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Now you've got two addresses to handle - the vehicle's keeper and the licence holder.

Further, the DVLA isn't sending correspondence relating to criminal matters, that's coming from the police who use the Police National Computer, into which the driver and vehicle files are fed along with data from the motor insurers bureau.


The Elgin marbles are named for the Scottish noble who purloined them. It as much a British thing as it is an English one.

Are short term lets the 'best' use, or the one that allows the owner of a scarce commodity to make as much money as possible to the detriment of the community in which the commodity is located?


This is HN: there is a large class of users who do not see a distinction between "best" and "most extractive."


If short term letting is more profitable that necessarily implies it's the best use. Part of the issue seems to be that owners might accept lower profits from short term rentals to avoid the hassles of long term renting though (like a shitty tenant that becomes a nightmare)


Those investors would be buying shares in the company in all but name.


>Gambling is degenerate, chaotic and immoral.

The Mayflower called, they've lost a puritan again.


Hahaha. They irony in the gamble the puritans took to come to the US to start.


...First, when there is somewhere to go to get away from religious persecution, that is a more or less a rational gamble.

Second, are you really condescendingly equating compulsive gambling with escaping societal scale persecution or strife resulting from incompatibilities of religious belief with the State religion?

That's a bit of a stretch.


In the UK, those are Premium Bonds backed by HM Government. The day that they can't be redeemed is the day you have significantly bigger problems.


Yotta’s funds were backed by the US government. The trouble is that the link between Yotta’s funds and Yotta’s customers’ funds was somewhat more tenuous than they implied.


You know that the LLM isn't actually your friend, don't you?


"the world" is more than the US.


> Technically and product-wise, there's not a whole lot wrong with Twitter right now.

The app is a bin-fire.


People seem to like it?


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