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by mkingston 6y ago
The cost of this fire was $85b. If this sort of event could be avoided or mitigated by disincentivising the behaviour that caused it (by putting the occasional exec in prison for negligence) I guess it's likely prison would be quite a
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by mkingston 7y ago
NixOS is great. I use it as my daily driver. But. In my experience, your distro will never have all the software you would like in its repos. And I've found this is true of NixOS also. So it should be mentioned that some software does
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by mkingston 7y ago
I acknowledge that this is a classic HN comment, but a git repo on a VPS with Unix file permissions meets all of your criteria with very low effort.
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by mkingston 8y ago
GP gets distracted at home, to the extent of categorising their socks
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by mkingston 8y ago
I've found the French and Spanish short stories for beginners with downloadable audio to be a really useful tool. They're pretty mundane stories about everyday life aimed at adult learners.
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by mkingston 8y ago
I don't think that's completely fair. They do provide the 300USD credit, valid for 12 months after sign-up. And in response to another commenter below, in many countries I believe they allow sign-up for this trial with a bank acco
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by mkingston 8y ago
I found Cambridge salaries weren't wonderful in general, though I'm aware that's probably changing, and there are exceptions. How have you found Edinburgh salaries compare? Obviously I don't expect data, just an anecdote
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by mkingston 8y ago
I think what GP means is make the anchor links easier to find, such that one can right-click somewhere in the UI and copy an anchor link to a comment. I'm not aware that they're available anywhere, presumably you constructed the
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by mkingston 8y ago
I wonder, did you develop this idea yourself? I ask because it sounds similar to the central idea in the book Sapiens, and if you haven't read that I expect you'd appreciate it. At least for the sense of satisfaction you might get
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by mkingston 8y ago
Not addressing your point directly (I thought it was interesting). I would recommend you simply replace the word "lies" with "stories," or "fictions". You might find people more willing to engage you constructi
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by mkingston 8y ago
I agree. I shared the quote because I found it concise, insightful and relevant. I do wonder, though, whether meritocracy has gotten away with itself somewhat. It has enormous utility. But in its current incarnation doesn't seem to res
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by mkingston 8y ago
“What then! Do you think the old practice, that ‘they should take who have the power, and they should keep who can,’ is less iniquitous, when the power has become power of brains instead of fist?” - John Ruskin
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by mkingston 8y ago
Richard M Stallman
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by mkingston 8y ago
Get a browser plugin to single-click archive the documentation with archive.org, then include that link in your comments. Yes, I do exactly this, I'm not just sniping!
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by mkingston 8y ago
Many cyclists travel quickly enough they find that having to give way at every side road (like a pedestrian would) is a tremendous hassle. If these routes were unbroken (as they are in a few places) this would be a great solution.
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by mkingston 8y ago
That's awful reasoning for using the cycle lane to turn, but (having never used it) I prefer the rule itself. Assuming the driver acknowledges they're changing lanes when they move into the bike lane, and checks appropriately, it&
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by mkingston 8y ago
For any tridactyl ( https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl ) users out there: ;k
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by mkingston 8y ago
Interesting viewpoint. I had considered a second referendum politically impossible in the sense of acceptance by the polity. Not in the sense of democratically existentially impossible. But it seems (maybe this is some sort of positivity bi
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by mkingston 8y ago
But there's no referendum on that. My main point is that the referendum wasn't very sensible and should probably always have had two stages. X = "What kind of Brexit do we want" then "remain vs. X". I expect &q
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by mkingston 8y ago
I'm going to paraphrase the referendum choices here. 1. The status quo. 2. Imagine how things could be better. Don't constrain your imagination with realism. It's a wonder option 2 only won by 2 percent. The only democratic w
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by mkingston 8y ago
For anyone who missed this, it's being made into a tv series: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/the...
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by mkingston 8y ago
If we are to believe their marketing, it may have saved his life: https://www.suunto.com/en-GB/sports/News-Articles-container-...
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by mkingston 8y ago
I get pretty bad motion sickness. Which is not wonderful when diving. Hyoscine works for me. The worst I've felt when I've had hyoscine has been mild nausea, even in awful conditions. I use the behind-ear patches, sold as transder
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by mkingston 8y ago
> Presumably it was also called that in the UK at some point too. Perhaps it became common in all of these countries at the same time, long after colonisation, leading to different marketing/naming between these countries.
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by mkingston 8y ago
Is this what they mean when they refer to child poverty in NZ? The near-100% child homeless rate? Of course, child poverty itself is no joke..
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by mkingston 8y ago
Me too. But I'm a bit out of touch. I'm aware roadside camping waste has been a mainstream issue for a while, but are many in NZ talking about pressure on environmentally sensitive areas? Is that a very big part of the conversatio
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by mkingston 9y ago
"Incidentally", I suspect your plan was discontinued right about the time the number of competitors in the UK mobile market dropped from four to three. When 3 bought O2. And right about the peak of the 4g rollout. The same happene
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by mkingston 9y ago
You're confusing Great Britain and the United Kingdom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain
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by mkingston 9y ago
Wildwood Trust is investigating reintroduction of wolves and lynxes. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/06/30/wolves-brown-b...
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by mkingston 9y ago
That's good to know. I wouldn't rule out that behaviour in NZ's past. But I don't know anything about it. I believe NZ's first national park was gifted by the indigenous people to the Crown, on the proviso that it w

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