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by ascorbic 3y ago
In the UK, it looks like only Scotland gets its own version of the leaflet, but the prices seem to be the same: https://www.aldi.co.uk/c/specialbuys/leaflet
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LLRT: A low-latency JavaScript runtime from AWS(github.com)
217 points by ascorbic 3y ago|82 comments
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by ascorbic 3y ago
It was their entire remaining royalty earnings. They also deleted their back catalogue so they couldn't earn any more. I remember having to buy Japanese imports when I wanted CD copies of the White Room and Chill Out as a teenager. It
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by ascorbic 3y ago
In the UK, payroll and savings income is taxed at source and around 80-85% of people don't need to complete a tax return. You only need to complete one if you have other income, if you're self-employed with over £1000 revenue, had
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by ascorbic 3y ago
Nobody will accept self-driving cars that are as dangerous as a teenage driver.
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by ascorbic 3y ago
If it gets good LLM abilities then I'm sure I'd use it more, but I still won't use it to buy things and I don't think many people will. I genuinely wonder how many people are happy to routinely buy things without the mos
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by ascorbic 3y ago
Even if Slack doesn't IRC it is absolutely based on it, down to slash commands and channel name syntax.
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by ascorbic 3y ago
For large government contracts there's no incentive to make it good, and huge numbers of countervailing pressures that make it bad. Once it's built, it's already been paid for.
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by ascorbic 3y ago
If this were true, what happened around 2010-2012 to make this the case? And if that were the case, wouldn't the most likely explanation be because suddenly all these kids got easier access to the kind of online communities that would
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by ascorbic 3y ago
No one place. I see them on all social networks. But several of them are friends who I talk with like any other friends - WhatsApp, Telegram etc.
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by ascorbic 3y ago
A quick search for ["post office" horizon] on The Times showed >700 articles. The Guardian and Independent both use Google, which show an improbable tens of thousands of results, but I'd imagine it's still similar to
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by ascorbic 3y ago
It's a complete non sequitur too, because the rest of the post seems to have no relation to it
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by ascorbic 3y ago
The UK doesn't have an opioid crisis like the US, and road deaths have been falling for decades. The drop in UK life expectancy is almost entirely due to the pandemic. That doesn't just mean deaths from COVID though: in the UK an
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by ascorbic 3y ago
That's addressed in the post. There is some of that, but there are similar increases in hospitalisation for self-harm, which wouldn't be affected by an increase in awareness of mental illness.
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by ascorbic 3y ago
But not suddenly, 15 years ago.
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by ascorbic 3y ago
That didn't change in 2010 though, did it? None of that seems particularly different from 25 years ago, and their figures show this was clearly a sudden change around 2010-2012. The smartphone does feel like the only convincing explana
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by ascorbic 3y ago
There have been literally hundreds of articles about this in the mainstream media for well over a decade. Yes, Computer Weekly and Private Eye deserve the biggest share of credit for persuing it, but it's simply not true to sat that th
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by ascorbic 3y ago
I read it as meaning that there's a much better chance that you're able to perform a trick, so the chance is the probability of filpping them for real, plus the chance of you being able to perform a trick to make it seem that you
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by ascorbic 3y ago
They've got a great record in raising money.
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by ascorbic 3y ago
There's a good Mac version of Clocker too https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clocker/id1056643111?mt=12
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by ascorbic 3y ago
It's funny to think that early on (20-25 years ago) it rivalled Wikipedia in popularity, but very quickly fell behind. Its real strength was the community though. There were lots of meetups around the world. I made so many friends ther
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by ascorbic 3y ago
I had a Tesla with FSD which I never used again after it pulled out in front of another car on the motorway. Only me grabbing control and pulling us back into lane prevented us being rear-ended. My inferior human reactions were enough for t
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by ascorbic 3y ago
If they were more widely available they'd certainly be used more. There's no shortage of rhubarb in supermarkets when it's in season, and gooseberries can be used in a lot of the same dishes (crumbles, fools, stewed etc). How
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Show HN: Live UK train departure boards on Wear OS(play.google.com)
3 points by ascorbic 3y ago|0 comments
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by ascorbic 3y ago
It would be nice if it opened on your current location, or at least a map with a button to do that. It's an annoying step to have to search to see a map. Regarding the content, it seems to be missing some useful POIs that are visible i
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by ascorbic 3y ago
The UK has made good progress with renewables, but measuring from a peak 1970 the overwhelming majority of that is going to be down to the move away from coal. In 1970, most power generation and home heating used coal. Even cooking used coa
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by ascorbic 3y ago
Crime is down over the past 20 years though, across almost all categories
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by ascorbic 3y ago
This is often called the "curb cut effect" and is part of the principles of universal design. The most obvious other example is closed captions, which have become so widely used that it's hard to remember that only a few year
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by ascorbic 3y ago
The equivalent concept is fair dealing https://www.gov.uk/guidance/exceptions-to-copyright
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by ascorbic 3y ago
Because his fans love it when he does

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