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by fredley 8y ago
I don't know why but I find it really hard to read on this site. I'm not dyslexic, but by chance I was reading quite a lot of this font over the weekend, printed, and found it no issue - I barely noticed. Here however I find it m
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by fredley 8y ago
It didn't work zooming in past city-level for me, I'm guessing that's a limitation of the prototype? The flags were an interesting choice instead of country names. I can see how this could be easier to parse than denser count
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by fredley 8y ago
Would you, under immediate threat, be able to locate and destroy the memory chips—and specifically the memory chips—on your phone? If they're prepared to lock you up for 10 years, they're prepared to do some serious digital forens
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by fredley 8y ago
Like a $5 wrench[1], but more socially acceptable. 1: https://xkcd.com/538/
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Enhance.Computer(enhance.computer)
3 points by fredley 8y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 8y ago
When the majority of vehicles are electric, I can see the case being made for all vehicles to have noise-emission limits. Noise pollution is a serious health issue in cities, and could be a new target once emissions pollution is largely tak
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by fredley 8y ago
I don't care how it happens, but the day petrol mopeds are completely phased out will be a very happy one for me. Being woken up by a loud scooter deliverying pizza late at night is a continual annoyance. Electric mopeds presumably mak
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by fredley 8y ago
Yes! By using Firefox.
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by fredley 8y ago
American cities are built for cars - there's no way around that issue. To navigate cities you need some sort of powered transportation vehicle, outside of a few just-about-pedestrian-navigable areas downtown. Don't punish cars,
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by fredley 8y ago
I was fed up with Google increasing insistence on pushing crap onto my home screen. The unavoidable news feed was the last straw. I have now installed Nova Launcher and it's made my phone great again. No Google crap on the home screen
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by fredley 8y ago
I hate MacOS and the way it's getting worse every release, but I don't hate it nearly as much as Windows, and how much Windows is getting worse every release.
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by fredley 8y ago
I've been working with Django for almost my whole career, since 1.1. It's a joy to use, and blows any other web framework I've used out of the water when it comes to actually just building stuff. Django is a fantastic boring[
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by fredley 8y ago
I would argue it's less about this and more about the power to dictate narratives at a broad scope. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube etc. have all been single points of failure in this regard: targeted, sustained efforts—probably by natio
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by fredley 8y ago
It took me a while to realise this was not a cryptocurrency.
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by fredley 8y ago
The solution to these problems IMO is to make maternity leave protected strongly by law, and make paternity leave exactly equivalent . Make no distinction by gender when it comes to maternity and paternity leave. Obviously there's the
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by fredley 8y ago
There's also a third party battling for control sometimes: the leader of the orchestra - the violinist at the very front of the orchestra, closest to the conductor (they often walk on separately from the rest of the orchestra - with th
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by fredley 8y ago
All EU law will be directly transcribed into British law, so yes. We could choose to change or revoke it through an act of parliament, though.
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by fredley 8y ago
Good. The point of GDPR was to hold companies more accountable for the data they hold. I'm glad that it's achieving what it set out to do. Hopefully this will make companies think of data as a liability as well as an asset.
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by fredley 8y ago
TL;DR: Not free, but ~$6/year for the first year, ~$20/year thereafter
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by fredley 8y ago
There are people working on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser Although nothing much seems to have happened in reality: https://www.fastcompany.com/3059127/what-happened-to-the-mos.
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by fredley 8y ago
No. If this were really a psychological boost given by switching to a new pair of shoes, regardless of model, then the Vaporflies would show no statistical difference to other similarly priced shoes in the 'switching' test.
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Who's buying drugs on Venmo?(twitter.com)
3 points by fredley 8y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 8y ago
This is great, but I do wonder if the lifespan of Qt and other frontend frameworks is somewhat limited. UI development seems to be converging more and more on the web stack (HTML/CSS/Javascript)
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by fredley 8y ago
As a developer I definitely don't either.
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by fredley 8y ago
Before electronic (or even electric) projectors were around, professional artists were using device called a camera obscura[1] with similar results (though obviously dependent on natural illumination). There is much debate over whether grea
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by fredley 8y ago
At least with WhatsApp they only have my Metadata...
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by fredley 8y ago
To be fair, even with navigation apps central London is a nightmare...
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by fredley 8y ago
US grid cities are really easy to navigate by car, but at the expense of pedestrians. Old cities like London are easy to navigate on foot, but hard to navigate by car.
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by fredley 8y ago
I found 59 Seconds: Think a little, change a lot by Richard Wiseman to be a good contribution to the genre, if you're looking for more.
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by fredley 8y ago
A viewpoint: charity is power. These companies have control over where this money goes, and are likely to spend more on things that make them look good, or provide long term benefit to the company over things that don't. Another approa

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