rjmunro

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811.
Did these parts come from a T-33 crash?(aviation.stackexchange.com)
3 points by rjmunro 7y ago|0 comments
812.
A comparison of waste from Wind turbines, Solar power, Nuclear and Coal(energymusings.blog)
2 points by rjmunro 7y ago|0 comments
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by rjmunro 7y ago
https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/all-projects says there have been 44 million edits and 21 million user edits on Wikimedia sites, so 24 edits / second. That's about the fastest bitcoin could possibly go.
814.
by rjmunro 7y ago
Ransomware? That's been quite successful, and mostly enabled by Bitcoin. :-)
815.
by rjmunro 7y ago
Are you sure? I know they keep some WiFi on, but I didn't think there was much location value in bluetooth signals because most bluetooth devices people use are portable (headphones, cars, etc.)
816.
by rjmunro 7y ago
> a legal battle with a phone manufacturer will cost much more than the phone itself You'd only need to do it once to set a precedent, and everyone can get their phones fixed or replaced. The problem is that the law applies to the r
817.
by rjmunro 7y ago
Looks like I need a new phone because of this. Which phone would you recommend so I don't make the same mistake again?
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by rjmunro 7y ago
In the UK I always wonder if it's possible to bring a claim under Part 1 Chapter 2 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015. The goods must be 'satisfactory'. Remove code execution over bluetooth is not satisfactory, even if it only b
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by rjmunro 7y ago
What exactly do I put on my poster?
820.
by rjmunro 7y ago
Under this law, what happens is the insurance provider picks up the extra $10 and shares it with everyone else's premiums.
821.
by rjmunro 7y ago
Do we have any idea how much higher the premiums are likely to be? Google says there are 1.5-3 million insulin users in the USA - lets call it 1% of the population. Let's say that their drugs cost $300 / month, but they pay $100.
822.
by rjmunro 7y ago
This isn't that sort of price cap, as far as I can see. It's a law for insurance companies saying that if you want to insure people in this state, you must cover the cost of insulin from your general insurance pool, not from the i
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Japanese Train Designs(twitter.com)
2 points by rjmunro 7y ago|0 comments
824.
by rjmunro 7y ago
So what does a URL look like in this system? E.g. If I have put up a poster on a wall somewhere, what do I say instead of "Visit www.example.org for more details"?
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by rjmunro 7y ago
If this is something that IT admins can opt in to, rather than compulsory, it sounds like a good feature. The article hints that might be the case. If this happens by default, in a user hostile way, Google could respond by having their inst
826.
by rjmunro 7y ago
The Freakonomics podcast covered this: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/vaping-nicotine/
827.
by rjmunro 7y ago
The article states "based on data collected from the TrialsTracker website of the University of Oxford", which is Ben Goldacre's project.
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by rjmunro 7y ago
> 1,500 separate repositories?! That sounds way overkill. I wonder if they'd benefit from having a monorepo. No it doesn't. Github has at least 20 million public repositories. Would they benefit by combining them into a monorep
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by rjmunro 7y ago
Append-only logs replicated to multiple places is probably illegal under the GDPR. People have the right to demand all data about them is deleted, e.g. once they are no longer Travelex customers. An interesting question is would you rather
830.
by rjmunro 7y ago
The problem with paying it is that even if it works, and all the machines decrypt in a timely fashion, you have no idea if the attackers have left anything else in the network that they could use to enter again. You might not even find out
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by rjmunro 7y ago
Which bank? I've found them mostly understanding when I've asked people if I can call back. Although they still try to ask for your DOB first, which means you can't have a blanket "If someone calls from your bank and ask
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by rjmunro 7y ago
Public servants normally can be fired by elected officials. Elected officials can be "fired" by the people, albeit only once every 4 years. Perhaps spun into some sort of not-for-profit, like Firefox. It's a difficult problem
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by rjmunro 7y ago
Real people aren't moving to Firefox or Brave, they are moving (or have moved) to the Facebook mobile app. It has instant articles, ( https://instantarticles.fb.com/ ) an amp-like lightweight way to load news stories, al
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by rjmunro 7y ago
Have you ever visited a news site without AMP enabled? It's literally impossible to use. Popups flying all over the place, unwanted advertising videos loading, megabytes of tracking JS loaded etc. AMP is forcing publishers to make site
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by rjmunro 7y ago
There are plenty in the UK: https://www.carshop.co.uk/latest-news/cars-with-3-isofix-poi...
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by rjmunro 7y ago
Get a MiniVan (called a people carrier in the UK) if you need the capacity, not an SUV. Better MPG, less likely to flip over, similar or greater capacity.
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by rjmunro 7y ago
PoC is Proof of Concept in every context I've ever seen it before.
838.
Cookie monster eats data from Sesame Street store(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by rjmunro 7y ago|0 comments
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by rjmunro 7y ago
That sounds like why eBay added the "buy it now" feature.
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by rjmunro 7y ago
It seems tricky to do this more than once per product. What happens if you've sold the first batch and it went so well you make a second batch? Do you refund the first batch buyers with the difference in price between using the profit

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