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by manicdee 7y ago
At what intensity compared to sunlight or iPad screens?
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by manicdee 7y ago
What intensity of light, for how long compared to sunlight? Every time I hear these blue-light crusaders I am reminded of that “iPads are bad for reading” so-called experiment where the iPads were fixed to the desktop set at maximum brightn
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by manicdee 7y ago
It’s especially common for Twitter, upon receiving complaints from a POC about racial harassment, to ban the victim.
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by manicdee 7y ago
I use the turning-off-the-lights patrol to ensure that windows are closed, taps are off, appliances are off, fridge is shut properly, and so forth. Granted I don’t have kids, but my experience with families who have kids and home automation
635.
by manicdee 7y ago
For a lot of people I know, there’s more cost than just the subscription fee, there’s also buying equipment to support that streaming service. It’s like people recommending I upgrade to Windows 10 when the machine I am using is barely capab
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by manicdee 7y ago
When DRM exists: “Hey I watched this movie that hasn’t been released from Disney last night, have a copy and you can enjoy it too!” The only thing preventing this stream working on Linux is someone paying Disney the licence fees. It’s nothi
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by manicdee 7y ago
Obligatory CGP Grey “Humans Need Not Apply” spruiking: https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU Deals with the issue of why current types of automation are different to industrial automation an why we won’t be creating new “machine fix
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by manicdee 7y ago
Don’t forget persistent currency manipulation meaning that goods manufactured exactly the same way with the same cost of goods sold would be 30% cheaper in the USA because of the devalued Yuan.
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by manicdee 7y ago
There are many routes which are possible to automate today. Those will become human-free first, leaving the humans to compete for the remaining 95%. Then another 5% of routes will become computer navigable, and the remaining truckers will c
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by manicdee 7y ago
Seconded! Breaking the Dubai leg with a Singapore stopover is awesome. Singaporean food markets are an experience not to be missed. Now I am addicted to rose cordial!
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by manicdee 7y ago
Very few satellites impact the naked eye night sky. A space telescope would by its very nature be less impactful than most satellites, since it will be placed in a high orbit away from the glare of the Earth, also ensuring that the Earth fi
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by manicdee 7y ago
Trends in STDs are going to be caused by people who are having a lot of unprotected sex. So those people who "have had actual sex with another human" count for nothing. What you need is a study that shows which people have been ha
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by manicdee 7y ago
Same as it ever was.
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by manicdee 7y ago
The price for space telescopes will come down dramatically once you no longer have to arrange for them to assemble themselves in orbit, or wait for surplus hills from spy agencies. You can lose all the systems used on Earth to compensate fo
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by manicdee 7y ago
And yet we have regulations about what you are allowed to do on public roads, such as which direction you travel, how fast you go, restrictions on open wheels versus having covers, sound pressure levels at various distances, visibility at n
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by manicdee 7y ago
Why should they refuse to self censor in Chine while they are happy self-censoring elsewhere?
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by manicdee 7y ago
It’s only a “no win” if you consider losing business with an autocratic nation responsible for mass violation of human rights to be “losing”.
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by manicdee 7y ago
And then there’s PayID in Australia: “pay anyone using their phone number”. Only the people setting up the processing system decided that all the security required for Visa/MasterCard processing was an obstacle and they didn’t think to
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by manicdee 7y ago
Bloomberg made up graphics to illustrate a point. There was no evidence in their article. There was a lot of fear I gearing about what might be possible, no evidence of it actually being done. A more terrifying possibility than “Bloomberg m
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by manicdee 7y ago
Tangentially related: a neighbouring town has a 100 year flood plain around a river that runs through the town. A few years back a developer chummy with the planning authority convinced the council that modern water resource management mean
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by manicdee 7y ago
And yet the International Postal Union still considers China a developing country so we all subsidise their shipping. What counts as a developed country if it isn’t giant pools of money that every corporation around the world wants to be in
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by manicdee 7y ago
Everything is politics. Your decision to try ignoring politics is quiet assent to the status quo, which is the politics of least resistance. Your protest against someone taking a stand against authoritarian rule is itself politics. Your dec
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by manicdee 7y ago
Because every used had the list of numbers, the number was already in use, and changing the actual numbers would require interaction with every user of the inventory system. Then once word got out that you were willing to modify this system
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by manicdee 7y ago
That’s a pretty low bar and if accepted will place a chilling effect on any debate in moderator lounges. Note that the essence of the debate is: “you must always use the person’s nominated pronouns” versus “you can write in such a way that
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by manicdee 7y ago
What was the bottleneck?
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by manicdee 7y ago
We used to define this using heuristics like limiting loans to amounts that can be serviced on ⅓ of the primary household income. We could go back to using those rules, the catch is that people desperate for finance will shop around to find
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by manicdee 7y ago
Those who do not study ~~history~~ ~~Unix~~ rsync are doomed to repeat it poorly.
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by manicdee 7y ago
It might break more often but it doesn’t break my stuff like Google does.
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by manicdee 7y ago
The only way to win is not to play?
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by manicdee 7y ago
Apart from the immediate “flatline” the watch also detects that it is not proximate to the skin. As soon as you take it off the watch disables things like ApplePay. It knows when it being/has been taken off.

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