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by geden 6y ago
Yeah tell that to my teaching assistant wife who works at a Lincolnshire village primary school and is now 'always on' to the whims of the go getting headmistress 24/7. She feels she can't practically ignore out of hours
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by geden 6y ago
Dividends are mildly taxed now.
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by geden 6y ago
Banks explicitly talked about utopia's being too boring to write about and that the friction on the edges of Culture and the rest of the universe provided the necessary drama for a novel. I'm finding all the Consider Phlebas hate
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by geden 6y ago
I’m asking for ownership to be disrupted. It’s insane we all have our own and they have such low utilisation. They are almost always stationary parked somewhere when privately owned.
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by geden 6y ago
What Apple does with the iPhone 'closed ecosystem' seems very relevant for owners of Samsung handsets... Decisions made in their 'closed'ecosystems leak in the rest of the world.
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by geden 6y ago
Not true in Nottinghamshire near where I live. There are several largish permanent average speed camera systems unrelated to roadworks eg A6097. Such that, when I was looking for a new car, cruise control or a speed limiter was a must.
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by geden 6y ago
You’ve forgotten about the Homepod. That sounds pretty amazing for it’s size and price. (I work in the music industry and have an unhealthy interest in monitors / headphones)
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by geden 6y ago
Hmm perhaps ‘rewarding’ wasn’t the right word. Satisfying is closer. I wasn’t looking for a ‘the baddie got caught and everyone lived happily ever after’ per se. I thought the pacing / editing was unsatisfying towards the end, I infer
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by geden 6y ago
Germans less interested in moving fast and breaking things than Brits in my experience. Especially outside of Berlin.
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by geden 6y ago
In the UK, if you have a test, you are required to quarantine until you get the results. Is it not the case elsewhere??
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by geden 6y ago
Which is probably his worst film. Expending more effort on a more rewarding ending would have been time better spent.
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by geden 6y ago
Time for Game B. And fast. Come on HN. Time to bring your A Game to Game B and get stuck into John Vervaeke, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jordan Hall etc. https://youtu.be/8Es_WTEgZHE
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by geden 6y ago
Invest in properly learning about yourself.
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by geden 6y ago
The best works of art leave space between the ideas, words and images. Blade Runner is a bit more like a poem than a novel and that's why it works so well and why it was rejected so soundly at the time of release. Sometime it takes a w
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by geden 6y ago
Also in the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/21/cuties-netflix-... The irony being that the first time director is a black woman. Threatening the ability to be subtle in art. Not a new
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by geden 6y ago
Bandcamp experience for an artist is good but the backend could sure do with a spruce, particularly the reporting and the API for merch fulfilment. That said anything pushing against the chilling affect of Spotify is a win.
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by geden 7y ago
Closed loop insulin delivery systems functionally “cure” t1 diabetics and are here today. Have implemented for a t1 friend. Has transformed his long term outlook. https://loopkit.github.io/loopdocs/ Relies on currently
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by geden 7y ago
In the UK plenty of mid to high end pocket sprung mattresses are flame retardant free. John Lewis specify whether they have retardants or not. I'll be buying a new sofa this year so I'm keenly interested on the sofa side. It seems
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by geden 7y ago
I'm down with Stewart Lee's take on political correctness https://youtu.be/x_JCBmY9NGM (warning, contains British Humour) I think the error in your argument here is to always reduce the application of political co
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by geden 7y ago
I’m not sure I’d describe it as out of character. Phonetically styled narrative from characters pops up in several Banks novels. I’d argue the The Barbarian’s Scottish dialect in The Bridge was a precursor to Bascule. There are also smatter
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by geden 7y ago
The episode of Michael Taft's excellent 'Deconstructing Yourself' podcast featuring Douglas Tataryn was definitely a 2019 highlight. Excellent exploration of the intersection of psychotherapy and meditation. With bonus Circli
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by geden 7y ago
So good and so underrated.
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by geden 7y ago
Can't recommend that book enough. Huxley nailed it.
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by geden 7y ago
Anecdotally - I helped a T1 diabetic friend set up Loop using a Dexcom G5 and then a G6. Over the course of many months of use, the G6 has proved MUCH more reliable and accurate than the G5, which resulted in far better Looping. The Loop co
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by geden 7y ago
There's plenty of sushi that doesn't involve fish or meat. Sashimi is raw fish. Sushi is more about rice.
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by geden 7y ago
Agreed. There's very little litter in the UK countryside because (generalising) the people who litter don't go there and the people who do are included to pick it up. British towns and cities aren't great, embarrassingly bad
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by geden 7y ago
By bizarre coincidence I bumped into my neighbours yesterday, they’d just arrived back from Tuxford Mill after reading the Guardian article. We live only 15 mins away. I’ve been buying Tuxford Mill porridge oats from for a few years. Going
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by geden 7y ago
Egan’s best book IMHO. Genuinely mind expanding ideas.
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by geden 7y ago
Curious what you're pairing them with? Not had to re-pair my, er, pair at all. I have iPhone 6s and 2012 MacBook Air.
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by geden 7y ago
Agreed, but weirdly our experience was that three was easier than two. We truely had to let go of the idea that we could do everything the 'right way' and as a result became more relaxed and confident parents as a result. Anecdota

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