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by jarek 12y ago
Canada is cold - check Mennonite barn-raising - check dull but necessary business - check Protestant work ethic - no immigrant-boy-doing-good - no Article scores 3/5 on the Americans-writing-about-abroad scale
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by jarek 12y ago
Opera and IE support MHTML (MIME HTML), it seems to work alright
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by jarek 12y ago
This is true for English and German but in the Polish layout the characters are only accessible with right Alt
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by jarek 12y ago
Given the new campus they're building it's probably for self-driving cars to bring engineers lunch /s
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by jarek 12y ago
> I wonder about other entrants... Perhaps Apple? Because Apple's other attempts at SaaS are going so well? You'll call an Apple Car but it'll go to Blackberry offices instead.
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by jarek 12y ago
Approximately no one comes to the UK to look at gas holders. It's not like number of infrastructure nerds coming to look at King's Cross and St Pancras would drop if we were to remove the gas holders nearby. But yeah, convert them
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by jarek 12y ago
How long until you run out of applicants willing to take the risk of having to restart their job search after they've settled down?
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by jarek 12y ago
Yeah, I just wanted to point out that it's not just a matter of tech skill. We use the broadband all the time, though not very heavily, and I'm not convinced TalkTalk is bad enough to justify £5-10 per month extra plus potential i
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by jarek 12y ago
> I thought then, and think now, that the TalkTalk bias is due to the demographics of the users of that ISP. Everyone with the technical skill to visit SamKnows or ThinkBroadband knows TalkTalk are poorly-rated and thus tends to avoid ch
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by jarek 12y ago
Great, so it's begun in Vancouver and San Francisco. Forefront of transportation :)
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by jarek 12y ago
Radio signals to help blind people, replacing sound. The learning period for "vehicles don't make noise at speeds that can kill you" has already begun. Priuses have been around for 10 years.
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by jarek 12y ago
Clearly not scalable in the future, where amount of electric vehicles will keep increasing (not just cars: scooters and e-bikes too). I'm a fairly passionate pedestrian but we can't expect to be able to stay safe by hearing alone.
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by jarek 12y ago
> but not necessarily at city speeds as the speed is low No, but often enough for it to be a factor. As a pedestrian I don't assume I can hear an engine. > (and a stationary car makes no tyre noise but combustion engine still mak
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by jarek 12y ago
Maybe they shouldn't expect that then. Lots of cities have trolleybuses, trams, and other electric transport without carnage on the roads.
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by jarek 12y ago
At city speeds, tire noise exceeds engine noise in many internal-combustion vehicles as well.
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by jarek 12y ago
With GPS, the hard part isn't figuring out where you are, it's telling the rest of the world where you are.
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by jarek 12y ago
I'm currently in Kraków. Only really crap suburb osiedla don't have a tram or a major bus loop for heading into city centre...
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by jarek 12y ago
A possible, though minor hack with this arrangement would be: - You have 0.1 BTC and wish to protect against BTC value loss vs USD - You make a payment to your own Stripe account of 0.1 BTC, say 10 USD - After BTCUSD falls, you refund the p
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by jarek 12y ago
In practice the refund will just post for whatever converted value you've paid in the first place and processors will take the difference in either direction
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by jarek 12y ago
No different from numbers of apps in smartphone app stores a couple of years back. It's the next hyped thing
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by jarek 12y ago
I imagine 1909-era battery technology might have been a stumbling block. Gasoline is incredibly energy-dense and while it's true that infrastructure to create it in the first place is huge, once gas is pumped into a car tank it is diff
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by jarek 12y ago
They'll keep the tube at a constant temperature by piping Silicon Valley hot air through an insulating layer around it
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by jarek 12y ago
> Almost certainly it's regulation that's forcing them to have seats. Evil big government keeping disruptive businesses down again. Probably due to regulatory capture by the seat cartel...
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by jarek 12y ago
While there's only so much privacy you can technically expect from an operator of a web data storage service, I think being upset about an opt-out study - announced only via blog and twitter - that would benefit the operator personally
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by jarek 12y ago
Twist: he needs money to pay off his Christmas shopping credit card bill
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by jarek 12y ago
The interesting thing about this analogy is that for all of Ryanair's policies on baggage and boarding and frills, they're still required to hold insurance and airworthiness certificates. Similarly with taxis, I don't have a
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by jarek 12y ago
They say that kind of stuff because there's no such thing as bad press for Ryanair so it ends up as free brand marketing. They also "considered" lay-down or standing-only flights at one point as I remember.
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by jarek 12y ago
London Underground will also be 24 hours on Friday and Saturday nights only, again due to requirement for maintenance timeslots. More info http://www.tfl.gov.uk/campaign/tube-improvements/the-future-... Also note
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by jarek 12y ago
Ah, so you're the one! ;)
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by jarek 12y ago
— Delicious users, circa '07 Though certainly if you don't mind switching services every three or five years it's a smaller factor.

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