johneth

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by johneth 5y ago
It's been like this for at least several months.
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Space Jam's 1996 website has finally been updated
152 points by johneth 6y ago|47 comments
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by johneth 6y ago
Citing The Canary probably won't help your argument.
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by johneth 6y ago
What's 'Tesla level' AI? Is it just their dangerously misnamed 'self driving' tech that's really just adaptive cruise control that every manufacturer has?
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by johneth 6y ago
Spotify. I doubt they'll shut down / rebrand / move their music streaming service in a few months time.
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by johneth 6y ago
Why is this flagged?
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by johneth 6y ago
It's collapsable, implying you don't have to collapse it if you don't want. The eye strain thing was referring to the maximum line width feature. Studies have shown that longer-width lines are harder to read than shorter-widt
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by johneth 6y ago
> Energy efficiency is a bad substitute for clean energy. We desperately need vast amounts of clean, emission free energy We need both.
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by johneth 6y ago
Perhaps, in some cases, monopolies should be publicly-owned, rather than private enterprise.
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by johneth 6y ago
https://poolside.fm/
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by johneth 6y ago
hCaptcha[1] springs to mind, not that I know if they're more or less creepy than Google. [1] https://www.hcaptcha.com/
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by johneth 6y ago
> It's like, does a button really need to to take up half the screen? Bit of an exaggeration. Extra padding on buttons is more to do with enabling an increased hitbox for mobile and touch users, what with fingers being less precise
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by johneth 7y ago
Isn't that what wireless phones are?
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by johneth 7y ago
> Isn't it a bit presumptuous to worry about this without knowing their finances? FYI, you can view their accounts on the UK's Companies House website: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05041038&#x
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by johneth 7y ago
The UK is starting from the assumption that the majority of the population will get infected, no matter what precautions are taken, so it's better to manage how we get there starting now rather than delaying the inevitable (quarantines
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by johneth 7y ago
> I honestly have no idea what that Tweet is trying to say. It's a thread (click the tweet). > The UK government explicitly used the phrase "herd immunity" in a press conference, so that seems to be an explicit objectiv
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by johneth 7y ago
If you watch the press conferences, the main point is not deliberately infecting the population (that's a side effect), rather making sure the NHS can better look after those more vulnerable to the virus. A lot of it is to do with how
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by johneth 7y ago
> The UK has explicitly declared that its strategy is to let about 40 million people get it Not exactly: https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/123882151552689766... (threaded)
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by johneth 7y ago
Just to counter that point: https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/123882151552689766... (this is a thread, click the tweet to expand)
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by johneth 7y ago
> The UK is quite literally decades behind some other countries, in banking. In what ways?
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by johneth 7y ago
UK banks are covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme[1] - basically the same thing. [1] https://www.fscs.org.uk/
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by johneth 7y ago
> On the other hand, why should Amazon leave money on the table to be happily scooped up by other companies. In an ideal world, there wouldn't be any money on the table.
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by johneth 7y ago
Not really, no. If it's in a shop, it'll be operated by the shop. If it's in a supermarket car park, it'll be operated by the supermarket. If it's in a public park, pedestrianised street, or government building, it&
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by johneth 7y ago
> I believe we also have the most CCTV cameras per person in the world Bear in mind that the vast majority of those cameras are privately-owned (i.e. shops, homes, etc.), not operated by the state.
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by johneth 7y ago
It's supported in iOS Safari and Chrome / Chrome for Android[1]. I'd say that's well supported, especially for the problem it's trying to solve (displaying the best keyboard for the input on mobile devices). [1] ht
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by johneth 7y ago
My point (that you seem to have failed to grasp) is that people are going to use Alexa and Google and Siri and so on to ask about general medical information. Those services will be providing this information anyway. In this scenario (which
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by johneth 7y ago
People will use Alexa to ask these questions with or without the NHS's publicly-available information. Except if they didn't use the NHS's publicly-available information, Alexa would use some other service like WebMD. The NHS
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by johneth 7y ago
It's not private data, it's publicly available general information from the NHS website[1] about diseases, conditions, etc. [1] https://www.nhs.uk/
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by johneth 7y ago
> The BoJ owns 9.78% of Softbank. https://group.softbank/en/corp/irinfo/stock/ownership/ Are you sure? I just Googled 'The Master Trust Bank of Japan Ltd.' (the only listed shareholder
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by johneth 7y ago
> "We use ML and Apple Maps to accurately tag your purchases with real store names and categories" Monzo does this for transactions in the UK (and has done since they launched a few years ago, IIRC) - it's not novel. I thi

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