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Clepsydra

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Clepsydra··on Uncovering the mechanics of The Games: Winter Challenge

I believe there was a shortcut to skip the questions on the PC. I think it was ctrl+alt+x.

Clepsydra··on Barbary Pirates and English Slaves (2017)

The slavers even went as far north as Iceland: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Abductions

Clepsydra··on BBC cryptocurrency documentary pulled from air at last minute

IPTV. It's the only reason i own bitcoins. :)

Clepsydra··on Show HN: I built a fake VS Code to browse live cricket score in office

It was quite common for pc games (like Sierra's adventure games) to have a boss key in the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key

Clepsydra··on Job vacancies surge past one million in new record

"lots of people's holiday savings being released locally"

True. But the UK have missed out of millions of foreign tourists.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/tourismindus...

Clepsydra··on Whale with harness could be Russian weapon, say Norwegian experts

The removal of the harness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYXOPZfuOow

Clepsydra··on Nokia Chief Elop Is Top Gambling Pick to Be Next Microsoft CEO

Nokia stocks has risen ~40% in the last year. You call that sinking?

Aug 29 2012: 2.75 Aug 29 2013: 3.97

Compare that to Apple.

Clepsydra··on Xbox One: Microsoft’s supergeeks reveal what’s inside the hardware

From Mary Jo Foley's blog: Xbox Live does not run on Windows Azure; it runs on its own servers in Microsoft's datacenters.