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by Affric 3y ago
Glad you have said it. And before a developer for these commerce websites jumps up and says “ah but supreme are trying to prevent bots from buying up all of their merch and scalping it”: Supreme are restricting supply so they can maximise p
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by Affric 3y ago
> Space exploration > Astronomically low Why, yes, my dear fellow. That’s the name of the game.
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by Affric 3y ago
Me too. From Brexit to ruining IoT was when I decided I would no longer consider myself British. My citizenship is just be a piece of trivia now.
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by Affric 3y ago
In Australia, and the UK, you would go to the Ombudsman. At no charge. And your problem would be sorted.
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by Affric 3y ago
> We couldn’t even be having this discussion without the decades of VC spending that’s gone into technology. Unless this is a reference to the fact we are having the conversation on the Y Combinator website specifically, it's is a f
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by Affric 3y ago
Have you ever had a difficult goal? It's learning a craft, constant refinement, iteration, failure, and eventual success. And then luck, that which is out of your control, gets you over the line. I am more likely to believe that the gr
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by Affric 3y ago
The problem is that VC doesn't want to build a successful business, they want to build a profitable exit strategy. They want an IPO or acquisition that nets huge amounts of cash. Diligently creating a business which turns a healthy pro
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by Affric 3y ago
There are easier (and cheaper) ways for China to get control of a national grid.
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by Affric 3y ago
> They are the ones who should bear the burden of mopping up their mistake. This is true to a large extent but having worked in resolving "identity theft" I can say that it is complex. In a place like the UK the requirements fo
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by Affric 3y ago
Questions of jurisdiction, evidence and costs all suggest otherwise. This person has been dragged into an expensive American civil case . She was clearly contactable as the corps had found her yet she was contacted with what any person who
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by Affric 3y ago
Yep. This is fundamentally unjust and classic bully boy behaviour by American courts and terrible corporate citizens.
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by Affric 3y ago
> A factory pumping 1000000 units in China looks great per-capita. A country with a relatively small population and little heavy industry looks great in absolute figures. > we have no control over it and there's nothing citizens
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by Affric 3y ago
Yes, it is.
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by Affric 3y ago
In my experience with Indians with Portuguese origin surnames have generally matched modern orthography. A search on forebears.io seems to support my experience: Rodriguez 1 in 2.6 million Rodrigues 1 in 27 thousand
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by Affric 3y ago
My hunch is that the above poster is slightly imprecise in the spelling but in India it's the Portuguese all the way.
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by Affric 3y ago
Australia's governance of energy and mining policies includes many different organisations. It's overly simplistic to claim that because Australia relies on fossil fuels and has a powerful mining lobby that The Age's thirty-s
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by Affric 3y ago
I had misunderstood your comment original comment. Upon rereading my original comment I take your point. Thank you for persisting.
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by Affric 3y ago
By the tone of your comment it's my assumption that were you alive when "wer" replaced by the gendered use of "man" I am sure you would have been all over it. "Professional" and "well" are small
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by Affric 3y ago
Interestingly they are those people that don't read the article. Thus proving the worth of opaque curiosity piquing titles.
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It's a thought provoking question isn't it. We just take it for granted. We can think of AI as the quest for a computer program that is a complex adaptive system that can exchange information with us in an anthropomorphised manner
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by Affric 3y ago
The comment you're replying to is rather hyperbolic but your succinct comment is thought provoking in both sentences: 1. What is success in public health communication for the WHO? An organisation that operates globally, in many langua
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by Affric 3y ago
I quit sugar sweetened drinks in my early 20s. All sweet drinks in my late 20s. In my 30s I have cut my alcohol consumption down hugely but for my little rat brain the risk reward vs sweetness is a different balance. I think one of the most
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by Affric 3y ago
Gross has two pronunciations.
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by Affric 3y ago
I love Pages and I hate Pages. Pages is awful for things like bibliographies and referencing. It's LaTeX is janky, underpowered, and for some ungodly reason avoids computer modern like the plague. In 99% of things you will be just one
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by Affric 3y ago
So it gets me on MacOS with safari, lynx, and firefox with strict anti-tracking on. Tor works for blocking it. All in all they have created a creepy wee tool.
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by Affric 3y ago
I think you need to revisit the period more fully before judging your teachers quite so harshly. There was a massive campaign to terrify the public by the UK government be it in relation to Protect and Survive or the IRA.
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by Affric 3y ago
It speaks to both the genius that exists within the design of the spreadsheet digital document format, the effectiveness of excel's implementation (and microsoft's business), and the dismal state of IT empowerment and education th
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by Affric 3y ago
Which studies are you reading? Every PFAS study I read seems to be pointing to ever increasing accumulation and harm. It's not hard to imagine a phase shift to a PFAS effect pandemic if we don't seriously consider PFAS curtailment
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by Affric 3y ago
> "No-one should have that power." Is immediately after. And a person died. Clouflare are aware that they shouldn’t exist. They exist because they solve a problem that our telecoms networks and government/regulatory appara
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by Affric 3y ago
I despise Air France perhaps like few other companies. [1] With that said: > Why? Because the burden of proof falls on the airline and they were presumably lying to me. This is a non sequitur. Dispute resolution schemes like these (Ombu

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