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by oakesm9 6y ago
How do they get your email address to remind you to use their charge rather than their competitors if you just seamlessly use a contactless card? They've got to get that marketing information!
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by oakesm9 6y ago
Yes, that’s true, but neither can deaths as more is known about how to treat severe cases.
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by oakesm9 6y ago
Here’s the official UK data: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths Deaths are a bit lower. Cases are higher. Hospitalisations are about the s
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by oakesm9 6y ago
I presume its down to the bank. Most of them likely choose to avoid it if possible as it's a barrier to people using their card. However, I use Monzo as my main current account. I would say that around 50% of my online payments send me
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by oakesm9 6y ago
Considering that every online card transaction within Europe now requires the more complicated payment intents model (because of the SCA, Strong Customer Authentication, requirements) I would imagine that it's a fairly significant perc
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by oakesm9 6y ago
Really? My wife sells on Etsy in the UK and gets her money the next day. She needs to wait a week or so for Stripe payouts on her website.
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by oakesm9 6y ago
Apple Developer accounts have to be linked to a legal entity (a limited company for example). Registering a different account for each customer would require changing company structures accordingly.
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by oakesm9 6y ago
It was the developer behind the macOS package manager Homebrew https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
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by oakesm9 6y ago
Great video about this exact topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byW1GExQB84
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DigitalOcean App Platform(digitalocean.com)
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by oakesm9 6y ago
I took "biometric alternatives" to be referring to face recognition.
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by oakesm9 6y ago
Moving costs money. These are council (government) provided houses for those on low incomes. Basically, they don't have a real choice to move.
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NHS Covid-19 Track and Trace App Source Code (England and Wales)
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by oakesm9 6y ago
With a few tweaks to a native app, they can https://firebase.google.com/docs/app-indexing On Android they already crawl your app with various devices when you upload it to Google play and let you know about any crashes
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by oakesm9 6y ago
Kano originally was an education kit build around a Raspberry Pi [1]. I was a backer of that and the hardware and instruction book you received was great. I played with it for a bit, but I ended up gifting it to a friend who had two young k
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by oakesm9 6y ago
Apparently the receiver is roughly the size of a pizza box, so only really useful for static use-cases or attached to something like a truck.
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by oakesm9 6y ago
A swab deep in your nose and at the back of your throat is not "very invasive".
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by oakesm9 6y ago
I went into the Astroneer doc without knowing much about the same or the circumstances of how the game was completed. It hit me really hard...
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by oakesm9 6y ago
Thanks! Those Ian Hubert videos are amazing
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by oakesm9 6y ago
Could it not be that most institutions are in London _because_ of those good connections. The idea is to improve connects between different cities which will make it viable for companies to be located there.
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by oakesm9 6y ago
HS2 isn't scheduled to open until at least 2029. The current situation has no bearing on if it should go ahead or not.
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by oakesm9 6y ago
The issue with a high speed rail project like HS2 is that the people most affected by it are the ones who don't see much direct benefits from it. If the line is coming past you then you have to put up with the noise from it and the bui
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by oakesm9 6y ago
For the UK scheme, companies can furlough staff. During this time they can't do any work for that company. The company can pay them anywhere between 80% and 100% of their normal salary and then the government will reemberse the company
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by oakesm9 6y ago
That works for iOS because it shares so much with macOS. It wouldn't work for Android as it doesn't share much with the OS.
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by oakesm9 6y ago
Or a reference to the AudioSurf game which used audio feature extraction to create levels?
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by oakesm9 6y ago
Jay Forman has a really interesting and amusing look at what that London Boroughs are, why they exist, and what's wrong with them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daeB46Z4fjs
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by oakesm9 7y ago
Here's the full source code if anyone wants to take a look: https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-api
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by oakesm9 7y ago
You're correct. You can see them both in the source code here: https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-api/tree/master/ap...
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by oakesm9 7y ago
SEEKING WORK / Remote / Brighton, UK / React Native Developer with extensive "real" native experience I am a React Native Developer with a background working as both an Android and iOS developer using Objective-C, S
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by oakesm9 7y ago
Related Tom Scott video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU tl;dr ContentID is a workaround for a broken copyright system. It's not perfect, but it's better for everyone than falling back to the default of

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