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by bb101 5y ago
Amazed that the author didn't include a reference to H.G. Wells' Time Machine. It's a formic parallel to the Eloi and Morlocks.
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by bb101 5y ago
What web/app stack are you using to fulfill <1ms responses?
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by bb101 5y ago
Very interesting paper. The categorisation of upper and lower class could be problematic however. Being a paper from the US, I presume the participants' class category corresponds to assets and income, ergo upper class being simply ric
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by bb101 5y ago
A large federally-funded quarantine facility on the outskirts of each state capital would fulfill the need for quarantine that can operate at capacity, whilst limiting transmission. It's not rocket science, but unfortunately it is poli
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by bb101 5y ago
It strikes me as an example of Sigmund Freud's "Narcissism of Small Differences"[1]: "The thesis that communities with adjoining territories and close relationships are especially likely to engage in feuds and mutual rid
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by bb101 5y ago
"On the fifth day, the leading horse – a black mare known as Betsy Baker – stopped responding to the whip, and retired for two hours. She was apparently exhausted, and nothing could induce her to continue except champagne." -- The
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by bb101 5y ago
For anyone interested in these topics and how they developed, James Howard Kunstler's Geography of Nowhere [1] is an informative, if sad, read. [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125313.The_Geography_of_.
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by bb101 5y ago
I think Hungary should be very much kept in the EU, so the EU can continue to exert its influence. The funding taps should be turned off however, and only turned on again subject to demonstrable and verified improvements.
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Carl Sagan in 1978: Star Wars Is Too White(kottke.org)
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by bb101 5y ago
We'd have new legislation within a week targeting patent trolls. I can't imagine anything that'd make a government more unpopular than taking away everyone's iPhones, iPads and Macs.
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by bb101 5y ago
To be fair, a random dude from Essex designed the original iMac, iPod and most Apple devices thereafter.
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by bb101 5y ago
Seems like the mobile industry and ISPs in Canada have the same problem as in Australia: too few people across too wide a space. The incumbents will only agree to improve and service their network if they are given protected positions by th
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by bb101 5y ago
Better to get a Ubigi or Truphone eSim, much cheaper data roaming if you're not willing to get a local SIM.
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by bb101 5y ago
You can also buy ice packs that you wear draped around your neck. It cools the blood flowing to your cartoid artery, along with the general area. Works really well.
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by bb101 5y ago
Where did Costa Rica go so right ? In the news it always appears to be a bastion of moderation and success, especially when compared to its neighbours.
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by bb101 5y ago
At 6:30: "It is thought that an impact like this happened 6 times in the violent past of the Earth's history." -- I wonder if this could be correct?
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by bb101 5y ago
Rohinton Mistry's Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag is set in a Parsi community within Mumbai. Fascinating stories that throw a spotlight on their integration, beliefs and everyday lives. Goes without saying, Mist
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by bb101 5y ago
A competing but emerging technology to keep an eye on is holographic storage. "IBM has already demonstrated the possibility of holding 1 TB of data in a crystal the size of a sugar cube and of data access rates of one trillion bits per
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by bb101 5y ago
True. Planned impediments can help, just like making sure alcohol never enters your front door. I've used my phone's parental features to limit usage of social apps to one hour. It's protected by a somewhat randomly chosen PI
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by bb101 5y ago
Has anyone else tried the app "Friendly"? For a while I've wanted to stop using Facebook, but quite a few community groups I'm involved with use it as their only method of communication. Friendly is an augmented wrapper
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by bb101 5y ago
Interacting with strangers, Russians are coconuts whilst Americans are peaches. I've found Erin Meyer's Culture Map[1] a good guide to navigating different cultures. [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show&#x2
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by bb101 5y ago
With worldwide population growth curves flattening and population pyramids inverting, countries of tomorrow will be positively clamouring for immigrants. A good book to read on the topic is Empty Planet by Bricker & Ibbitson[1]. One of
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by bb101 5y ago
I've noticed this for years, and always wondered "Why?" myself. Then I came across a UX blog where the author suggested doing exactly this. Their reasoning being that new users aren't familiar with your website, so they
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by bb101 5y ago
Your business doesn't operate in a vacuum. It is licensed and supported by society. The same society that benefits from inheritance redistribution.
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by bb101 5y ago
We visited Sooke Harbour House back in 2016. It was a unique and charming little hotel with beautiful cottage gardens. I have lovely memories of taking breakfast on the terrace, surrounded by nasturtiums of all colours and having little hum
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by bb101 5y ago
Thank you. Really interesting articles. I've subscribed to their RSS feed in Reeder.
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by bb101 5y ago
Reads the same as Netflix. Individuals empowered to make decisions and execute, at all levels of the organization. With higher responsibility also comes the risk of exposing the company to situations that a more practised individual would k
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by bb101 5y ago
That would require initiative and the capability to execute. So much easier to just say "sorry, there's nothing we can do".
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by bb101 5y ago
The broken windows theory. Cleaned up New York in the late 80s/90s.
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by bb101 6y ago
MySQL and Oracle all over again. Perhaps time to fork Unsplash and give birth to the MariaDB of open photography?

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