selectstar

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by selectstar 13y ago
I wonder if the builders will glue all fixtures and fittings in place to encourage a full building upgrade in a few years when the chairs start looking shabby or the washrooms needs upgraded. :)
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by selectstar 13y ago
What do you do for fun? Are you active in the dating pool? How often do you socialise in situations that require spend? (Be that a trip to the cinema, or a coffeshop, or a bar or taking beer/wine to a BBQ.) As an aside, why I know th
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by selectstar 13y ago
Every American will think it's California... Start typing Uber A... into google and what do you get?
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by selectstar 13y ago
This is ire inducing, as is all the comments agreeing anecdoatly. As someone who has came through the other side I would <emphasis>strongly</emphasis> argue that the level of empathy I feel towards friends in a similar pre
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by selectstar 13y ago
They were not faliures of business per se. Friendster failed because users migrated, ditto Myspace, Bebo and whatever else. Even Diggs downfall could be partially attributed to the ready made life boat of Reddit.
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by selectstar 13y ago
If possible, please substantiate that?
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by selectstar 13y ago
A mid range Apple laptop costs as much as a mid range Burberry leather jacket whilst the laptop takes way more effort to constuct. I think someone is doing it smarter than the other here...
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by selectstar 13y ago
Gentrification is a massive problem in Berlin... Mitte -> Prenzlauer Berg -> Kreuzberg -> Neukölln -> Where Next? It's absolutely not as extreme as London because most people in Berlin rent rather than own, and other costs
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by selectstar 13y ago
Whatever the location, you can imagine the CCTV that will be around them when they appear in the wild.
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by selectstar 13y ago
Strange, my partners Three contract had a £5.00 per day charge in mainland Europe but with no data cap after that.
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by selectstar 13y ago
Extrapolote that thought; it's only now that those kids (who grew up with BBM) are in charge of their own financial destinty. They might be used to having BBM in their lives and if they can get it on a new "cool" phone then
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by selectstar 13y ago
They way they chose to compose that open letter meant I could not take it seriously at all. (And my partner is in employment law so I have an above casual interest in these kind of things in all industries.)
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by selectstar 13y ago
SAGE GOES IN EVERY FIELD Ahhh, memories.
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by selectstar 13y ago
Some students. Those provided for by family will see their parents/grandparents get screwed, and some of those parents may well be part of the software community...
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by selectstar 13y ago
The idea being subjected to random people in times when we are 'alone' but in close proximity to others, i.e. on transport, is horrifying. I think it's contextual based on what part of the world you are from, but my take is
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by selectstar 13y ago
Such as?
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by selectstar 13y ago
I feel this article is only going to resonate with those past this point in life... Things I've learnt in my thirties.... 1. Learn now, making time for it later will be very difficult and require sacrifice. 2. Maintain informal human c
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by selectstar 13y ago
I think the enduring popularity of Monopoly etc is the nostaglia factor and the ease of inter-generational play... it's quite ubiquitous and perhaps only behind Trival Pursuit in terms of "family" games.
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by selectstar 13y ago
Always the simplest way to solve these things, this is what I always use on my phones for hand grip as well as when laying on a surface. If you don't like to have a sticker some appropriate colour duck/duct tape works perfectly.
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by selectstar 13y ago
I agree, in a similar vein I still call my debit card my "switch" out of habit.
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by selectstar 13y ago
Debit cards are quite prevalent here, rather than Credit i'd say.
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by selectstar 13y ago
Grinders are so important with hand crafted, I've not dropped the $350+ on a Mahlkonig, and I go through a bag a week, so I'm happy to have the store grind. I do have a porlex hand grinder for times when I order a bean based pack
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by selectstar 13y ago
Perhaps he needs someone around for the validation and it was not a mistake at all? /snark.
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by selectstar 13y ago
Surprising person to have written this... "In his role as Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, Lord Falconer sought to make it easier for government bodies to refuse to release documents under the Freedom of Information Act (
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by selectstar 13y ago
Land of the free, home of the brave. Let's hope that Snowden never gets caught/detained.