smileypete

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by smileypete 7y ago
Reminds me of a documentary on the common but little known Robin Day chair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTYWPuJ_zJc For something a step up from the monobloc, a typica classroom chair will last and take some abuse, thou
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by smileypete 7y ago
Another reason to use DuckDuckGo...
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by smileypete 7y ago
Would be nice to have an NNTP interface to read HN Free agent still seems to work on Win8 :-)
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by smileypete 7y ago
Maybe a bit better than an unknown murderer who may have recently committed a crime. For an example a third of murders in the US now go unsolved: https://www.npr.org/2015/03/30/395069137/open-cases-why-on
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by smileypete 7y ago
You don't necessarily need licensing for liability issues, just a requirement for contractors to carry public indemnity insurance and only work within its terms.
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by smileypete 7y ago
Thanks for that, some of the writing around the time is well worth a read too: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/05/12/selective-inte... "In Congress, a senior legislative aide said, “Some mem
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by smileypete 7y ago
Destroying Iraq was a part of the 'neocon revolution' which really got it's legs after 9/11. This podcast helps give some insight: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned-the-paradox-of-dick-cheney-with-...
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by smileypete 7y ago
The fish rots from the head! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/20/macron-securit... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benalla_affair
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by smileypete 7y ago
There is a world of difference between 4°C and say 14-18°C, at 4°C you just don't get used to it really! A good method may be to use a fine spray and start with legs, then arms then working up from the bottom to top of the torso. That
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by smileypete 7y ago
Late to this; but here's a Q&A with the author which may shed some light: https://www.c-span.org/video/?466007-1/qa-susannah-cahalan
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by smileypete 7y ago
>article makes no mention of the followup experiment where it seems a hospital invited a repetition and then claimed to have found 40 or so fake patients during the agreed period 'a hospital' - which hospital? Makes sense to ca
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by smileypete 7y ago
It seems the A/B testing for this has morphed over to 'what dark patterns can we ultimately get away with?' Some of the excellent points Kent Beck makes in this video about leaving Facebook seem to resonate here: https:&#x2F
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by smileypete 7y ago
Late to this, but it reminds me of 'the rise of the idiots' from the 2006(!) series 'Nathan Barley' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhAr_UeroCk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqfkuc5mawg
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by smileypete 7y ago
When I hear an agile practitioner banging on about waterfall, it's a big fat red flag to me. I believe Conway had it right, back in about oh, '67? "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs whi
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by smileypete 7y ago
Articles and books like this are so detailed and descriptive, they're like the 4K Youtube of the 19th century...
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by smileypete 7y ago
>in it you entirely fail to explain how you were wronged by vice The answer clearly stated in Part 1: "I exchanged several emails with Vice magazine making it clear what the scope of the article would be. The key points being no dis
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by smileypete 7y ago
Nitpick, but grey on white text, gaaahhh! But, I had to laugh when I found the RGB is 0x666666 :)
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by smileypete 7y ago
Not a big fan of modern art, but I've a soft spot for Gilbert and George, one of the first to create art that literally was shit, or at least incorporated it. :) Plus they lived in an area of London that was pretty rough back in the da
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by smileypete 7y ago
Timothy Leary was in on it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32TU6yLwqrg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3i4ALdMSt0 Wiki section about their unethical experiments on people: https://en.wikipe
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by smileypete 7y ago
>If you were not part of the governing minority you got brutally suppressed. If you dared to voice a different opinion you got send into prison for a nice round of torture. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Maybe, but: 'I
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by smileypete 7y ago
If anyone could, this pilot could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iOoiEbtf2w
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by smileypete 7y ago
The NSA actually shamelessly 'stole' the prism logo off the web: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/12/nsa_logo_scandal/ Now it appears they're issuing a takedown for someone trying to
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by smileypete 7y ago
>We know that pricing works to change behaviour. Only to those in lower socio-economic groups materially affected by the change in prices. So in one sense it's really just exerting more control over the poorer groups of society.
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by smileypete 7y ago
Good article on how Facebook used them for their mobile app: https://code.fb.com/android/improving-facebook-s-performance...
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by smileypete 7y ago
Whether Musk wins the lawsuit or not, he's proving himself to be an aerospace grade douche...
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by smileypete 7y ago
>Israel and the U.S are extremely strong alliance Not always; google for 'dancing israelis'
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by smileypete 7y ago
Also well worth look at Robert Carver's material, ex HF guy: https://qoppac.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html A google will turn up plenty of videos and interviews too.
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by smileypete 7y ago
If you google 'Cheney Rumsfeld MKULTRA' there's plenty enough reading to fill a rainy Sunday afternoon...
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by smileypete 7y ago
It's the neighborhood equivalent of 'Five Eyes'!
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by smileypete 7y ago
Couple of Palmerston sea shanties: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlwhUKO6RYA from: https://www.discogs.com/David-Fanshawe-Spirit-Of-Polynesia/r... This is a good one too, basically it's a hold o

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