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by jnty 7y ago
News websites are failing every day. Even Buzzfeed had big layoffs a few months ago. If your revenue model relies on making your website increasingly less user-friendly, it might have kept your head above water for longer than some competit
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by jnty 7y ago
'Biodegradable plastic' is great I'm sure but it promotes bizarre thinking like this. How about we just decide not to have mass-pollution parties for no reason, rather than trying to reduce their impact with expensive new mat
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by jnty 7y ago
I'm all for 'thinking big' but not in a way that seems to have literally killed people in the meantime.
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by jnty 7y ago
If we believe we can have driverless cars in 10 years, I don't understand why we can't have smart speed limiters as a first step now.
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by jnty 7y ago
Good - so it keeps them honest. Are you suggesting they should be forced to publish timetables which they know will be wrong 10% of the time?
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by jnty 7y ago
On trains and planes, my main critieria is that I arrive by the stated arrival time and therefore am pretty unfussed by stories about padding time etc - that's more of a long term structural concern than something that will bother me o
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by jnty 7y ago
It seems an odd thing to get hung up on, really. I'd rather have universal healthcare than lots of neon lights.
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by jnty 7y ago
This is wrong on a higher level too as most commercial software will disclaim all liability for the correct operation of their software unless you pay them lots of money for a support contract. Turns this is just as viable a business model
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by jnty 7y ago
It's an interesting project from a heritage point of view, but it feels like a throwback from when Havana was simply the playground of rich Americans. I wonder if this is a history residents really want to go back to? Having said that,
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by jnty 7y ago
I wonder how many other articles could do with a conclusion entitled "None of This Matters"?!
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by jnty 7y ago
I've seen the 'private supply' notices but I've never seen them say that water should be treated first (nor have I ever had problems with not.) It's disappointing if they're starting to do this in a blanket fas
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by jnty 7y ago
This is getting closer to a solution but it assumes that damage is totally reversible given money. If you punch me and break my nose, I can sue you for 'damages' (loss of earnings, medical expenses etc) and in the eyes of civil la
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by jnty 7y ago
It sounds terrifying whatever your job happens to be to be honest.
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by jnty 7y ago
The article doesn't touch on this but the machine's name, Bertha, is almost certainly a reference to the 80s UK TV show about a factory machine that could seemingly make anything. Quite apt! https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by jnty 7y ago
> ALWAYS encrypt your secrets in transit and at rest And the encryption secret for this is stored...how?
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by jnty 7y ago
I think it's safe to assume that the comparison flat tariff won't be available that way (or, at least, at that price.)
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by jnty 7y ago
£60/yr would be a good saving for a supplier switch, the comparision and admin from which could easily add up an hour's work. A good ROI indeed!
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by jnty 8y ago
You currently get looked at weird if you say you're interested in trains or stamp collecting or something. I think this prediction is a bit too optimistic.
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by jnty 8y ago
Yeah, same name and security (otherwise it would presumably never work.) The problem is the in-between area where there's bad reception for one and good reception for another.
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by jnty 8y ago
The roaming point is very interesting - I do have a problem with devices 'hanging on' to the wrong AP in my home. I'm gonna try it!
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by jnty 8y ago
I think we agree? There's a huge amount of effort being spent on extracting fossil fuels which will destroy our planet which could reasonably be used to develop sustainable technologies instead.
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by jnty 8y ago
People used to heavily criticise Minecraft from a technical point of view. Their criticisms were often entirely reasonable - it was at one point a very inefficient and unstable piece of software. However, it's now the second best-selli
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by jnty 8y ago
It's pretty depressing to think of all the extremely talented people working their socks off to find oil fields, directed to do so by fools who don't realise we can never safely use them. It would be much better if they were work
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by jnty 8y ago
They're merely labels. You can imagine 'far left' as 'centrist'. I was going to name them A, B and Z but wanted to get across that Far Left voters might prefer to compromise on Left than Right, but might prefer Righ
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by jnty 8y ago
I'm not sure I understand, nor how this would combat the problem that I can accidentally spoil my ballot by miscounting the number of choices I've made. An easy mistake to make - even easier if you have a condition like dyslexia.
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by jnty 8y ago
I mean that we are left with a choice that has been traditionally dominant rather than a less prevalent but otherwise popular party.
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by jnty 8y ago
This is very common in the UK which runs a mix (even if passenger trains do dominate.) Our reluctance to spend the money to separate the passenger and freight traffic - even on the busiest lines - is part of the reason reliability of the ne
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by jnty 8y ago
Surely this disenfranchises those most willing to compromise, who are probably going to end up being those who support small parties? Let's say you a Right and Left party, and breakout Far Left which is actually very popular but has pr
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by jnty 8y ago
Using polling data to vote tactically is exactly what we want to avoid and gives undue power to pollsters (and the people paying them.)
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by jnty 8y ago
Yet this would then increase spoilage significantly would it not?

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