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by blackshaw 4y ago
> What problem, exactly, is a blockchain based social network trying to solve? The same as every other blockchain application: the problem that no-one has found a practical use for Blockchain despite 14 years of effort, but that blockcha
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by blackshaw 4y ago
> that ticket has an expiration date tied to the 19th century. Eventually those free spaces will run out. They're already starting to in the western world I'm sorry but I genuinely don't understand what you're saying
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Isn't "scaleup unicorn" a contradiction?
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by blackshaw 4y ago
This is true in the UK - driving licenses have your address on them, but for some reason they're not usually accepted as proof of address. I assume this is because you only need to renew the license (i.e. get a new copy of the physical
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by blackshaw 4y ago
> the obligation to own an ID card is a very foreign concept in most other countries. Is it? From a quick search it looks like a very large number of countries have compulsory ID cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by blackshaw 4y ago
$20,000? I could code up a basic newsletter app in half a day's work, with payments handled by Stripe. If it's really possible to charge $20,000 for this service then please tell me where to find clients.
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by blackshaw 4y ago
> He Given that the post mentions the author's pregnancy and miscarriage, I'm pretty sure it's "she".
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Interesting comment - thanks.
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Another comment in this thread said: > Since I moved [to SF], I have seen people break into cars (numerous times), fill suitcases with products from Target and Walgreens and leave without paying, casually smoke meth in a crowded bus, emp
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by blackshaw 4y ago
> we really really need to do a better job of keeping plastic out of the oceans This was really hammered home to me on a trip I took a couple of months ago. I was on an uninhabited island and, while the island as a whole was beautiful, t
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Damn that's cool.
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Fun fact: the 20p and 50p coins are Reuleaux heptagons[0]. This means that they have a constant diameter even though they're not circular, which means that they can be accurately sorted by vending machines. [0] https://wikil
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by blackshaw 4y ago
I'm British and have never heard any of these before except "grand".
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by blackshaw 4y ago
> Firing is when the reason for the employee leaving is their fault. Layoff is when it's "the employers fault". That's not how I'd use those words. "Fired" just means your employment was involuntarily t
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by blackshaw 4y ago
> It's very expensive to be poor. True indeed. This article gives many more examples: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/it-is-e... > If you can’t afford the first month’s re
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Are you sure? Wikipedia says the word was coined by Karel Capek: https://wikiless.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek?lang=en
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by blackshaw 4y ago
"Come to the office or you're fired".
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by blackshaw 4y ago
> Reading helpful books and really applying the good ones (for me) has helped me Which books do you recommend?
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Haha, I'm pretty sure I know which school you went to. Not many places have year groups called "shell" and "remove". Rah rah.
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by blackshaw 4y ago
I was surprised to learn recently that corporal punishment wasn't banned in British state schools until 1987, and in private schools until 1999. "Surprised" because by 1999 I'd been attending a British private school for
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Reminds of the time when Britain's finest legal minds were paid exorbitant fees to resolve the extremely important question of whether a particular brand of sugary snack should be considered a "chocolate-covered biscuit" or a
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by blackshaw 4y ago
How old are you? I went to a posh boarding school in the early 2000s and there were many things wrong with it, but it wasn't nearly as brutal as you describe. Other pupils did unpleasant things to me (and I to them) but it was mostly j
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by blackshaw 4y ago
"Arguably"?
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Global warming has been fantastic so far where I live (UK). The winters (always miserable when I was growing up) are milder and more tolerable, and I'm enjoying the increased outdoor opportunities made available by the longer, hotter,
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by blackshaw 4y ago
There have always been individuals who feel assaulted by society; what has changed to make these attacks more frequent? (If they are becoming more frequent; I definitely hear about them more frequently but it may be an illusion, someone tel
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by blackshaw 4y ago
https://247wallst.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Martin-Luth...
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by blackshaw 4y ago
"Read a lot, highlight the things you find interesting, take notes, and if you really want to remember something then use a spaced repetition system like Anki." There, now you don't have to read the article.
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by blackshaw 4y ago
.... damn, you're right.
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by blackshaw 4y ago
What are the likely consequences of this near miss? Is someone gonna get fired?
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Unless you ask George Carlin: https://youtu.be/zDKdvTecYAM

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