rjmunro

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by rjmunro 6y ago
Supports them by getting them banned from Ad networks, taking their revenue away? Or at the very least reducing ad conversions for their advertisers, meaning they become a less valuable place to advertise on. What is "Dishonesty isn&#x
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by rjmunro 6y ago
I was put off by the following sentence: > ... 14.8 watts, or 129.65 kilowatt-hours - the metric commonly used by power companies ... It should say 129.65 kilowatt-hours PER YEAR. Without the time, it's like saying "a car goes
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by rjmunro 6y ago
I've heard complaints that while it calls itself "campaign", implying it's a not-for-profit grass roots movement, it is actually a private for-profit company selling publications along with commercial editing and trainin
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by rjmunro 6y ago
If it's anything like bankruptcy in the UK, it will go to the subset of the "victims" who have the best lawyers. Fees for Lawyers and accountants dealing with the bankruptcy will be deducted first. Any money owed to banks wil
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by rjmunro 6y ago
Depends who owns the trademarks now. They would be an asset that whoever managed the bankruptcy would be able to sell on. That person may well want to use them to make some money back.
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What is needed is a way to use something like the new language presented here against existing relational databases, preferably in a way that doesn't involve sending queries as plain text strings back to the database engine - query com
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Sounds like a good way to stay home and avoid the virus. It does seem sensible that sharing photos publicly could be banned for privacy of other students reasons. But criticising the school should absolutely be allowed.
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I can't believe this isn't the Onion or something. It was hilarious.
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by rjmunro 6y ago
It may or may not be illegal, but including the ads is unlikely to make any difference. It's generally not thought to be illegal, see for example: https://www.practicalecommerce.com/Search-Engines-Indexing-a...
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by rjmunro 6y ago
It would mean that because GCP is not itself under AGPL, you are not complying with the license, so you could be sued by the maker of the software for copying it to GCP. You are doing the copying, you are breaking the copyrights.
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Can you link to the relevant cases?
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Petition to End Daylight Savings Time in the UK(petition.parliament.uk)
1 points by rjmunro 6y ago|1 comments
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Playback of a MIDI file also doesn't return the original sound quality, it plays the same notes with generic sampled instruments. For high quality samples of some instruments, this can be OK, but for others, it sounds terrible. As for
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by rjmunro 6y ago
It's not just copyrights and patents, though. One of the main benefits of YouTube is that it handles all that for you. Sometimes it doesn't quite work, but it's pretty valuable to be able to post a video with some music and h
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Laptop Docks They're pretty neat [video](youtube.com)
1 points by rjmunro 6y ago|0 comments
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by rjmunro 6y ago
Forcing someone to install a native app not only lets the maker of the app siphon the users web browsing data, it also allows them to siphon all data from their machine, including bank details, passwords etc, and often opens security vulner
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by rjmunro 6y ago
Another thing I just remembered was that if you dragged the bottom corner handle off the side or bottom of the screen, the other side of the window would grow. You could only grab the bottom right corner to change size, but this didn't
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by rjmunro 6y ago
I don't think there is a shortage of scientists with ideas about how money could be spent. The article suggests figuring out how to make particle accelerators more efficient, and also global warming and virus research.
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by rjmunro 6y ago
Surely those 10K construction jobs could be used to build things with much more relevance, maybe things to reduce / mitigate climate change.
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by rjmunro 6y ago
I always thought the beauty of RISC OS was in the UX not the underlying OS. The three most important things were: 1. Task bar / dock thing. This was well before Windows 95 and Mac OS X both adopted the feature. 2. There was a dedicated
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by rjmunro 6y ago
That is specifically true, but I suspect being out of the EU will make the UK easier for money launderers and similar in the long term.
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That video is so much better than the above description makes it sound.
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Absolutely. The other big innovation is you can see who's making a noise in the call in the list of participants and mute them. The UX is terrible, and totally not their strong point. When you install it should have a test my audio and
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I Asked 64,182 People About “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells”(youtube.com)
2 points by rjmunro 6y ago|0 comments
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I was thinking Google home devices might work. Is assistant actually a problem? I wondered if it would be actually useful for some people.
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Finally an article that doesn't just say "Centralised bad, decentralised good, because Apple / Google say so", but actually explains the advantages of the centralised model. I agree that it's probably not worth the
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I think there should be an absolute limit on the length. 1kb seems about right. Any more than that and the whole document is too long to possibly read. Severability clauses (like "If a provision of this Agreement is or becomes illegal,
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https://wiredthegame.com/ is a free video game that is designed to give an understanding of how electricity works. It's probably worth playing through.
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> Would it kill them to send something like "We saw X on your account ..." They fear it would kill their fraud prevention efforts because they'd just be giving evil actors a list of instructions on how to stay as close as
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Quite the opposite. Other parts of the car will wear out at 25% of that (or less), so you'll have second use batteries available with 75% of their life still in them. People won't want to build new cars with old batteries for safe

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