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jaziek | 5 years ago | on: U.S. Supreme Court endorses gay, transgender worker protections

I've seen some people floating the idea that this ruling also nullifies that rollback, as the affordable care act does not allow discrimination of provision of care based on sex, and if this ruling is centered around the whether or not the word sex encompasses any characteristic of which sex is a part, then the same logic would apply to the ACA also.

jaziek | 6 years ago | on: I documented every surveillance camera on my way to work in New York City

"Sorted" is a word used here to mean that a task has been completed. e.g. "Did you get that thing sorted yet?" "yeah, I sorted it out last week." It can apply to basically anything. You might also simply say "Sorted." as you finish doing whatever it is you're doing, to announce that you are finished. Similar to just saying "Done." or "Finished." in this respect, possibly with the added implication that there was a problem that has now been solved.

jaziek | 6 years ago | on: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

This looks incredibly useful. Real-time inventory sync is a big headache for some of our customers. (We provide a native mobile sales channel for retailers with only a traditional web presence. Think Tapcart (https://tapcart.co/), but not just for Shopify). I'd like to know what your plans are for which platforms to support next, and if you've got ideas for opening up an API at some point as well?

jaziek | 6 years ago | on: Run Your Own Website

define "from scratch".

As the saying goes, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

jaziek | 6 years ago | on: Route Leak Impacting Cloudflare

Most places that are just doing it for that reason won't be advertising anything other than their own /24 or whatever though. You have to fuck up pretty spectacularly (and have your upstream providers do the same) to be able to accomplish what has happened here.

jaziek | 7 years ago | on: Drinking Ernest Shackleton's Whisky (2011)

I have a bottle of this replica whisky. Got it as a gift last year. I'm not enough of an enthusiast to say much more than "yes, this does taste very good" but I do very much enjoy the story around it.

jaziek | 7 years ago | on: Yellow vests knock out 60% of all speed cameras in France

Is that not the way it works in the states?

That's how it is in England.

3 points for a speeding offence. 12 points and you lose your license for 6 months. Points take 3 years to disappear from your license. You also get fined up to 75% of your weekly income, based on how much over the limit you were going, and there are some hard limits (100 mph?) which result in an instant loss of license. It seems sensible.

I agree that financial penalty does disproportianately affect the poor, but at least scaling it with income means the rich cannot completely ignore it either, as they could with a static fine.

jaziek | 7 years ago | on: Iberia claims it is part of a department store to avoid Brexit shutdown

>fairness, justice, community, family etc.

How are these different issues to the ones that are voted on?

I fail to see any separation. Immigration is directly related to community, regulation to justice etc...

I think you're far too quick to make assumptions about what the baseline of shared values actually is. Yes, it may be easy for us to say that most people think violence, dishonesty or crime are bad things, but absolutely everyone on earth has a different definition for each of those, and differing ideas about to whom or what such definitions should apply.

At a certain point, there are hard lines in the sand, across which it is impossible to find common ground. For me, and many others, this issue is one of those.

jaziek | 7 years ago | on: Iberia claims it is part of a department store to avoid Brexit shutdown

>Whether you support Brexit or not says nothing about whether you support immigration rights, free trade and regulation and those political issues say nothing about what your values are as a person.

Yes it does. This "my political views say nothing about me as a person" statement really aggravates me. It doesn't make any sense. Of course your views are part of you as a person.

More specifically to the matter at hand, how does your vote on an issue directly related to immigration, trade, and regulation have nothing to do with those issues?

jaziek | 7 years ago | on: Monzo, a U.K. challenger bank, raises £85M Series E

you can easily get 3-5% on a current account if you shop around a bit, and are willing to put up with switching once a year (a bit much for me, but some folk will go to the effort for the sake of a couple hundred quid).

when I say insurance, I mean, for instance, when I had a halifax current account, they threw in AA coverage, and mobile phone insurance as part of having a current account with them. I'm not aware of any challenger bank that has extras like that.

jaziek | 7 years ago | on: Monzo, a U.K. challenger bank, raises £85M Series E

Yeah, it's definitely achieved "verb" status in my social groups. Transferring between other monzo users is so incredibly quick and easy. Even people who aren't in your contacts list, with the bluetooth transfer feature. It's great.
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