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by oldcynic 9y ago
Going on their website, it's not in the Android app store. Looks like you buy, download then side load it. There's no iOS version.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
That seems quite the stretch. We don't know enough of the long term consequences of them in fish, or if there is any genetic damage. Or of chemicals concentrating as they move up the food chain, eventually to us. To me that is very dis
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by oldcynic 9y ago
It may not be the one you were thinking of, but there's an xkcd for that: https://www.xkcd.com/1338/
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by oldcynic 9y ago
The Moscow subway is astonishing for the architecture. Some stations look more like the interior of the Hermitage than a subway. Marble, art, chandeliers! In that respect I think it's truly unique. If you don't know of this try
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by oldcynic 9y ago
In that case I'd prefer 3840x2880. It's still missing 25% comparatively speaking. All the losses from browser header, footer, OS status bars, browser chrome or IDE widgets are at the top and bottom. Making that 16:9 letter box ski
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Let's see. No it isn't. Not even close. A 4:3 aspect would give 1920x1440. You have 1920x1080. Where has the bottom quarter of the screen gone? It's not there. How can that possibly be better? I'd take 3:2 with hig
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by oldcynic 9y ago
It was far better in the UK before the massive deregulation of gambling. It has gone much too far. Our poorest areas have high streets with 4 or 5 betting shops in spitting distance of each other. Addiction and problem gambling has snowba
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by oldcynic 9y ago
> The First Amendment & They are talking on the Internet Most of the Internet, in fact all of it except the USA, does not have a first amendment. Thus if the first amendment is the resolution I expect robust legislation from the
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by oldcynic 9y ago
If, as seems to be the case, Instagram is the popular destination to migrate to will Facebook be too bothered by a drop in Facebook numbers? Sure some will go elsewhere, and block enough FB tracking to disappear entirely. Instagram, of cour
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by oldcynic 9y ago
In the scheme of things cabling is a relatively trivial point. Perhaps a better target to find fault with is lack of easy memory upgrade, or use of sealed rechargeables in mouse and especially keyboard. Apple are far from unique in claimi
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Even allowing for the age of the piece this seems pretty partisan. Only one I'll pick out - RAID5. Who cares about RAID5 with current disk sizes? Should be using ZFS, probably under RAIDZ2 or 3, if you actually care about your data. Ho
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Exactly as the US did to the UK in the late 1800s, and Japan + Korea to the US in the 1970s on. There is advantage to not being the incumbent. First you copy (badly) and soon enough you match quality and innovate. That you can do so without
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by oldcynic 9y ago
We're still losing vast amounts of ancient tropical rainforest whilst we've started to increase temperate and mostly boreal forest (coniferous). It's not a fair trade and of no help to the species under threat.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Now so much food is a brand in a portfolio of a multi-national I don't think boycotts really work. How many tens of thousands need to join a boycott for Nestle to even notice? How many more for them to care enough to change? Back in th
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by oldcynic 9y ago
That's OK so long as we can plant more palm oil. </s> I really wonder at what point we decide we've destroyed enough of the natural world. It looks like we're not going to stop at all. Which is rather depressing.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
FB Purity[0] includes cleaning link redirects and a lot else to try and make FB tolerable. [0] https://www.fbpurity.com/
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by oldcynic 9y ago
No it didn't, but it was started in 88 when keeping planar modes and adding 1280x1024 still made some sense keeping compatibility. Adding the DSP would have made a few new niches. In 93 it was all a bit too late - and they weren't
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Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand(theguardian.com)
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by oldcynic 9y ago
UK has 240v for everything which may explain the insulation. Has been the standard about as long as I can remember - so back to the 70s. Someone put a lot of thought into the design. Ground at top to prevent accidents like you show. Groun
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Pretty much on the money. The hardware guys tried though. Management delayed and delayed until they'd blown all the money. In 90-91 ish they had a prototype AAA architecture and the specs were great. (3000+). PC's had caught up so
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by oldcynic 9y ago
You'll find average everywhere - that is rather the thing about average after all. Every startup or small company that claims to recruit the best is usually more about not recruiting the mediocre. Or canning them as quickly as possible
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Austerity and letting the markets get on with it is far from always successful. Look at the UK's economy since '08. It didn't get us out of the Great Depression either. Agree more fully on your den of vipers topic - but that
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by oldcynic 9y ago
I'll try - it's a huge topic, and I'm only an interested amateur! [This will be too condensed and no doubt inaccurate in many places.] Keynes was a famous British economist who advocated saving a proportion of income during a
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Funny that. Not exactly surprising. How many years will it take to debunk Friedman I wonder? Or at least to fall from fashion. It's a pity Bretton Woods only let the world try a watered down version of Keynes.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
> uBlock's incentives unaligned with yours because they didn't release their adblocker earlier Not really a fair comparison - uBlock aren't selling ads. Google are and have been for a decade. There have been many occasio
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by oldcynic 9y ago
That is simply not true. Any UK winner can opt for anonymity when collecting their prize. The National Lottery give financial and legal advice regardless of your choice. Only around 20% opt for publicity.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
> Their incentives mesh with mine If that were the case Chrome's disruptive ad blocker would have been released shortly after the rise of flash ads If that were the case I would be able to completely opt out of tracking and accept s
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by oldcynic 9y ago
This. Facebook was really useful for keeping up with life events. I could stay connected and updated even with more distant friends and relatives. As soon as the algorithm "knew best" what I looked at I no longer got the occasiona
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by oldcynic 9y ago
They're pretty common. More like one every month or three and it's only the big ones that make the news. From a 2015 BBC piece[0]: "A guide on dealing with unexploded devices was released by the Construction Industry Research
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by oldcynic 9y ago
The internet is littered with founders who fell out at some stage during a startup and/or got shafted from trusting in a verbal agreement. Get it legally binding or run away.

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