Ntrails

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by Ntrails 6y ago
> It's a living room on wheels, including the TV. I remain bemused at the idea a tv is a necessity for family car journeys. I would not want one in anything I was driving.
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by Ntrails 6y ago
I think that the modern loans are a far less amicable deal than I had just a few years ago. Interest rates far higher despite an incredibly low rate environment. But. The repayment thresholds and the loan forgiveness period do massively r
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by Ntrails 6y ago
I rarely have a game of Dota2 where the spread of skill in my team is the reason I've lost. Indeed, I can't think of a time. I've lost to smurfs occasionally. I've lost because people have tilted and abandoned or chain
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by Ntrails 6y ago
Gp was refuting a claim that the American State was formed on an "anti state oppression" platform. He is not claiming the people were bad, but that their ideals were not what was being claimed of them
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by Ntrails 6y ago
> You see this especially among political extremists. They think themselves nonconformists, but actually they're niche conformists. Their opinions may be different from the average person's, but they are often more influenced b
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by Ntrails 6y ago
Definitely disagree
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by Ntrails 6y ago
I'm not sure precisely when we decided that intelligence gathering wasn't a part of all diplomatic relations? I expect my government to be spying on everyone to some degree or other, friend or foe. I have to assume the same i
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by Ntrails 6y ago
I think that in an aspirational justice system, where you truly believe that justice is equally meted out and verdicts are consistent. Maybe there are arguments to be heard. Even if you assume 1/1000 will be falsely convicted, if the
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ICO’s final report into Cambridge Analytica invites regulatory questions(ftalphaville.ft.com)
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by Ntrails 6y ago
Why would anyone invest in your currency? Why would anyone hold your currency? What would your interest rates be? What would that do to businesses making decisions on borrowing for CapEx etc etc. I've said that paying for CoronaViru
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by Ntrails 6y ago
Today I took a flawless webex meeting on a laptop tethered to my mobile phone, that same tether also allowed me to work without issue over rdp or whatever. My mobile internet is really fucking good, and often outperforms my sodding wired co
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by Ntrails 6y ago
Every single business on the planet has a circumstance in which a single ill considered remark is cause for immediate dismissal. I can construct examples where nobody would expect the relevant parties not to be fired. eg calling the CEO
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by Ntrails 6y ago
You realise that the citroen is in no way comparable price wise to what they currently drive right?
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by Ntrails 6y ago
When he talks about the bankruptcy/CDS/default shennanigans (eg Hedge fund offers bailout to avoid default in exchange for ophaning credit etc), he does not take a stance on right and wrong. Why? Both sides of the game are Inform
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by Ntrails 6y ago
As an intern I was once given a spreadsheet of manually entered daily data, stored by a human being over the previous couple of years. Obviously he'd entered the dates in whatever form he felt like at the time and Excel had parsed the
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by Ntrails 6y ago
Ah yes, the old "Eating/Kepping animals is just like slavery, you're all monsters" chestnut... Do you really think that anyone is going to see this comment and reconsider eating meat, or wearing leather? Because "t
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by Ntrails 6y ago
Resting eyes for long blinks is my main memory of drives I shoulda died on. Mostly around 4am on deserted country roads I knew well. Good news is I would only have killed myself. But honestly there is a reason young people have more car
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by Ntrails 6y ago
I wrote some config for my application, which knows how to read it. Why do I want some other application In some other programming language to read it too? I am far more worried about localisation issues than language issues. If you are s
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by Ntrails 6y ago
I wish there was a way to disable "WOULD YOU RATHER USE THE APP OR CONTINUE IN YOUR BROWSER" popup forever. It's a webpage. I'm going to open it like a webpage
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by Ntrails 6y ago
I'm in the UK, and the situation is not dissimilar - indeed I posit that it is true for most developed countries.
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by Ntrails 6y ago
Covid response is drastically increasing the gap between the haves and the have-nots, and I see no prospect of it being addressed. At some point we're going to ask when the price being paid by large swathes of society is worth it.
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by Ntrails 6y ago
> Personal opinion: .. (below Rumours? Gimme a break) Yeah. I'd put it quite a long way below rumours personally.
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by Ntrails 6y ago
There's an old fashioned concept that a thing known by only you is a secret . A thing you've told somebody else, is just on a countdown to being public information . The journalists obviously fucked Assange by being idiots, but
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by Ntrails 6y ago
I'm missing something, obviously. I know the "commercial" BBC made a killing from Top Gear show sales to other regions, but surely the rights to sell it were not given to them for free by the nonprofit arm? If the license fe
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by Ntrails 6y ago
> What on earth is 'immoral, unethical, or irresponsible' about that? I cannot comment on construction, but lets talk about big companies. Big offices contract out to cleaning companies in part in order to avoid having to take
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by Ntrails 6y ago
> I'm saying it was worth including this person's own statement of their political views as well. It is an interesting situation, because I dislike the idea that my defence of my own position is insubmissible, vs the interpreta
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by Ntrails 6y ago
[1] I don't have official statistics but anecdotally I can say that as a teenager, almost everyone I knew had modified their moped or scooter. Anecdotally neither me, nor anyone I knew, had their mopeds modded to exceed the limiter
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by Ntrails 6y ago
> If you look at the majority of private code bases in the world, they'll look like crap I sometimes think that the first set of people working on most software are just trying to get it to work at all, with limited expertise and lo
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by Ntrails 6y ago
Everything has tradeoffs. Yes living a military childhood has hardships, but it also gives a different, often broader, set of experiences to draw upon. It is easy to grass is greener, to think everything might've been better with a st
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by Ntrails 6y ago
We are responsible for our parliamentary representatives, and thereby our laws. It is absolutely our fault , as a society, as consumers.

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