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ucosty··on My disabled son – ‘the nobleman, the philanderer, the detective’
I didn't take your warning seriously. That was a mistake.
ucosty··on Startups Rejecting Venture Capital
We can't all be FAANG employees, and those salaries certainly are not realistic in the UK.
ucosty··on Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to private photos of up to 6.8M users
I had this problem recently, I wanted to get in contact with an old friend I hadn't seen in years. Because it had been so long I no longer had a current phone number or email address. At this stage we didn't even live in the same country as each other. Solving this problem, or problems like it, might go a long way to reducing the appeal of Facebook.
ucosty··on Health is a human right
I don't think that distinction is particularly useful. 'Negative' rights can be reframed as positive rights, and often need a positive enforcement component to even be useful.

Consider your right for property ownership. Strictly defined as a negative right, others have an obligation not to infringe your property rights. Great if everyone is cooperative, but if somebody violates your rights you need somebody to assert a positive duty.

I'd like to think we've advanced, as a society, enough to consider more than just enforcing survival rights. Would you suggest people should have no rights to education either? This is also a positive right.

ucosty··on Health is a human right
The UN recognise food and shelter as human rights, along with health. See Article 25 http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
ucosty··on I've used Apple computers my entire life. why I'm never buying one again
It has terrible formatting on a desktop, with the text spanning the full width of the browser window.
ucosty··on Flutter: the good, the bad and the ugly
Far less costly than dealing with the medical problems you'd get from not peeing.
ucosty··on Ditching the MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air
By a strange coincidence I'm also in the group of people using their Macbook Pro while sitting on the sofa, due to not having a tv. I wouldn't use a dedicated TV enough to justify having one.
ucosty··on Rot8000
It seems you can type them in natively, though

edit: scratch that, they get stripped out.

ucosty··on Up: tool for writing Linux pipes in a terminal-based UI interactively
What's strange is this re-post has more upvotes than the original post by the software developer.
ucosty··on Show HN: Test Your Culture – What's your (English-speaking) cultural knowledge?
Apparently not at all knowledgable, I got 7% on my first run and 6% on my second.
ucosty··on EU to move ahead with cultural quotas for streaming services
With a population of 1.3 billion people, India has a greater population than the combined total of the European Union (500m), Russia (144m), the United States (320m), Mexico (127m), Australia (24m), Canada (36m), NZ (3.6m). No wonder it can sustain it's own independent thriving film and television industries.
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