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TSB and Bank Account Number Portability
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No comments on TSB and Bank Account Number PortabilityEven after the TSB banking debacle, it’s unlikely that many of their customers will switch to another bank, given that just 1-2% of UK consumers switch each year with most being put off due to the hassle. Yes, the new Current Account Switch Service has made the process easier, but it’s disappointing we never got the true “bank account…
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Spies, Cairo, and Cats on The New Yorker
I don’t know how I feel about rumours that Apple might buy part or all of Condé Nast – yes, their unlimited resources might boost journalism, but there is a long history of tech companies buying news companies and it usually doesn’t end well. Still, if Apple brought more readers to stories like these two from this…
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Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery forces you to pay – or wait – to save a kid from being strangled by Tom Phillips: You have a finite bar of energy you can hold at one time, and when this is depleted you’ll need to pay up or just wait it out and keep checking back before time…
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The Cultures Ep 246: Naomi’s Movie Premiere, Nintendo’s Approach to Creativity
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Listen to episode 246 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Naomi’s experiences on the movie premiere circuit Nintendo’s approach to creativity Note: No Andrea this ep
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The Cultures Ep 245: What Does It Mean To Be a “Friend”, Andrea Becomes a Redditor, Megagames
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Listen to episode 245 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: What does it actually mean to be someone’s “friend”? (Quinn Norton’s post, Jeremy Corbyn’s regrets) Andrea becomes a Redditor (/r/MakeUpAddiction) Adrian becomes a journalist in the Watch The Skies megagame
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Andrew Gelman: A quick rule of thumb is that when someone seems to be acting like a jerk, an economist will defend the behavior as being the essence of morality, but when someone seems to be doing something nice, an economist will raise the bar and argue that he’s not being nice at all.
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Too Far From Noise
As a ‘story game’ aficionado, I was hoping to like the well-reviewed and App Store-featured Far From Noise. It is very pretty and it touches on themes like depression and anxiety and despair that are not typically covered in pretty games. Sadly, I found the game overlong and repetitive. Believe me, it’s not that I don’t…
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Enjoyed the Rodin exhibition at The British Museum, aka “why we should get to keep the Elgin Marbles”. The concept of the intentional fragment was fascinating.
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The Fable of the Anti-Dragonist Thought Leadership
A riposte by Zarkonnen to Nick Bostrom’s The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant, a tedious story that spends 5000 words telling us that death from ageing is bad and we should try to prevent it: One day, an anti-dragonist on a speaking tour visited a town. When he arrived, most of the town’s inns were already…
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Hacker News is such a sausage fest that in a thread about dating apps, most of the women who appear are purely hypothetical.
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