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781.
by nly 4y ago
The fact that there's a gender field on the ticket is interesting.
782.
by nly 4y ago
It's not the tech per se, it's that you have to open the app or at least unlock the phone (whichever it is), and people are more cautious with their phones compared to a card. They also tend to watch the screen instead of where th
783.
by nly 4y ago
Exactly. It's not like with paper tickets it was any different. If you lost your paper ticket they would either shrug and let you out, or fine you on the spot and let you cancel the fine if you can find and produce the lost ticket late
784.
by nly 4y ago
Yeah but we have chip and pin and NFC now, so it's an active protocol between card and reader
785.
by nly 4y ago
I feel the same way about people who use mobile phone NFC payment at ticket barriers on the tube instead of a plastic cards (again via NFC) Using your phone is much slower and there's a significant chance it'll just fail and hold
786.
by nly 4y ago
The price on the ticket is also £1.90M
787.
by nly 4y ago
Gives the bored lads at the air force base something to do
788.
by nly 4y ago
Well, that's exactly the business model of offering a free API.
789.
by nly 4y ago
Eggs stay fresher longer in the fridge. It's as simple as that. Whether you refrigerate them depends often on how long they are going to be hanging around.
790.
by nly 4y ago
Yeah... Go read up on the news wrt the NHS of late here in the UK
791.
by nly 4y ago
What's the point? You can always clone locally and push to a new repo without forking on GitHub. Repos will be unlinked and history will be intact.
792.
by nly 4y ago
We just use protobufs JSON serialisation. It's a lot easier.
793.
by nly 4y ago
That markup though!
794.
by nly 4y ago
Of course it helps that WhatsApp weren't providing any kind of support to them 900M users
795.
by nly 4y ago
Since when do you sign anything when you leave a job? Weird.
796.
by nly 4y ago
It's the same in China from what I've heard. Dual British Chinese citizens often just don't tell China that they've become British citizens.
797.
by nly 4y ago
Just looks like a sharp rock to me. How do we know this is hominid-made?
798.
by nly 4y ago
It's bat shit insane that we're 50 years in to the industry and ~20-25 years in to GPS and this is still only happening in 2021.
799.
by nly 4y ago
UMG presumably have to defend the copyright to maintain it, so they get all the costs and none of the upside benefits?
800.
by nly 4y ago
Courtesy peanuts are another thing from a bygone era, decades ago...
801.
by nly 4y ago
Perfect for hotel rooms then
802.
by nly 4y ago
Can we use this sort of processing power and analysis to figure out how to get better signal coverage in a property instead?
803.
by nly 4y ago
The "high resolution" 50cm option wasn't even available in my area of the UK. Lame.
804.
by nly 4y ago
My company only moved from subversion to got 3 years ago.
805.
by nly 4y ago
It's crazy to me that all Americans have to do their taxes every year and are charged for this. Many people in the UK go their entire lives without ever interacting with HMRC (our equivalent of the IRS) Self Assessment (doing taxes eve
806.
by nly 4y ago
So in the UK you're basically going to Scotland or rural Ireland. Sad
807.
by nly 4y ago
Peoples perceptions of number sizes don't change quickly. 1 million will still seem like a big number. It's likely at some point we'll have to re-denominate. There will be a 'new Pound' or something that is worth 10
808.
by nly 4y ago
Well us Brits have it too good with our train strikes, high taxes, crumbling NHS, and labour shortage. We need taking down a peg
809.
by nly 4y ago
*Servicing debt, instead of borrowing and spending. Very few people save in the best of times.
810.
by nly 4y ago
"Shut up and take my money" material there for parents.

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