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mattrichardson

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mattrichardson··on Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary
EU are working to prevent it

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/19/eu-outlaw...

mattrichardson··on Cirrus Vision – Single-engine personal jet aircraft
The Phenom 100 is single owner-pilot too.
mattrichardson··on Italy’s rarest pasta
Sardinian (Sardo) is a separate language, not a dialect of Italian. Road signs (town/city names) in Sardinia are often in both Sardo and Italian. You can think of it like the difference between Welsh/English.
mattrichardson··on Italy’s rarest pasta
My girlfriend is Sardinian and speaks Sardo. She's said to me in the past that it's fairly close to Latin, certainly closer than other languages (French/Spanish for example), but Sardo is generally a mix of Latin, Italian, with a few Spanish words.

Also worth noting there are different dialects of Sardo (such as Logudorese, in the north, if I remember the name correctly). And some dialects are closer to Latin than others.

In Italy/Sardinia dialects can be so far apart from one another that it's difficult to understand one another.

mattrichardson··on Ask HN: What is the problem you try to solve?
Right. Just added an edit of the problem and why it's a problem.
mattrichardson··on Ask HN: What is the problem you try to solve?
Never miss another movie. Queue a movie and we'll let you know when they're showing.

(UK and US movie services, Cable TV, and movie theaters).

EDIT (Problem): Online movie streaming catalogs aren't great individually due to fragmentation of distribution across a huge amount of services. People tend to miss them. We tie all the services together, so you can be alerted when the movies you want to see are available in movie theaters, online streaming and cable TV.

mattrichardson··on [Ask HN] Applying to Y Combinator from outside the US - Some Questions
This is not true. There are YC companies based outside the US. Songkick is the first that springs to mind, based in London.

IIRC, you can take your company back to any country (I'm sure they'll quiz you, why you think it's appropriate.) You will, however, need to move to SV for three months after a successful application and interview. After that, it's up to you..