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by bb101 7y ago
We have a similar one -- a Cotoneaster. Turns out bees love it in May.
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by bb101 7y ago
We have a few hives in a field behind our house. We have noticed all the neighbouring fruit trees doing very well this year -- clutches of plums and apples weighing down the branches.
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by bb101 7y ago
Shouldn't there be a setting under Privacy to turn responding to beacons off? I'd be interested in a list of popular apps or SDKs that use beacons -- so I could uninstall them pronto.
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by bb101 7y ago
With Facebook's distributed data stores, I'd be really surprised if any deletion was immediate. It's more likely that they tombstone a post. That's where they store a "this post has been deleted" flag in their
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by bb101 7y ago
I felt the same way before I tried Airpods. They are ridiculously useful and convenient, and they don't sound bad either. For me, it's a tiny device to use for hands-free phone calls and indulge in music on the go without having t
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by bb101 7y ago
When my Airpods die, I'll take them back to my local Applestore to be recycled. Apple is streets ahead of most companies in this respect.
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by bb101 8y ago
If you're interested in topics such as these, I can highly recommend reading Ian Mortimer's Centuries of Change [1]. The moving type features heavily, as do clocks and looking glasses (mirrors). One memorable example: thanks to mo
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by bb101 8y ago
It's worth watching Al Jazeera's series on the production of the 787 Dreamliner, and related cultural issues at Boeing after their merger with McDonnell Douglas [1]. Personally, I think it's worth taking with a grain of salt
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by bb101 8y ago
This reminds me of the Terry Gilliam 1985 film “Brazil”. It portrays a future dystopic Britain where bureaucracy and the State has run wild, creating various Kafraesque situations, such as repairing your own airconditioning being classed as
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by bb101 8y ago
Did anyone play Dune II back in the day? In a world where North America is Atreides, Russia being Harkonnen, the EU is conveniently taking the place of House Ordos (ambitious vying by disparate powers).
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by bb101 8y ago
Awesome. I look forward to beginning my future supersonic intercontinental flights with a dive from 50,000ft. Will certainly make travelling interesting again.
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by bb101 8y ago
I've heard that too. From an engineering POV, the aircraft _is_ the wings, and the fuselage is a simple tube in comparison.
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by bb101 8y ago
I've read a few posts on here about people getting off their A380 flights feeling better sans dry throats, chapped lips, etc. I find that a bit odd, as the A380 still uses bleed air systems, unlike the A350 and 787 which use filtered a
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by bb101 8y ago
Unfortunately not all carriers give more space to economy passengers in an A380. Qatar Airways for example, pack the seats in just as tight. I actively choose against A380s for my long flights because the aircraft feels like a flying city a
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by bb101 8y ago
What's the end game for China, and indeed the world? One dystopian preview is Ma Boyong's award winning short story "City of Silence", published as part of Ken Liu's Invisible Planets. One can also read it at https
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by bb101 8y ago
Wouldn't surprise me if its name was from Budweiser's What's Up ad back during the last dotcom boom. It was really popular at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhlZoq3niIY
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by bb101 8y ago
I'm of the same assumption, but I think it only applies to our chats. The value is in the metadata - contact lists, contact photos, locations, connections. I doubt any of that has end-to-end encryption.
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by bb101 8y ago
Having read the title of the post, and browsed its contents, I went and ordered an autobiography of Gandhi with the hope of reminding myself what real success is.
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by bb101 8y ago
It just goes to show that a large company is made up of many different people in different departments, sometimes with different agendas. It appears that there is a conflict of vision within Google.
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by bb101 8y ago
In the Pork and apple skillet dinner[1], they recommend using canola oil, a recommendation one doesn't see all that often. With canola oil having been engineered in Canada, is it an oil of choice for Canadians? [1] https://w
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by bb101 8y ago
I beg to differ. An example is Australia. Plenty of national and regional broadsheets, but no purposefully trashy tabloids that I can think of.
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by bb101 8y ago
I suppose it might serve as a useful warning for readers from other countries, especially if their country doesn't have tabloids of their own. I would say most people in the UK know to take news from certain publications with a grain o
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by bb101 8y ago
Bloomberg do this with the staff in their Paris office, or at least used to a few years ago. Not on helicopters, but on trains from London. Labour rules can become flexible when your staff arrive from another country on Monday mornings.
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by bb101 8y ago
Or worse, one just needs to be within 3 metres of the machine. [1] [1] "Dyson Airblades 'spread germs 1,300 times more than paper towels'" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/13/d
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by bb101 8y ago
I agree. When our cleaner started with us, we had the latest Dyson vacuum. We asked what she would prefer and she asked for a Miele. The Miele is still going strong ten years later, whereas the Dyson broke sometime after its second repair (
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by bb101 8y ago
Gattaca here we come: "Sequence this strand of hair for me will you?"
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by bb101 8y ago
I use Instagram like I imagine others use Pinterest or browse lifestyle magazines. Subscribe to a few nice cooking, travel and photography feeds and open it once a week or so for inspiration. I would never consider posting my own photos on
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by bb101 8y ago
> If you make a mistake, another mistake, there is a very severe possibility that you’re both going to get shot. Do you understand?” Sgt. Charles Langley yells before telling Shaver to “shut up.” > “If you move, we’re going to conside
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Don't shoot, I'm disabled(bbc.co.uk)
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by bb101 8y ago
Interestingly, peanut butter is near the bottom of the scale for being insulinogenic (the food insulin index). That means it's less likely to be put away as fat according to The Personalized Diet by Drs Segal and Elinav [1] [1] https:

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