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As well as those listed by other commenters, there are other FON collaborations listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTFON#Collaborations Belgium, Germany, Greece, Jersey...

People think it is a magical black box because the code in the parent comment, and in the thread you linked, is three and a half years old, and HN does not run these days on exactl…

It's one thing to charm writers. But what about charming readers, too? As a reader I am not charmed. I find it all too similar and slick. It is "designed" to within an inch of its …

I'm not exactly sure what you are asking. But almost all of the things on that page -- standing orders, direct debits, day to day banking, maintenance, transactions -- are free of …

You might get a massive increase in personal freedom and privacy from using bitcoin. But there is a difference between Pure Bitcoin, so-to-speak -- everyone is their own bank -- an…

Every time I read an headline about "bringing bitcoin to the masses" I'm reminded of the saying that you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. > "We don’t think c…

The Motorola site has Phones4U in the Retailers drop down. Phones4U have it listed at £89.95 SIM-free. http://www.phones4u.co.uk/Black/p/MOTEBLCK?packageType=FTC&t... (scroll down …

Two other Black Cab app startups: Get Taxi http://gettaxi.co.uk/ Hailo https://www.hailocab.com/london I believe these have faced some resistance in some cities even with a strateg…

Neither the Channel Islands nor the Isle of Man are in the UK.

You didn't mention that you thought the app was simple. You said you thought running crowdfunding for it was dishonest and immoral. In any case... Parsing 35TB of HTML, JavaScript …

There's a section on the page called "Why Kickstarter?" I don't think there's anything dishonest and immoral about the reasons given there.

The HN guidelines specifically ask submitters to take the title out: If the original title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displaye…

> -b /- root(b^2-4ac to the tune of Pop Goes the Weasel Woah. In the UK the most we got was SOHCAHTOA: "Smiles of happiness come after having tankards of ale", or "Some old hag cra…

IANAL, but I was also able to find Knol from Google on the UK IPO search: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/4/EU006911796 and the OHIM website, which as I understand it covers E…

"We are in no way affiliated to the discontinued Google Knol." Google trademarked Knol back in the day (2007). A USPTO search shows it is still live: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/…

Just checking department: do you have permission from the copyright holder(s) to publish this?

With the austerity measures in place in the UK in recent years there have been a few cases of despair at councils closing their swimming pools and leisure centres to try to cut cos…

The class was usually split up in to groups of about 10, depending on age / proficiency. There'd be a teacher leading each group. There would also be the lifeguards from the pool. …

>> Why? I suppose there's the argument that most of the earth's surface is covered in water; it would be useful to not be afraid of it, to know how to move in it, and to be confide…

> In the UK, learning to swim is part of the national curriculum, unlike the US. More details on exactly what kids in the UK are taught: Swimming and water safety: All schools must…

For great examples of these principles in videogames, see World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck (1992) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Illusion_Starring_Mic…

As I understand it, yes, you would still have final control. When you click on the plugin icon in the browser toolbar, a popup box displays all the trackers Privacy Badger has foun…

Related Github profile lists location as "La Plage Digitale, Strasbourg". Googled that + Appsdeck, discovered La Plage Digitale is a coworking space. Found a couple of articles tag…