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by genmon 6y ago
The British Interplanetary Society (JBIS is their journal) has a great history of publishing the first engineering studies for grand projects -- crewed Moon missions (1938), geosynchronous satellites (1945), interstellar missions (1973), an
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by genmon 6y ago
Related: this is a great long read in the Guardian about the emergence of the lunch sandwich in the UK. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/24/how-the-sandwic... One nugget: the lunch sandwich was
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by genmon 6y ago
Yup -- I was really surprised when I started looking at the nutrition labels on Pret food. High calories, tons of mayo. Not great.
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by genmon 6y ago
I guess what I'm saying is this all feels quite ordinary. The judge will have the written outline arguments, and will be focusing on the parts that need greater interrogation. And they will also be juggling various factors -- there&#x2
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by genmon 6y ago
I really hope people don’t take from this that the U.K. legal system is being applied in a biased way. The laws themselves may be wrong — and that’s a matter for government. But these write-ups do tend do suggest that the laws are being mis
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by genmon 6y ago
I can see that, apologies! Just trying to add more context, and I've been idly following what MSCHF has been doing -- but no insight into what the model is.
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by genmon 6y ago
New-ish but making noise for a while. Here's a Business Insider piece from Jan 2020 gives some background: https://www.businessinsider.com/mschf-company-behind-viral-j... And also mentions two rounds of funding totally
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by genmon 6y ago
Principles can be profitable... Apple offers paid app discovery, and they want to increase that revenue. Facebook has historically been the paid channel for paid discovery. By limiting its effectiveness, Apple can grab that revenue. Stratec
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by genmon 6y ago
Illustrations would definitely help, you’re right. It’s in our issues list, and I have some ideas about simple ways to address that. Issues list is on Github incidentally https://github.com/genmon/aboutfeeds Podcast: I
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by genmon 6y ago
Browsers used to have RSS built in — I forget when Safari removed its reader. But you’re right about that button... something that glows when a feed is present. The current UX, at least on my iPhone, is that I go to a site that looks like i
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by genmon 6y ago
Absolutely agree. What’s unusually about the feed ecosystem is that it was once popular, and now it’s present but nobody really understands it. Like, Wordpress sites are 30% of the web and they have RSS by default... but are the site owners
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by genmon 6y ago
This is great! I especially love the starter packs. We both opted for "web feeds" over "RSS", which makes me feel better about that choice. Do you have any sense of whether you've been able to reach new users? It&#x
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by genmon 6y ago
I'm pleased to see renewed interest in RSS (web feeds generally). But my concern is that, for first time users, the onboarding process is too complex. There are too many unexplained steps, and the benefits are unclear. A plug for my ow
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by genmon 6y ago
Check out NetNewsWire which is a free (and open source) RSS reader for Mac and iOS, under active development: https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/ NNW is fast and simple. Using it, I've come to feel that RSS doesn&#x
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by genmon 6y ago
Our brains are hard-wired to assume light comes from above, and 3D "pop out" from shading even means we can identify the shapes faster. More info and references in this section from Mind Hacks (I was a co-author): #20 Fool Yoursel
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by genmon 6y ago
(Article author here) That's why I've been compiling the list of issues with Big Tech. Without understanding what the issues to be remedied are, interventions like a 3% digital tax can't be evaluated as to their effectiveness
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by genmon 6y ago
Any views on Magic Lasso for iOS/Mac? Seen it mentioned recently. I’m on 1Blocker Legacy, it’s fine, but I’m aware it must be getting out of date.
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by genmon 6y ago
Neat fact: the UN definition of a forest is 20% coverage. London is 21% trees. London is a forest. https://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/did-you-know-tha...
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by genmon 6y ago
For non-system users, there's no good reason to use python outside a virtual environment now, and IMO the devs shouldn't encourage it. Perhaps python should issue a warning if used outside a virtual environment, unless that warnin
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by genmon 7y ago
Looks like a Wordpress hack. I've dropped a note to the site maintainers and heard back already -- they're on it.
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by genmon 7y ago
Could be worth them looking at the Trusted Technology Mark which has been doing the hard work of figuring out how to certify connected devices: https://web.archive.org/web/20190212185530/https://trustable
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Planetary – a music sequencer that looks like a simple landscape(infovore.org)
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by genmon 7y ago
For an more in-depth look at some of the capacity benefits of HS2, this article on the London end of HS2 by ianvisits.co.uk is definitely worth a read: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2019/08/20/taking-a
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by genmon 7y ago
My favourites are words that mean the opposite in different Englishes. For example * to table: postpone (US English) vs put forward for consideration (British English) * to (take a) punt: give up (US) vs go ahead (British) What could we cal
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by genmon 7y ago
Small correction: the pedestrianisation of Oxford St (led by Khan and the GLA) was blocked by Westminster Council, not Parliament https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/sadiq-khans-plan-to-m...
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by genmon 7y ago
The diff is that Automattic hasn't yet returned money to its investors -- so it's a startup by that definition.
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by genmon 7y ago
Thanks — fixed
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by genmon 7y ago
Python 3.8 is expected to include PEP 594 "Removing dead batteries from the standard library"... one of the modules schedules to be deprecated is cgi. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0594/ As ou
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by genmon 7y ago
Given the relatively low cost (I imagine), Apple could instead fund regular podcasts, but buy out their entire ad/placement inventory, and continue to make the podcasts available to everyone. Given Beats 1 as "platform exclusive r
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by genmon 7y ago
Impro greatly improved my public speaking by making me more aware of "status" (Johnstone's conception of it) and the dynamic relationships in the room. Highly recommended.

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