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by screwt 14y ago
And how much do you trust google/facebook? Because it would be trivial for them to link your logged-out behaviour to your account if they wanted to (via cookies and other means). Using a separate browser might help, buy isn't s guarantee. I
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by screwt 14y ago
That's simply not true for a manufacturing start-up. To develop a physical product takes a long time, with a lot of (costly[1]) trial and error. You'll start with single items, then move on to batch production (10s-100s) on a few versions t
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by screwt 14y ago
I have account with both HSBC and smile (online branch of the Cooperative Bank). HSBC is as you describe - seems pretty secure, but enormously frustrating that you need the dongle just to check balances etc. They'll only provide a single do
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by screwt 14y ago
That's why it's normal these days, for clinical studies, for the control group to receive current best available treatment, rather than a placebo. After all, what you're generally trying to find out is whether the new treatment is better th
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by screwt 14y ago
I also thought this is an almost impossible problem to solve, until a friend pointed out that on the Jubilee line extension (London Underground), it is solved. The edge of the platform at the newer stations is walled off from the track by g
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by screwt 14y ago
Could you explain a little more why you didn't go for responsible disclosure to Onity? In the article you suggest that you don't think they could fix it. Maybe true but shouldn't you (a) give them the oppurtunity to try (just cos you can't
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by screwt 14y ago
I often see the following in the UK that appears to work around this. Fruit items in a pack (e.g. 6 oranges) - price per unit is shown. Fruit items loose - price per weight shown. So you can't compare which is cheaper. I assume loose...
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by screwt 14y ago
This. If you have any interest in manufacturing, IMO the turbine blades in a jet engine are incredible. Without going into loads of detail, 2 points that blow my mind: 1) Due to compression in the intake (and as per the ideal gas law D_Alex
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Neal Stephenson doing AMA on Reddit(reddit.com)
3 points by screwt 14y ago|0 comments
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by screwt 14y ago
I'm surprised it takes more than 1 email each to pick a time. Offer: Let's have a call. I'll suggest 2pm Tue. If that doesn't work, please let me know any time between 1pm-6pm Tue or 9am-11am Wed. Response: 9am Wed. I do think the gmail cal
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by screwt 14y ago
Well if you read one of the original articles, you'll find out why.
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by screwt 14y ago
For all the people expressing doubt, please: - read the original story [1], in full. Google translate is your friend if you can't read French. - find out a bit more about the 2CV car before commenting. It really is a very simple vehicle. O
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by screwt 14y ago
A Dutch friend of mine said watching English-language TV was a great help learning english. Just hearing the language a lot does wonders for recognising the sounds of words. Plus she said a lot of shows would have Dutch subtitles, so you ge
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by screwt 14y ago
I was disappointed - surely a live web version would be easy to mock up, and give a good feel for how things work? This wouldn't need to give away any details - if need be, just have 10 example calcs with the tolerance hard-coded.
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Instagram buyout: cost/user vs cost/employee(waxy.org)
2 points by screwt 14y ago|0 comments
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by screwt 14y ago
I second this. Compare this 'basic': ... and we will develop more features and services in the future to the actual TOS: ... 500px reserves the right to suspend or discontinue the availability ... or remove any Content ..
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by screwt 14y ago
Re "the inherent joy in playing music" - isn't that the whole point of the article? When it's not reduced to mindless rote learning, there can be an inherent joy in doing math.
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by screwt 15y ago
The MS Paint ad was much more readable, IMO. Too many adds try to cram too much into their restricted screen real estate, with the result that they're much less clear. Factor in that most ads are competing with others alongside (and they al
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by screwt 15y ago
I think you underestimate the necessity for reliable support, especially in some sectors. E.g. for Telcos, where any outages must be fixed within specified (short) timescales in order to be allowed to sell telco service. It's less risk for
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by screwt 15y ago
I have seen the non-EU line at Heathrow. For those that haven't, it's >3 hrs long, stood up, with nothing but a single garish vending machine for company. It makes me ashamed to be British. We can do better.
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by screwt 15y ago
A friend of mine used to where a suit for exams. He said it helped him get in the right mindset.
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by screwt 15y ago
I tried a similar thing in high school to stop saying 'like' as a filler word. For me, it completely backfired though - I found myself saying 'like' twice whenever I would have said it once! I guess doing this as a group (as others have sug
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by screwt 15y ago
I don't know why the above comment has been down-voted - it's completely fair and valid. HN works best when downvoting is not used as disagreement. If you don't like McDonalds, fine. But it's clearly true that many people do.
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by screwt 15y ago
I'd say it's more like, having a betting shop in Canada, but the only entrance is via an underground tunnel whose entrance is in the US. The US have said "the only use of this tunnel is to disobey US law, and so we're closing down the tunne
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by screwt 15y ago
To be fair, the post does say they'll provide the technical explanation when they have more info: We will post an update on this situation, including details on the root cause analysis at the end of this incident. I think that's fa
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by screwt 15y ago
There's an alternate strategy that relies on time moving in discrete chunks, and both players moving simultaneously. But it's completely dependent on how the space is modelled, which indicates (to me) that this isn't a satisfying / robust /
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by screwt 15y ago
Assuming both players react instantaneously, and space is modelled as continuous (not discrete), I think the following strategy always wins for the lion. 1. Lion runs to centre of ring 2. Lion moves toward tamer, but always stayin
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by screwt 15y ago
Ramps aren't actually accessible to everyone - especially for older folks, short steps and flat sections are easier to navigate than a continuous gradient. /pedant (sorry)
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by screwt 15y ago
All the drink at an event like this will certainly be on sale or return[1] so everything he drinks comes direct from the charity's pocket. [1] i.e. the charity brings in X bottles of champagne and lets it flow freely all night. At the end t
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by screwt 15y ago
NYT's target audience is not HN. I think many people who use FB don't realise there are any privacy issues under consideration, and I think it's good that the NYT is pointing them out. While I'd expect most HNers to have made a conscious c

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