martinclayton

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by martinclayton 29d ago
ESA is a separate entity to the EU. (When the UK left the EU it was able to remain in ESA because of this separation.)
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by martinclayton 1mo ago
Some time ago I realised that second-hand Ikea furniture is a cheap source of material for DIY projects. Facebook Marketplace (UK) has plenty of Pax cupboards which provide useful large boards. Prices vary, but you can pick up almost pris
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by martinclayton 2mo ago
One option might be for the real Sean Byrne to move to the address in Sligo of the fictitious one, then ask to be removed from the Entity List on the grounds that he is a real person. I think that wouldn't work, and could be life-chan
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by martinclayton 2mo ago
Dataset does seem sketchy. My village has two pubs, neither appear. Two non-pub licensed locations (social club, stately home) do appear. The dot for the pub in the next village is off by about 100m.
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by martinclayton 2mo ago
The words astro-nomy and astro-logy are similar, but this is no "fluke". There's a Wikipedia article with some history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology_and_astronomy I imagine astronomers have be
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by martinclayton 3mo ago
No mention of chikenized reverse-centaurs in this piece? I find these neologisms helpful as they quite precisely capture the intended meaning and are easy to remember. Doctorow is an impressive and entertaining communicator, and being an
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by martinclayton 4mo ago
His work with photography influenced my thinking in the 1980s. The ideas of viewing time and moving focus I think are significant in human experience. He talks about it, and you can see some of these works in a YT vid here: https:/&#
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by martinclayton 4mo ago
Dublin knabs a decent chunk of Great Britain, Copenhagen gets southern Sweden. Seems fair.
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by martinclayton 4mo ago
Tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars for listing. But they make money from the trading and associated services they facilitate, hence the desire to have the largest most liquid stocks. https://resourcehub.bakermckenzie.com&
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by martinclayton 4mo ago
Yeah, indeed. See (march) https://www.reuters.com/business/new-nasdaq-rules-include-fa... Quote from Cameron Lilja, Nasdaq's global head of index solutions: "It is not necessarily representative to have a
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by martinclayton 4mo ago
What's the rationale offered by NASDAQ for their new "15-days and you're in the index" rule for these massive IPOs? Seems equivalent to removing road safety rules for the least-tested, most-powerful new vehicles only.
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by martinclayton 4mo ago
(Agreeing with you) In the 1980s Gary Shilling said: The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. A long-term principle that I think does still apply.
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by martinclayton 6mo ago
This resonates with "the bitter lesson" somehow, interesting... ...On reading more it seems of use primarily in adversarial situations, so not-so-much resonant.
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by martinclayton 6mo ago
Wet cement is kind of sloppy, so this makes some sense.
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by martinclayton 8mo ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26339421
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by martinclayton 8mo ago
I was expecting regional accent options, so disappointed.
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by martinclayton 8mo ago
I'm pleased that Blue Origin and others are making progress on reusable flight hardware, because I fear that SpaceX will itself suffer a "RUD" for non-engineering reasons.
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by martinclayton 8mo ago
Added mine ... let's see... https://foximax.com (word puzzle)
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Let's Decrypt dot org redirects to the NSA(letsdecrypt.org)
2 points by martinclayton 10mo ago|2 comments
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by martinclayton 10mo ago
Seems Let's Encrypt also have control of https://letsdecrypt.org . It takes you to https://www.nsa.gov rather than Let's Encrypt home. Conspiracy? I think not, but others might.
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by martinclayton 10mo ago
Seems Let's Encrypt also have control of https://letsdecrypt.org . It takes you to https://www.nsa.gov rather than Let's Encrypt. Not sure what to make of that!
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by martinclayton 11mo ago
https://archive.is/fbKl4
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by martinclayton 11mo ago
An aside: I always understood that Broadcasting House was inspiration for Room 101 (Ministry of Love) rather than the MoT. It's well-known that the University of London Senate House building was the inspiration for the Ministry of Trut
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by martinclayton 11mo ago
This looks like "science-slop", but why has it been placed at this URL?
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AI-Assisted Scientific Research?(aims.healthcare)
2 points by martinclayton 11mo ago|1 comments
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by martinclayton 1y ago
Nice touch having U2's song "Every Breaking Wave" playing in one of the screen grabs ... that being the second track on the (in)famous "free" 2014 iTunes release of their album "Songs of Innocence".
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by martinclayton 1y ago
Two-player adversarial version of https://foximax.com Porting a trivia quiz game I wrote 25 years ago from a Java Applet to the modern-day web. Has a scoring mechanism like golf (par-5 harder, par-3 easier, wrong answer choice
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by martinclayton 1y ago
https://archive.is/TY950
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by martinclayton 1y ago
I have to admit I thought it might be "like that" before I read the article. But I don't think Chris Stringer would be a co-author on the paper if there was an issue of bias. While this work is impressive, it is just one sku
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by martinclayton 1y ago
Fabulous, obviously. I found the headline image confusing - thought it was a Sontaran (Dr. Who baddie) in there! Aldrin's face and the earth reflection are quite confusing to the eye.

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