Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — robertony

robertony

HN member
Joined
Fri, Jun 22, 2018, 3:47 PM UTC
HN karma
18
Public activity
30 items

About robertony

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #28538902

    Modern mov files are just mp4 containers.

  2. comment
    Comment #28431812

    > Forgive me since I’m American, but wasn’t getting rid of foreigners taking jobs one of the selling points of Brexit? That's what the media like to repeat, but I would suggest tha…

  3. comment
    Comment #23032035

    Not really... You have to log out of one account, then login to the other; but then you need to use 2fa; but now 2fa is mad about something and making you jump through hoops while …

  4. comment
    Comment #22376314

    I'm still using ICQ...

  5. comment
    Comment #21604353

    Destiny 2 is free on Steam, no gold needed.

  6. comment
    Comment #21604337

    Could you explain to me what is innovative about Google offering you fields to enter your social details on your Stadia profile for AIM, MSN, YIM, etc... And could you explain why …

  7. comment
    Comment #21604303

    That would be fine under GDPR actually.

  8. comment
    Comment #21592537

    From what I'm aware, the military doesn't use IRC? IRC was inspired from BITNET, which was used by the DoD briefly and not the military as a whole? Military networks are encrypted …

  9. comment
    Comment #21116402

    It is intentional.

  10. comment
    Comment #21116221

    My NHS trust doesn't even use Spine 2. That would require reliable Internet.

  11. comment
    Comment #20766065

    You're probably outside the security sphere, but H1 is already taken seriously. There is no per-requisit for them to do so to be taken seriously as you state.

  12. comment
    Comment #20203761

    If I compare cyclists in London (and, there are a lot) to pretty much anywhere in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, the cyclists are far better behaved. I don't have to worry fo…

  13. comment
    Comment #18990277

    Yes, but not in Germany.

  14. comment
    Comment #18990226

    > The "bonus" you get is actually paid by higher prices on the stuff people buy. In the EU, we pay VAT on practically everything, so, US prices are still cheaper with credit cards …

  15. comment
    Comment #18990155

    You can dispute, but the big difference between credit card and debit card is that on credit card, each transaction is insured through the merchant fee. Mastercard and Visa's rules…

  16. comment
    Comment #18989540

    I have to agree with your sentiment here. A vote to leave the EU didn't mean leave the ECHR. To add to your point further, the Good Friday agreement (which brought some peace in No…

  17. comment
    Comment #18988991

    > I've said that some things are done on EU level, which does not need to be repeated across the various countries within the EU. The examples provided on your link are Galileo, bu…

  18. comment
    Comment #18987620

    Can you please provide sources for how EU centeralized government is more efficient with it's money than decenteralized systems used in places like the Netherlands and the UK?

  19. comment
    Comment #18987603

    > Greece was at risk of that for a while. Greece actually campaigned for it and the EU imposed more austerity instead.

  20. comment
    Comment #18987585

    > And it is right to be, particularly in the case human rights. The European Convention on Human Rights is not an EU institution. The EU has had problems causing conflict with it, …

  21. comment
    Comment #18987567

    Do you think it's in .eu's benefit to do this? I ask because across Europe Union there is a rise in euroscepticism and right-wing parties right now. If I was a non-UK but EU busine…

  22. comment
    Comment #18987530

    I suspect that this will be rather damaging for the .eu TLD. If I were in a country that has a rise in Euroscepticism, right-wing parties while in the EU (which is pretty much most…

  23. comment
    Comment #18920575

    Sorry, I should have phrased that better. When I said "reduced economic activity in the EU", I mean as a whole. This is an over simplfiication, but imagine a situation where everyt…

  24. comment
    Comment #18920409

    > the EU has more free trade deals than the UK will ever negotiate on its own. It doesn't really matter how many trade deals or what the trade deals are when VAT, import fees are a…

  25. comment
    Comment #18919950

    > One would think that the EU would be in a better position to get better deals than a single country. The EU has a history of being really slow at negotiating trade deals unfortun…