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by sambe 9y ago
If you can't make basic calculations with ratio and percentages, it seems unlikely that you can compare different costs per unit weight/volume or do the maths to figure out how much food you need without waste. Yes, you can look a
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by sambe 9y ago
They don't require you to discover - they all have a clear and easy option to go and find updates automatically. Most of the system-level ones also have various schedulers & notifiers (both CLI and GUI) which are normally on by def
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by sambe 9y ago
Oh come on, it's always fashionable to blame the current government. The Guardian's view (which has shifted further left and become more "us vs them" divisive in the last couple of years) of an already unpopular Conserva
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by sambe 9y ago
I didn't claim otherwise - is there a need for that tone? What have private GPs got to do with it? I don't doubt that the NHS would treat me reasonably quickly and probably quite well if I had stage 2 cancer. People in the UK have
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by sambe 9y ago
I have never seen such a bureaucratic/inefficiently operated institution - and there are plenty to choose from in the UK. My electricity company replaced all Vs with Ks in letters to us for 7 months. The NHS is much worse (try even get
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by sambe 9y ago
Do you think newspapers should not be called out on misleading information? It seems to me that not highlighting the good vs bad articles/papers is a net loss for public discourse.
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by sambe 9y ago
My interpretation: “no big deal, not scummy, better than average by a distance”. And: please buy userflowpro.
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by sambe 9y ago
Sure, I'll take your $10K diamond ring for my $1K gun. Or did you want to chop off the corner? (more seriously: I think people are going for a substantial reduction in practical feasibility more than anything. The inefficiency of barte
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by sambe 9y ago
First sentences: "The Arctic Ocean once froze reliably every year. Those days are over.". Climate aside, there are still seasons - it's not surprising to see time-lapse videos of this happening. You can see the seasonal chart
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by sambe 9y ago
The title should be changed. It’s not universal, and it’s not £10,000 per year.
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by sambe 9y ago
per year (with some adjustment for the changing success rate).
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by sambe 9y ago
What of the story that there was later a good team who turned it all around ( https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/the-s... ). It just one article, but I had heard something about the tea
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by sambe 9y ago
Most people's primary experience of lithium-ion batteries is in their mobile phone. From that point of view, they were already cheap and commonplace at ~the turn of the millennium. Most people's perception is that in the last 18 y
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by sambe 9y ago
The last few times I've used it in Europa it's given me the wrong location for an address or missing places. I agree that seems better than it was originally, but it just can't compete in a lot of locations.
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by sambe 9y ago
I feel the true danger is in the "uncanny valley" of automation - it's good enough that you don't need to pay attention 98% of the time. People underestimate tail risk, ignore the manual etc. My guess is that you're
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by sambe 9y ago
The article explicitly states that at least Volvo has a similar warning in their manual.
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by sambe 9y ago
Well, I'm not into forcing things on others, so I can't agree with your perfect world. However, I'm more interested in what "socialized" actually means: it seems like just another phrase like "treated as public
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by sambe 9y ago
Almost every public utility I've dealt with is completely dysfunctional, so I'm not sure I'd advocate that unless my real aim was to destory them (which it seems to be for some). It's never clear to me what people even m
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by sambe 9y ago
That and the fact that Apple isn't actually dominant (depending on how far you want to split down the definition of "phone" or "smart phone" or "high end smart phone" or "very high end smart phone&quo
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by sambe 9y ago
How is that comparable? Running everything as root is a) asking for accidents; b) a different class of problem.
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by sambe 9y ago
The point is that it's up from an arbitrary historical value? It's down since the story broke - that's the point.
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by sambe 9y ago
This didn’t become public last October.
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by sambe 9y ago
Intel stock is down ~10% and AMD up ~10% since end of December. I'm not even sure why people are saying the stock market thinks it's not a problem. The stock market represents a weighted average of possible futures and it has pric
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by sambe 9y ago
I mean, they could go back to the provider of the clinical information with a unique ID and request follow-up. But people are still a) busy (clinical data may come from a hospital that has little interest in research; researchers want to pu
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by sambe 9y ago
It is common for the data to be anonymised. Especially if there is a third party involved (e.g. a lab producing sequencing data attached to sub-sets of clinical information, according to whatever contract or legal environment they are in).
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by sambe 9y ago
Even if they add a lot collectively, it's logical to pay individuals according to their individual impact. Collectively they still get more (just not as much more as when they were being subsidised). However, in the long-run the challe
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by sambe 9y ago
There's not really enough detail here to support either point of view. There's hacking & skimming in addition to hitting withdrawal limits. It's arguable form the article's information that implicitly trusting up to
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by sambe 9y ago
Sure, a fail-safe mode makes complete sense. I'm just doubtful that there's a need to be in this mode 100% of the time.
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by sambe 9y ago
And it would still be acceptable to wait 0.001% of the time, would it not? Or degrade to limit mode in that situation?
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by sambe 9y ago
It takes a fraction of a second to send the withdrawal to the main office - how would a scam based on this really work? A second card with another person at a different ATM? Even then, you'd think you could serialise per-account withou

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