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docflabby

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    Comment #47025599

    Most clothes are manufactured in countries with cheaper labor costs to cut costs - the reality is clothes are cheap to make in terms of raw materials- and dumping unwanted clothes …

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    Comment #46334843

    London and the south east is the UK in economic terms. Its the only those 2 regions which are net contributor to taxes https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxe.…

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    Comment #44874371

    Falling for the "Embrace" part again...

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    Comment #43152909

    The new rules cover any kind of illegal content that can appear online, but the Act includes a list of specific offences that you should consider. These are: terrorism child sexual…

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    Comment #43152878

    it's not that simple - illegal and harmful content can include things like hate speech - worth a longer read... https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/online_safety_act/ If I ran a…

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    Comment #42160646

    Dark matter is just made up bs if you replace "magic" for dark whenever its mentioned its the same difference - theres no tangable evidence it exists at all.

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    Ask HN: How to get Cloudflare to take phishing reports taken seriously

    So I got scammed this site though a verified Facebook advert which is on cloudflares DNS: http://seasaltscornwall.com it is a very convincing clone of http://seasaltcornwall.com Ap…

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    Comment #39883968

    Unfortunately for banking apps etc need a android or iPhone will probably make the switch to apple...

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    Ask HN: Degoogling in 2024

    After my play store account being deleted for "inactivity" despite having used it recently and having an app with over 1000 installs removed I've decided it's a sign to finally deg…

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    Comment #38554646

    Why would you think Jeff would care?

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    Comment #38554635

    In a world run by sociopaths - whistleblowing is a trap to catch the people who could if instead of reporting the issues, they organised together and then could stop you... I've ye…

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    Comment #37967865

    The reviewing isn't problem it's mostly because you have to become that asshole that everyone hates - developers who produce bad code also are the worst at taking feedback...

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    Comment #37318775

    I think problem is product managers are very common and probably unavoidable in most organisations. Can't have product owners without actual ownership - without real equity in the …

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    Comment #36935823

    People who avoid the sun more likely to take vitamin D supplements?

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    Comment #36912690

    The real question is which is dying quicker Facebook or Twitter?

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    Comment #35580913

    Last one don't even need macros https://www.excel-easy.com/examples/dependent-drop-down-list... I guess my point is alot of people outside of software development the goto for low/…

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    Comment #35579773

    Find me a non code product that can do something excel can't

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    Comment #35485228

    If only a small size (up to 32ish inches) needed 4k monitor would probably surfice

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    Comment #35318584

    Because the budget is not infinite - there is normally a limit of time or money and it will determine the decision making process. This doesn't mean the project will finish on time…

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    Comment #35072854

    It's not something you recover quickly from :(

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    Comment #34036524

    In the UK at least try and get building work done or buy a new car with a credit card and see how far you get... Credit cards work great for small transactions for both consumers a…

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    Comment #34036087

    The problem is the intermediaries often add no value or help facilitate the fraud or refuse to help get the money back. I lost £150,000 to a fraudulent account the bank knew about …

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    Comment #34036017

    Most small business I've found don't accept credit/debit cards for large transactions and instead want direct (cash) bank transfers because they fear the money going missing or get…