oldcynic

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by oldcynic 9y ago
Why can't it make sense on economic grounds? I would imagine that once there was a moonbase there would be a number of rather wealthy people who would like to visit. After all if Blue Planet can cause interest in luxury $4m submarines[
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> which 3rd party sites do I need to allow to get the content to show up This is a game I'm increasingly unwilling to play. The number of domains has got out of hand and are increasingly vaguely named - whether it's a CDN, ad
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Not forgetting the rapidly escalating permutations. They say Telegram, work wants Wire, someone else Whatsapp, someone else says Messenger and on and on. Either install 27 apps or decide enough is enough. I've had just about enough unt
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Certainly has a big plus - SMS will often get through when even voice can't. Data on the other hand! That's without getting into how badly some apps handle intermittent or no signal.
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Amusing Ourselves to Death - N. Postman From the 80s, and talking of TV, but it's worth reading again today as it's so applicable to the current landscape. More so than its original target.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Instant messaging used to be so simple. You connected via adium or pidgin, and it just worked. You could hook it up to gtalk and msn. Even ICQ and AIM. Then msn wouldn't play nice any more, then gtalk. Now we've had a dozen rename
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He hardly invoked turmoil. Joining the ERM invoked turmoil. It was a silly idea and the valuation being wrong wasn't exactly a minority view. We should be criticising and remembering the idiocy of Norman Lamont rather than of George
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by oldcynic 9y ago
> he did what he had to in order to see his company thrive I'm thinking you perhaps weren't aware of some of Microsoft's activities. Embrace, extend, extinguish? AARD Code? Scalability day? SCO vs IBM? Comparing TCO of lin
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Seems like he got off lightly. Wouldn't be surprised if someone is looking if a prosecution is viable. Assault perhaps? First he's not "a kid", looks more like 18 - 22. So old enough to know better. Second there's s
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by oldcynic 9y ago
NPL invented the Kibble balance that is being used in the proposed redefinition[0]. They discuss it and the Avagadro project on the page. So indeed it won't be valid much longer! [0] http://www.npl.co.uk/educate-explore
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No, the SI base unit of mass is the kilogram. From the NPL: http://www.npl.co.uk/reference/measurement-units/ "The kilogram is the International System of Units (SI) unit for mass. It is the only remaining ba
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by oldcynic 9y ago
I would perhaps be far less cynical about FB and Zuck if he, and other senior people, used FB as we're expected to. He seems, from what I've read, to deeply value his privacy whilst FB does everything possible to gain more click
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Well I don't put much hope in Mozilla lately - they really seem to have lost direction. We had Persona and they dropped it far too quickly. Then they tried to offload Thunderbird. To my mind Mozilla should have had, and kept, a set:
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Miles/KM and the rest? Don't think it matters at all, except cost to replace or move all those mile/yard road markings and signs. The UK ruled out a switch of roads once cost became apparent even as everything else has metric
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Well. It's perhaps a fitting remnant of our species as we destroy our planet's chances of supporting us? Perhaps a 20' high Starbucks disposable cup would have been more fitting? But you know what? I think, and hope, that the
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They tend to be easier to visualise stemming from so many having root in human scale. For instance an inch is the width of a thumb - it'll match scale on many common charts so easy approximation of distance. (one of many dubious claims
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by oldcynic 9y ago
When I started writing this most comments are pretty negative about applying this to gig workers. In essence they're one and the same. China: Manage to upset, doesn't matter how, the party representative and you're doomed. We
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There's a Black Mirror episode for this isn't there?
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Insane drug cocktails in India net drug makers millions and pose global threat(arstechnica.com)
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Wix seems to generate the slowest loading sites on the internet. Especially loading images long after page load is done. WordPress is positively supersonic by comparison.
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$60 is peanuts. I've no doubt plenty would pay well over $100. Better still get a price, and minimum print run, for a quality hardback with premium paper. Then all or nothing kickstart it with whatever minimum and price is needed. Not
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Except it's not fiat. It's on the gold standard, and you can exchange for gold. It being stored in the Mint's vault might even be a feature in this case.
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The polite, friendly, retired gentleman could neither confirm or deny that life would get rather difficult if publication proceeded. (ie he wanted to make himself clear without stating directly)
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To me that's a big loss. It seems pretty clear we're not fixing this quickly enough and need to go quicker. A2F fuel is still hydrocarbon so will still spit out similar pollutants along with contributing to the associated health i
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Ugh. It's supposed to be Best Practices, rather than better than nothing, and is ostensibly from Google. So should be limiting to the appropriate choices: bcrypt, scrypt, PBKDF2 or Argon2.
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If I was going to switch to anything that old it would be Intuition (Amiga)
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This gives a fair coverage of the history, and hypocrisy: https://marketingland.com/once-deemed-evil-google-now-embrac...
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Now we have google shopping search entirely pay to play.
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That was much more informative than I expected. Thanks!
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Even Homo Economicus might change behaviour if presented with accurate information like requiring treated meat to be labelled as such. After all how can you make a rational, self interested, decision in the absence of complete and accurate

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