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by smackay 11y ago
The article points out that making basic income available to those contributing to society (working, looking for work or volunteering). That's incredibly short-sighted for several reasons: 1) the idle are best being, well, idle - out o
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by smackay 11y ago
The article does not mention it but where are the kids when the mother is at work? More than likely this is in day-care rather than in the home of another family member (most likely the grandparents). The likelihood is that the kids are in
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We are ignoring the new machine age at our peril(theguardian.com)
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by smackay 11y ago
I'm sure the electronic equivalent of traffic cones will appear pretty quickly - the cost won't be much more and the existing ones will be easy to retrofit. I'm sure there will be a lot of interesting consequences and side-ef
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Power Shift in America as Wall Street Bows to Silicon Valley(theguardian.com)
1 points by smackay 12y ago|0 comments
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Probation officers face redundancy in plan to replace them with machines(theguardian.com)
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by smackay 12y ago
The best of both worlds is living in Lisbon while working remote for at least a European company and even better an American one. Since I arrived here in 2004 I've worked for British, French and now Swiss-based companies. I have only w
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by smackay 12y ago
Unison was the first thing I tried after moving away from DropBox. The main problem I had with it was that both machines involved in the syncing had to be running which made moving from laptop to desktop not as seamless as I would have like
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by smackay 12y ago
It is something that needs saying and probably repeating at frequent intervals too as it raises the issue of whether there should be no-go areas for humans. This in turn might be problematic in areas where the economic value of large carniv
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Europe's IXV mini 'spaceplane' set to fly(bbc.com)
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One thing to consider also is a society's ability to change. Rapid industrialization and urbanization were hugely disruptive but were probably manageable, though it took some time to solve all the problems. With people living longer an
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European Parliament to vote on Google break-up(bbc.com)
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by smackay 12y ago
From my time in Seattle, Friendsgiving and Friendsmas was probably the best feature of American culture that I experienced. I lived in the University District, and my future wife was in graduate school at the University of Washington. There
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Theresa May moves to give police powers to identify Internet users(theguardian.com)
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by smackay 12y ago
Nice photos but low on detail. Here's a more interesting account of Myodes lemmus from August 1877 edition of Popular Science: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume... To give you an id
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GCHQ head says tech firms 'in denial' on terrorism(bbc.com)
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by smackay 12y ago
I think there's a decent amount of latent interest in the environment in general and birds in particular since they are probably the most visible. The hard part is getting from somewhat interested to quite interested - that would make
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by smackay 12y ago
What a great idea. It sits quite well in the spot of giving people with a passing interest in birds, and nature in general, quite a decent amount of information. It might even be a gateway app, transforming casual users into full-time birde
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Apple scolded by Europe over in-app purchase protections(bbc.co.uk)
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Sometimes, http://dutchcommunity.com/2012/05/24/the-1953-watersnoodramp...
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Yes, it's much better to blame the users and those pesky hackers than admit that online advertising is largely a waste of money. http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2008/08/inte...
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It's simply a matter of scale. You can ignore the fantasy economics touted by the politicians. For the most part, unless the country becomes a Banana Republic there simply won't be the resources available (and hopefully the will)
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by smackay 12y ago
All the more reason to encourage a vote for an independent Scotland on Sept 18th. You'll be doing Scotland a favour and there will be a friendly place to stay if things get too fucked up south of the border.
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Things from Python I'd miss in Go(yosefk.com)
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Kind of shocking since treating the birds are in the people's best interests as the vultures and kites clean up all the corpses lying around. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_vulture_crisis
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Google sets up 'right to be forgotten' form after EU ruling(bbc.co.uk)
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John Wamsley is another colourful character with a very hands-on approach to conservation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wamsley http://www.abc.net.au/site-archive/rural/legends/stor
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by smackay 12y ago
and be beaten by Portugal, on penalties, no less.
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How to make a heap profiler(yosefk.com)
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I agree this debate is already over. However I think this simplifies the issue enormously and makes it a lot more likely that general public opinion can be mustered against animal testing. If you tell the tell the future adults of this worl

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