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Comment Re:money (Score 1) 101

The Lib Dems should maybe have gone for a confidence and supply arrangement rather than full coalition, but the point of coalition is that both parties have to compromise, and the junior party/-ies have to compromise more. Compare the 2010-2015 parliament to the 2015-2019 one and tell me that the Lib Dems didn't have a moderating effect.

Comment Re:Surprised! (Score 1) 60

I never would have imagined, ever, that anyone would pay for the things described in the summary.

Some of them might have been legacy purchases. I have the Oxford English/Spanish Dictionary app on my phone: it's a portable offline version of a tool which I also have in physical form (and the book is technically portable but might not fit in all of my backpacks). You might think that there must be good online English/Spanish dictionaries, but when I bought the app for my first Android I had 50MB of 3G data per month in my contract and I kept data turned off 99% of the time.

Comment Re:Surprised! (Score 1) 60

Data are fungible. They can always, ALWAYS be rearranged.

Yes but. If you want to give them the benefit of the doubt, the explanation is compatible with the old data being stored in an Oracle database and they decided to stop paying a company which has the reputation for using its income to disrupt its clients by auditing and suing them. If you don't migrate your data before you stop paying Larry, it wouldn't surprise me that you're locked out of it until you decide to fork up another year's subscription.

Comment Re:The Bear (Score 1) 154

The whole point of the Michelin Star is that it's supposed to be hard to get, and set you apart from the rest of the crowd.

One star is supposed to mean "Worth a visit if you're passing by"; two stars is "Worth a detour", and three is "Worth a dedicated trip". A city of a million people should have more than one restaurant worth a visit. And if you take France as a reference, since that's where it originated, there are almost 10 Michelin-starred restaurants per million inhabitants (654 vs 68 million).

Comment Re:The Bear (Score 1) 154

it's people who work at a small business looking at the social media YOU chose to make public

Or the social media that someone with a similar name chose to make public. Whether or not it's Orwellian for a company to process personal data about me which I didn't provide directly to that company, it's objectionable because receiving the data from the subject is the strongest guarantee that it's actually data about that subject, and searches based on nothing more than the name can be a strong guarantee of error.

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