anonoholic

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by anonoholic 8y ago
I have used TransferWise, and yes, <1%; however https://revolut.com/ have recently added virtual bank accounts, and currently add no fee for market rate transfers.
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by anonoholic 8y ago
And that, sadly, as a last ditch effort, would be a very good thing for humanity, but probably not for the planet.
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by anonoholic 8y ago
A typical failure to understand the law of unintended consequences. The total volume of water consumed remains the same, but the water lost to evaporation & distribution leakage (collectively akin to the transmission losses for electric
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by anonoholic 8y ago
Tangentially - how about mandatory rainwater storage? A sink for rain to reduce flooding, and a source for grey-water (non-potable water, although residential purification is entirely possible) to alleviate pressure on reserves in times of
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by anonoholic 8y ago
> but it's not possible to safely slow or stop on English motorways. Bullshit. Never broken down? It's perfectly possibly in the worst possible circumstances to safely pull over to the hard-shoulder. Smart motorway? The left l
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by anonoholic 8y ago
I really don't understand why the only response to a driver being hands-off is a "reminder". It should immediately start decelerating and moving to the side of the road, coming to a complete stop if safe to do so, "limpi
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by anonoholic 8y ago
Not just imprecise, but outright incorrect: "He’s been banned from the M1 for eighteen months" (the M1 being a specific motorway). No, he's banned from driving.
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by anonoholic 9y ago
> Is that really a UI issue? More of a UX issue. The worst possible kind.
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by anonoholic 9y ago
> I'm a co-founder of https://snips.ai Yes, we know. You post to literally every voice-assistant related comment thread. If you aren't a bot, you must have a (voice powered?) bot sniffing out threads to post on. If
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by anonoholic 9y ago
The original headline says "cleaning products", which is what the study covers, but the article lede says "cleaning sprays", which is what the headline here has been edited to suggest. Much discussion on Reddit a couple
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by anonoholic 9y ago
> Stopped reading after that. Uh, and you were doing so well. That meme should crawl in to a corner and die. I stopped reading after that. (It was the last thing you wrote :) )
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by anonoholic 9y ago
This is useful background: "Mathematics for Computer Science" https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring17/mcs.pdf
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by anonoholic 9y ago
The UK's media is vicious , yet there are few areas where the UK (or other countries subject to UK media scrutiny) are on-par with, or worse than, the US. North Korea maybe?
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by anonoholic 9y ago
Thanks for taking the time to come back and respond. I'm going to try to get it under control for the new year. I'll check out that Dr Drew link.
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by anonoholic 9y ago
So sorry to hear your story. As an alcoholic though (currently 1.5 bottles of wine down, and wishing I had another to hand), I find it hard to reconcile your situation. Your wife was drunk, you were not, but both lost control? Not judging,