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by dreghgh 1y ago
Tate Modern (yes, it is definitely a major art gallery) is around half an hour from the Barbican center by foot, and around half an hour from the Barbican center by public transport. Read my comment again: > It's the business distri
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by dreghgh 1y ago
Name any art gallery which you think is a major art gallery, ie of comparable or greater size and prestige to the Barbican art gallery and is 15 minutes from the Barbican center, including by public transport? You can't, because there
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by dreghgh 1y ago
There are many cultural centers in the West End, Kensington, and boroughs outside the City, but none of them are 10 or 15 minutes from the Barbican center (hence your not being able to name a single one). There is a theatre at Tottenham Cou
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by dreghgh 1y ago
Go for it, which major art galleries, auditoriums and cinemas are 15 minutes from the Barbican?
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by dreghgh 1y ago
> The on-site amenities are pretty good, but its central London, you’re not far from literally anything you could imagine or desire. This is totally inaccurate. It's the business district. If not for the Barbican, the nearest seriou
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by dreghgh 1y ago
Your two arguments contradict each other. Bundling YouTube is fine because there are no viable competitors. Bundling Google Drive is fine because there are plenty of viable competitors. If Chrome was able to compete in a level playing field
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by dreghgh 1y ago
Yes this is why companies should be regulated.
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by dreghgh 1y ago
YouTube spent years showing children damaging content through an algo until the parental boycott became so bad that they had to do something, worried that a generation was going to grow up not addicted to their content.
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by dreghgh 1y ago
I pay for cloud storage, not from Google. I'm happy to pay for this, and I use enough storage there I would be paying Google if I used their storage. Almost every time I go into the Photos all on my phone, there's a dark pattern w
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by dreghgh 1y ago
But if Google weren't a monopoly, phone manufacturers could choose to bundle different collections of apps made by different people on to their hardware, rather than having to get it all from Google. This would also mean that phone use
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by dreghgh 1y ago
You can't have the Play app store on your Android phone unless you accept to install Youtube, Google Maps, Google Drive and Google Photos. This is clearly anti-competitive.
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by dreghgh 1y ago
Yes, and Gmail hasn't improved for decades. Why not? Because Google is a monopoly actor and does not need to compete. Example: you can't create a new email label in the Android client. You have to log on to email in a browser and
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by dreghgh 1y ago
Agreed. I don't exclude the possibility of large scale changes in society, but until that day, maybe 20% of people who need to work to eat and pay bills can do genuinely valuable work. I'm sure many of the other 80% would like to
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by dreghgh 1y ago
People also ran out of food a lot. One theory about the Jacob and Esau story is that it's about a hunter gatherer (Esau) surrendering political power to a farmer (Jacob) because the farmer has much more reliable access to protein than
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by dreghgh 1y ago
You're talking about avoiding harmful work, whereas the article is discussing finding work mainly based on it being beneficial to the things you care about. These are two quite different things. If you both have to cover a cost of livi
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by dreghgh 1y ago
Did you have parents who looked after you when you were a child? Did they try to provide a reasonable standard of living for you? If so, do you wish that they hadn't done so?
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by dreghgh 1y ago
Can't wait for the society where everyone sits at home and lives off of online scams, rather than having to work.
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by dreghgh 1y ago
> A full-time career consists of 80,000 hours, or 10,000 workdays, or 2,000 workweeks. How you spend that time is one of the most important moral decisions of your life. This just seems like a confusion to me. My job is the time I spend
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by dreghgh 1y ago
Do you see the irony in trying to fix a problem caused by persistent, universal short term and selfish thinking with a solution which relies on no one thinking like this in the future anymore?
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by dreghgh 1y ago
Not even building and exporting widebody aircraft?
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by dreghgh 2y ago
Excel is not designed to waste the time of frequent, experienced users while hand-holding casual users. It's designed to make power users very fast and accurate while possibly confusing casual and new users.
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by dreghgh 2y ago
I understood that 1/2 converts to 2-Jan (or 1-Feb depending on settings). That is desired behaviour. If you want the string 1/2 you need to use an apostrophe. If you want the fraction one half you need to use an equals sign. Both
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by dreghgh 2y ago
In this thread: people who don't know how to use Excel tell people who do know, how to use it.
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by dreghgh 2y ago
Disagree, the most common way for an experienced user to type a date into Excel is as a partial date if it is this year, eg 4-Apr, which is instantly converted to 04/04/2025 or whatever. The vast majority of dates I personally typ
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by dreghgh 2y ago
The setting only applies when you enter or edit a value. It doesn't convert values which are already stored in a cell.
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by dreghgh 2y ago
It's not a setting which determines how a value stored in a sheet is interpreted. It's a setting which determines how inputs are interpreted before being stored. When you type eg "4/4", "4-Apr", "2025
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by dreghgh 2y ago
Dates are often typed with slashes. Numbers are never typed with slashes in almost all business applications, and practically all likely uses of excel. Why should excel slow down people wanting to enter dates, a very common activity, to all
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by dreghgh 2y ago
Spoiler: it does.
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by dreghgh 2y ago
This is frankly the cal developers being cute. Nothing requires this and the proleptic Gregorian calendar would have made more sense.
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by dreghgh 2y ago
You know that many users of Excel enter numbers into the cells and then do arithmetic calculations with them right?

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