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by vjvj 4y ago
I got a shabby and scuffed up 10 year old leather jacket cleaned recently. It cost me less than £50 and came out great. Buying a new one would have cost £250+ I wonder where the biggest opportunities are to get people reusing and repairing
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by vjvj 5y ago
This. I started with a BB Storm and stayed through several BB10 handsets up to the Passport. There was no second guessing the UX with Blackberry. The menu was always in the same place and Hub was great when you have so many accounts. I foun
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by vjvj 6y ago
I like the way the author has articulated this. It can be built on by applying the economics concept of "externalities" - i.e. side effects (positive or negative) from a particular action such as the exercising of a right or freed
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Milan Airport WiFi sends your MAC address to advertisers and trackers(mobile.twitter.com)
185 points by vjvj 7y ago|61 comments
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by vjvj 9y ago
Can someone paste the contents here?
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Ask HN: Facebook can retarget me even though I run blockers and privacy badger?
2 points by vjvj 9y ago|1 comments
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by vjvj 9y ago
You're right but if this kind of security becomes the norm rather than the edge case, it becomes far more acceptable.
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by vjvj 9y ago
Follow up from previous HN submitted article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14340137 Surprised more app developers are not creating solutions to this kind of thing - e.g. some form of multisig authorisation to access
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UK Police Charge Activist for Refusing to Hand Over Passwords(motherboard.vice.com)
89 points by vjvj 9y ago|45 comments
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by vjvj 9y ago
Oops - of course! Corrected, thanks.
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by vjvj 9y ago
This will only get worse if Theresa May actually wins the vote / public approval to be PM. As Home Secretary she came up with fantastic ideas such as: * Let us monitor every single call, email, text and website to catch terrorists and
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by vjvj 9y ago
What effect does this have? AFAIK spoiled ballot papers counts are not announced at all (or not very widely if they are) so what's the point?
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by vjvj 10y ago
You can try but the facebook algorithm will have the final say on how many of your friends will see it ;)
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by vjvj 10y ago
Cool concept, looking forward to seeing roll out. Under your definition of p2p would heyguevara.com not fall into this too?
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by vjvj 10y ago
This might still work as fb-only ad blocker: http://www.fbpurity.com/ I've been using it for years and have turned off my entire news feed on desktop. I don't miss it one bit.
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by vjvj 11y ago
This seems excessive and petty - not good business practice and (imo) suprising from Elon Musk. I wonder if there is more than the brief outline of events reported.
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by vjvj 11y ago
Wow. I had a similar experience with Skype too. They couldn't care less that someone had got access to my account and made calls. The attacker even added his own mobile number (in a different country) but Skype wouldn't bother inv
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by vjvj 11y ago
I'd reason that legacy costs would be an issue for black taxi drivers even if they could set their own fares: All registered taxi drivers have already spent £££ getting "qualified" to be a taxi driver. If they suddenly have t
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by vjvj 11y ago
I'm surprised a lot of the posts here are missing the key point. The main argument black cab (taxi) drivers are making is that Transport for London (the regulatory body) forces them to go through a bunch of extra steps before they can
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by vjvj 11y ago
Thanks for clarifying. It was an all or nothing option for me - i.e. if I denied location access I couldn't use the app.
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by vjvj 11y ago
why does this app require access to my current or saved locations?
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by vjvj 11y ago
Unfortunately many roads in London have 20mph speed limits now. They do have a purpose at certain times of day but the inefficiency of doing 20mph when the road, cycle lanes and pavements are largely empty is disappointing.
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by vjvj 11y ago
This is a fascinating exercise with a disappointing argument and pre-determined conclusion. The writer notes that higher speed increase likelihood of an injury in the case of an accident. There is no comment on the factors that influence th
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by vjvj 11y ago
> "...with pages that only work properly in Google Chrome or its derivatives." This is already well underway. Facebook's advertiser power tools will only work with Chrome.
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by vjvj 11y ago
Whose products will you use? Not Google and Microsoft sure, but even Apple has been the subject of similar accusations [1]. Then you're left with the niche stuff. If that has similar flaws you might not even know unless you (or someone
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by vjvj 11y ago
Following recent news I've begun to question the worth of these "certified by XYZ" logos and branding. See stories about - Coffee certified by the RainForest Alliance: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia
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by vjvj 11y ago
As someone who went back to BlackBerry when BB10 was launched, I'm not sure I'd buy this phone - in my opinion the Android UX is just so ugly and I'm not convinced that the Blackberry hub will work as well on Android as it do
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How I'll make my car pay for my house depsoit (UK)(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by vjvj 11y ago|0 comments
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by vjvj 11y ago
To me this reads like a sponsored article/advert. The research wreaks of the type that is sponsored by a corporate/brand who would benefit from improved public perception of coffee.
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Transport for London proposes onerous burdens on Uber (and other minicabs)(standard.co.uk)
3 points by vjvj 11y ago|0 comments

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