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by ErrantX 13y ago
The trouble with this is; would any of those companies still made it big if they had been bought out? Probably, maybe, possibly? Hard to be sure either way, indeed just as hard as when you're thinking about buying them. Speculation is never
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by ErrantX 13y ago
The advantage is.. you can see the code, see what it does, play with it... and see the results instantly.
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Plenty of people survive plane accidents; in fact if you are involved in a plane accident in the US you have a greater than 90% chance of surviving. Which highlights the point; it is fear that drives your viewpoint (that car accidents are p
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Yes, and that's the GPs point; that paralysing fear outweighs the logic of the situation. Indeed, I'd suggest your own comment about being able to mitigate a car accident is a prime example of our difficulty with assessing the probability o
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Metropolis is a fantastic film! I've never been into silent films, but last year my brother conducted a performance of Metropolis (live orchestra of the film score) and I was blown away by how good it was!
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by ErrantX 14y ago
It depresses me how negative out society can sometimes be, and lack of common courtesy is one of the biggest culprits. I was always brought up to be polite, even to people who didn't deserve it - and especially to people who you didn't know
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by ErrantX 14y ago
No, fair cop, I've only ever used Virgin Cross Country, never the WCML. So obviously I've only seen one half of things.
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by ErrantX 14y ago
In the UK, yes, they operate a couple of rail franchises. Personally I've always found them far and away the best company - but they have the misfortune of running "cross country" routes, which go through every bottleneck in our rail system
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by ErrantX 14y ago
From a security perspective it certainly should be.
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Of course; I don't subscribe to that belief. Just explaining why it is so prevalent here.
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by ErrantX 14y ago
> No country is an island Of course, Britain literally is an island... :) Slight tangent, but it's not unsurprising that Brits, especially older Brits, might hold this view btw (that everything should be produced at home if possible).
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Not exactly. I see what you're getting at - but the original point is criticizing those positions of power as morally bankrupt and noting that although it is equality to see women in those same positions, those claiming it would be benefici
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by ErrantX 14y ago
True! An excellent example of my point :D
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by ErrantX 14y ago
I don't entirely like her politics, but have always found Condoleezza Rice quite inspiring. This might be an odd way of putting it (and don't misconstrue what I'm trying to say), but it always seemed that no one ever noticed she was a woman
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Hmm, well I think you're going a bit far. She did achieve some OK things as a leader. Churchill was pretty sexist, homophobic, and all the rest: but he is revered as an excellent wartime leader. Everyone can have significant character flaws
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by ErrantX 14y ago
I've recently changed my view on this. HN hasn't been "just about tech and startups" for some time - the community is simply too diverse. That's not necessarily a bad thing; I still always learn unique insights or new facts from threads one
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by ErrantX 14y ago
I don't have a firm view on this; however, history is littered with examples of areas devastated by changing economies and new technology. Specifically with regards to the miners - that industry had been in substantial decline since the ear
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by ErrantX 14y ago
I know Thatcher was a polarising individual; for her politics and actions during the mining strikes etc. However, she rose to the top of an extremely male dominated field through conviction and sheer force of personality. And I think that
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by ErrantX 14y ago
> Tell a people who can only afford a $600/mo payment that the TCO is under that, and it might get them to come into the dealership, but the real monthly cost will come out before the car could be sold. Once you have them through the do
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by ErrantX 14y ago
they failed to acknowledge the upside Looking at it, it's Tesla that failed to emphasise these benefits properly. For a firm that is supposed to be innovative and disrupting the industry, this "deal" looks like standard car salesman fud
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by ErrantX 14y ago
> I would keep a flat design, I think the spheric design is a distraction and gives the impression the inventory is limited to the "circumference" I agree this is a major UI problem; it doesn't feel natural to browse.
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by ErrantX 14y ago
The body of work that could be copyrighted is vastly larger and more diverse than domain names (which have a fairly tight technical constraint). So managing such a system would be very complex. No to mention the administrative overhead for
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by ErrantX 14y ago
David means as a legal entity. It's basically the standard refrain for any Wikimedia chapter :) If the chapter, as an entity, tried to "interfere" in one of the Wikis it would go down very badly within the community. There is a certain amou
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by ErrantX 14y ago
> they would have to use the "oversight" feature, which requires the Foundation's blessing. Oversighting is a community process too; most Wikis elect or appoint a small group of editors to have access to the tool.
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Yes, a military radio station. They are far from uncommon, and certainly have super secret things happening in them. But their existence and location? Not really a first class secret, nor one exclusively revealed by Wikipedia. :)
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Thinking about it tripzilch could well be right about what happened. Speaking for myself; if MI5 (to pick an example) contacted me as a public and relatively high profile UK editor/sysop and asked me to come in and, say, advise them I proba
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Well, I'm not really advancing an opinion as to whether the article is a problem or not. But looked at it, it is a fairly mundane description of a radio station right in the heart of France. I struggle to see how any interpretation of the c
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by ErrantX 14y ago
One of these featured in the recent James Bond book, Devil May Care (decent book, not a patch on the originals). Ground effect [1] is a really interesting phenomena. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_(aircraft)
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Well, perhaps. Although I'd suggest that dragging him into their offices and threatening to not let him leave till he obliges is a step beyond that :)
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by ErrantX 14y ago
As I read the sentence, it means hundreds of requests... from public authorities. I think that's an overestimate. As a volunteer on the Wikimedia email ticket system (where most such requests, and indeed I believe this example as well, go t

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