jimmytidey

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by jimmytidey 4y ago
I've always thought 'apart from the national anthem, what your favourite song' would be an insightful interview question for Trump - I guess because it's so hard imagine him with a hobby that isn't about power.
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by jimmytidey 5y ago
I have a theory: small shop owners are disproportionately likely to be car drivers, and when they say parking is essential for their customers, what they are really worried about is measures that will make it less convenient to drive them s
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by jimmytidey 5y ago
Only on HN would this count as addressing the point that the title is poorly written.
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by jimmytidey 5y ago
Thanks - not heard this before! Impossible to imagine how this could go over people's heads. Says something about how narrow many people's cultural horizons were in the 1930s I guess. According my parent's retelling of the Rt
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by jimmytidey 5y ago
However 1950s BBC radio was full of double entres that the higher up management didn't understand. Round The Horn in particular.
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by jimmytidey 5y ago
Fried eels would be too palatable
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by jimmytidey 5y ago
You need some road capacity for ambulances and Deliveroo.
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by jimmytidey 5y ago
Just to put some perspective on this, I looked up Boston's bike lanes. There are 8 miles of separated bike lanes in Boston, out of 800 miles of down town roads. Drivers in Boston are being asked to _share_ 1% of the road infrastructure
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by jimmytidey 5y ago
Thanks for your reply. Ultimately it just depends on your vision of what you'd like your city to be like. I would like everyone to have the option of cycling or walking around their city without fear of death or hospitalisation. It doe
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by jimmytidey 5y ago
It really depends on the context. Driving is often the only feasible way to get around in sparsely populated areas, or areas with extreme weather. In densely populated temperate areas, cars are often no faster than other modes of transport
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by jimmytidey 5y ago
I'm a cyclist but I try to get as many perspectives as possible. Can you recommend some alternative material for cyclists who want to see the other side?
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by jimmytidey 5y ago
Fascinating that this has generated so many answers, from so many different perspectives. Induced demand is a terrible name for the real issue here. Perhaps the "one more lane fallacy" would be better. The "one more lane fall
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by jimmytidey 5y ago
"I'm really interested in space weather. For me the NOAA site works really well, but I can see how this is a fun passion project." Or just don't say anything.
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by jimmytidey 5y ago
It's always struck me as obvious this is a 'factoid'. How much of a sword fight can you have on a spiral staircase? It's fun though? And a great learning opportunity - you can teach a kid the fun factoid, plus something
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by jimmytidey 5y ago
Sometimes, search is broken design. The assumption in the article is that the search function is trying to return what you are looking for, however, Spotify and Netflix have their own ideas about what content they want you to consume.
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by jimmytidey 6y ago
It's not that they march into the news room and tell everyone what to write. That's not how power works. The point is that people will write in a particular way if they believe it 's what the owner wants.
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by jimmytidey 6y ago
Margate is in full hipster renaissance though. Not sure when gentrification will reach North Wales, maybe quicker if working from home is more culturally acceptable.
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by jimmytidey 6y ago
I'm fascinated by the decision too. But I'm guessing it isn't driven by stupidity. This campaign seems very unlikely it will change public opinion or make Apple change their position. Perhaps the campaign helps to build a pos
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by jimmytidey 6y ago
The Rockwell encabulator would only be relevant if the SAR had parasitic side band resonance. Unlikely, IMHO.
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Handful of Twitter Users Can Sway Council Decisions, Finds Data Analysis(forbes.com)
14 points by jimmytidey 6y ago|1 comments
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by jimmytidey 6y ago
Yes. Or you could use a system of weight categories, for example one category for cars and one for bikes.
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by jimmytidey 6y ago
Appropriate that a company that makes 'information dominance centers' has the address 1984 Isaac Newton Square.
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I had a bad PhD Viva. Here is what I learned about vivas, PhDs, & myself(medium.com)
1 points by jimmytidey 6y ago|0 comments
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by jimmytidey 6y ago
My theory is that secrecy jurisdictions, shell companies etc, are opaque to the legal system but transparent to intelligence agencies. Under that arrangement, politicians and the very rich still get a way to retain their privacy and avoid t
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by jimmytidey 6y ago
The same delusional self belief that gets you to 100 million dollar bonuses sends you to prison. If he was rational he wouldn't have got to the 100 million dollar stage.
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by jimmytidey 6y ago
In terms of Facebook's longer term relationship with the EU, surely this is an own goal?
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by jimmytidey 6y ago
Isn't being strict about what features you add the core of good product management? (Doesn't apply to bugs I guess.) Explaining it to users is a nice bonus.
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by jimmytidey 8y ago
I don't want to turn into this man. I'm going to turn into this man.
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by jimmytidey 8y ago
You are correct, 'toxic' is a value judgement, I should have said extremist. One problem is that it will be impossible to know if a Facebook poll is representative; most likely it will not be, and will instead be taken mostly by p
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by jimmytidey 8y ago
This does seem like something of a hostage to fortune, I can't imagine how they intend to moderate it. Obviously people are going to poll their echo-chamber in support of toxic ideas. Even more alarming for Facebook, what if their poll

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