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by jmkd 7y ago
While I strongly agree with the spirit of this, I feel there are enough exceptions to this principle for it to be more pragmatically put. For example: Take a two lane road with no median barrier. Whether cycling, motorcycling or driving I h
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Always worth zooming out and considering this study that relates average temperature to economic production, claiming 13C as a sweet spot https://www.nature.com/articles/nature15725
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This quote resonates: ‘We want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, an
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An elegant reminder, thank you.
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Leaves me very uncomfortable, this combination of honesty as a humblebrag with ethically-dubious practices. What lesson does this teach me, an unemployed program manager with plenty of experience and principles?
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From the article, "Instead of an amusement park in which kids line up for hours to sit passively on a moving piece of Intellectual Property, what if a park just provided the raw materials for child-instigated, slightly dangerous advent
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From reproduction rights, see main article.
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Hottest UK day on record in Cambridge during recent heatwave(bbc.co.uk)
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The fact is, you can purchase a $100M Picasso but you'll have no right to put an image of it on your website unless you pay extra to the Picasso Estate. Alongside the reproduction rights discussed in the article, these two elements are
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The article refers to other behavioural traces in addition to forensic linguistics. I imagine these refer to aspects such as how and when we login to systems, our patterns of interaction with everyday interfaces, paths we typically take onl
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Which happens to this day in modern democracies, except swap exiled for ostracised.
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A lovely story and a useful reminder that every single scientific norm or fact we take for granted likely has thousands of years of thought, debate, controversy before reaching the relative stasis from which we build.
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Lots of great advice. For me as an audience member, the most memorable talks have always been the funniest ones. For me as a speaker, the hardest thing to get right is the humour.
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What's your approach to the loss of urban wildlife habitat (let's face it, bees) and the reduction in carbon sequestration potential (let's face it, trees) through the conversion of backyards into property development?
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Good to see you here, am well thank you and I hope likewise! To your point, that's just the tradition I was told by the stonemason who built the walls I helped on. There's a subtle art to pre-examining the stones before picking, i
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I picked up a wonderful concept from a teenage summer spent dry stone walling in the Cotswolds. When you pick up a stone from the pile, it MUST be placed on the wall. You either have to make it fit your intended spot through rotation or ano
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I sadly fear for this lofty ambition. The purchase of IC4 trains from Italy has to be one of Europe's worst (or at least barely told) transport procurement debacles. The 83 trains were the wrong size for Danish tracks and took 13 year
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For London it's fascinating to see the highest density of local photography mostly east, with a particular hotspot in Hackney. It seems to support the stereotype of it being a more creative area. I'm sure a dataset more recent tha
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Well, BA119 took off about an hour late which should give the passengers more time at greater altitude to see the red moon from this evening's partial eclipse. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ba119#
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Both my kids went through a version of this system in Copenhagen. 2 weeks in the forest (by bus each day) then 2 weeks in the kindergarten. This meant the kindergarten building could support double its capacity as only half the kids were th
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Lovely use of Netscape Navigator UI
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Ha yes, or equivalent to 'password'. Raises the point that humans interacting with machines will always display similar behaviours.
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Tourist's lucky guess cracks safe code on first try(bbc.co.uk)
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Joining Google was an eye-opener for me on this. Was the first time I encountered an IT department (TechStop) that didn't act like a police force and instead had your back, helping you get where you needed to be. Was always the first t
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Tourist's lucky guess cracks safe code on first try(bbc.co.uk)
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A staggering yet rather unfashionable set of studies supporting the compelling hypothesis that lead exposure in childhood contributes to an increase in violent crime later. One gets the sense that laying blame for specific modern social iss
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Several books on this precise topic, The 10% Entrepreneur is one of the best, full of useful info and practical examples. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01AXE98UA/ref=dp-kindle-redirec...
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> the food still comes from (literally) a metal shipping container 1. This is only true in some cases, there are all variety of hire kitchens used in this program. 2. Much food you consume comes from a metal shipping container at some po
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Deliveroo have the ambition to own food, so it's no surprise this appeals to Amazon. Delivery is just their first tactic in a far larger strategy.
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> Deliveroo actively masks restaurants' locations This is what allows you to order from a restaurant that is otherwise too far away from you. It's arguably of great benefit to those who do not live in that delivery area. >

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