Hacker News: bof_

New comment by bof_ in "Parasite gives wolves what it takes to be pack leaders"

bof_ — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 12:15:53 +0000

Tell me about it.

New comment by bof_ in "DevOps is a failure"

bof_ — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:07:18 +0000

> Reading logs means grepping files over ssh.

Ah, happier times.

New comment by bof_ in "Record €225m fine for WhatsApp Ireland over data protection breaches"

bof_ — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 15:31:12 +0000

I mean the lawyers who will argue the fine is unfair.

New comment by bof_ in "Record €225m fine for WhatsApp Ireland over data protection breaches"

bof_ — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 11:36:54 +0000

Does anyone know if these fines ever get collected? And if they get collected what % of the headline figure?

Or are many of these headlines just a pay day for lawyers?

New comment by bof_ in "Twitter 'troll' to pay six-figure sum"

bof_ — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 19:38:45 +0000

And the alpha_3 for The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is GBR.

The Western European Archipelago is a complex place.

New comment by bof_ in "Twitter 'troll' to pay six-figure sum"

bof_ — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 19:36:29 +0000

Hacker News on Northern Ireland is worse than Hacker News on CSS. Which is saying a lot.

New comment by bof_ in "Twitter 'troll' to pay six-figure sum"

bof_ — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 19:33:20 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudy_bombing

New comment by bof_ in "Twitter 'troll' to pay six-figure sum"

bof_ — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 19:32:39 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mon_restaurant_bombing

New comment by bof_ in "Is Reddit Censoring the Spectator?"

bof_ — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 09:55:47 +0000

If it was automatic the trigger seems to be just the mention of a name, which then triggers a pretty nuclear response.

New comment by bof_ in "Is Reddit Censoring the Spectator?"

bof_ — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 09:45:50 +0000

Scanned, automated or manual, for what though?

New comment by bof_ in "EU rebuffs UK calls to ship AstraZeneca Covid vaccines from Europe"

bof_ — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 13:48:41 +0000

"EU assumed good behavior. US & UK manoeuvred to benefit themselves."

Assuming that is true, which it isn't, on what basis did the EU assume good behaviour?

New comment by bof_ in "EU rebuffs UK calls to ship AstraZeneca Covid vaccines from Europe"

bof_ — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 13:39:26 +0000

> People who are rabidly against the EU get off the hook, all the time.

Two wrongs do not a right make.

New comment by bof_ in "EU rebuffs UK calls to ship AstraZeneca Covid vaccines from Europe"

bof_ — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 13:38:00 +0000

Quite right, if only all comments on hn came backed with evidence. ;)

https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1351129930264948748

1 tweet is not evidence of bias in itself, though, if you've been following along since Brexit it's pretty obvious. I invite you to spent 10 minutes looking through his twitter feed and judge for yourself.

New comment by bof_ in "EU rebuffs UK calls to ship AstraZeneca Covid vaccines from Europe"

bof_ — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 13:24:35 +0000

Sorry, but Dave Keating is not a honest broker here, pretty rabidly pro EU.

New comment by bof_ in "The puzzle of Europe"

bof_ — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 10:02:47 +0000

Like Ireland?

New comment by bof_ in "Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it"

bof_ — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 09:20:26 +0000

https://spectator.co.uk is decent

New comment by bof_ in "England's Covid-19 infections down 30% during national lockdown – survey"

bof_ — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 15:14:41 +0000

Northern Ireland has a rate of 133 per 100k, for the last 7 days.

The figure you've quoted is close to the total for all of Northern Ireland (2,505) for the last 7 days.

New comment by bof_ in "Social Cooling (2017)"

bof_ — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:21:50 +0000

*burning oil