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by johneth 8y ago
It's not just tech companies. The BBC has commissioned a typeface[1] for their massively varied output, to cut down on licensing costs. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/gel/articles/introducing-bbc-reith
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by johneth 8y ago
Parliament is sovereign. Power flows from it. This means Parliament can do what it wants.
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Maybe. I would argue that long term it isn't. Businesses and the people who control them are only that wealthy because society lets them be that wealthy. Damaging society (e.g. via increasingly obscene wealth inequality making people m
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Two questions: how are you defining 'efficient', and what are some more 'efficient' means to redistribute wealth?
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> In the US this isn't true. In the US we've decided to democratically spend it on the military. So it is true. The People (collectively) have decided to elect those whose policies are to spend money on the military rather than
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by johneth 8y ago
> I think a $2bn endowment that hands out $200mm/yr to those who are most in need is pretty damned cool. Tax is a superior way of doing this. Tax and where to spend it is in principle decided by all the people, democratically, where
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by johneth 8y ago
and Wales.
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by johneth 8y ago
This is a bit pedantic, I know, but you mean the UK, not England. It's the UK that's leaving the EU, not just England.
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Reducing Latency – Video Streaming Without the Delay(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by johneth 8y ago|0 comments
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How is that a checkmate?
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What's yours?
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bbc.com redirects to bbc.co.uk in the UK, which is served over HTTPS. They just flipped that switch a couple of months ago, so I'd assume that it won't be long before bbc.com is also HTTPS.
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by johneth 8y ago
> Over 89% of votes went to parties with "leave the Single Market and Customs Union" in their manifesto. I'd argue that's because of the first-past-the-post voting system in the UK - they trend towards two main partie
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by johneth 9y ago
This looks really useful. I've been using a similar geometry library 'S2'[1], by Google. It's mainly used for fast spatial indexing and comparison functionality, albeit more 'approximate'[2] than Tile38 seems t
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by johneth 9y ago
Probably because Amazon is bad at naming things.
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There's a video of a presentation by Ivan Krstic (head of security engineering, Apple) at Black Hat from 2016 about iOS security: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLGFriOKz6U
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Loyalty? Why would anybody be loyal to a country that's using them as pawns in negotiations, that's filled their lives in the UK with so much uncertainty and stress? Loyalty is hard earned, and easily lost. We've (the UK) dec
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by johneth 9y ago
> If public opinion on Brexit changes, then it might be different. I don't see that happening yet though I think it might. Polls on the subject have been tightening, and even showing signs of moving towards halting leaving[1]. I thi
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by johneth 9y ago
Define 'platform'. Do you mean on their servers? If you do, then no, they don't. If you mean on the device itself, then yes, they do. They do it in such a way that it is inaccessible (using the secure enclave).
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by johneth 9y ago
Why not make a complaint where they can actually see it, then? http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/complain-online/ Try to steer their decisions with your voice.
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Yeah, they do those things. But they make up a minority of their magazine content. They still do a lot of 'hard news' stuff (along with the vast majority of their output which is straight 'normal news'). For example, j
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> (each their own page and a click next) I think it's made that way so that it works without Javascript.
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I think you might be an outlier in this case. 'HMS' is pretty widely known to mean 'ship' (in the UK, at least).
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Because Google decided to name it 'Go', a name that is not very Google-able. People refer to it as 'Golang' so that you can actually find out documentation / support / etc. online.
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by johneth 9y ago
I really don't see my future in the UK. It's pretty depressing living here at the moment.
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You realise that Apple Music is also available on a competing platform (Android)? Netflix's success is, in large part, because of it's ubiquity in the platforms where it's available. If Apple ever bought Netflix, I doubt th
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Rules of memory 'beautifully' rewritten(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by johneth 10y ago|1 comments
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by johneth 10y ago
It'd be great if Channel 4 let you pay a subscription to go ad-free. I think ITV does, but I have no interest in their programming (unlike Channel 4, which would be worth it in my opinion).
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I imagine quite a lot who were motivated enough to delete the app because of this would also delete their Uber account. As I understand it (I've never had an Uber account) there's an optional feedback thing where you can say why y
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by johneth 10y ago
[I'm a Remainer too] I don't think Brexit voters will particularly care about Australians or Americans having an easier time of immigrating to the UK. Indians and Chinese people, though... that might push them.

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