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Just as no-one would begrudge a dominated race from poking fun at the dominant race, I don't see why you are so on your high horse about the dominant age group getting the same. 'Punching up' is fair game where I come from.

I'm afraid I just don't get your outrage at an innocent comment poking fun at the most dominant section of society. But, as you're the second person to have taken offence, I'm going to delete it anyway.

I could substitute it for child, another group of people who are broadly less likely to know where the setting is, and it wouldn't be offensive that way either.

Most of the rest of the world has no idea what -60°F means either

How many of those are there? I've never encountered more than maybe one or two. Even illegal premier league streaming sites don't mind adblockers.

Me too, ad blockers and all my media on Plex, etc. For me it's only when I watch live sport that I see adverts now, which I quite like, it's like a little window into what most other British people are seeing when they watch TV all week.

> iPad can't receive images over Bluetooth

Christ. We were sharing images over Bluetooth between mobile phones when I was a teenager in about 2005.

Revenue? The fine. Reputation? The outage.

Companies who host on AWS don't care that the retail arm abuses its market position, they care about reliability.

Don't forget clients too - looking at you DBeaver

1 in 6 adults in the UK have poor literacy skills [0] so it's important for the Gov website to clearly give information to people who maybe don't have the best comprehension even in their native language, especially when it comes to government/legal matters.

[0] https://literacytrust.org.uk/parents-and-families/adult-lite...

I have a Giffgaff SIM for this reason. The expiry is 6 months and I have remembered to use it within that period so far. Not ideal but I would imagine you need a 2FA code more regularly than that.

I wonder if used with a smartphone (mine is in a dumb Nokia) whether you can automated a SMS send or outgoing call once every month or something?

Any company has to follow the law where they operate. Being an American-headquartered company doesn't really mean anything in this context.

That's really interesting and completely the opposite to here.

In London, most stolen bikes are expensive (or expensive-looking) and they are primarily resold within London.

We have had this level of professionalism in London for some time now. It's not necessarily true that you must ride an older, uglier bike, though this will work.

All that is needed is to be the least stealable bicycle in the rack. In my case this means two locks of different kinds. It's a big deterrent and they will move on to other, easier targets.

If you can avoid being the lowest hanging fruit, you will probably be alright.

It's wild. I believe the cup is somewhere between double espresso and Victorian teacup.

This is basically the case for every search I make now. Recipes, how to guides, DIY, programming, you name it. The SEO spammers have taken over the world.

I"m doing by bit for those lighting sockets, I've just had about eight or ten installed all around my house. Turning on lamps from the wall light switch as you enter a room is a massive quality of life upgrade.

I ride my bike like a Dutch person, which is to say I ride it everywhere. The infrastructure is getting better BUT I live in the borough of Waltham Forest which is miles ahead of anywhere else I have seen in the UK. Every main street has a separate bike lane and car driving is made to be deliberately painful. We affectionately call it Walthamsterdam in my house.

Anecdata: I've been riding a VanMoof ES2 around London for 2 years with no issues at all

Yes, you're right, here is far better than the FT. Badly phrased on my part I think. If you have a subscription and aren't using github/iamadamdev/bypasspaywalls then you can block or mute individual users.

Tech workers salaries are going up everywhere, though, and it's happening in other industries too. It can't be because of Brexit that a bartender in NYC is getting paid more, but they are.

The top-rated comment on this FT article [0] spells it out really quite clearly.

English regions used to receive funds of £1 billion a year from the EU regeneration fund for poor regions with the final year om 2018 the final figure being £1.12bn of the £8.4 billion total over the seven year period.

For 2018, this worked out to be Midlands (£190m), Yorkshire (£143m), Cornwall (£95m), the north west (£88m) and the north east (£80m).

Now this figure of £1.12bn (£8.4 billion over the seven year budget) has been cut to £220m for 2021-22 and £3.6bn in total for the same period.

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/eb56347b-42bb-4c56-906a-2ea24bd54...

p.s the comments section on the FT is probably the best on the internet, apart from maybe here

The quote in my post about funding can no longer happen. The EU only funds research at EU universities, and UK universities aren't that any more.

> Almost my entire R&D team who received PhDs from British universities had them funded by the European Union

Well, there you go.

How does 'bypass paywalls clean' differ from the 'original' one by github.com/iamadamdev?

The web is now completely unusable without uBlock Origin and I Don't Care About Cookies. I honestly don't know how people go about their day without these things, especially on mobile.

The window, and the ways political agents try to move it in one direction or another, explains a lot of modern discourse

It intersects with Chomsky's ideas about manufacturing consent quite nicely too

The MSFT team themselves have some of the best extensions. The remote pack - containers, SSH, docker - is fantastic.

I'm the same, except the YouTube.

I just love information, so I watch a lot of documentaries.

Outside of the top shelf of TV (Sopranos, Wire, Succession) it's all incredibly formulaic and boring.

Fun fact: At M&S, 12% of payments taken online for delivery to London addresses are paid by Amex. The rest of the country? <3%.

The Times of London does this, and so does The Telegraph.

Most of my subscriptions go via PayPal or Google so I can just cancel the payment and eventually my service will be cancelled for lack of payment.