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scottybowlon July 2019 Was Not the Warmest on Record

Do any of your points change the facts that he outlined?

scottybowlon $1T is leaving Britain because of Brexit

Read up on the Kalergi Plan

scottybowlon Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress?

You'd be very to join as at ClassicPress..

scottybowlon Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress?

In a word: ClassicPress.. The community is already migrating

scottybowlon How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites

Pretty simple to find out by logging the referring site that is requesting assets from your server. I used to do this all the time about a decade ago when it was common practice to steal entire site designs.

My favourite moment was when we changed a picture that someone was hot linking to as part of their own website and they emailed us with a rant saying "how dare you change the image"

scottybowlon Show HN: B2blaze – A Backblaze B2 library for Python

Any ideas on using Backblaze as a driver in a Laravel project? We're currently using Digitalocean Spaces but it's very unreliable.

scottybowlon Elph wants to be the Netscape for cryptocurrency

What does that even mean

scottybowlon When does satire become misinformation?

What are you blabbering on about?

scottybowlon Show HN: List all GitHub repos a user has pushed to since the beginning of time

Is there a hosted version we can try?

scottybowlon Sweden Tries to Halt Its March to Total Cashlessness

Cashless societies should never exist - it would be far too easy for rogue governments to turn someone's life off

scottybowlon When does satire become misinformation?

Can you explain how reading a newspaper is a privilege?

scottybowlon Can you tell a robot apart from a human? Real-Life Turing Test

seems a bit buggy, I never see the messages others are sending, real or robot

scottybowlon A diary written on castle floorboards

The whole article is based on the premise that poor people don't live to old age. What a load of nonsense.

scottybowlon A diary written on castle floorboards

What proof do you have that young people didn't vote for Brexit?

scottybowlon Opa – An open-source, general-purpose policy engine

Well, what is a policy engine?!

scottybowlon Ask HN: API as a Service?

and detectlanguage, smooch - there's quite a lot of API as a Service companies out there

scottybowlon Ask HN: API as a Service?

check out ritekit, they do this

scottybowlon Ask HN: How do you grow a new SaaS business?

As someone who's had one failed SaaS and one that is on track to be a success, the biggest takeaways have been:

1. Make sure there is significant a market for your service 2. Get funding 3. Expect things to take twice as long and cost twice as much 4. Talk to your customers constantly and don't be afraid to ask them to pay 5. Go back to point 1 and double, triple, quadruple check there is a significant market for your service

scottybowlon I've spent the last two years building a new email client

I'm extremely interested.. Me sharing it with other people is a poor way of measuring my enthusiasm.. I'm not going to share it until I've tried it, so that I can vouch for its quality.

scottybowlon Smugmug Acquires Flickr

As stupid as it sounds, I stopped using Flickr because I was forced to use a Yahoo account. I just wanted to login, not have another useless email account.

scottybowlon Ask HN: Clever ways to run a media-heavy website on a budget?

Sounds similar to fly.io

scottybowlon I Influenced Three Senators for $477.85

If he wanted to he could setup call tracking which simply routes the call to the destination. Trivial with systems such as Plivo

scottybowlon How Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook targeting model really worked

I'm excited for GDPR.. The hard part is going to be getting the truth out of these companies about the actual extent of the data they hold on us

scottybowlon U.S. To Seek Social Media Details from All Visa Applicants

I'm just asking questions

scottybowlon U.S. To Seek Social Media Details from All Visa Applicants

How is having a different opinion trolling?

scottybowlon U.S. To Seek Social Media Details from All Visa Applicants

which people?

scottybowlon U.S. To Seek Social Media Details from All Visa Applicants

I agree - people lie, cheat and play the system to get what they want. Define the sorts of people you want to give visas to.

So which is it - the American government is super competent and tracks everything and everyone, or they're super incompetent and can't tell a social media account has been created for the purposes of getting a visa?

scottybowlon U.S. To Seek Social Media Details from All Visa Applicants

British citizen actually, living and working in the UK. Care to answer the question?

scottybowlon U.S. To Seek Social Media Details from All Visa Applicants

Who said that international cooperation is feminine weakness other than the guy who wrote it? Having a thought doesn't make it a reality.