Ntrails

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by Ntrails 8y ago
I could type on my old Nokias etc without ever looking at the message. It was flawless. If one wanted to do it whilst driving (not that anyone ever would , of course) it could be done without ever looking away from the road. That's
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> "That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer" is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved. It is not fundamentally true nor universally accepted. Where does the sc
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Music Piracy absolutely still exists although WhatCD going down hurt it a bunch. However, the real trick of music streaming sites is to build in all of the scrobbly/suggestion/organisation features in. Piracy grows when it is mo
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> How many billion dollars is Apple keeping out of the US for the sole reason of avoiding paying tax on it? There is no point in paying tax on offshore money if they will immediately then spend it outside the US. There is no benefit t
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Most companies institute limits on accrued holiday because at some point it's a liability you don't want on your books and screws with resourcing in the general case. So, they did the right thing... I agree it's intolerable
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by Ntrails 8y ago
The point of the book isn't the fertility, it's the fascism. When you're doing something abhorrent that is, of course, supposed to save the world/species - that doesn't actually make it ok
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by Ntrails 8y ago
There is a huge gulf between being able to follow a thought path and being able to find it oneself. I couldn't do the same work in the same timescale as them, I wouldn't make the same decisions or spot the same pitfalls. I am si
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by Ntrails 8y ago
I still remember receiving a tax refund for my holiday work in first year of uni, the tax code had been wrong. It arrived some 4 years later when I was in full time employment. I mean, it was a cheer-bringing cheque - but at the same time
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> EVE is different in that any action has a direct consequence on somebody else in the game This is part of it, but more than that. Your actions can change the state of the entire game. One person here came up with an idea and executed
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by Ntrails 8y ago
I remember my father patiently explaining that the Giants Footsteps I could hear outside, as it lumbered towards me with malice, were in fact my eyelashes rubbing against the pillow as I blinked.
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> Everyone wants to buy the cheapest cellphone plan, then they complain when it doesn't work in buildings. Your location matters here, but at least in the more enclosed bars in san jose, AT&T and T-mobile are super unreliable;
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by Ntrails 8y ago
If they'd take the business at all
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by Ntrails 8y ago
I mean, depends where you are in the UK. I can train from London to Leeds for ~£25 if I book sufficiently in advance. On the day it's £120. (I hate this model of train fares with a passion, but it feels overstated to suggest that Ba
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Where do you think the money to pay it back over 30 years comes from if not the consumer ? Breaking up the company doesn't achieve a damned thing beyond employing more people doing the same job. Wiping out equity changes nothing bey
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by Ntrails 8y ago
But, and maybe I'm mis-remembering, how many people were actually active netizens at this point in history, able to find the ISO? Thinking back to when the dreamcast was a big console - I don't feel like it was common enough to r
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by Ntrails 8y ago
After purchase is signed off, go to a random store from 3 ascribed by independent a via dice roll observed by parties a b and c, travel there, where independent b will choose from 3 equivalent items at random and purchase them for the origi
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> it's a much, much better investment than cryptocurrencies I'm not going to argue that, on the basis that crypto is super volatile and has potential to outperfrom etc etc. Gold is a far safer store of value, a much better he
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by Ntrails 8y ago
He's nobody. The author is nobody. It's a story of a homecoming, of a friendship and a reunion. That is all. I thought it was lovely, but it's just a nice story.
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by Ntrails 8y ago
If they'd pulled it off within a few months of the faked presentations, and without sending false results to actual patients, it would have been a visionary CEO story rather than a criminally negligent one
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by Ntrails 8y ago
I mean, I just don't know how much people care about mobile browsers. I've never even considered switching away from safari on my phone? I don't really want any advanced features on a phone browser, I'm not running 20
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> Traders in Wall Street are too practical to build something maintainable. Now G Sheet brings the same power but to software developers this time. When did software devs lack the power to write trading tools? The issue is that the trad
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> I'm not sure what more they could do. Don't release a browser which cannot be made to adblock. I suspect that 90% of the vaguely techy world laughed at Edge the moment it's clear they'd have to accept autoplaying v
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by Ntrails 8y ago
When it was physical stores, what mattered was shelf placement and magazine reviews. Which, by the way, were worse by far than anything Steam will ever do in terms of being based on merit. I acknowledge that the risk to developers from cha
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> You won't just start "dreaming in a foreign language" because you've been around it all day I mean. I'll start dreaming in spreadsheets if I've been doing a lot of work in them for a couple of days, so tha
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> The danger are other cars on the road. Both my accidents were with HGVs[1], the reality is the danger is everywhere [1] Only one was their fault, the other entirely mine
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by Ntrails 8y ago
In my experience it is far more than a "modest" increase in cost (once you burn through free/starter deals).
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> Studies on memory show that human beings, as a whole, are terrible at remembering things. I always remember testifying in court about an assault that took place some months earlier. By the time I was actually there, I couldn't r
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by Ntrails 8y ago
You can argue it's not worth paying the price to catch more murderers, to protect more children from pedophiles, to stop more rapes. But that's a subjective value judgement and society doesn't have to agree with you. Be di
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by Ntrails 8y ago
But for all those who "stay in the game", only a proportion get to survive, and some of those who do not give up meaningful quality of life for 2-3 months more time. Situations are complex and outcomes are highly varied. One size
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by Ntrails 8y ago
And his point is that "Limb threatening" covers back injuries as well. You're being disingenuous implying that your situation was the sort of thing which the Doctor was advocating not using an ambulance for when he's sa

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