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by pja 10y ago
Air conditioning was invented to try and stabilise the climate in factories to make industrial processes stable & less dependent on the external weather conditions. As well as simply stabilising the temperature, humidity also makes a bi
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by pja 10y ago
Betteridge probably applies, but the riders on those loans look really bad for anyone hoping for a payout from their Spotify employee share options.
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Is Spotify Going Bankrupt in 2017? Wall Street Delivers Another Red Flag(digitalmusicnews.com)
4 points by pja 10y ago|2 comments
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by pja 10y ago
And free markets are the ultimate solution. Ultimate solution to what? There’s an entire field of economics dedicated to the way free markets can fail to allocate resources efficiently, even when the participants are free agents acting wi
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by pja 10y ago
Honestly, my Linux DE experience has been just fine too: Everything just works, it gets out of my way & lets me get to an editor to write code or fire up a web browser & has a ton of productivity apps a mouse click away if I need th
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by pja 10y ago
I need my machine to work in an instant, EVERY TIME I turn it on. Strangely, this is exactly my experience of running Linux on my Thinkpad. It just works: Every time. No fuss, no messing about with drivers, no dorking about with DEs. Open
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by pja 10y ago
I don’t think anyone from Theranos has come out and said anything definitive publicly. The main criticism from outsiders all along has been that blood drawn from a pin-prick just has too much variability for reliable blood testing. Which in
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by pja 10y ago
Or, alternatively, you could have a society that supports new mothers no matter what their marital status. Access to maternity leave would be a start. Making it so that women who found themselves in very difficult situations had access to a
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by pja 10y ago
Reading this is somewhat painful thanks to the social sharing buttons on the left which hover on top of the text.
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by pja 10y ago
You can expect a fresh IP from one of the cloud hosting services to be spam filtered out of the box by Google et al these days. If you’re lucky, the IP in question hasn’t previously been used to spam & by very slowly ramping up your ema
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by pja 10y ago
It’s a consequence of the geometry of a pushbike: The centre of gravity of bike + rider is above the point about which the bike will rotate when braking (The front axle). This means that any braking load will put a torque on the bike that p
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by pja 10y ago
Modern bikes have a greater number of gears on the cassette on the back wheel, which in turn requires a thinner chain. Thinner chains wear quicker. It’s one of the reasons hub gears (or, for the true hipsters as the stereotype goes, a fixie
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by pja 10y ago
Yeah, the size of the binary distribution alone is kind of eye-watering. Google Chrome as a runtime is not a small dependency.
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by pja 10y ago
I’m slightly surprised that they didn’t have an FPGA implementation running as proof of concept already. Regardless, I’m looking forward to seeing what MillComputing can deliver in the real world.
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by pja 10y ago
Atom is the “spirit” of emacs, taken into a world where your language of choice is Javascript & the runtime is the web browser. Otherwise, not that I’m aware of. Everyone knows that Elisp is horribly crufty, but getting everyone to shif
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by pja 10y ago
You’re going to love reading “Red Plenty” https://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Plenty-Francis-Spufford/dp/0571... :)
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by pja 10y ago
You could probably use Zigbee for something like this, although I don’t know whether there are any v.small zigbee capable arduino interfaces. Running the display is going to take some power too, unless you can find a small e-ink option.
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by pja 10y ago
It’s completely irrelevant to the topic at hand: Cities are not having problems maintaining their infrastructure because of politicians & building firms lining each others pockets - they are having problems maintaining their infrastruct
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by pja 10y ago
Sure, but the point is that your green had better outweigh your red overall or else you have a problem. No one is arguing that there should only be green blocks - clearly some of the profits that make those blocks profitable come from the s
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by pja 10y ago
Well, it was a test & it was deliberate. But definitely not routine. I imagine the author is trying to convey that it was a pre-planned action, not a response to some kind of emergency. It was still a terrible, terrible idea of course.
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by pja 10y ago
Google seems to be quite fond of partnering with a hardware manufacturer when they roll out new ideas on the software side. I guess it’s one of the sweeteners they offer when trying to entice companies to sign up to a new product roadmap: “
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by pja 10y ago
I dropped the site’s tech contact an email & they’ve fixed it now.
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by pja 10y ago
This kind of behaviour by the Russian security services has been well documented for decades. It’s hardly out of keeping with their past.
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by pja 10y ago
patio11 can confirm or not as he chooses, but it sounds to me as if the $120,000 credit card debt was incurred whilst spinning up Starfighter.
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by pja 10y ago
Those authoritative descriptions are exactly the criteria for a rape prosecution in Dubai IIRC. Which I suspect is the parent commentator’s point.
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by pja 10y ago
Speaking as someone from the UK, we know perfectly well that it’s required as part of the job. It’s one of the reasons we hate it so much: because we can tell it’s completely fake & we don’t appreciate being lied to. People in the UK wo
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by pja 10y ago
Don’t be a jerk about it though - just because there may be non-racist reasons for segregation to have occurred doesn’t mean that there weren’t outright racist reasons too: sundown towns were a thing in the supposedly “enlightened” north-ea
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by pja 10y ago
Vi Hart & Nicky Case wrote a web page demonstrating the same effect: http://ncase.me/polygons/
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by pja 10y ago
The double-width emoji bug has at least been fixed as of 2016 & the Unicode 9 release. That string works fine in my VTE based gnome-terminal today. (I was the one who finally prodded the relevant Unicode cttee into fixing this bug. They
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by pja 10y ago
From his point of view the AMD guys were told that this code wouldn’t be merged as is six months ago and now they come back with a massive code drop and very effectively put him in the position of having to be the bad guy. I think we’d all

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