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by iamben 7y ago
I wonder if a lot of vaccination fear is because the problems associated with the vaccination are a lot easier to relate to (in a society that doesn't often anymore see outbreaks that do a lot of damage) that the problems vaccines are
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by iamben 7y ago
I see you've got a lot of downvotes for this, which is a shame because it's an interesting discussion point. I've often wondered how the rise of ardently held fringe beliefs corresponds with the decline of religion in Western
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Coronavirus: UK confirms plan for its own contact tracing app(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by iamben 7y ago|0 comments
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by iamben 7y ago
I don't think it's that hard to believe. I had a very smart lawyer friend call me the other day to ask for help regarding one of these. He said something like "I probably would have disregarded it, but they knew my password.
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by iamben 7y ago
I'm not saying those people don't exist - just that I suspect they are a significant minority when compared to the group I spoke of.
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by iamben 7y ago
I'm not sure it's that simple. I think most people breaking the rules just think it doesn't apply to them . Like they're healthy, they're low risk, they're good at following all the other rules ("we won
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Airbnb hosts defy lockdown laws with 'Covid-19 retreats'(bbc.com)
32 points by iamben 7y ago|27 comments
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by iamben 7y ago
Been a member for nearly ten years - it's the only website I've visited (probably) daily for ten years, which I think says something. There's more people, for sure - but content remains useful and discussion remains higher qu
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by iamben 7y ago
I thought it made complete sense. There was some kind of event almost three nights a week in my WeWork at one point. If you enabled people running meetups to use the WeWork space (free beer! Neon lights! Exposed brick!) it's the perfec
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That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief(hbr.org)
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by iamben 7y ago
Thank you!
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by iamben 7y ago
Can someone explain chip speed and relevance in a way I'd understand pretty please? I dialled out of this stuff years ago - at a point when bigger numbers just meant better, but now they just seem the same? I'm still using a 2013
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Coronavirus: German Big Brother cast to be told about pandemic live on TV(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by iamben 7y ago|0 comments
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by iamben 7y ago
The table list is cut off for me (unless I zoom my browser right out). You could probably add: display: block; overflow-x: scroll; as an inline style or to your CSS for the table (which has the ID 'example') and you'll get a
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UK local elections postponed for a year over coronavirus(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by iamben 7y ago|0 comments
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by iamben 7y ago
I'm quite the fan of erythritol. I do get a 'cool' aftertaste with it though.
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by iamben 7y ago
I'm a fairly capable generalist. For many years I struggled with pretty real imposter syndrome. It's a lot better recently, and it certainly helps to work with people who can remind you it's a strength - but being a young per
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by iamben 7y ago
Aside: this is one of the biggest lessons of my adult life. Just because I could make something doesn't mean I should make something. Learning to value your time is a very underdeveloped skill.
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by iamben 7y ago
They said this isn't the case - https://twitter.com/AskRobinhood/status/1234861941413351434?...
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by iamben 7y ago
Don't have kids, so pinch of salt this - but my dad used to make "golf ball runs" for us when we were kids. Essentially long, elaborately set up contraptions that you put a golf ball at the top and it rolls all the way to the
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Rishi Sunak plans to raise £3bn by scrapping 'entrepreneurs' relief'(theguardian.com)
1 points by iamben 7y ago|1 comments
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Email address charges branded 'daylight robbery'(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by iamben 7y ago|1 comments
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by iamben 7y ago
And regular users will now click accept to anything , without reading a thing, because they just want to buy/read/watch whatever they clicked on.
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by iamben 7y ago
Yeah, this kind of thing is what's kept me returning (daily) to HN for the last ten years, and only sporadically using Reddit etc.
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by iamben 7y ago
They also had a card with a transparent part - if you were eating with friends and someone had one everyone would be "ohhhh, what's that?"
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Talk like an Egyptian: mummy's voice heard 3k years after death(theguardian.com)
3 points by iamben 7y ago|0 comments
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by iamben 7y ago
I've been using Inkdrop, mostly because I like my notes E2EE. It's worth a look: https://docs.inkdrop.app/security
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by iamben 7y ago
I assumed email lists of people who'd taken the personality tests, then maybe LAL off the back of that. How was the algorithmic targeting back then? I know I wouldn't want to manually optimise against it now (with the right spend)
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by iamben 7y ago
But at that point couldn't you just upload an email list and target by that? I could be miles off the mark, but I assumed a lot of this came from getting people to take a "personality test" and then bucketing that person for
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'Serious cyber-attack' on Austria's foreign ministry(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by iamben 7y ago|0 comments

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