ninalanyon

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by ninalanyon 1mo ago
You can buy them almost anywhere where there is a need to keep food cold without electricity.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
https://www.tanatvalleyrailway.co.uk/monoloco
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
So you don't learn from other people's experience?
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
Why would I want to call 911? The number here is 999, or 110, 113, 113 in the rest of Europe. And of course I can call it.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
My Nokia 105 has 4G (as well as 3G and 2G) and is definitely not a smartphone and absolutely not an Android. It runs S30+. What do you mean by: > support for VoLTE Emergency
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
If your daily life includes interacting with a bank then in many cases you absolutely do need a smartphone many banks no longer have websites that can be accessed with a web browser.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
Why should the customer of a bank need any skills? Surely the bank is the one that should have the skills.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
There was a Doomwatch episode on his subject with airliners falling out of the sky bcause all the plastic had been eaten away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomwatch#Series_One
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
> at least it doesn't leave trash all over the streets. It leaves lithium ion batteries everywhere. There are even YouTube videos by people scavenging them to build small battery banks.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
You mean it isn't taught where you are? That's bizarre, it was part of the curriculum when I was in high school in England in the early 1970s!
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
Financial settlements of what should be criminal cases should not be allowed. Hundreds or thousands of people at Meta should instead be jailed. If we assume that the median income for a Meta employee/board member is 100 kUSD then that
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
> my degree from the social side didn't include statistics. That's bonkers. Society is all about statistics, and the reverse. Without statistics any kind of social studies is only Just So stories.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
> hunting a wild animal situates the hunter in the broader context of the natural world, in which organisms live by their wits and try to outrun others doing the same. It's not exactly a fair fight though. In modern hunting the hun
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
So where should one look? It seems tome that society is very much what does provide freedom, just not all freedoms.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
If personhood can be applied even to something without volition then it has become such an all encompassing notion as to be essentially meaningless because when using it one will have to surround it with moat of caveats,
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
Consciousness is also not necessarily relevant. Once machines start to influence the design of new machines in ways that are hard to examine in detail they can gain capabilities that are unexpected and unwanted. Machines capable of this ki
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
So they were cited. So what? When you are extremely wealthy fixed penalties become simply part of the cost of doing business. Now if the fine were a substantial fraction of income it might make some sense, as is done for speeding fines
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
It's an engineering failure if the designers did not fight for it. In my career as an electronics engineer and later as a software developer it was clearly part of my job to interrogate the specification documents and almost always th
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
The UK seems to be uniquely incompetent when it comes to these sorts of organizational tasks.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
No one is claiming that what the EU has done is perfect but you have to start somewhere. After that you move on and improve.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
That's because even people in industry have a hard time determining total lifetime cost and salesmen are paid commission based on shifting the product rather than supporting the customer over the lifetime of the product. This is a pro
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
Have you seen the size of the DIY market across Europe?
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
Not really a stroller is a pushchair. A pram is a kind of mobile bed for babies.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
Do we? Not where I live. Corporations cannot vote, etc. The US is an outlier in granting more rights to corporations than other countries.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
But will the courts see it that way. We already see that it is difficult to hold any human in Waymo responsible when their cars fail to obey traffic regulations.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
Surely the relevant metric is danger per passenger so your 20 k needs to be divided by the number of passengers, that takes your 20k down to 20k/80 = 250.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
Reading these comments about Shakespeare makes me think that most of you had terrible teachers of Eng. Lit. Plays, all of them not just Shakespeare, are written to be performed. If your teachers didn't have you perform plays and also
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
Was customary, it no longer is customary.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
Why are web pages allowed by default to do such things? Browsers should give the user the ability to forbid all sorts of thing and have them forbidden by default.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
They certainly did, they also made mobile phones.

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