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by ascorbic 6y ago
You're right that comparing population centres is more helpful, but London has a total population around half that of the whole of Australia with density over 4500/km^2. Even if you expand to the whole of south east England, there
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by ascorbic 6y ago
It's not just the fact there's 66 million people in a country smaller than Michigan either. The UK is a major transport hub. Heathrow is one of the busiest international airports in the world, both for visitors to the UK and as an
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by ascorbic 6y ago
It's in the title of the original post, to distinguish from similar posts in 2011 and 2015
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by ascorbic 6y ago
I don't think anyone is suggesting writing game engines or the core of graphics processors or video renderers in React Native. It's for the frontend. The pattern of using React Native for the frontend and native moduels for the ba
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by ascorbic 6y ago
MS Teams is an Electron app too. This very post is about React Native for Windows and Mac, which are being developed by MS because they're used for the front-ends of much of the rest of Office 365. Microsoft clearly thinks that it&#x27
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by ascorbic 6y ago
It works fine for hundreds of millions of other users
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by ascorbic 6y ago
And those are the factors that the epidemiologists and policymakers need to balance when setting the policies. But that's a decision that they should be making, with access to all of the available data. It's not a decision for one
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by ascorbic 6y ago
Exactly. Which is why, when there is an epidemic of a dangerous disease, measures need to be implemented that assume that everybody is infectious unless proven otherwise.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
Then you challenge the speed limit in court. You dont order your 10,000 employees to disobey it.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
This isn't a contrived example though. Thousands of people are dying every day. That's why we care about this one and not your contrived example. When yours is killing a 9/11 every day then we care about it.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
Have you been tested? Every day? You can't confidently say you're not infectious when a large proportion of cases are asymptomatic, or very mild. By all means be gung-ho about your own life, but your rights stop at the point they
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by ascorbic 6y ago
The problem isn't the fact that the exchange rate remained 1:1, it's that they stuck by their claim that every USDT is backed 1:1 by USD. What replaced the seized reserves? BoA doesn't claim to back every deposit 1:1 with phy
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by ascorbic 6y ago
Banks are also backed by deposit guarantee schemes, so regular customers assume none of the remaining risk.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
A good proportion of the famous bands performed sessions before they were famous. Some of them became famous in large part because of John Peel.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
Messenger can. Telegram can. Slack can. Signal can. Whatsapp can.
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I recreated my local pub in VR(wired.co.uk)
3 points by ascorbic 6y ago|0 comments
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by ascorbic 6y ago
But why WeChat? Any other chat app will do the same, without being monitored by the Chnese government.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
That doesn't need to be a banner. You can ask for permission at the point someone tries to save preferences.
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Tesla takes first steps to become an electric utility, starting with the UK(teslarati.com)
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by ascorbic 6y ago
It isn't going to be much of a benefit to the mosquitoes, because malaria doesn't kill them
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by ascorbic 6y ago
Usually domestic sales in small bags are a tiny fraction of the amount sold in large bags to commercial users. When consumption switched to home use then those small bags sold out quickly. The small bags are still there in the supply chain,
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by ascorbic 6y ago
They don't compete on price for renewals when you own one of the 10 million existing domains.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
Chrome shows "blob:" URLs as network transactions, but they're not.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
OMG I actually bid on ahem a remarkably similar project at my old job! It was the worst tender I've ever done. We were shortlisted, and they asked for massive amount of detail in the proposed architecture as part of the bid. Early on,
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by ascorbic 6y ago
As with all letter spacing, the size is determined by the font metrics. There doesn't need to be a special character for it.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
You wouldn't be running automated testing etc on data updates though, surely? That's what this feature is for, not code updates.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
No, it's an error. "Woulda" is the correct way of spelling a regionalism. "Would of" is an incorrect spelling of "would've", which is a contraction of "would have".
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by ascorbic 7y ago
Stripe accepts a huge number of payment methods, and for the ones it doesn't (e.g. M-Pesa in Africa) there's a good chance you can pay via Google Pay, which it does support and which supports even more methods.
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by ascorbic 7y ago
This is very true. I recently moved from a mostly on-site company, where I thought we used Slack a lot, to a globally-distributed, fully-remote one where Slack is the primary form of communication. We use it very differently, as the volume
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by ascorbic 7y ago
> Also just reported today, apparently over 99% of fatalities in Italy were folks who had existing medical conditions, but I have no idea what that really tells us. Not a lot, without knowing the number with existing medical conditions a

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