drakeandrews

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by drakeandrews 13y ago
It's implying that one should start using "gay" as a superlative instead of as a derogatory statement.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
I've always taken it to be that it's a polyfill if it's somewhat elegant, or where a newer technology encompasess a superset of an older one and a shiv if it's somewhat hackish or where older technologies are made to sta
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
I rent a two bed flat with two other people in a nice part of Zone 3, paying ~£500pcm for rent and council tax (together we're paying about ~£1300pcm total). I could quite happily rent a two bedroom cottage in the lake district and pay
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
Solve all problems for x, where we hope x is the comfort and continued meaningful existence of humanity and not, say, the maximisation of paperclips.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
In structures with a small radius, the "gravity" differential between your feet and your head is a bigger issue than the Coriolis effect. Large structures using the tether approach produce sufficiently large forces on the tether t
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
How about January 2nd? It's the day on which the GCU Arbitrary left Earth orbit in The State of the Art.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
I see them all the time on the London Underground, especially in stations without wi-fi, which smacks me as especially odd. I've never tried to scan the code (it's perhaps a few inches across on the other side of the track) but I can't imag
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
The city is certainly a geographic area. It's the City of London, an entirely separate city with it's own government and everything.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
You also get unlimited bus travel through all of London and if you're on a travel card, you can safely travel overground to any station without exit gates without fear of paying extension charges.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
Out of interest, where'd you recommend getting a decent burrito? I used to go to Adobo on High Holborn, but as I spend less time in central and more time in east london, it seems like a little far to go.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
This is a strange sentiment to me, moreso because it's something my own father has expressed he'd like to do. But as someone who considers "getting wasted" something I'm happy leaving to other people, what's wrong with drinking a nice beer
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
Contact is close, in that (spoilers, in case anyone hasn't read the book) the signal being broadcast contains instructions on a device to send its occupants via a wormhole network to a rendezvous point.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
Apparently both Cambridge and "Canadia" are inside London, and their search is catching a fair amount of stuff that isn't a job advert from twitter.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
In the UK, that would qualify as destruction of evidence 9/10 times. Source: Looked into doing something similar to protect confidential information and sought legal advice first.
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by drakeandrews 14y ago
A non-zero quantity of people have a gender that is separate and different to their sex. By marking out differentating sex and gender as "vernacular revisionism", you are contributing to making the lives of a non-zero quantity of people wor
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by drakeandrews 14y ago
Warning, the link contains pictures of a man on fire.
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by drakeandrews 14y ago
Isn't it sinister because it's serving organised crime? Would you feel it similarly sinister if the market had been cornered by a startup (or three) with some silly name and a pile of VC debt?
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by drakeandrews 14y ago
Satoshis are the lowest denominator of bitcoin, being .00000001BTC
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by drakeandrews 14y ago
Would you care to explain why? Cash is really useful, lots of little places don't take cards and couldn't if they wanted to. As much as I despise it, the vagueries of "I owe you four fifty for lunch but all I have is a ten, so take the ten
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by drakeandrews 14y ago
You sir, are a godsend. This is wonderful. Thank you.
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by drakeandrews 14y ago
It's been a while since I was in the states, but last I saw most of the drive through ATMs had cameras pointed at where the user should be.
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by drakeandrews 14y ago
Because the experiment ends with explaining to a few fine officers of the law that no, you weren't trying to rob the bank, you were just doing an experiment. Or plain not being let into the bank. Most banks (in the UK at least) will not let
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by drakeandrews 14y ago
Until I can walk into my local bank branch (or any of the hundreds of currency conversion stalls that dot London) and ask for a couple hundred satoshis, or deposit bitcoins direct into my bank account, bitcoin isn't ready to be a legitimate
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by drakeandrews 14y ago
Isn't a conservative outlook literally a status-quo preference, you wish to conserve what was instead of risking what might be?
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by drakeandrews 14y ago
From the OED conservative, adjective. 1. adverse to change or innovation and holding traditional values: [...] The primary meaning of conservatism is more to do with being risk averse and disliking change than the political mo
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by drakeandrews 14y ago
This sounds familiar. Most of my friends (both in an out of tech) have similar. We also often have a second box full of folders that we're One Day™ going to use to organise our important pieces of paper into.
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by drakeandrews 14y ago
Most jellyfish are barely even animals, many are in fact several colonies of highly interdependent species that happen to work together in the form of a jellyfish. As long as you feed them and keep them warm/cold/lit/dark as appropriate to
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by drakeandrews 14y ago
Art isn't created on a commercial scale by big corporate entities for exactly that reason unless it drives some other corporate interest (i.e. advertising, graphic design etc.). There is a subset of people who would continue to write code f
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by drakeandrews 14y ago
If someone is going around causing issues sufficiently that they're a repeat offender, I don't see why they should be given additional chances. Let them have their ever shrinking circle of misogynists, just don't let them into conferences.
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by drakeandrews 14y ago
I'm not saying getting the offender banned from GDC should be the only action, by all means confront the offender too. But you can't expect people to be able to, or feel safe in, confronting someone who has already shown a disregard for the

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