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   by iso1631 3y ago

   Participating in society requires you to use the tools that 90% of people use. In the past you could live by being paid in cash, buying things locally, etc. You still had issues, if the local butcher decided to ban you then you were going t
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   by iso1631 3y ago

   Was the company insured for the massive cost of the rescue attempt? Do they have enough assets to pay for it?
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   by iso1631 3y ago

   Instant. Imagine a Ford F150 sitting on every square inch of your body.
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   by iso1631 3y ago

   I suspect the reason the iphone was so popular was execs who weren't allowed to install games (angry birds etc) on their corporate blackberrys due to them being locked down by Corporate IT then got an iphone, then felt they didn't
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   by iso1631 3y ago

   In the 1980s, to get around compulsory purchase orders able to take land from even the most determined charity, campaigners split up a field into a few thousand small parcels, sold on for a pound or two. The idea being that trying to get th
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   by iso1631 3y ago

   Many Americans have this fantasy about the communists owning the world and taking away their freedoms for the benefit of an elite few Those same people see no comparison to reality where the billionaires own the world and take away their fr
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   by iso1631 3y ago

   > Sally: You had to plan more ahead and hope it worked out. People didn’t flake as much. There’s no option to text someone 10 minutes before, because you knew they were waiting for you. That wasn't 2002. Not in the UK any way. Pre 2
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   by iso1631 3y ago

   The tech angle here is unsurprising, but yet another example of "the algorithm" causing real harm Tech companies can't scream "it's too hard". Tech employees can't hide their actions behind "If I didn
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   by iso1631 3y ago

   And google profiting from this torture? Is that surprising?
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    I've never had a piece of ikea equipment where that applies, I'm typing this on my ikea desk from 2011, next to a 2x2 kallax and another 2x4 kallax that have moved 5 and 3 times respectively.
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    You just need to pivot
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    My oldest Ikea furniture dates from 2007, it's moved 5 times since I built it. Most stuff doesn't even need disassembly. My bed is Ikea and has been dissasembled and reassembled twice, no problems.
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    Singapore has only just (in the last 12 months) decriminalised being gay. Several of my colleagues have refused to go to the country in the past for that reason alone. Same with places in the middle east.
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    Most people in computing were women originally. Look up who programmed Eniac. Look up who created the early compilers and who programmed univac. Look at who programmed the flight software for Apollo The tech industry was built by women, the
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    40k-4m depending on skills and company
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    Just has a link, at least for those of us who use old.reddit. And that's a good thing.
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    I'm sure slashdot showed the messages in threads (at least in some modes) at least 5 years before reddit was a thing. In fact here's a screenshot from 2005 https://www.flickr.com/photos/third/18260796
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    The web based forum I ran in the late 90s was threaded, then things like UBB came along and the flat structure seemed to win out.
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    I can replace my watch battery and it's waterproof
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    My guniea pigs hide from predators by burying themselves in hay. It's fairly effective. That's not what as Ostrich does. An Ostrich leaves itself exposed and just closes its eyes. Mankinds attitude to all sorts of threats is an os
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    An Atlas V can get 400kg to the nearest star (well any star) by launching on a solar escape velocity -- see New Horizons. An expended F9 has a similar payload I think. You'd have to construct a container that would survive a failure -
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    As Ostrich policy is ignoring the problem -- specifically not looking at the problem. Burying the Geiger counters would be an Ostrich policy
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    So you can legitimately put "broke the internet" on your resume :D
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    I doubt Guardian is as reliant as say Sky is. Betting is pretty much the primary driver of revenue for their sports coverage, and indeed football as a whole. It seems half of premier teams have some form of betting company on their shirt --
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    0.9AU, 0.9C, 0.9 Parsecs, 0.9 miles, all make sense half an AU, half the speed of light, half a parsec, half a mile, again fine 90% of an AU, 90% of the speed of light, 90% of a parsec, 90% of a mile. That sounds odd.
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    Clouds don't stop your satellite TV working. Some types of clouds can cause rain fade on certain frequencies. If space debris hits it's the same as any other satellite
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    You're downvoted, but you're also right. The world is not going to be a nice place by the time Millennials get to retirement age.
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    > The very second a quick and dirty script grows into a full-fledged program, it immediately becomes technical debt. It often becomes a business asset which delivers far more value to the business than any maintenance (often very low) wh
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    Millions of migrants seems a massivly optimistic view. I suspect it will be well over a billion in 10 years.
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    by iso1631 3y ago

    Why do you think that? Because of increased load from people visiting HN to discuss it?