gideonparanoid

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by gideonparanoid 2y ago
First time I've encountered a site blocked by the work firewall, funnily enough.
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by gideonparanoid 2y ago
The author of the post is wrong to say there's no famous cows, see the Craven Heifer [0] for example. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craven_Heifer
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by gideonparanoid 3y ago
Without convection or conduction?
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by gideonparanoid 6y ago
Coronation Street - a popular TV soap in the UK had a storyline about this last year [0]. As the storyline played out, the character chose alternative therapies before finally trying conventional medicine, but it was too late & she lost
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by gideonparanoid 7y ago
Also would make cancelling your cards harder if they were lost along with your phone?
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by gideonparanoid 7y ago
Some of these are beautiful. Spent a lot of time looking at them & the trees while riding up the south side of Coll de Sóller.
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by gideonparanoid 8y ago
The electoral register is relatively open. You can view it in most public libraries, town hall etc. [0]. You can even buy it in some cases [1]. [0] https://www.gov.uk/electoral-register/view-electoral-registe... [1] h
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Wikipedia: List of Eponymous Laws(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by gideonparanoid 8y ago|0 comments
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by gideonparanoid 8y ago
Ha, not too dissimilar to a floppy disc really.
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by gideonparanoid 8y ago
> over 100 people die every day in traditional vehicle accidents. Which isn't acceptable either. To some degree, people look towards autonomous vehicles as a way of reducing the number of fatalities/injuries on the road. If the
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by gideonparanoid 8y ago
I'm reminded of Dougal Adam's fictional band, Disaster Area [0]. >Disaster Area was a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones and was generally regarded as not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but also as be
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by gideonparanoid 8y ago
Yeah, it's probably a function of it being a larger laptop. & it's, of course, subjective. I saw this typing on my 2016 MacBook Pro, & I personally love the giant trackpad.
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by gideonparanoid 8y ago
Looking at the Macbook in front of me & back to this laptop on my screen & the trackpad looks absolutely tiny. Large trackpads are good! Seems odd that it's so small.
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by gideonparanoid 8y ago
I agree, two completely different types of suppression, each quite scary.
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by gideonparanoid 8y ago
Your experience does not necessarily reflect the reality of it [0]. [0] https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/01/03/study-cyclists-dont-b...
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by gideonparanoid 8y ago
A good local bike shop is invaluable, especially if they have a good workshop.
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by gideonparanoid 8y ago
This is a good analysis of the situation. >(no idea who the other bloke is) Jonathan Bartley [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Bartley
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by gideonparanoid 8y ago
Reminds me of this blog post [0] about a guy who lost his Twitter @N. [0] https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...
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by gideonparanoid 8y ago
Also, surely that needs to be more accurately described as 'safest car ever tested /for its occupants/'.
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by gideonparanoid 9y ago
I've found that with blocking every account I see a promoted tweet from, I barely see any any more.
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by gideonparanoid 9y ago
We have ANPR[0] in the UK. Makes it very easy to follow vehicles around the country on main roads. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recogni...
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by gideonparanoid 9y ago
Were that the case, there's unlikely to be the resources to act on every crime. However, having some 'dirt' on everyone means that it'd be easy to take action on any particular 'problem' person.
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by gideonparanoid 9y ago
There's no such thing as road tax, roads are paid for out of general taxation [0]. What they're thinking is vehicle excise duty, which doesn't apply to all vehicles, so that point is moot. [0] http://ipayroadtax.co
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by gideonparanoid 9y ago
That's the difference between an acronym & an initialism. An acronym is pronounced as a word, but an initialism is just the letters (usually because it cannot be pronounced).
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by gideonparanoid 9y ago
Usually it's pressing the down-volume & the power button at the same time.
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by gideonparanoid 9y ago
For some context: Peel Remote is an app for using the IR blaster to control your TV/DVR. HTC used to have their own app for it, but it got discontinued so they put up Peel Remote as the replacement. I was about to consider this a shame
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by gideonparanoid 9y ago
My girlfriend has done some work in Antarctica before, she said that it wasn't uncommon to find food ten or twenty years past its use-by-date. This is kind of the next level though.
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by gideonparanoid 9y ago
That depends on how environmentally friendly you want to be in reclaiming that steel [0]: > A secondhand vessel is currently worth about $190 per tonne to a shipbreaking yard in Turkey, a price established by the local market in reclaime
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by gideonparanoid 9y ago
There's only two parties - Lib Dems & Greens - which promised a chance to revert Brexit, so I wouldn't expect it to be reversed. A softer Brexit is certainly on the cards though. This guide [0] from the BBC might help to under
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by gideonparanoid 9y ago
I'm curious what the under-30s turnout is. I'm hoping this will inspire younger people & encourage them to engage more in politics.

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