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bogle··on Whistleblower: Google Boss' Daughter Scrubbed from Guardian Exposé
Seriously, you need to learn a little about company formations, especially Articles and Memorandum.
bogle··on Whistleblower: Google Boss' Daughter Scrubbed from Guardian Exposé
And you'd almost certainly be wrong. The subscribers to The Guardian, worldwide, value its quality reporting where most other newspapers are beholden to the interests of their owners.
bogle··on Whistleblower: Google Boss' Daughter Scrubbed from Guardian Exposé
The last paragraph of the article would be worth re-reading. It clearly states that the way the issue with UK laws were mitigated was by publishing jointly with The New York Times. No one was thrown under a bus.
bogle··on Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Stop Climate Crisis
5% is a significant percentage.
bogle··on Telegram quietly snuck its blockchain past regulators
Good grief, Kaczynski is on there. Bjork, however, is fourth in the list and I'm fairly certain she wasn't involved!
bogle··on Telegram quietly snuck its blockchain past regulators
Don't be shy of identifying as an anarchist. You'd be in good company: https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anarchists
bogle··on Ask HN: Is a Recession Coming?
Semantic Police calling. Books are also media.
bogle··on Ask HN: Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?
Also, "Teams of engineers you see come from top outsourcing agencies of Eastern Europe and Latin America, known for employing top quality local talent and offering much lower rates than those in the US or UK."
bogle··on Equifax doesn't want consumers to get their $125
In which case the Equifax score would have been dropped anyway. So the lender isn't in any worse position.
bogle··on Clarifying ProtonMail and Huawei
I sympathise with the BBC as it must be hard finding people who are both articulate enough to appear and coherent when defending Brexit.
bogle··on WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal
Also available as a Docker container: https://hub.docker.com/r/wtfutil/wtf
bogle··on WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal
The releases include Linux binaries: https://github.com/wtfutil/wtf/releases
bogle··on UK ISP group names Mozilla 'Internet Villain' for supporting 'DNS-over-HTTPS'
That's worth knowing. Also, as a long-term subscriber to A&A for home/business I can recommend them as being very good as an ISP, too.
bogle··on How to Fix the Tech Hiring
That seems unlikely as in most (all?) cases those are discriminatory policies and quite illegal.
bogle··on US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave threat to a free media
PLC stands for Public Limited Company. A company is not a corporation.
bogle··on US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave threat to a free media
You perhaps don't understand that the Articles and Memorandum of a Limited Company can define a very different model to what you are thinking. They are a trust, the Scott Trust.
bogle··on US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave threat to a free media
"Support non-corporate media"? Are you suggesting The Guardian is a corporation? (They are a trust.) Ah, your comment history shows you are waging a vendetta.
bogle··on Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Here's a more enjoyable review from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/29/fully-automate...

By enjoyable I mean less po-faced.

bogle··on Only 13% of UK adults trust big tech firms with handling anonymized NHS data
Older family members of mine, who are conservative, have this knee-jerk response that it's valuable but there's no downside. As they lack critical thinking skills when they are challenged to suggest the value of this data to bad actors they will brush it off with an, "I can't think of any." Then if pushed they will really not be able to think of the possible consequences.

They all have the vote. They believe what they are told by people like them. They're uneducatable. I think they may be more that 13%!

bogle··on GnuCash: Open-source double-entry accounting software
Indeed, there's a few on Docker Hub, just to make it even easier to get started.

https://hub.docker.com/r/yegle/fava/dockerfile

bogle··on GnuCash: Open-source double-entry accounting software
Prudent is macos only. Unfortunately, like a few others, I'm currently migrating away from Macs.
bogle··on Inventors killed by their own inventions
Wow, Thomas Midgley, Jr. died from his own Heath Robinson contraption for lifting him out of bed but not before he put lead into petrol and created CFCs. Should have done those the other way around and saved us all a whole lot of grief.
bogle··on Ask HN: Are MacBook Pros still a good purchase for developers?
I've just switched from a MacBook Pro 2011 15" to a Thinkpad X1 Extreme 15". I've been putting off making a decision for quite a while, hoping Apple would sort out the horrifying keyboard issues.

The difference in price between macs and windows back in 2011 wasn't as great as it is now and that really made my toes curl when I spec'd out the next machine. I've 32GB of memory in the X1 and I can boost that later to 64GB which, as a software developer, lets me run a lot of VMs and Docker containers. The trackpad may be no match but the keyboard is much better. The X1 is really quite sleek so I don't feel I'm losing too much of the great Apple design aesthetic.

I'd still prefer a mac but right now I can't wait around for them to sort out their issues.

bogle··on Ask HN: Are MacBook Pros still a good purchase for developers?
I use both, usually Windows during the day at the client site and macos at home and for side projects. I use the same tools, like vscode with vim keybindings, and work almost entirely from the keyboard, using the win key or cmd-spbr for app launching. Switching isn't much of a problem when you are writing software.
bogle··on Ask HN: Are MacBook Pros still a good purchase for developers?
Installing cmder, which runs over ConEmu, gives you a really nice terminal with lots of configurability.
bogle··on Doctors and decision fatigue
Except for that time they weren't! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair
bogle··on A critical step to reduce climate change
Not sure if you were trying to make a point about China having a greater output than European contries but you missed the USA: 16.5 (metric tons per capita).
bogle··on Does the UK Think It Can Police the Internet?
Given the UK government's terrible record of really awful legislation, much of it illegal itself (e.g. the recent attempts to whitewash [pollution][0]) it seems the outcome will be more rubbish legislation, if anything at all.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/21/high-cou...

bogle··on Thinking on Your Feet
Rock climbing is [citation needed, as they say] one of the easiest activities in which to attain flow.

It's an all body activity. It requires a host of tiny techniques that are best learnt by doing. It takes practice. To perform well requires a calm mind, even when the consequences of failure are evident which naturally triggers a disturbed mind.

bogle··on 'Calling bullshit': the college class on how not to be duped by the news
Why, has Manafort denied it? Oh, wait, that Paul Manafort. Man of his word, he is.
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