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by jnty 8y ago
These and other incidents with the UAE recently highlight the troubling willingness with which western states and businesses still jump into bed with the authoritarian dictatorship du jour (usually on the proviso that it has a lot of oil)
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by jnty 8y ago
I can only assume that the people who predict that self-driving cars are just a few short years away from universal adoption have never visited India!
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by jnty 8y ago
Given the likelihood of coincidences like that actually happening, you'd surely end up finding lots and lots of pairs of completely unrelated people that look remarkably similar, with no way of knowing if any of them are actually the s
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by jnty 8y ago
I didn't realise there were any smart radiator valve systems, in the UK or elsewhere, which needed to be plumbed in - do you know of any? I'm pretty sure all of them work, in your terminology, as electrically actuated 'knobs&
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by jnty 8y ago
There is a prize in the Tour de France for 'combativity' and it means some competitors end up powering off on attacks that have minimal chance of success, so you're maybe not as far off as you'd think!
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by jnty 8y ago
Can it be a zero-sum game if you can usually switch 'sides' from driver to pedestrian/cyclist/transit user reasonably easily?
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by jnty 8y ago
Actual title of the article is "Contaminated blood scandal: We are sorry, says government" - the HN title "We are sorry for giving you HIV, says UK government" is pretty gratuitously editorialised.
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by jnty 8y ago
Quoting the price of a VPS totally misses the point - the cost is in finding one, setting it up with an environment somehow, monitoring it, making sure it stays patched and current over years and years... While you're busy figuring out
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by jnty 8y ago
I mean, yes, I guess it is entirely possible for male journalists use a science article to describe anyone's hair, cheekbones and face in a way that wouldn't sound out of place in a holiday novel. It's a possibility they seem
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by jnty 8y ago
> “This is beautiful rock,” said Templeton, running a latex-gloved finger over its surface. Her sunglasses were pushed back over her straight brown hair, revealing cheekbones darkened from years of working outside on ships, on tropical i
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by jnty 8y ago
This is literally the definition of victim blaming.
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by jnty 8y ago
Overhead power lines require maintenance too, and getting 100% coverage often involves disproportionate spend on short sections that are expensive to cover and maintain. Getting rid of masts on those sections - or even whole lines - could b
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by jnty 8y ago
Surely if it's in cryptocurrency it will never be in their bank account?
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by jnty 9y ago
Unfortunately for them, this is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_demand If it's more expensive, many previous Uber customers will take a 'real' cab, public transport, or simply
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by jnty 9y ago
Jeremy Clarkson had just assaulted a colleague following several other scandals, including racism rows. I assume they made a judgement that the reputational damage to their existing business wasn't worth it, whereas Amazon needed the b
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by jnty 9y ago
That's an interesting way of looking at the cause and effect. Trains unexpectedly stopping in an expected and inevitable property of all networks, whereas trains exceeding their movement authority is not. Stopping a train anywhere shou
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by jnty 9y ago
Assuming you see them when you're driving, it's probably the sedentary living that's killing you rather than other road users.
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by jnty 9y ago
It sounds like your school was run in an authoritarian and deeply unpleasant way. That's sad and infuriating, but I don't think that has any particular relevance to banning an object which didn't exist at the time.
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by jnty 9y ago
"For poor people, $40 means you can't afford a date night this week. It's never worth it" That's a slightly naive view of what 'poor' means. Try "can't eat this week."
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by jnty 9y ago
This is a dangerous misunderstanding. The issue comes when features correlated with race are used to make inferences. This can occur in complex ways but a simple example, used elsewhere on this thread, is zip code. It might be that people f
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by jnty 9y ago
That isn't a particularly illuminating article - is there more information elsewhere?
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by jnty 9y ago
Surely isn't so much an issue of political bias, but the fact they happily helped circulate an ad designed to provoke hatred and fear through clear falsehoods.
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by jnty 9y ago
No, hence "perhaps". The meaning and intent of the sentence is entirely clear so I don't really see what good this sort of pedantry does.
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by jnty 9y ago
Absolutely - it's fair to say that in many cities bikes will often get you there faster (or at least, more reliably) than vehicles at rush hour (and for a lot of journeys, most other times too.) If I had to prioritise the reasons I cyc
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by jnty 9y ago
Why is that a bad thing?
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by jnty 9y ago
Haven't heard the term before and kinda hoped they had genuinely trained a Stingray fish to track people down.
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by jnty 9y ago
That's not correct - according to the Collision Regulations, simply being a large ship does not make you "restricted in ability to maneuver." That definition is reserved for vessels carrying out an activity which restricts th
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by jnty 9y ago
I guess - but I feel like you'd call it an "error" rather than a "smell". Better to just teach people data structures rather than which constructs they should be afraid of. Approaching it "sideways" like t
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by jnty 9y ago
At the risk of sounding arrogant, isn't this a bit obvious? To me, code smells are more about spotting when someone's been forced to do something a bit weird and convoluted. It's possibly the cleanest solution available given
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by jnty 9y ago
It is unfortunately very possible for a driver to be asleep, texting or just to make a massive misjudgement. As you say, crossing situations are some of the most dangerous on a bike, but there's no reason why a properly designed bike l

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