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by gcthomas 8y ago
> Who needs more than a 4" screen and a quad core processor? Not me, but you can't buy them anymore. :( > you should understand that some things are also done for a passion for tech. Oh, I agree absolutely. I wasn't in
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by gcthomas 8y ago
Why? Status symbol certainly - with hugely expensive iPhones rather common even amongst oiks, how can you show off how much disposable income you have at dinner parties and on the tube? Me, I'll stick to a functional and somewhat dispo
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by gcthomas 8y ago
Despite many posts criticising the recommendations, the ICO _doesn't recommend age verification_ as a solution. From the actual document: > 2. Age-appropriate application: Consider the age range of your audience and the needs of ch
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That makes it sound like cosmological redshift is a form of Doppler shift. In reality, the target object emits light towards us with little Doppler shift as it will have experienced little acceleration in its reference frame. The light beco
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by gcthomas 8y ago
No, the origin of the cosmological redshift is not proposed to be due to differences in velocity, but metric expansion.
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by gcthomas 8y ago
But it could become active again very quickly while he is held by the UK authorities. The rape case is still open afaik.
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by gcthomas 8y ago
Zuckerberg says that there should be a "comprehensive privacy regulation in line with the EU's GDPR", yet the first thing Facebook did was to move 1.5 billion accounts out of their data centre in Ireland to avoid having to me
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by gcthomas 8y ago
"For the advice coming out of this model to beat a very practical alternative — following conventional wisdom or your own common-sense — we’ll need to deal with many of them all at once." Conventional wisdom and common sense reall
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by gcthomas 8y ago
When I deleted my unused Facebook account a while back I found that there were a dozen apps linked to my account (incl. Netflix and Spotify), even though I had never giving permission for a single one. FB is sneaky and does not have the cul
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by gcthomas 8y ago
The use of plastics and other oil based products is nothing to do with oil as a fossil fuel, but with oil as a complex hydrocarbon. I'm not sure anyone is arguing against using oil for plastics, lubrication and medicine productions. Yo
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by gcthomas 8y ago
All these good things that solar and wind _can't_ provide? This'll be good - do you have a list?
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by gcthomas 8y ago
English had native accents, as in naïve, to show that the double vowel was pronounced as two sounds, but they have declined in use over the year. Cooperate isn't spelt with 'oö', which makes pronouncing it from the spelling
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by gcthomas 8y ago
Fossil fuels all have massive hidden subsidies, since the cost doesn't include handling the waste gases and other effluent, which will end up being covered out of general taxations. If your fuel bill included an element to clear up the
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by gcthomas 8y ago
Signal has had its encryption code audited by researchers, and the Store binaries are signed by the developer, while the repo offers reproducable builds: you can check for yourself if the downloaded apk from Google Play matches what you bui
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by gcthomas 8y ago
The difference between Signal and Wattsapp is really in all the non-message-contents data that Wattsapp collects, as you can see in their privacy (hah!) policy: ( https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/#privacy-policy-informati
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by gcthomas 8y ago
It does in France already and has done for years, so when you ask for a pound of cheese you get 500g. Simples.
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by gcthomas 8y ago
Placebo patients know that they have received a treatment, so that introduces a bias in the reporting of outcomes from the patient, even if the medics are blinded. If you believe you have been treated it is well known that patients report i
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by gcthomas 8y ago
Don't you think it is intriguing that the placebo effect only gets reported for non-specific subjective complaints, and not physically measurable ones?
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by gcthomas 8y ago
The claim is that physical ailments improve, which isn't true if there are physical measurements takes.
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by gcthomas 8y ago
The 'placebo effect' seems to be wholly the effect of the sum of biases and psychological effects on reported outcomes in the placebo (non-treatment) arm of medical trials. It doesn't mean there is an 'actual' effec
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by gcthomas 8y ago
Google has introduced non-targeted ads for GDPR compliance. It sounds like a sizeable chunk of the market disagrees with you that you can force the use of data for targeting on users under GDPR. https://www.marketingdive.com&#x2F
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by gcthomas 8y ago
I notice that the shredded portion doesn't line up with the part still in the frame in the photo. The top of the girl's head looks too far up and to the left to be part of the same picture.
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by gcthomas 8y ago
The figure for tax avoidance is out by a factor of about 12. See https://fullfact.org/economy/tax-avoidance-evasion-uk/ "HMRC estimates that £2.7 billion was lost through tax avoidance", while the post s
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by gcthomas 8y ago
Research isn't made important because it satisfies a political imperative, but because it advances knowledge in a reliable way. This sort of narrowly significant result is just the sort of research that is vulnerable to p-hacking and o
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by gcthomas 8y ago
Interesting, but from the abstract it looks too underpowered to allow firm conclusions. Of the two stated primary measures, one was not associated with autism and the other was only very marginally significant (at p=0.05), so it is rather v
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by gcthomas 8y ago
The result seems to depend critically on the researchers' estimation of the neutral current of neutral pions, which if underestimated could produce the bump in the data at the low energy range observed. I think that with further experi
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by gcthomas 8y ago
I see so many forum discussions where posters criticise the poor for their 'weak' decisions and effectively blame the poor for their own plight. Why don't they just work harder and earn the money to pay for their healthcare a
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by gcthomas 8y ago
I do the same on Firefox with Privacy Badger and Noscript extensions, supplemented with a PiHole on the network to disappear all those intrusive ads. On my phone, I use Naked Browser Pro, which lets you allow Javascript per site, along with
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by gcthomas 8y ago
Yes, spartan and effective I3 for work, and shiny Gnome for the family machine. There is never only going to be one best solution, as that depends critically on the problem you are trying to solve.
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by gcthomas 8y ago
The Information Commissioner's Office (the regulatory body in the UK) says: Who needs to document their processing activities? There is a limited exemption for small and medium-sized organisations. If you have fewer than 250 employees

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