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by altacc 6y ago
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective is a good deductive co-op and works well with 2 players (downside is that you can only play it 10 times before having to buy more scenarios). I think Pandemic works well as 2 player, though not all agree
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by altacc 6y ago
As well as solo play, I've also started playing more digital versions of board games where an AI opponent is available. Whist not at all social it is a good way to quickly work on your strategy for when you do find a mutually convenien
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by altacc 6y ago
For many people simply consuming media for long periods of time is boring and unmotivating. Playing a strategy boardgame is much more interesting and involved.
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by altacc 6y ago
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics"
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by altacc 6y ago
For anyone who's interested in these I have a book that I like to flick through occasionally: They Have a Word for It by Howard Rheingold My favourite is Yugen - a Japanese word that encapsulates awareness and appreciation for nature a
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by altacc 6y ago
Thanks for the insight. I can appreciate the paranoia about not smelling important cues. I once worked in a bio-lab with somebody with anosmia. One day they accidentally split a very noxious chemical without realising until somebody else wa
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by altacc 6y ago
This idea has been around for a while, it was trialled during the early days of digital media services when they were trying to preserve the level of DVD and Blu-Ray sales. But it didn't take off widely. It seems to have hung around as
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by altacc 6y ago
Yes, pirating media is often easier than buying media that compensates the author and distributor. Didn't we all know that? DRM and other protection instruments are widespread in digital media and I don't think a good answer to th
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by altacc 6y ago
It's interesting that it featured regenerative electric braking. Whilst regenerative braking is an old idea, I couldn't find an earlier example of this applied to electric regeneration. It seems the first mention of this in a car
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by altacc 6y ago
Well, Molde & Ålesund are west, not north ;) Tromsø is proper north and very different from Molde/Ålesund. There's a lot more culture there, as well as being the right place for sitting in a fjord and watching northern lights.
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by altacc 6y ago
Interesting to hear, although a lot of companies still rely on emailing documents to each other. A few years ago I interviewed with a consultancy that provided a lot of development work for easyJet. They were operating under an old model of
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by altacc 6y ago
In some architectures it can be, which is a risk. A while ago I was in a day long kick off for a project to replatform a division of a large company, with Salesforce at the core. As it happens, one of the other division's Saleforce ins
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by altacc 7y ago
Having done budgeting for hiring employees in the UK, for small and medium sized companies, the factors that went into calculating staff costs never included any severance or redundancy factors. Paying redundancy is relatively rare, so does
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by altacc 7y ago
I agree with you and would add that it's not just millionaires. People on median incomes are buying masks at these inflated prices from profiteers, so the market is massively inflated.
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by altacc 7y ago
There is an alternative to assumming people behave rationally, which is to model behaviors based on large scale evidence, not clean ideals. This is pretty much why Sociology and Anthropology exist and are fairly complicated subjects. Econom
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by altacc 7y ago
Things that help me include: - Listening to white noise such as rain sounds (e.g. rainymood.com), which seems to take up some of my brain's attention so that I can focus. It also helps with my tinnitus. - Using a dedicated reading devi
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by altacc 7y ago
Hydroxychloroquine / chloroquine: Neither are golden elixirs. Hydroxychloroquine is less toxic than chloroquine, but it's pharmacology is very similar and have similar side effects and contraindications. Whether or not to take a s
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by altacc 7y ago
Anti-malarial dose is generally higher than other uses. Doseage information: https://reference.medscape.com/drug/plaquenil-hydroxychloroq... There are several side effects with up to 10% occurrence rates: https:/
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by altacc 7y ago
Chloroquine is an anti-malaria and it's side effects are so severe and common that many people would prefer to run the risk of malaria than take it. Adding these side effects to a Covid-19 patient seems like an extreme measure, given t
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by altacc 7y ago
You only need a few people not to follow the protocols and the result is disproportionately large spread. One problem with masks, apart from there not being enough of them in the world right now, is that some people think they're some
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by altacc 7y ago
Dyson and others efforts are additional to the two ventilator manufacturers in the UK, who have already received orders for about as much as they can produce. From the article: "...the government thinks it can procure a further 8,000 f
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by altacc 7y ago
I know what you're saying, but in this instance there's a fairly good technology & manufacturing fit between ventilators and Dyson's other products. More so than some car manufacturers. Dyson's core business and know
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by altacc 7y ago
I also experienced those "How to Do Word" lessons, although earlier my school had taught us BASIC programming on a BBC Acorn. So I found it very frustrating when they built a shiny new computer lab only to teach us how to click on
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by altacc 7y ago
The Chinese government (not doctors) have a general principle of wanting to control information and this was certainly the case in the beginning, when this virus first appeared. If you're bringing Trump into this, he did very similar,
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by altacc 7y ago
Although, based on his history, he might try to design a “better” ventilator and when medical experts say they’re not fit for purpose he’ll go on a Twitter tantrum and call them pedophiles.
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by altacc 7y ago
Steady on, this is London we're talking about. A stern look and a slight shaking of the head is about as extreme as us Brits will go.
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by altacc 7y ago
The idea that the correct solution to this is that supermarkets should be charging the same as the profiteering hoarders (say $20 for a small hand sanitiser and $40 for a pack of toilet rolls) is totally insane to me. This isn't some m
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by altacc 7y ago
There does seem to be a disparity between the number of posts found via search vs those that reach the front page. I've been quite relieved that HN has, so far, been a relatively calm oasis in an ocean of Covid-19 dominated media. I&#x
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by altacc 7y ago
Cynically I consider the people most interested in surveillance of money to be the tax office. (Note that I'm a believer of paying taxes and not avoiding them, and using taxation to fund public goods, voluntarily living in Norway and a
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by altacc 7y ago
It is incredibly convenient but you're right that it presents barriers that are hard to overcome as very little thought is given to handling people without bank accounts, cards, bank id. I'm across the border in Norway and when I

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