casenmgreen

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Comment · 7 months ago
They're not a bank. None of the FinTechs are. Different culture. They don't understand accounts must always work.
Comment · 7 months ago
I don't understand the question.

Perhaps if I describe the problem a bit more - I had the app, the app worked, the app was updated, and by being updated, needed a later version of Android (5.0). I was running 4.4, and so could no longer run the app, and as such lost access to my account.

Comment · 7 months ago
Sweden has been blocking offshore farms on the east side of country, where they would be fighting Russia. West side farms are fine.

USA hardly has the same problem, and the current admin are frankly a bunch of low-brow vicious thugs, who in my view wouldn't know a genuine security problem from a large hole in the ground.

Comment · 7 months ago
He died about ten years ago.
Comment · 7 months ago
It took me about five years to get Revolut to return to me the funds in an account I could no longer access (Revolut overnight upped the Android requirement for their app, so I could no longer access), where they had no mechanism by which to regain access.

In the end I managed it by issuing a GDPR. Revolut's GDPR staff were able to finally shut the account, and send me the funds, so I got them back.

Comment · 8 months ago
Having this problem with Amazon right now, trying to get a GDPR deletion done.
Comment · 8 months ago
I tried to vote, by post, as I lived in the EU.

The ballot paper arrived the day before the vote.

It was impossible to return it in time, and indeed, when I checked, my vote had arrived too late and was not counted.

Comment · 8 months ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(essay)

"In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should prioritize their conscience over compliance with unjust laws, asserting that passive submission to government authority enables injustice."

Comment · 8 months ago
I found 1984 much more bleak and awful than We.
Comment · 8 months ago
"As only Orwell could, he marked the BBC as he left – almost prissily: ‘I feel that I have been treated with the greatest generosity and allowed very great latitude…on no occasion have I been compelled to say on air anything that I would not say as a private individual.’"

That page does not seem to support the claim that 1984 is about or relates to his time at BBC.

Comment · 8 months ago
No.

1. News outlets look to sell stories - and so catchy headlines. Real value is optional.

2. I expect you could find a range of contrary views over the same time. I've read good analysis saying economy will just keep going.

3. Try going to Russia and see what you find in the way of half-truths or free speech.

Comment · 8 months ago
I looked to see if I could find anything asserting 1984 was about propaganda at BBC - nothing.

I found no interviews, no recordings - it seems what survives are his notebooks.

Can you describe the basis for the claim?

Comment · 10 months ago
I have a 12th Gen 13. No problems like that.
Comment · 10 months ago
I can swap out my mobo for a RISC-V mobo, or ARM.

Get away from Intel and management engine.

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