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HN why did you change so much? Did Yahoo! become an investor?

You chose your username here and in most other places. You can even change it easily on many platforms. Your username doesn't require you to show your ID and have your calls tapped…

Opposite of my experience, helps you have the proper mechanical info to learn the basics, skipping marketing nonsense and mumbo jumbo. Knowing how to lift something heavy safely go…

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Why worry about mainstream crypto adoption to the point you want to remove the freedoms that brought you there in the first place?

> Most designers will cringe at the thought of showing users a fallback system font. Explaining them that web is not paper, helps removing a lot of this childish behaviour.

The "digital plaza" ownership and total control on one's own community is a literal 2.99 euro/month VPS running mastodon away. Shitposting one's thoughts by arranging pixels on a p…

If there's a community that's going to hunt you down until they find the info they need in your ultraspecific, obscure, niche blog, it's metalheads. Open a quick forum and work on …

This faked nostalgia is becoming irritating. Websites which were like that didn't last long, and mostly were hosted on free webservers. If you want to get rid of nostalgia please s…

I wholeheartedly disagree with this defeatist attitude, which is supposed to magically lead to change more than actually planning and actioning chance itself. Nowhere in life chang…

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Finally someone mentioning this, it's a gem of an article in a gem of a website

Albania also has great sea, amazing food and welcoming people

I'm all ears, if you want to explain how this is possible without breaking multiple laws and cross-country agreements

In EU companies have to appoint a medical expert that checks worker's health (for free) upon joining the company, and routinely (1-2 times a year, depends on country I guess). Edit…

Then lose your knife ok.

Wool is known to take longer to dry, while retaining isolation properties even when drenched

Problem is that they're bulkier. Moreover, when you wash them, they take longer to dry.

Not in most European countries, where what matters is whether the blades are lockable or not

Just put it in any small cardboard box and have it shipped as you would do with a small bag, then collect it from the baggage collection place upon arrival.

This website has taught me so much about travelling when I was in my early 20s, and I've been living out of a backpack ever since.

That's why "to galvanize" is a thing.

It's not about left and right, it's about being a journalist that has done extensive research and can provide sources, or a spammy clickbaiter.

UK is not part of the EU, and the Express is hardly a newspaper