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by hanoz 4y ago
Something is very very wrong if you need two parents earning over £100K each to live in a 3 bed terrace an hour out of town.
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by hanoz 4y ago
I hope this isn't a case of how many people does it take to drive an autonomous bus? Two, one to drive it, and the other to wander round telling passengers it's autonomous.
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by hanoz 4y ago
I'm interested to know how a full time job of sitting doing nothing at all except be ready to drive a bus full of people at a moment's notice works out.
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by hanoz 4y ago
Russia has also suggested, in a comical example of bad movie physics , that it could wipe out the British Isles with a 0.5km high radioactive tidal wave, using a 100 megaton bomb set off in the North Sea.
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by hanoz 4y ago
Ironic that the title of this post is now a sanitised version of the original in order to protect the sensitivities of the modern Hacker News readership.
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by hanoz 4y ago
Or as we were taught, by Batman, "Look right, look left, look right again" . https://youtu.be/_awciO_uFdc
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by hanoz 4y ago
> a literal fight with IT How did that pan out?
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by hanoz 4y ago
It's entirely obvious which is the desired option if the refund time is 10 weeks and the application is for, in the author's words, "free money".
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by hanoz 4y ago
The email is saying, rather clumsily, that the excess $25 of the second purchase will be refunded, and this interpretation is confirmed by fact that the third payment was also deemed to exceed the limit, which it would not have done if the
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by hanoz 4y ago
But not all of it at 0% interest as he seems to think.
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by hanoz 4y ago
Er, what? Surely he's got the wrong end of the stick and they'll be refunding the excess $25 of his second purchase, (and now the entire $9975 of his superfluous third).
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by hanoz 4y ago
But this is a game of colour perception. Isn't your comment akin to "Dyslexic person here. This is unplayable" leveled at Wordle?
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by hanoz 4y ago
Definitely. Electricity at the current UK price cap is pretty much bang on £2.50 per watt-year, so there are some eye watering annual standby costs in that spreadsheet.
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by hanoz 4y ago
> I was always under the impression that time as we know it is merely an idea and variable we add to equations to explain the motion we perceive. We see one thing happen after another thing, and conjure up the idea of time to capture a
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by hanoz 4y ago
As I understand it it's not so much a brand new phenomenon, but rather a marked increase in the background rate, with the UK having a normal full year's worth of such cases in this calendar year already. I am inclined to agree wit
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Deadly outbreak of children’s hepatitis linked to lockdown(telegraph.co.uk)
11 points by hanoz 4y ago|3 comments
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by hanoz 5y ago
This was one of my first app ideas about 10 years ago. Unfortunately my microwave had a mechanical timer such that if you opened the door when it was running the microwaving would stop, and on closing again it would resume. Unbeknown to me
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by hanoz 5y ago
It's not even the best soundtrack to a Dune movie. By a long way.
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UK gets first new-style pylons in a century(bbc.co.uk)
16 points by hanoz 5y ago|2 comments
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by hanoz 5y ago
Strange. All the male words are perfectly commonplace, and all the female ones appear to be completely made up.
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by hanoz 5y ago
This has just given me the epiphany that if the BBC is ever put out to grass, which does now seem to be in the offing, then the preservation of the shipping forecast at least, would be only a few weather APIs and some speech synthesis away.
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by hanoz 5y ago
The difference being that with nuclear mutually assured destruction, the actual leaders are assured of their own personal destruction.
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Mike Lynch: Priti Patel approves extradition of Autonomy founder(bbc.co.uk)
13 points by hanoz 5y ago|2 comments
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by hanoz 5y ago
> ...though I suspect there is some failure mode we have yet to see. Maybe there's a line of thought where people just get sick of every damn thing being massaged to death by PR people, and they do something about it. Yes please!
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by hanoz 5y ago
Don't get your hopes up. I've been waiting twenty years for non-ridiculous house prices in the UK. It's only got worse and worse. And successive governments have proved willing to do anything it takes to keep it that way.
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by hanoz 5y ago
That does sound really appealing, but, as is the case for increasingly more of us these days, it really takes the edge off when your landlord is the ultimate beneficiary.
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by hanoz 5y ago
> supply shock The supply shock you need to be worried about is the shocking oversupply of new dollars competing for the same resources.
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by hanoz 5y ago
You turn up at a venue which is scanning these QR codes as part of some vaccinated only entrance policy, let them scan your amended code, you don't get in, nor does anyone else after you.
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by hanoz 5y ago
Meanwhile let's all accuse him of being a dirty cheat no matter how implausible such a potentially ruinous fraud on its inevitable discovery. After all the man is guilty of covid wrongthink, so who knows what depths he'd sink to.
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by hanoz 5y ago
I've just managed to get my ip address a 24 hour ban by tweeking the timestamp parameter once! Which is a pretty obvious DoS vulnerability if anyone wanted to disable a venue's pass verification ability.

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