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_wdh

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About _wdh

Software Developer for Planixs, Manchester, UK

Recent public activity

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    Comment #16133179

    Quality of life is more important than raw cash.

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    Comment #16133130

    Americans have the weirdest ideas about Socialism. It is possible to have a state run healthcare system or nationalize the railways without devolving into Venezuela.

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    Comment #16133035

    I'm not talking about shaming people, I think that if you want to have a community that doesn't have abuse then you need the admins to remove or ban the people who post abuse and t…

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    Comment #16132873

    Moderation is essential because by publicly making an example of trolls, you can change the culture to prevent it. It's the same theory as patching up broken windows to ensure that…

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    Comment #15089460

    Where did the data for the growth rate table come from? I can see that the original source is a reddit post but I can't find where the reddit post got it's numbers from.

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    Comment #14819252

    The problem with this is that allowing prison labour to be cheaper than free labour puts competitors out of business and gives incentives to the state and business lobbyists to arr…

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    Comment #14470660

    There's a good list of UK brokers here, most of which have Vanguard funds. http://monevator.com/compare-uk-cheapest-online-brokers/ Personally, I use Charles Stanley Direct and I d…

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    Comment #13373320

    That's scary. Would having 2FA enabled on your Gmail account protect you from this kind of attack?

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    Comment #11088447

    The research paper is here if anyone is interested: https://peerj.com/preprints/1733.pdf

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    Comment #9524891

    It's a reference to a PG essay where he talks about how PR agencies often give press releases and news stories that are little more than hidden adverts by reporting selective truth…

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    Comment #9056463

    I don't understand why you would want to be your own bank at all? A proper bank will have some level of security as well as the scale to not fall over if a single branch is robbed.…

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    Comment #9056444

    The language itself is probably fine but the fact that they are starting from scratch with what appears to be no input from security or financial professionals is a clear sign that…

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    Comment #9056000

    How many exchanges have been hacked at this point? We must be getting near double digits.

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    Comment #8984164

    The only site I know of that would vaguely fit the bill is https://openclipart.org/ . However, it doesn't appear to support searching by image type or by dimension and as far as I …

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    Comment #8757857

    The new design reminds me of mint ice cream. In a good way.

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    Comment #8640880

    It looks like it's been generated by http://overviewer.org/ , I guess they've got a cronjob or something that runs that as a script and generates the html and then it looks like th…

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    Comment #8640684

    This might be a stupid question, but does this mean that the number of Emeralds can that exist in the server is limited by the number of bitcoins that the owner has in the bank? I …

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    Comment #8470520

    I'm not sure but I'd like to join in so we've got 2 people at least.

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    Comment #8463850

    By that logic, you can't judge any group in any way for doing anything because anything anyone does can be reduced to being an "un-hinged idiot".

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    Comment #8459613

    Do you have a source or owt for that? You can't just drop something like that without any evidence.

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    Comment #8459142

    If there are no leaders and no control, then surely the GG movement can only be defined by what it does under it's banner and it can't in any sane way be called "level headed" or "…

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    Comment #8459087

    What are the organizing points for GG that are level headed and respectful? I must admit that I doubt that this exists.

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    Comment #8459052

    You don't solve problems by ignoring them and hoping that they go away, you have to expose and stop it before it gets worse or they'll just move onto the next person.