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by ageitgey 4y ago
Large trucks driving through city centers and killing pedestrians who moving around the neighborhoods they live and work in and the pedestrians are "rogue road users"?
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by ageitgey 4y ago
In what is possibly the most British thing ever, there is a volunteer group called the The Tree Register that catalogs all the best trees in the country and awards the exclusive status of "Champion Tree" to those specific trees. C
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by ageitgey 4y ago
As an avid fan of both old maps and QGIS, I just want to say that this is rad. Great job!
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by ageitgey 4y ago
Don't take this as an indictment of all electric buses. London has over 500 electric buses (out of 9,000). A lot of the buses in my neighborhood are the new electric double-decker ones and it's extremely nice. They are quieter, ru
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by ageitgey 4y ago
It changed over time. Almost everyone vaccinated who was 40 and under and boosters have been done with Pfizer/Moderna. The adenovirus vaccines were used mainly early on for higher age groups and at-risk groups getting initial doses. In
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by ageitgey 5y ago
Not only is this a potential way to mess up your own account, but these systems are often exploited by malicious attackers to cause people headaches or impact their finances. For example, an attacker will call up PayPal and give their name
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by ageitgey 5y ago
Here's the same query on Google in 2009 vs now: https://twitter.com/ageitgey/status/1483410675548495874
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Ukrainian Intelligence releases data on 620 Russian spies operating in Europe(pravda.com.ua)
7 points by ageitgey 5y ago|4 comments
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by ageitgey 5y ago
Github issues isn't really a team management tool IMO. It's more of a support desk for users of that specific repo. You can try to bend it into a team management tool, but it is limited and probably won't work well unless the
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by ageitgey 5y ago
In the US, you automatically have copyright over code you create yourself (assuming there's 'authorship' to make it something deserving of copyright). Sending someone a PR doesn't mean you lose your copyright. You end up
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by ageitgey 5y ago
I guess it is important to study everything that could go wrong, because kids will eat anything, etc. But the main point here is... obviously don't eat the chemicals that come with a covid test. And don't use the chemical reagent
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by ageitgey 5y ago
Same here
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by ageitgey 5y ago
Nasal flu vaccines are widely used. For example in the UK, all children in school are offered a nasal flu vaccine every year [1]. [1] https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/child-flu-vaccine...
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by ageitgey 5y ago
I tried to sign up on Android and it didn't work. It texted me a confirmation code, but putting it in the text box did nothing except make it flash and disappear. If I click "Confirm Code", a model appears with just the text
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by ageitgey 5y ago
Not disagreeing with you or your criticism of the headline. But it's also worth pointing out that 10b5-1 plans are still rife with abuse. Executives know when they are scheduled to sell their stock, so they have the ability to silently
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by ageitgey 5y ago
They aren't selling a bike. They are selling an exercise lifestyle/club. It has nothing to do with the cost of parts of the bike. I know that sounds silly, but what you are really paying for are the daily feed of multiple live cla
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by ageitgey 5y ago
I know this is posted to look shocking, but this isn't something that consumers need to do. This is probably some random old article buried in the support wiki that they don't actually use. I've had a Switch since launch day
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by ageitgey 5y ago
This is a pretty non-controversial paper and doesn't contain anything shocking or previously unknown, but the title has the potential to cause controversy. Here's my quick summary: - Previous vaccines for HPV, Hepatitis B and Flu
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by ageitgey 5y ago
For what it's worth, the vaccination rate in South Africa is low. It's only around 25% for the original course with little to no boosters done.
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by ageitgey 5y ago
I think you misinterpreted my original post. My post was a list of some of the capital intensive challenges a competitor would have to solve now to operate a similar business to YouTube as it exists now (many of which aren't even techn
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by ageitgey 5y ago
YouTube is a huge technical achievement that would require billions of dollars to replicate: 1. It consumes nearly unlimited bandwidth. 2. It consumes nearly unlimited CPU for transcoding and serving media at different bitrates. 3. It consu
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by ageitgey 5y ago
Different people like different places? London is a beautiful city with high QoL if you live in a nice part. Much better transit and walk-ability than anywhere in the US except Manhattan. Same language and similar culture for kids in schoo
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by ageitgey 5y ago
1. One day at a time. But in all seriousness, a good co-founder and team. Also, we started the company during COVID which I think made the VCs less worried a about a full remote situation. 2. US citizen but UK tax resident. So two income ta
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by ageitgey 5y ago
I run a US-based start-up with a distributed team, but I personally live in London. I'd say a lot of this is true. I don't personally know how Brexit has or hasn't affected talent availability yet, but everything else lines u
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by ageitgey 5y ago
> I'm overall sympathetic with the concerns from the article about risks of monopolization of the audio production space, but Behringer and others making cheap gear is not that. I agree, and it actually goes further than that in our
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by ageitgey 5y ago
The US has states that are larger than countries in Europe. This may or may not contribute to the problem, but it is tiny in the big picture of US healthcare issues. The issue in the US is that the system is hugely inefficient compared to t
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by ageitgey 5y ago
The US has a massive socialized healthcare system much larger than the VA - Medicare. Roughly 18% of Americans are covered by Medicare, a socialized system.
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by ageitgey 5y ago
If you get interested in etymology, you'll see that each language encodes the history of who spoke it during the time it was forming and changing (which continues into the present). There's lots to be learned about history by stud
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by ageitgey 5y ago
The Bypass Paywalls Clean chrome extension works well: https://github.com/qnoum/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean-magnol...
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by ageitgey 5y ago
Looks like twitter isn't happy about all the users viewing your page: {"message":"Rate limit exceeded","code":88,"allErrors":[{"message":"Rate limit exceeded","code"

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