of the children" and counter-terrorism gets.
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by bapbap 11y ago
I am not a battery or electronics expert but my understanding is that it is not ideal to simultaneously charge and discharge a LiPO battery, so most don't support passthrough. I use a RAVPower Xtreme (26800mAh - though I'm not sur
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by bapbap 11y ago
I'm sorry if I'm misunderstanding but I don't think they charge to export your data any longer. I remember they did (I refused to pay) but I recently purchased a Charge HR and found I can export everything, going back to when
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by bapbap 12y ago
I've no doubt this methodology can be effective but it's supremely irritating. Any company that uses methods like this immediately put me off.
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by bapbap 13y ago
One of my sites was a victim of the negative SEO trick, I kept getting warnings from Google (Site violates Google's quality guidelines) that there were links to my site that violated their guidelines. It didn't matter what I said
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by bapbap 13y ago
Not a bad idea actually but even at that, there are plenty of video reviewers getting paid to review things and one could be none the wiser.
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by bapbap 13y ago
I run a small review site and have to deal with issues surrounding fake reviews all the time. Every now and then someone makes a rookie mistake and it gets picked up by my system and automatically filtered but as the years have gone on, I&#
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by bapbap 13y ago
I've turned off simple passcode and made my passcode much more complicated. Now I can use Touch ID the majority of the time and only have to input the more complicated passcode every now and then.
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by bapbap 13y ago
It always amazes me when Google goes down. They must do everything they can to prevent it but yet, it's still possible.
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by bapbap 13y ago
Thanks for this, I find that amazing
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by bapbap 13y ago
Just out of interest, does anyone know how long it took between the time the tweet was published and how long it took for an identifiable/linked rise in share price? The article does mention "Less than two hours later" but I&
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by bapbap 13y ago
Can anyone with some knowledge of the GDS explain how they seem to be doing such a good job? It just seems impossible that someone somewhere in Government got something right for a change and brought this team in and let them get on with it
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by bapbap 13y ago
My knowledge goes as far as ~/.bash_history, how do you find out what they got up to?
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Ask HN: How do/would you deal with your website being hacked?
2 points by bapbap 13y ago|4 comments
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by bapbap 13y ago
My site gets about 15,000 spam submissions a month. You are able to make a submission without being logged in but you have to signup as soon as you do for it to be published. Spammers don't do this, so the spam doesn't get published, yet th
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by bapbap 13y ago
Outsourced to companies like Capgemini who deliver as little as they can get away with
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by bapbap 14y ago
It's written for The Register which has a much more relaxed reporting style.
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by bapbap 14y ago
I was particularly impressed by the event markers. For example, it was quite the novelty to click on a marker and be taken back to the beginning of a particular persons dive, then jump back to the live stream. To my mind the mechanics of li
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by bapbap 14y ago
The only issue with images is where you would want the image to be processed (resized for example), before being published, as S3 quite rightly doesn't carry out that sort of function. Using a 2000x2000 image as a thumbnail is not a great i
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by bapbap 14y ago
I had the same. The preparatory install that is carried out by the app, while still in Lion, went fine but upon restarting, no further install process took place and it would just boot back into Lion again. I had to disable FV, install, the
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by bapbap 14y ago
True. I'm somewhat biased because when someone states their country is the best (I'm thinking of Americans here I'm afraid and I recognise it is a generalisation), it just annoys me. I don't think anyone can be absolutely sure of themselves

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