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by pmuk 8y ago
Do you store the results locally on your server so that it isn't making multiple requests for each visitor?
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by pmuk 8y ago
I've just been sharing your site URL around on Twitter quite a bit, but it seems to have broken it! If it doesn't have caching already, would be good to add it!
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by pmuk 8y ago
Does your site cache the numbers? It could be really useful to take some of the load off the main petition's site, as people keep going there and refreshing the page which is overloading it.
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by pmuk 8y ago
That's actually really cool. Who needs parliament to vote for a second referendum? We can run our own mini referendum using the two petitions :) Brexit petitions in realtime: 710,563 signed for remain - 65.81% #RevokeArticle50 371,020
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by pmuk 8y ago
Thanks, I'll take a look at Maslow and Moixa. We've got an electric car too, so I plan on getting a Zappi installed soon to push all surplus energy into the car battery. It automatically adjusts the charge rate to match the level
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by pmuk 8y ago
It'll be great when these battery cost reductions filter through to home batteries. At the moment a Tesla Powerwall 2.0 costs $6,700 for 13.5 kWh, so $496/kWh, which is doesn't work as a financial investment. We've got a
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by pmuk 8y ago
And eventually we could even tie them to the fundamental constants of nature rather than any master reference object.
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The world’s most expensive pet fish(economist.com)
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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are useless(economist.com)
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by pmuk 8y ago
My Dad is basically doing this in the UK: https://www.youtube.com/motorhomeman :)
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BBC talks to recipients in basic income village(bbc.co.uk)
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by pmuk 8y ago
Does this mean all banks that are using their customers’ voices as passwords are going to have a big problem? https://www.nuance.com/en-gb/omni-channel-customer-engagemen...
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GDPR: Should you ask your users to re-opt in to your existing mailing list?(medium.com)
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by pmuk 8y ago
Does anyone have any idea when this will be available on Amazon RDS?
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by pmuk 8y ago
How about an anonymous login system that doesn’t require an email address and just generated a random userid / password? I’m thinking of setting up a Code Club at a local school and it would be great if kids could use it without having
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Colonising the galaxy is hard. Why not send bacteria instead?(economist.com)
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by pmuk 8y ago
Thanks, I forgot that it just starts playing without the thumbnail.
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by pmuk 8y ago
I’ve been uploading more content to YouTube recently and I noticed that their AI automatically picks the video frame that has the most exaggerated facial expression and uses this as the default thumbnail. This is probably why YouTube face a
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Biscuit tin sex secrets revealed(bbc.co.uk)
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by pmuk 9y ago
Scuttlebutt seems like an interesting implementation of a decentralised social network: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz
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by pmuk 9y ago
We started my current business which now does around $5M p.a revenue with $3000 in 2005. It's definitely doable!
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England’s forgotten theme parks(bbc.co.uk)
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by pmuk 9y ago
So I just tried to signup as an engineer and it says... "Unfortunately we're currently only able to work with people with legal status permitting employment in the US. We hope in the future to help set up visa sponsorships."
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by pmuk 9y ago
Has anyone on here used them from the employer side?
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What happens when an app company runs a bus(medium.com)
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See an NHS GP in minutes for free 24/7(gpathand.nhs.uk)
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Home-made drones now threaten conventional armed forces(economist.com)
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Elon Musk will make driverless cars a reality sooner than you think – WIRED UK(wired.co.uk)
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What Amazon does to wages(economist.com)
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by pmuk 9y ago
If you want to download your own data you can do so, to an extent, through the midata format which was launched in 2011. It lets you download the last 12 months transactions from your current accounts in a file. https://www.gov.u

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