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by llimos 5y ago
Context: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared at COP26 that we need "action on cash"[1]. Since cash ostensibly has not a lot to do with climate change, in the light of the article above this is fairly scary to me. [1] https:&
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All that glitters is not gold when it’s a government surveillance coin(lauradodsworth.substack.com)
1 points by llimos 5y ago|1 comments
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by llimos 5y ago
Why is "being under 3 years old" not a "required bit"?
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by llimos 5y ago
Paywall bypass - come from Twitter: https://twitter.com/FT/status/1453663471007055873
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A four-day work week would help save the planet(ft.com)
4 points by llimos 5y ago|3 comments
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by llimos 5y ago
Everything is fetching whopping prices. There's just too much money around.
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by llimos 5y ago
Is this really a problem? It's not like it runs in the background. How is this different to adding, say, a new tab in the Settings app or a new screenshot tool (which they did a while back)?
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by llimos 5y ago
When I was at university, Engineering and Psychology used to have parties together. But that might also have been because Engineering was 80% men and Psychology 80% women.
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by llimos 5y ago
Trying to imagine what this would be like. There are so many things we take for granted, have never had to manage without, and build our lives on top of, without thinking about how easily they could just not be there one day. Food in the
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by llimos 5y ago
I thought the same, until I twigged that the screen is an actual size iPod screen.
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by llimos 5y ago
An account only requires an email address, I think. I'm wondering what they could share with TV Licensing that would allow them to correlate with a TV License. Are you going to have to use the same email address going forward? Or enter
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by llimos 5y ago
It looks like xkcd #792 has its answer.
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by llimos 5y ago
It actually isn't. Orthodox Jews, who are the most literal devotees of the Old Testament (as interpreted by the Talmud), do consider this a capital offence. For technical reasons the death penalty is not administered today (and even wh
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by llimos 5y ago
Chesterton's fence probably applies here.
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by llimos 5y ago
This is how markets weed out the bad ones on their own, without relying on government.
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by llimos 5y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28903575 @dang, any way you could automatically dedupe BBC links? They redirect you to bbc.co.uk in the UK and bbc.com outside, but it's the same link.
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Why Joe Rogan and I sat down and talked(cnn.com)
2 points by llimos 5y ago|0 comments
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by llimos 5y ago
The energy he is stealing is the extra power he is causing to be used by the cooling unit, which is going to his benefit. If I hook my house up to your house's electricity supply, it's the same thing. Even though you don't ha
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by llimos 5y ago
Guilty of this. And I encourage my team to do it too. You need to align incentives. The doing it in secret part is a far bigger problem.
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by llimos 5y ago
Both of these things can be true. Having followed this story for a while, I do agree with the parent comment's analysis.
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by llimos 5y ago
Disabling cookies for twitter.com worked for me
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Don't fire staff for making mistakes(bbc.com)
4 points by llimos 5y ago|0 comments
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by llimos 5y ago
Part of me wishes they would say what the reason is in the email. That might make Google think twice about this kind of thing.
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by llimos 5y ago
For anything? Would you ban all advertising? This regulation bans nudging towards a particular goal . That's something that can be legislated for (and would clearly include advertising.)
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by llimos 5y ago
I've done this (in the summer). The ruling I received was to treat the time when the sun is at its lowest point as basically the entire night in a single instant. Since the evening prayer is always allowed to be done shortly before nig
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Is this proof of lab leak lies?(unherd.com)
89 points by llimos 5y ago|142 comments
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by llimos 5y ago
So if this ever happens to a plane you're on, it's the rich guys in first and business that will cop it. Economy will probably survive. Nice reversal of the way things normally happen!
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by llimos 5y ago
Isn't this built-in in most browsers?
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by llimos 5y ago
I found Microsoft's course[1] to be better for the less mathematically/academically inclined, who just want to get a background in ML. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/ML-For-Beginners
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by llimos 5y ago
Especially the 'More options' on the cookie popup. Needs to take at least 20 seconds and reload the page

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