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handelaar

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About handelaar

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    Comment #48992510

    And no more than about 1/3 anywhere else

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    Comment #48935534

    For lots of reasons but if you're the UK and you're honest with yourself and you are only allowed to pick exactly one reason that steel is absolutely critical? Royal Navy.

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    Comment #48906838

    > I highly doubt Nauru makes much money selling their ccTLD, they manage it directly on the island and each domain costs a whopping 500$/year. Yeah, can't imagine anyone buying any…

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    Comment #48324658

    > Contrary to what you seem to believe Please stop doing this. That is not even close to what he said. "Some people" do that? Not a controversial statement, and pretending otherwis…

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    Comment #46924783

    > "The average rate of social security and tax state contributions from French workers is now 82% of their salary" This might be the most insane comment I've ever seen on this foru…

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    Comment #46781556

    "Fortunately", that country forced its language onto a number of others who remain in the EU, and one of them conveniently has English as its EU language because another country al…

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    Tell HN: Linode EU-West (London) is having routing problems

    I'm seeing 100% packet loss on every VM I have there and their own internal web-based shell thing is dropping dead with timeouts, yet somehow the live traffic graphs are still goin…

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    Comment #46531634

    https://archive.is/TyJ8q

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    Comment #45853848

    [flagged]

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    Comment #45775792

    Because they also recognise English and Greek's already covered by Greece.

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    Comment #45737716

    Still an official language, thankfully. Officially, because of Cyprus.

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    Comment #45670045

    (Fellow readers: this is not kneejerk Russia-bashing but a reference to the recorded fact that Sarkozy has received at least hundreds of thousands of euro from Russian government-l…

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    Comment #44864278

    Your claim that Ofcom is in any way a "self-regulation body" is untrue. And frankly also a straight-up insane thing to say, sorry. Ofcom was created by the UK government for the so…

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    Comment #42387907

    > No. It doesn't give you a right to messages about you. In the context described (a private organisation holding messages which refer to you personally) this is unbelievably false…

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    Comment #42256335

    They definitely do hardware R&D there [including on major recent launches] and a lot of product assembly. They also advertise production-line automation software gigs periodically …

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    Comment #41697066

    So basically what you're all saying is how it's technically impressive. Okay. It is also completely and utterly worthless -- an inefficient and slow method of receiving not-very-ma…

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    Comment #41575153

    This case was about Apple in particular and it is very important to understand that this has never at any point been the law in Ireland as it was understood at the time . Apple was…

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    Comment #41575130

    Everyone in Ireland [and almost everyone else] seems to be under the impression that this is what just happened with the CJEU ruling last week. But it's not. Ireland, since the mid…

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    Comment #41547361

    isset($var) will return false if you have deliberately set $var === NULL Otherwise more or less fine? The whole OP here is a longwinded way of observing that several built-in PHP f…

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    Comment #41542075

    And John Alfred Tinniswood is in fact listed in the 1921 census, born 1912 in Manchester, a resident of Wavertree, West Derby, Liverpool, Lancs.

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    Comment #41520006

    That is nonsense. The cards have no non-corrupt reasons to exist.

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    Comment #41499291

    Nor Chrome desktop

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    Comment #41084147

    I mean, OK, but by the time it's called VAT in their universe they're already treating you as 'overseas' and your total payment processor fee is pushing 10% because "not in the US"…