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by johnzim 6y ago
The MEPs only get to vote on candidates selected by the council of ministers - there's a means to provide their own candidate if they don't ratify that decision but in reality, the commission is for politicians who missed out on e
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by johnzim 6y ago
Colpo d’aria on its own is the example I give to anyone who wants to know why Italians can be so stubborn. People normally are astonished when I explain that that’s pretty much the only reason why air conditioners have historically been so
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by johnzim 6y ago
There is one on the iPad my daughter was playing with it last week. Think it’s an up front purchase of ~$20
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by johnzim 6y ago
> But you're basically accusing programmers back in the late 70s of having insufficient foresight to see problems that would make their decisions seem bad almost half a decade later. The URL standard was published in 1994. Sure, in
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by johnzim 6y ago
We just never should have allowed filename extensions to have semantic power. Resource forks are far more elegant and you could do simple look ahead checks to verify types etc.
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by johnzim 6y ago
They’re the publishers of those games not devs (though they’re great)
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by johnzim 6y ago
One thing I found fun was to start by blocking out one room, then another and another and basically switching between tools - the geometric shape too for a tower or two, and then start linking them up. After a little bit of noodling you sta
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by johnzim 6y ago
Thanks for providing that! I had no idea about the roots of that expression.
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by johnzim 6y ago
I've had a similar experience - only ever got to the point of turning down an onsite. I'd add one other issue to Apple (which would otherwise be the most natural fit for me). Side Projects. I love building and launching apps and s
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by johnzim 6y ago
Given that the BoJ literally can't seem to generate inflation no matter how hard it tries, this seems like a no-brainer. As close to helicopter money as they've yet come.
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by johnzim 6y ago
Yep, Germany's Healthcare system is a good model - Mandated Govt insurance with optional Private Insurance. Uptake is about 75% on the private side, 25% stick with the Govt model. You could drag Obamacare there with the right political
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by johnzim 6y ago
That's almost for the best. The representation of non-European ethnic facial features / skin tones in renaissance art appeared to mostly be one of two groupings: 1) Accurate, naturalistic portrayals that almost certainly had an ac
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by johnzim 7y ago
They normally justify it by requiring you to take out an additional premium for such coverage rather than just skip out on it by force majeure. At least that's the way it's done in other countries.
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by johnzim 7y ago
So annoyed I bought one of these based on testimonials from people I trust (podcasters with allergies). I haven’t seen a significant improvement over a regular HEPA filter. At least it looks cool and has a HEPA filter at the base. It just d
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by johnzim 7y ago
Nothing has ever beaten the Newton Messagepad for me for this (certainly the last models made, the 2100). I really wish a modern Newton existed. Evernote started off quite Newton'y (Newton team members were on board) but I fell off qui
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by johnzim 7y ago
80% of the functionality isn't where the value resides. It's the 20% of really well-thought-out niche features that make it valuable. Perhaps not 'unicorn' valuable anymore as it went through that phase of adding enterpr
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by johnzim 7y ago
Noted terribly executed ideas such as wildly successful Dual Screen portables and the dockable/portable current best selling console in the USA.
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by johnzim 7y ago
We can look today at Germany as a mature, stable partner in the world but at the time, the argument that there might just be 'something in the soil' of the primary belligerent of the last 2 world wars was not entirely insane. Grat
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by johnzim 7y ago
It's actually a really nice greyish-green colour. Not as drab as you'd think thanks to the way light diffuses through the glass With the dark green case, it has a VERY strong Newton MessagePad vibe which I love (having been a very
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by johnzim 7y ago
In all my years I have never thought about calling the Control Strip that but all the vocabulary fits. I do miss the control strip a little
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by johnzim 7y ago
I agree. Globish is already iterating on itself so fast I don't think it'll be beat.
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by johnzim 7y ago
The double standard for Marijuana makes zero sense to me, but I didn't see it for what it was until I listened to a track by the Streets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZrrQoME56U Edit: Just realized the "lyrics&
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by johnzim 7y ago
I used to use that about 5-6 years ago, you have to be very delicate with it because it can look extremely cheap, but if you make it too subtle it's impossible to see. What's worse is that if there's enough of a bottom bounda
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by johnzim 7y ago
Jonny Ive took control of software design about 7-8 years ago which I think caused a fall in usability even as things got prettier. Sometimes look back at MacOS 9, even with its numerous issues and marvel at how good a lot of the UI/UX
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by johnzim 7y ago
I have never understood the appeal of BitCoin as a means of purchasing or selling illegal materials. The entire transaction history is literally encoded in a public ledger! All Law Enforcement has ever needed to do is trace back the transac
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by johnzim 7y ago
True, but it hurts more when it's a company with such a great history and strong relationship with its customers. I think people don't really care about what Nestlé or Monsanto do because they've never really cared about thos
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by johnzim 7y ago
1 Country 2 Systems has been shown to be a scam so things have changed. I can't speak for people of my generation but the kids are alright.
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by johnzim 7y ago
I read a very interesting account of how poorly Lee in particular and the Confederacy in general prosecuted the Civil War. They misunderstood their political goals absolutely and instead of simply fighting a war of defense - holding out lon
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by johnzim 7y ago
To be fair a huge percentage of the language is already French words. Brits just stubbornly refuse to pronounce them “correctly”.
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by johnzim 7y ago
This is the perfect opportunity to test some anecdata of mine: I’m hard pressed to think of a more anti-homework audience than programmers. An absurd percentage of programmers I met hated homework and did their best to do as little of it as

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