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by rlongstaff 9y ago
The review comments on Amazon tell you everything you need to know.
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by rlongstaff 9y ago
Surprised the article made no mention of the EV Rieu translation published by Penguin Books. I would have thought that was one of the, if not 'the', most well known one.
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by rlongstaff 9y ago
This is the correct link to the report: http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=A/HRC/34/51... The UN has a bizarre and archaic document management system that it is difficult to link to (an
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by rlongstaff 9y ago
Minor correction: Google was summoned to appear before a committee of the UK Parliament, not the Government. A link to the meeting: http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/ecd59f92-64b6-4450-96b6...
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by rlongstaff 10y ago
This has been done so many times already. One example is Coffitivity: https://coffitivity.com/
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by rlongstaff 11y ago
Although the idea of a 'United Democracies' or whatever it gets called sounds appealing, it has many flaws. One of which you highlighted regarding what constitutes a democracy - some could even argue that the Electoral College in
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by rlongstaff 11y ago
After disabling my adblocker to visit the site I was greeted with an auto-play video (with sound) that took up half the page. This is not what I would term 'ad light'.
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by rlongstaff 11y ago
Hmm. Somewhat biased presentation in the article with use of the words "the latest in a growing number of competition investigations targeting American technology companies." Gives the impression the EU is deliberately going after
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by rlongstaff 11y ago
The equivalent for the UK: http://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
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by rlongstaff 11y ago
I've just installed it from the Ubuntu 15.10 Software Centre (v3.0.1-2).
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by rlongstaff 11y ago
Who decides that and is it true or fair? If the CEO earns 25x the average employee salary would it be clear that they add 25x more value to the company than any other employee?
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by rlongstaff 11y ago
... but what percentage of current C code is C11. More importantly, how much new code is written according to C11?
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by rlongstaff 11y ago
Don't suppose anyone has an equivalent for Linux?
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by rlongstaff 11y ago
Get searching: http://ec.europa.eu/competition/elojade/isef/index.cfm I think you'll find the overwhelming majority are European companies.
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by rlongstaff 12y ago
Maybe the site should use something like http://www.pingtest.net/
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by rlongstaff 12y ago
It would be interesting to see how much traffic localhost.com gets too :)
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by rlongstaff 12y ago
Indeed. I think whenever 'hacked sites' stories are posted here, the poster should include a screenshot given that the site will likely be fixed very quickly.
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by rlongstaff 12y ago
I have visited the USA a dozen or so times over the past decade and, as well as having a great number of friends there, I've found the people really friendly and welcoming. The only exception to this are US immigration officials who I
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by rlongstaff 12y ago
I wonder how many climate-changer denier politicans will attempt to legislate to prevent Metro-North from considering climate change in their future planning - the same way NC did that: http://abcnews.go.com/US/north-ca
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by rlongstaff 12y ago
Another solution is to put the URL into Google Translate, set the 'To' language to English and the 'From' language to something like Arabic or Chinese so nothing on the page will actually get translated.
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by rlongstaff 12y ago
> * There was almost zero bullshit reality TV manufactured drama The bit in the article that astounded me was where he talked about sections of the contract everyone was expected to sign: "Another clause allowed for willful misrepre
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by rlongstaff 13y ago
I'm shocked I tell you - I had no idea such things went on!
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by rlongstaff 13y ago
Both the font size and colour scheme on that page hurt my eyes.
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by rlongstaff 13y ago
The GiraDora manually powered washing machine was announced a couple of years ago - I don't know what happened to it, e.g. did it never get funding? http://inhabitat.com/human-powered-giradora-washer-needs-no-...
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by rlongstaff 13y ago
Looks good, and seems simple to get going. Two comments: - I set the background image but it didn't appear (the dialog box for that seems to have no 'OK' or 'Save' button) - It would be good to have a microphone lev
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by rlongstaff 13y ago
I'm on Virgin Media in the UK and it starts loading the page in Firefox (the title changes to the title of the page) but never actually completes, so I get a blank page.
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by rlongstaff 13y ago
Worth pointing out that they can't make an application to the ECtHR until all legal appeals have been exhausted in the UK (Supreme Court?). Otherwise the application will be immediately rejected.
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by rlongstaff 13y ago
The cynical reaction would be to say this is all about damage limitation to their brand since it appeared on HN, as they meant to do it rather than it being a 'clerical error'. Good thing I'm not cynical.