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bof_··on Parasite gives wolves what it takes to be pack leaders
Tell me about it.
bof_··on DevOps is a failure
> Reading logs means grepping files over ssh.

Ah, happier times.

bof_··on Record €225m fine for WhatsApp Ireland over data protection breaches
I mean the lawyers who will argue the fine is unfair.
bof_··on Record €225m fine for WhatsApp Ireland over data protection breaches
Does anyone know if these fines ever get collected? And if they get collected what % of the headline figure?

Or are many of these headlines just a pay day for lawyers?

bof_··on Twitter 'troll' to pay six-figure sum
And the alpha_3 for The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is GBR.

The Western European Archipelago is a complex place.

bof_··on Twitter 'troll' to pay six-figure sum
Hacker News on Northern Ireland is worse than Hacker News on CSS. Which is saying a lot.
bof_··on Twitter 'troll' to pay six-figure sum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudy_bombing
bof_··on Twitter 'troll' to pay six-figure sum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mon_restaurant_bombing
bof_··on Is Reddit Censoring the Spectator?
If it was automatic the trigger seems to be just the mention of a name, which then triggers a pretty nuclear response.
bof_··on Is Reddit Censoring the Spectator?
Scanned, automated or manual, for what though?
bof_··on EU rebuffs UK calls to ship AstraZeneca Covid vaccines from Europe
"EU assumed good behavior. US & UK manoeuvred to benefit themselves."

Assuming that is true, which it isn't, on what basis did the EU assume good behaviour?

bof_··on EU rebuffs UK calls to ship AstraZeneca Covid vaccines from Europe
> People who are rabidly against the EU get off the hook, all the time.

Two wrongs do not a right make.

bof_··on EU rebuffs UK calls to ship AstraZeneca Covid vaccines from Europe
Quite right, if only all comments on hn came backed with evidence. ;)

https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1351129930264948748

1 tweet is not evidence of bias in itself, though, if you've been following along since Brexit it's pretty obvious. I invite you to spent 10 minutes looking through his twitter feed and judge for yourself.

bof_··on EU rebuffs UK calls to ship AstraZeneca Covid vaccines from Europe
Sorry, but Dave Keating is not a honest broker here, pretty rabidly pro EU.
bof_··on The puzzle of Europe
Like Ireland?
bof_··on Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
https://spectator.co.uk is decent
bof_··on England's Covid-19 infections down 30% during national lockdown – survey
Northern Ireland has a rate of 133 per 100k, for the last 7 days.

The figure you've quoted is close to the total for all of Northern Ireland (2,505) for the last 7 days.

bof_··on Social Cooling (2017)
*burning oil