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Don't know if they're the same as yours but yes, we have credit unions. I think they were much more popular a generation or two ago however. I still know some older family members who use them.

Can anyone verify if this is true? I know it was in the past but AFAIK when the App Store took off they removed this restriction allowing you to select 'none' as payment method and still download free apps (otherwise at the time a lot of iPod Touch customers - i.e. kids/teenagers - would not be able to have use their products). The 'none' option still exists so I don't see why you couldn't download free apps with that selected.

Have you considered your account details were compromised and somebody else logged in and reactivated it in the process?

My idea was more of a site like Facebook but ONLY available over TOR. Something people want/need to use and TOR is the only access method.

>> The dark web showcases the worst parts of the internet

Are there any useful websites on the 'dark web'? I'm thinking of the kind of things we hundreds of millions use every day that are legal (social networks, email, youtube, etc.). If so why aren't more people using them? And if not that seems like the easiest way to change the image of the 'dark web' and bring more regular people on to it.

£45k seems way off to me. Starting out of university in London is around £30-35. With a couple years experience you can be on £45k quite easily. Also worth noting there are a huge number of contract positions in London paying £300-500 per day. There is a difference in salary between US/UK but I think it's that way for every industry here.

That wasn't what I was trying to imply at all. My point was - maybe we should listen to the experts instead of self-serving politicians.

I believe this was said while he was campaigning for Brexit. And it worked. There's a fascinating article in the FT today where people who voted leave are asked what they think of the current status. It is astonishing how uninformed the vast majority were and are. One person, for example, thought that we'd be out of Europe a week after the vote. Another - 6 months. Nobody understands why there should be a transition, negotiation, or the reasoning for the poorly named 'divorce bill'. Unfortunately, people listened to Michael Gove instead of the experts. They didn't even pay a cursory glance to expert opinion and now we're in a situation where even the people who 'won' the vote are unhappy. All of this could have been avoided by listening to the experts instead of an ex-journalist.

Your site seems like a good example of the point of 'brutalist' web design. People seem to be getting hung up on brutalist architecture having shortcomings but in the discussions I've seen around 'brutalist' web design the focus seems to be on getting rid of the pointless background images/videos, the mountains of useless JS, and having a simpler web page that is clean, readable, very fast to load, and gets to the point.

If you haven't seen it checkout Soundcloud GO. Essentially they pivoted to a Spotify competitor a couple of years ago but they still have the old, non-subscription version of Soundcloud available too.

>> I don't know why.

Wouldn't that be mass copyright infringement that Soundcloud would have a duty to prevent?

I’ve commented extensively on this before if you check my comment history but basically they need to go back to their roots. No commercial music. No copyrighted music. It should be a great place and community for indie and unsigned artists to post content and they can monetise it using paid artist accounts as they originally did (pay for more storage, better listener stats, etc). Commercial music means licensing and lawyers and paying money you can’t afford. Stay away from it. You can’t compete with Spotify et al. Maybe try to implement the tech Moxcloud used to allow DJ mixes but I wouldn’t go further than that commercially.

I use it in combination with programmatic UI for more complex things but find it's so much easier and faster when doing auto layout to just use storyboards.

AFAIK Swift 3 was supposed to be the last version to introduce breaking changes. Have they changed that policy? I know that the last Swift update I did was very manageable compared to in the past (where I'd easily lose a day or two).

>> For ios : look at the number of various apis you can use to do widget positionning and animations : calayer, uiview spring n struts, constraints, physic based, and yet none compose well with each other. IOS also doesn't have any good tech for offline storage ( core data should be burried once and for all)

I disagree with most of this. Laying out views was a mess for a while but auto layout is easy to get right once you understand the fundamentals (especially when used in storyboards). Springs and struts is old pre-autolayout tech which shouldn't be used. CALayer is the lower level object that UIView is based on. Not sure what the complaint is here (they're mostly unrelated to autolayout/springs and struts).

As for CoreData it's a pretty simple way to manage your data. When originally introduced to iOS it was a mess but I've used it extensively in the last few years, first through a higher level framework (MagicRecord I think?) and now directly and it providing you exercise some care around threading it performs very well, especially for something simple like offline data storage.

This thread seems to be a perfect demonstration of the problems when it comes to diversity in tech. People just don't seem to get it. I see the same thing in threads around big SV names sexually harassing women (and in those cases it blows my mind even more that people don't get that it's a problem).

It seems like a lot of people are basing their opinions on logic (fine) but in a perfect world where everyone has equal opportunity, we live in a meritocracy, and people are judged solely on performance. Unfortunately none of those things are true and we need to manipulate things manually to ensure people are given equal opportunity.

And fighting 'defensively' also has a large range. Most recent wars involving western nations would probably be categorised (at least by them) as defensive whereas I would disagree. There's a huge difference between fighting because your country has been invaded (e.g. troops on the ground, trying to overthrow your government, killing civilians) and fighting because a country has dangerous weapons they could theoretically use to attack you at some future date (both arguable defensive, but only the first would I consider fighting in).

:/ This was exactly what I was looking for but doesn't seem like it's location aware. Every movie so far it has suggested is not on UK Netflix.

It's a terrible example. I was in a hurry and for some reason it was the first thing that came to mind.

Sounds good to me. Following the authors login why make anything an offence? It doesn't stop people from doing it anyway.

It seems like this is intended to stop dodgy marketing companies re-identifying data not hackers. And there doesn't need to be some technical way to know if they've done it. Any company can do illegal stuff and get away with it. They don't because if they are caught (and all that takes is one employee to come forward - and making it an offence to knowingly handle that data makes that more likely) they are in a lot of trouble (in this case an unlimited fine).

Why can't researchers work with fake data sets? If my data has been anonymised I don't care who the person is, I don't want them re-identifying it. Maybe I'm not seeing the necessity for this, and, if it exists I'm sure when the final Act comes around there will be an exception for researchers. Seems like panic over nothing for now.

>> It is no great virtue to think that when you have wealth, but try living like that when you are poor and all of your meagre possessions were hard-earned.

>> Minimalism is an ostentatious luxury.

Those are separate things. Minimalism would be the opposite of buying things that are easily replaceable. Surely you would buy things that don't need replaced often/can be repaired and are higher quality/more expensive.

Using plastic dishes, throwing them out after every meal, and buying new ones isn't minimalism. Spending money on 4 good quality ceramic plates which will last the next 10 years is.

Didn't want to change the title but the interesting bit of the article isn't the bail, it's the first sentence of two:

"US prosecutors say a British computer expert has admitted to creating software that harvests bank details.

But Marcus Hutchins' own lawyer says he denies six charges of creating and distributing the Kronos malware."

Exactly. £10 per month (no contract) was probably the average spend then (for approx. 40mins calling and 300 SMS). Now I'm paying £60 per month for 2 years and it seems normal. An extra £10 per month to use your plan with up to 3 devices will be the norm in another couple of years.

OT: The Supreme Court in the UK has a YouTube channel [1] where videos of judgements are posted (usually very soon after they take place). I'd be interested to know if the SCOTUS has a similar service. I can't find it on YouTube but maybe they can be accessed elsewhere?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/UKSupremeCourt

Edit:

Thanks to the below commenters.

>> Does that argument fly anymore when corporations are so much more powerful than most nations?

They're not. The government has the power to stop them at any time and if they don't want to go that far can easily put pressure on them. Just look at the whole 'fake news' thing in the last year and the fact that companies have had to respond to that in quite a major way.

This. They cleaned it for me at the store but it sounds really similar to what's going on here. It is a very common problem though so it would be weird of them to miss it.

Surprised how easy this was without having a job offer.

>> The American dream was available to pretty much anyone willing to try it through the green card lottery.

Your odds of winning are something like 0.2%. If you're one of those selected I believe there's still only a 50% chance you will make it through as they select twice as many 'winners' as they have spots available. I applied for about 8 years I think without success. I then stopped after realising I had nothing to gain from moving to the US.

Also, the program is limited to persons from certain countries (for example if you like in England/Scotland/Wales you cannot apply).

Maybe they're not selling and they want to clear the stock. Also, if you have prime are you factoring in the shipping costs you've already pre-paid for?

The problem is that Snapchat Discover is totally bollocks. I'm a mid-20's guy and 90% of the content I see in it is either about the Kardashians or stuff like '10 things you totally hate about your bra'. There is absolutely zero targeting of that content and unfortunately it's not even neutral 'everyone will like this' content. It's 90% for teenage girls.