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by hanoz 8y ago
> We don’t have evidence the airlines used an “exploitative” algorithm Don't we? Europe’s biggest airline said: 'those who don’t pay to choose a seat are “randomly” assigned one' Well that is an algorithm for splitting non
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by hanoz 8y ago
Previously included benefits becoming paid extras is one thing, but deliberately creating an artificial hindrance which is a paid extra to resolve is quite another, especially when it's obviously a grave compromise of passenger safety.
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by hanoz 8y ago
It pronounces Milan perfectly to my British ear. It would be pronounced much the same here minus the accent. Certainly not Meelan.
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by hanoz 8y ago
Misjudging distance seems to be a very frequent suspect in tales of the unexplained. "The light moved at an extraordinary speed" - it moved at an ordinary speed, close to you. Likewise "through the distant moors it stalked -
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by hanoz 8y ago
Google seems to be increasingly giving the impression of collapsing under its own weight.
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by hanoz 8y ago
Thanks. What a lovely nostalgia trip! Ways of 'downloading' in my childhood, in decreasing order of unreliability: * Via the television, holding a cassette recorder microphone to the tele speaker, after staying up till after midni
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Children's screen time has little effect on sleep, says study(bbc.co.uk)
98 points by hanoz 8y ago|89 comments
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by hanoz 8y ago
I'd never seen beyond the login screen of Facebook until a site I run started getting sporadic bursts of traffic from there, so I ventured in to try and find the links. I was stunned and devastated to discover how many thriving little
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by hanoz 8y ago
How about - user completes everything else on their iPhone, app generates a code, user asks Android owning friend to download companion app: SaveMyIPhoneOwningEuroFriendsBacon.apk, friend enters code and scans passport?
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by hanoz 8y ago
Optional is fine, I'm not looking to force anything on anyone else, but as an Android user without a fingerprint reader, there's no option.
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by hanoz 8y ago
My one complaint, and the thing which forces me to use a competitor instead, is that there's no pin protection on entering the app, which I find quite unbelievable.
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by hanoz 8y ago
This is pretty counterintuitive. In the game described you should expect to see one 'wrong way' bus per play on average, not half as you might expect. On the other hand, you have an exactly even chance of catching your own bus bef
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by hanoz 8y ago
Why? Is it better to eat a pig with a lower IQ? Even if it would have had a higher IQ had you not bred it out of one? What about a pig with a higher IQ but which was happy with its lot? https://youtu.be/bAF35dekiAY?t=1m13s
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by hanoz 8y ago
Even if yawning and face opening are predictors of a sleep crash, given that they are both methods people use to help keep themselves awake, does creating an environment where drivers feel they are not allowed to perform them actually lead
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by hanoz 8y ago
Is there any way I can pick this up using an RTL-SDR dongle?
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by hanoz 8y ago
Can't you just derive any pitch if you know the default pitch of your own voice?
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by hanoz 8y ago
I'm pleased to see that what the people are really concerned about, as defined by this page's popular articles section, is: Swedish road covered in herring after elk accident
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New law sees Shetland break free of map box(scotsman.com)
2 points by hanoz 8y ago|0 comments
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by hanoz 8y ago
i.e. the Inner Platform Effect ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect ), and all the worse for the programming being done without the benefit of programmers, in this case.
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by hanoz 8y ago
>> Republic of Ireland joining the United Kingdom > Sure, but this is somewhere in probability behind "UK destroyed by asteroid impact". Maybe, but Ireland also leaving the EU would be a good and not entirely unpopular so
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by hanoz 8y ago
> without internet For anyone else finding this as implausible as I was, apparently the Pixel has a local database of 17,300 tracks. Still pretty impressive though. https://uk.pcmag.com/news/91606/googles-pixel-
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by hanoz 8y ago
Ah, that's why. It's not available in the UK.
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by hanoz 8y ago
Me: "Alexa, open Voice Coder" Alexa: "Sorry, I don't know that"
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by hanoz 8y ago
As LIDAR's pièce de résistance to date has been its ability to "see through" forest canopies to the terrain below, I don't understand how rain or snow should present an unsurmountable obstacle to seeing the road ahead.
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by hanoz 8y ago
> drinking at least a unit of water per unit of alcohol What's a unit of water? Presumably not the same as a unit of alcohol which is is 10ml. (Am currently drinking approximately 6.5 units of water/grape-juice per unit of alco
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by hanoz 8y ago
Indeed it appears to be Drax coal-fired power station in Yorkshire ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drax_power_station ), Britian's largest emitter of carbon dioxide.
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by hanoz 8y ago
Wait, what, doesn't everyone see these same geometric patterns merely by closing their eyes tight?
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by hanoz 8y ago
Locking cockpit doors has already solved both those problems.
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by hanoz 8y ago
May I contribute: Peacock Spiders https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=1m19s&v=d_yYC5r8xMI
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by hanoz 8y ago
> Most folks took 70% to mean that she would certainly win and were bitterly disappointed the morning after. Surely, given the outcome, more of those folks were pleasantly surprised at the outcome than "bitterly disappointed".

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