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by m-i-l 8y ago
> "When I’ve been depressed, here’s what worked for me. 1) long walks in nature" Interestingly "Doctors in Shetland are to start prescribing birdwatching, rambling and beach walks in the Atlantic winds to help treat chro
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> "Aberdonians, Glaswegians, Edinburghers, residents of the Kingdom of Fife, Teuchters and all the rest have different accents and different dialects but they don't speak different languages." Spend some time in places lik
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Putting Gaelic on the recently introduced Borders Railway signs did strike me as a slightly odd decision given lowland Scotland has zero historical connection with the Gaelic language. It almost comes across as a form of cultural imperialis
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Scottish GPs to begin prescribing rambling and birdwatching(theguardian.com)
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See also https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cs-lewis-greatest-fict... and the HN comments: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10686217 (original post from 2015, 145 comments) - https:/&#x2
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Also published today "Spice: a lethal epidemic fuelled by austerity": https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/29/spice-...
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"Right now, Coinbase's most promising project, say Johnson and others, involves a new class of investments known as security tokens" I used to think security tokens were going to be one of the useful things to come out of t
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> "Gresham's law ... Bitcoin is the best money that has ever existed" I think Gresham's Law has been showing us the exact opposite point with cryptocurrencies as a whole - cryptocurrencies are the "bad money&quot
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Bitmain have their tentacles in other cryptocurrencies too, e.g. Ethereum: "As recently as April 2018, mining equipment provider Bitmain Technologies announced an Ethereum version of its POW application-specific integrated circuit (ASI
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I think the "bath" is the long "a" vs short "a" split[0] (usually associated with north of England vs south of England) rather than r insertion. There is however something called the "intrusive r" amo
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The "r" is an interesting one. I only recently found out that the "r" isn't pronounced in many words by most of the English in England. It was thanks to some homework that one of my children came home with. It had a
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The differences between XML and blockchain are: 1. Blockchain is being touted as a panacea, a solution to every problem, not just every data integration problem. This has led to all sorts of companies offering solutions like retirment hom
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> "I feel way more in control of fiat then of crypto." I have to agree. I know it wasn't meant to turn out this way, but with crypto almost all the wealth and power has been concentrated in the hands of a tiny number of un
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> "frequencies used in remotes like the Space Command were too high for the human ear to pick up" Pretty sure I used to be able to hear the different high pitched whines as a child (bearing in mind children can hear higher pitc
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My parents built a house. They got help digging the foundations (which required heavy machinery given it was built on rock) but did everything else themselves. A couple of tips: - They bought a pretty run down shell as their first project t
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My first thought was - why not go one step further and put a modern battery in an original electric vehicle from the 1970s like the Enfield 800 [0]? Then on reading the Enfield 800 wikipedia page I find there's a hobbyist doing just th
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Yes, sometimes the employee doesn't know things the management does, and if they did it would make the seemingly irrational more rational (or at least slightly less irrational). I could probably write a book about the examples I'v
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Agree with other comments that these are more coding issues, that aren't uncommon in pre-beta versions of software. But if we're talking about design issues, there is one big one that everyone seems to be missing - and that is the
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Well we've already had the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute [0] (a copy/paste collection of every Satoshi Nakamoto forum post) become so fanatically strict in their interpretation of the "gospel" that a founder split off to se
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Thanks for clarifying. I was skim reading and assumed "digital manipulation" was something to do with digital data, maybe listening to mp3s too loud or something, but putting fingers in your ears makes much more sense in this cont
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On the gammon with pineapple thing - I remember a popular science programme when I was young (Tomorrow's World maybe) about gammon and pineapple. It started with a story from the Second World War about some soldiers in the Pacific thea
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Seems reasonable, because bank vaults and armoured vehicles are designed specifically for protecting high value items. Hotel room safes on the other hand are not (in fact some even have a disclaimer advising you not to store valuables in th
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Sorry for his loss, and the mobile providers do need to do something about this known attack vector. But with cryptocurrencies you need to "be you own bank", and extending his own analogy how many legitimate or long lasting banks
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There could be cases where exceptional talent is kept motivated on exciting cutting edge projects, but those projects don't "contribute to the bottom line", either because the project is canned or doesn't generate enough
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I used to (half) joke about another option: (d) it could be cost effective for a company to spend money hiring and wasting excellent talent if it prevents their competitors from doing something genuinely valuable with that talent.
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I was at the New Battery [0] in 2014 and they had tried to recreate the control room in the bunker with panels and equipment and figures made out of corrugated brown cardboard, which seemed terribly low budget and yet somehow quite appropri
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But VCs normally try to fund genuine businesses - in this case, by suggesting they weren't interested in a "proper business" (as in a legitimate business) and were wanting something to exit in the "short term", the
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One of the points is that settlements systems are private permissioned blockchains, which don't take advantage of one of the main innovations of the public blockchains, i.e. decentralised trust. Interestingly I noticed that the recent
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Maybe not government, maybe just humans in general. Decentralisation, blockchain, smart contracts, cryptocurrency, AI and IoT could really start coming into their own further into the future when we start having more autonomous agents perfo
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I used to think that the blockchain bubble was like the dotcom bubble, in that the core technology was actually genuinely transformative, so that even after the bubble burst and all the over-valued companies went bust, the technology would

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