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by jboles 8y ago
I think it’s a Moire effect from the patterned background being resized and no longer 1:1 with actual device pixels. Changing zoom level and then scrolling on my iPad changes the appearance of the flashing.
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Fyre Festival: Inside the world's biggest festival flop(bbc.com)
1 points by jboles 8y ago|0 comments
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by jboles 8y ago
Because railway lines, in the past, were not designed with autonomous operation in mind. It’s really only suitable for completely isolated systems (high speed bullet-train style lines walled off from their surroundings, or Western Australia
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by jboles 8y ago
They can, however, hit the brakes as best they can (kinetic energy is proportional to the square of velocity, so this helps a lot), and warn passengers to brace for impact (example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gle
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by jboles 8y ago
It’s probably not necessary to print it out, but it’s a great way to establish the discipline for doing it in an IDE/editor. A company I used to work at did code reviews this way, we printing out pages of code and go through it in a me
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by jboles 8y ago
That's what Boeing is marketing it as, but the 757 has higher performance. Being designed for turbojet engines, the 737 is too low to the ground to use any bigger turbofan engines than it currently does, and getting it higher off the g
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by jboles 8y ago
> Is it stepped at all? Do you owe nothing before 50k and then once you cross that threshold you now owe money? That would seem to incentivise staying below that threshold for a percentage of borrowers. You make no repayments below 50k b
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by jboles 8y ago
They must be really miserable people. The Tesla drivers should make/get a supercharger extension cord, and block the trucks in.
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Lime ordered to remove scooters off Gold Coast streets ‘in two hours’(smh.com.au)
10 points by jboles 8y ago|1 comments
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by jboles 8y ago
One annoying thing about basic economy fares is that the airline charges you to carry your own bag on (though I think one or two airlines may have since reversed this policy). It is “enforced” by relegating basic economy fares to the last b
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by jboles 8y ago
The Hurstville shopping centre is right above a train station; Australia is largely earthquake free.
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by jboles 8y ago
Getting the plastic-based glitter to not melt or burn on the grill might also be quite a challenge.
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by jboles 8y ago
Exactly, start with linking neighbor cities where the density supports it. Once the infrastructure and expertise is in place, then it starts to make sense to link the existing lines together into a bigger network.
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From ideas boom to innovation bust: How Australia turned against tech(smh.com.au)
5 points by jboles 8y ago|0 comments
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by jboles 8y ago
There seems to be a principle around that but it applies only to children and trespassing, not adults and theft. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine
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by jboles 8y ago
Yes, 20+ times sometimes. Totally user-hostile.
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by jboles 8y ago
This is like the 2010’s equivalent of getting ‘white vanned’. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_speaker_scam
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by jboles 8y ago
In a stock market, some companies outperform others by being more valuable at one moment than another. The difference in value results from differences in the companies’ expected future cash flows. Crypto coins, despite ICO promises, have n
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by jboles 8y ago
There’s millions/billions in sunk costs embedded in them, in the form of electricity bills already paid by miners. But being sunk costs, they do not contribute to any intrinsic value on their own.
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by jboles 8y ago
You’re getting downvoted because you clearly didn’t read the article.
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by jboles 8y ago
That is by design. The Australian Government has historically been somewhat arrogant in any area of technology. Their attitude, in this case and others, is similar to that of management at a company with a poor technology culture. "we&
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by jboles 8y ago
As an Apple Mac user and Hackintosh builder: Apple has gotten thousands from me over the years, so care factor zero :)
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by jboles 8y ago
Bing Desktop is still around -- you can get daily pretty nature pics, without the overlaid ads. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=358...
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by jboles 8y ago
It seems the US cannot have so many nice things (like preferential voting, and therefore a diversity of candidates) because someone might feel that their freedoms are under threat. (I have thought this before about other things I have come
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by jboles 8y ago
Yeah. "Give me ..." without even "please" just sounds rude.
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by jboles 8y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure where the qualms about monotonicity are coming from. In an IRV the lower-ranked preferences do not count until the higher-ranked preferences have already been eliminated for not reaching majority
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by jboles 8y ago
IRV: Rank the candidates by your preference, 1st to N'th. Your vote is applied to each candidate in turn, until one wins majority (50% + 1). There -- simple!
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by jboles 8y ago
What does political spectrum/agenda even have to do with it? The theoretical candidate was everyone's second preference. That sounds like quite a good compromise.
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by jboles 8y ago
What happens when you take a professional workplace and try to make it a "lifestyle".
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by jboles 8y ago
By putting the crap up top they're inducing you to start that downward scroll...

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