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by adamjc 4y ago
FTA, it's a protein found in egg whites: > Because other proteins also worked, the material can potentially be produced in large quantities relatively cheaply and without impacting the food supply.
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by adamjc 4y ago
Carbon capture is not a cost-effecient use of resources. You are using fossil fuels to generate power to capture carbon.
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by adamjc 4y ago
> over-hyped media coverage of e-coli and salmonella outbreaks etc. Really. It sounds like this person has never experienced bad food poisoning, it's quite unpleasant.
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by adamjc 8y ago
Monzo was really great to use, and a step in the right direction for banks, so nice job with that! I ended up closing my account when you switched to being a 'proper' bank, but for the couple of months I used it, it was very good.
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by adamjc 8y ago
The original GoPro was reasonably priced camera with support for image stabilisation, in a small enough package to stick to your helmet / body / apparatus, without looking that dorky. I use mine every day, it's getting on a
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by adamjc 8y ago
>"Remember the good old days, when we didn't care about feelings? Yeah, maybe a bunch of women and other minorities got turned away from tech because they would be bombarded for nudes, doxxed, and had to endure a lot of racist
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by adamjc 8y ago
Yeah, you're right, I misread the code. It should be called 'setVisibility' then. A problem that wouldn't exist if it was named correctly in the first place ;)
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by adamjc 8y ago
Either run it through a minifier or have the whole thing unminified, these single lined functions look horrific, and are saving characters for the sake of it. Terrible naming, e.g. 'vis' -> reading the function it means toggle
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by adamjc 8y ago
I think this is a side-effect rather than intentional.
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by adamjc 8y ago
I agree mostly with what you've said, however: > - Extremely narrow, dangerous roads. Roads are much safer in the UK than the US. [1] UK Road Fatalities Per Year: 2.9 per 100,000 US Road Fatalities Per Year: 10.6 per 100,000 [1] ht
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by adamjc 8y ago
a) If you were, you would have mentioned it by now. Your name appears all over this thread, it's incredible how much GDPR has aggravated you. b) If you are running a website and don't wish us 'thieving Europeans', then
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by adamjc 8y ago
> Then give me your credit card and subscribe, or there's the door. I don't understand this type of thinking from some of the posters here on HN, as if GDPR is right now personally affecting you in a negative way. It's a v
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by adamjc 8y ago
Fun game, had it in Early Access. My biggest beef is it feels like it has too much RNG. I'm a big fan of roguelikes/lites, but you shouldn't be placed in unwinnable situations. It Curious Expedition it feels like you are (fai
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by adamjc 8y ago
Ethnicity is not the only measure of diversity. To boil diversity down to one metric like that is missing the point.
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by adamjc 9y ago
For a given definition of 'suburb'. My commute is 10 miles each way, not a problem.
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by adamjc 9y ago
I find it extremely hard to believe that this was a bug. Obviously without knowing FBs internals we'll never know, but why you'd write software that would have everything wired up together, your SMS notification service has the ab
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by adamjc 9y ago
Which is enforced through regulation from governing bodies (i.e. Police).
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by adamjc 9y ago
Well, yes. You can see in the source provided it's just running `eval` on the contents of the cell
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by adamjc 9y ago
>How can we make it better ? Let's start by removing the requirement for identity value to always be the promise. I challenge the view that making the identity value being able to be something other than a Promise is 'making it
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by adamjc 9y ago
What has this got to do with this article? Have you read it?
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by adamjc 9y ago
> Is it so different if you fire the guns yoursef? Yes, it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
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by adamjc 9y ago
I can second this, I've been a paying customer of Todoist for 2 years now, really really enjoy it. The 'natural language' style of setting dates is a nice touch.
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by adamjc 10y ago
More countries on this list will follow, it's how these things always start. Target 'dangerous' countries first, ones that the public won't speak out much about, then keep adding to it.
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by adamjc 10y ago
Given he linked to the Daily Mail, it probably goes doubly so.
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by adamjc 10y ago
I thought the current thinking was that building more roads means that there will be more roads to use, and therefore more cars on the road. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
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by adamjc 10y ago
This is true for almost every MP in the UK. The whip system heavily discourages voting against the party, regardless of what the constituents would prefer. The best you'll see are MPs 'abstaining' (i.e. not showing up).
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by adamjc 10y ago
A couple of weeks hardly seems 'OLD'.
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by adamjc 10y ago
For 24 hours a day? ;)
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by adamjc 10y ago
Hi, just fyi, the Royal Society's position on wind farms are positive. https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/our-positions-and-campaigns...
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by adamjc 10y ago
The problem with relying on anchors means it stays in the browser history, so if you press 'back', you get the modal dialog again! I don't think this is very useful, but it is a fun exercise in CSS.

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