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by hanoz 7y ago
Got a link? Having gone from zero to keen this afternoon as a result of the "Crazy LORA ranges" post, I'm interested in acquiring a ”The Things Node" or if possible a cheaper device which will let me test if my nearest T
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by hanoz 7y ago
You are in Europe yourself I take it? In the Eurozone? I'd forget bonds personally. With negative real interest rates, bonds are just the safest way to lose money slowly. You mention elsewhere you want to avoid currency risk in an ETF.
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by hanoz 7y ago
I suppose I must turn in my hacker membership card for this, but for me he was always the enigmatic star of Guinness commercials for a long time before I saw Blade Runner.
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by hanoz 7y ago
I'm a native English speaker, and I don't either.
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by hanoz 7y ago
How about subjugating them to be wage earners, just to keep the banker/rentier class in clover?
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by hanoz 7y ago
Search results in reverse chronological order is Twitter's killer feature but, bafflingly, it seems like they've been going out of thier way to prevent that for years now, especially on mobile. Why? Also, if there's any Andro
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by hanoz 7y ago
I've no wish to intrude on that, but as a father eager to instill a sense of magic in the night sky in my own children, I am conscious that it is possible to spoil an experience by raising unrealistic expectations. It would also be a s
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by hanoz 7y ago
It doesn't seem quite right to pick apart a private family email from an obviously enthusiastic father, and I stand to be corrected as only a casual observer myself, but a lot of his message seems pretty misleading. Apart from the unob
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by hanoz 7y ago
> let's further assume that the tiny air currents generated in this scenario do not only not cause a tornado as in the original butterfly effect (which, frankly, is not very likely) You're underestimating the effect now. You o
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by hanoz 7y ago
Absolutely, the butterfly effect renders all back in time plots fatally flawed. Never mind killing Hitler's grandfather or making sure your parents still meet, your very appearance in an earlier world, even for an instant, would guaran
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by hanoz 7y ago
If you mean the tradition of choosing historical figures to feature on bank notes, rather than the tradition of boasting about it at office parties, we've been doing the former sort of thing a long time before Mark Carney's arriva
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Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note(bbc.co.uk)
664 points by hanoz 7y ago|298 comments
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by hanoz 7y ago
I can't help but think that AI plus robotics is going to have pest control sewn up in the not too distant future, rendering these chemical brute force attacks largely redundant.
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London Underground wi-fi data collection 'has huge potential'(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by hanoz 7y ago|0 comments
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by hanoz 7y ago
A liquid soap dispenser bottle sits there for weeks with all its complex surface area touched by umpteen dirty hands, never in itself getting washed, but a bar of soap comes self contained in a neat wrapper all of its own which is automati
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by hanoz 7y ago
Presumably this is very illegal under GDPR, and any companies engaging in it may as well start budgeting now for a 4% of turnover donation to the EU.
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by hanoz 7y ago
I dwell on chaos theory. I don't think its significance has been properly absorbed by the public consciousness yet. There's something simultaneously liberating and unsettling about it. For instance I'm often conscious that it
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'Excessive' student mobile phone use linked to more sexual partners(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by hanoz 7y ago|0 comments
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by hanoz 7y ago
In my opinion one of the best ways of injecting some new life into the community would be to let people take their test online.
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by hanoz 7y ago
It's a shortcoming specifically introduced by your proposal. If you've got a random way of picking one of ten people, then you've already got a random number between one and ten. Your answer essentially reduces to: ask one pe
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by hanoz 7y ago
> Wouldn't putting "everyone in a numbered sequence unknown to them" require a random number, which we don't have? Yes. The above answer just obfuscates the issue. Consider ten people overwhelmingly biased towards 7.
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by hanoz 7y ago
To give a sense of the scales involved - if the sun were an orange and the earth a grain of sand 6 meters away, this star would be a pea about 5000km away. There would only be another 34 stars / fruit-and-veg within this 10000km wide s
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by hanoz 7y ago
The two versions of the quiz claim different correct answers for the population of the continents question.
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by hanoz 7y ago
Ouch. Having just listened to the audio, and not knowing anything about either party, or the subject matter, I have to say the author took it quite graciously, but I think she was very lucky to have it broken to her by so gentle an intervie
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by hanoz 7y ago
Doubtless many of the industry's well-to-do patrons do offset this somewhat by boycotting plastic straws, single use coffee cups and the like.
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by hanoz 7y ago
This is the natural consequence of unrestrained usury in a market for things everyone needs one of. See also - housing. Only the bankers benefit in the end.
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by hanoz 7y ago
It sounds like great advice, I just wish I had some properly hard things I needed to apply it to, rather than the multitude of what ought to be simple things of which a few unexpectedly and inexplicably turn out to be grossly disproportiona
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by hanoz 7y ago
Have I missed a lot of news recently, or is this some strange usage of the present tense that I wasn't previously aware of?
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by hanoz 8y ago
I think we need only reflect on our own likely response to any conceivable attempt by a previous civilisation to so forewarn us, to realise the futility of our attempting likewise.
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by hanoz 8y ago
Can anyone here give a good description of what it's like not to have Aphantasia? I'm having a very hard time believing this condition isn't the norm. Edit . For a condition which supposedly affects only a few percent, the

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