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by kjakm 6y ago
American exceptionalism at its worst. “World beating”, “One of the top countries (apart from the ones ahead of it)”. The US is doing well, very well, but it’s certainly not world beating by any metric.
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by kjakm 6y ago
I am in the same situation as the parent comment. Youngish but offered it at the weekend. I would be group 6 but I think there is more at play. There are vaccine centres in London (certainly the one I attended) having to close early because
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by kjakm 6y ago
The UK has (first-dose) vaccinated close to a quarter of the population now. Given the vast population difference between it and Israel it seems to be doing pretty well too.
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by kjakm 6y ago
This is what’s considered circumstantial evidence that a lab created a virus, accidentally leaked it and a state covered it up? I’m speechless. I hope this is a joke that’s gone over my head...
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by kjakm 6y ago
>> Meanwhile the circumstantial evidence in favour of that hypothesis (including China’s behaviour) continues to pile up. What circumstantial evidence?
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by kjakm 6y ago
Interesting product, thanks!
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by kjakm 6y ago
>> HN is designed to show you 30 "trending" stories at a time, and its refresh rate is pretty slow compared to social media like Facebook, Twitter or Reddit. Yes - but tweets and Facebook posted each take seconds of your att
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by kjakm 6y ago
>> And then you have the UK problem. Having variable time offsets between EU and UK would add yet another layer of disruption on top of Brexit. It's worse than just EU/UK offset. You would have Northern Ireland and the Repub
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by kjakm 6y ago
It's even easier post-internet. Your clocks automatically change for you now. In the past you had to remember when the change occurred and updated all your clocks manually - and if you forgot you ended up an hour late/early to any
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by kjakm 6y ago
A solution that works in every browser and gives the user choice is hardly nonsense (also cookie law != GDPR). It's much, much better than a dominant ad company forcing through a solution that works in their browser and which users pre
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by kjakm 6y ago
+1. This would be an incredibly useful tool when I have to search private company repos I'm unfamiliar with. Currently I use GitHub's 'search current repo' functionality but it's not great.
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Single dose Covid vaccine 66% effective(bbc.co.uk)
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AstraZeneca contract must be published, says European Commission chief(bbc.co.uk)
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Spot: Spotify in a 4th-Gen iPod(hackaday.io)
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by kjakm 6y ago
This all reminds me of the crypto ICO's a few years back. Build a tonne of hype around something, get a vast number of people who don't really know what they're doing to put in their money, and then the big investors get out,
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Google threaten to shut down search in Australia if digital news code goes ahead(theguardian.com)
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by kjakm 6y ago
Couldn't this be mitigated by making terms a fixed number of years? e.g. UK Supreme Court - No life terms. Justices selected by peers + independent committees. There is one member of the government with a veto that is rarely used and h
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by kjakm 6y ago
As a foreigner Presidential pardons + the appointment (and life terms) of Supreme Court judges baffle me. How can a country that claims to be a leader in democracy have these two wildly abused bugs? Edit: fixed use of election instead of ap
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by kjakm 6y ago
I understand - I'm also in my 20's. It sucks. A lot. But we're not the only people having to sacrifice and hopefully things get back to normal soon! It's tough but I don't think anyone will regret doing the right th
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by kjakm 6y ago
>> I know a lot of you are married so let me put this out here: I (and most young people) will not put their romantic life on pause cause of a virus. Most people I know have put their dating lives on hold. Not all of course, but most.
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by kjakm 6y ago
It gets stuck on "Loading" for me in Safari (and Chrome).
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by kjakm 6y ago
Illegal or not who’s going to stop them when US law doesn’t apply abroad? In general the US interferes far more in foreign politics at least on a high level imo. I tend to find when there’s a US election foreign politicians refuse to commen
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by kjakm 6y ago
There are about 25,000 unoccupied properties in London, UK worth about £11 billion.
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by kjakm 6y ago
Supply and demand is too simplistic an approach for a lot of places when so many properties in major cities are purchased by foreign investors and left empty.
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by kjakm 6y ago
Interesting. I wonder if it's a regional thing. Not one of my contacts or any age group uses statuses. They're left on default. The last time I remember setting a chat status was using MSN as a teenager to share my favourite song.
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by kjakm 6y ago
It's really interesting to see the things people want: 1. Stickers 2. Status 3. Stories 4. Chat wallpapers 5. etc. I guess it shows the different ways people use chat apps but I don't see any use case for status or understand why
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by kjakm 6y ago
>> I wonder when are we going to see a legal discussion if / when internet access is going to become a basic human right? Just like electricity became ubiquitous, I expect internet access (email, payment processing, etc) to also
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Why it’s time to stop pursuing happiness(theguardian.com)
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by kjakm 6y ago
Anything to back this up? The account tweeting it seems unrelated to the people in the images and I can’t see a source.
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by kjakm 6y ago
You may not want to share this but I’ll ask anyway because I’m quite interested: 1. What are important issues for you that republicans vote the right way on? 2. What are the top issues for you that republicans vote the wrong way on?

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