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The settlers were greeted by English speaking native Americans who had been working the shipping trade.

"makes it easier to socialize ... even though alcohol is bad in many ways" Isn't this justification you bring your activities into harmony with conscience?

Don't give up on the GCHQ idea. As a large public (in the business sense) organisation they will be hot on "reasonable adjustment" and possibly interested in the diversity of thoug…

Love the western bias here. The Dark Ages was a time when the christian west consciously stopped learning. Fortunately the muslim world carried the banner for intellect for a centu…

2FA, NHS, gov.uk reminders, a large %age of my social group... WhatsApp is a closed protocol owned by Facebook. It has its uses but relying on it is a mistake.

Gosh, never look at C. You'd break ribs.

...then you didn't read it. Try again, it's a brilliant reflection of human nature and really digs into the dystopia / utopia thing.

An app? You just need DropBox and a text editor. Both are pretty ubiquitous. I used to find myself moving between random terminals so used curl webdav instead of DropBox.

That's for England. London is more like >GBP500k. https://lginform.local.gov.uk/reports/lgastandard?mod-metric...

"Tommy Robinson is not allowed to open a bank account"? What? After multiple frauds and also declaring himself bankrupt he might have difficulty finding a bank willing to take him …

Other way around. This text seems very similiar to: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Instructions-British-Servicemen-Fra... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Instructions-American-Servicemen-Br...

I keep having this argument with my boss but he refuses to let me write machine code.

It's lightweight, it's flexible, it's hackable and it's very orchestrate-able. I've had dashboards showing summary stats for IoT devices, the VMs they're talking to and the hypervi…

IMO the Nokia E7 was the perfect phone in all dimensions. Modern phones are impractically large. Man, I'd love to see some innovation in phone design. How did we go so far backward…

Dan Simmons Shrike books have the same epic scale of Ian M Banks' scifi with the slightly more prosodic style of Ian Banks' standard fiction.

Seem's a little disrespectful of others' belief systems. How can you possibly know that the God's sacrifices were a "mistake"?

No, of course not; my upbringing, the people surrounding me, the cards life dealt me have no impact on me in way whatsoever. Poster should call him out. Say you find it unpleasant.…

"stupid sysadmin reasons" Yeah, who needs stability and consistency? It far more important to be able to jump upon the latest whizz, bang, wheeeeee!

Everyone on here is a 1%er.

Ha. This looks more like good old capitalism rather than any state sponsored spying. "Nobody's making you buy from China"

But these are privately owned by the garage to report drive-aways. The context of this comment seems to imply these have something to do with the state?

"dinky little B-road near me has a 4×2 grid of ANPR cameras " How do you know they're ANPR? "I wish they'd fund health" How do you know they're state funded cameras?

The uncooked rice you buy in the store has been dried.

That's a different choice. You might be "choosing" not to bother understanding the alternatives, but you're not making a choice between the alternatives because you don't know what…

That's not a choice. To make a choice you need to be aware of alternatives. You use NOSQL because it was easy to achieve your goal.