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by adam-a 6y ago
What proportion of car owners do you think are also farmers or miners? I would have thought many more cars were in use by commuters who could take public transport if it were available.
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by adam-a 6y ago
While I agree it's probably not intentional the word is pretty common in British English.
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by adam-a 6y ago
I have an EOS M and it works ok. I had to install a different version of Magic Lantern to get it to not auto shut off, and generally a lot of poking around in the menus. You can get battery replacement AC adapters quite cheaply and my cheap
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by adam-a 6y ago
This is a very good point and a shame to see it being downvoted. I have been wishing there was an accessible database-ish software for doing my accounts, as the current mega-spreadsheet I use is pretty hairy and none of the specialised apps
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by adam-a 7y ago
I read this study and the recorded figure is around 50%. They're using some probability estimation based on the 50% discovered cases to account for people who had mild symptoms but not at the time they were tested (potentially after th
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by adam-a 7y ago
I read the Diamond Princess study and the 19% figure is not based on following up with departed passengers. They're using some probability estimation based on the 50% discovered cases, I assume they're trying to account for people
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by adam-a 7y ago
This is a very cool article which has left me wanting more. It seems to stop just short of the end though, there is no section to actually explain the component values in a rotor, or an interactive diagram deconstructing the component parts
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by adam-a 7y ago
The difference is still substantial, it's a 13% drop in the effective rate. This is compounded because the top 1% have doubled their share of income since the 50s [1]. 1. http://cepr.net/publications/graphic-econom
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by adam-a 7y ago
Perhaps I'm missing the subtle point here, but you can't call a music producer Apple, even if you predate Apple Inc by a decade, and have millions of dollars to hire lawyers. You can license the trademark from them though, if you
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by adam-a 7y ago
The comparison to Liverpool and Manchester is that Glasgow sees worse life expectancy despite similar climate, population, wealth etc.
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by adam-a 7y ago
I would also be interested to see any examples of this in games, I can't think of any myself.
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by adam-a 8y ago
Even if it can be rationalised as them not caring, or even just not prioritising support for Firefox, the point of TFA is you have to treat it as malice if you are on the other end. Maybe it's better characterised as neglect, but you h
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by adam-a 8y ago
This is the thing, I couldn't see any actual games mentioned in the article. From the banner image I assume they mean games like Crossy Road, but it would help to understand what makes a hypercasual game apart from the advertising mode
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by adam-a 8y ago
The study they link to claims to account for this by tracking the same students between different schools. They also track different schools which are the same distances from a highway but suffer different pollution because of wind patterns
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iPhone app helped trap pharmacist who killed his wife(telegraph.co.uk)
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by adam-a 8y ago
When living in London I had the council re-open a direct debit on my bank account and effectively withdraw a few hundred pounds towards a council tax bill. I was in a dispute with the council as I didn't believe I was liable any longer
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by adam-a 8y ago
In the UK for example the electricty usage has gone up from 192 TWh to 300 TWh, which is not great but not 4x either. The increase is mostly down to the developing nations around the world. So we'd have to go back the 1950s to see a 4x
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by adam-a 8y ago
I have a similar story to you perhaps: 2009: £16k - Junior dev at games company (Scotland) 2010: £23k - Junior dev at web company (London) 2011: £26k - Dev at startup (London) 2014: £32k - Senior dev at same startup 2015: £350/day - We
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by adam-a 8y ago
I totally agree with this comment; it would be great to have an honest discussion around the proposed laws. The law is supposed to prevent re-publishing of content with minor attribution ala Google News or this type of thing[0] from Boing B
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by adam-a 8y ago
The moral situation around sex-offences does seem to lead to some weird and unpleasant situations. This reminds me of the Julia Tuttle Causeway "colony", a group of sex offenders who were released but forced to live under a highwa
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by adam-a 8y ago
I think you mean ascribe - "to attribute" rather than prescribe - "to give or direct". I agree with your point though.
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by adam-a 8y ago
It remains to be seen whether the OBOR loans are predatory or not. Most of the projects are still underway at this point.
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by adam-a 8y ago
I don't like the sound of this change in China, I agree with you on that. I think this article does veer into xenophobia a bit though and it's good to offer a counter point to that.
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by adam-a 8y ago
It's an interesting article but it is also worth remembering that western society is not all that far away from this vision. Credit scores are widely used, there are apps for them, they can prevent you from getting housing or loans. A
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by adam-a 8y ago
The gyroscopic effect is not what causes a bike to balance, it's the arrangement of centres of mass around the pivot or steering. It is harder to maintain that balance at high speeds since small adjustments to the steering produce much
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by adam-a 8y ago
There's a good video about this which shows some details on the bike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZhrqKrljig Apparently it uses motorbike wheels, and it has a double reduction gear system. There is a cool section
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by adam-a 8y ago
I'm curious how the detector isn't triggered by normal card readers. Surely legitimate untampered readers are reading the magnetic strip too?
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by adam-a 8y ago
According to your link 32% of all defendants are held on bail, I would call that "a very large percentage". It would be interesting to see what proportion of the total incarcerated population those held on bail made up too. It&#x2
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by adam-a 8y ago
Perhaps it's a little less mystifying if you consider that Budweiser is a Czech beer. There have been strong culinary ties between the US and the Czech Republic for a long time.
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by adam-a 8y ago
Very interesting. I found a video of an express walkway at a Toronto airport which is apparently still in use. It looks quite complex with foot plates which extend as the belt moves faster. I wonder what it's like to use. https:/

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