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by soneil 7y ago
There's a lot of very heavy stones that'd need to be moved to make that happen. For a good start, you'd need every single bank to just pause every single loan. And to pass that down the chain, every single landlord to stop
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by soneil 7y ago
What's really kicking a lot of our "main street" business is that they're more or less seasonal. We're very tourist heavy, so revenue spikes in better weather. So they expect to have reserves for the winter, and th
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by soneil 7y ago
Possibly the most interesting test post I've seen in a long time, thank you. I suspect the "current circumstances" worked against you here - you have no idea how bored Europe was by 10am.
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by soneil 7y ago
I strongly suspect Google has two separate classes of location history. Data which has been anonymised, and data which hasn't. I strongly suspect that your location history always exists, and that "turning location history on&qu
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by soneil 7y ago
I'm in Ireland .. Retail & Recreation are down 80-90% in most counties! What I did find interesting though, is that after the initial lockdown, we show a reliable increase in "parks", that all take a sharp nosedive after
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by soneil 7y ago
The litmus test for me, is what does the state get out of this? As much as it seems like an authoritarian wet dream, the state doesn't actually benefit from this lockdown. The economic damage works against them, not for them. Hungary
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by soneil 7y ago
That concerned pictures taken by the monkey. This is pictures taken by a photographer, with his own camera, by his own will. Nothing remotely disputable.
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by soneil 7y ago
That's it - they don't depend on the BBC. It's more a troubleshooting step. If the light in the kitchen doesn't work, but the one in the living room does, there's something wrong with the kitchen light. If everyth
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by soneil 7y ago
I think it’s more attack boats operating very differently to bombers. Attack boats essentially operate like surface ships with tactical advantages. Bombers operate like minuteman silos with mechanical complications.
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by soneil 7y ago
Just for anyone wondering why Radio 4 in particular - it’s the only BBC station we have on Longwave (198? kHz), so you get over-the-horizon service from a single tower. (which is why carries the shipping forecast, and why it’s of particula
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by soneil 7y ago
I’m not sure there’s anything specific about France here. The UK’s bombers operate similarly, and I can’t see any reason anyone else’s wouldn’t. My father worked aboard one, and we got to send a weekly “familygram” message - a short, teleg
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by soneil 7y ago
Indeed. On it's own, it looks like .. I'm not sure "willy-waving" translates into American well. But once you realise they're sending them everywhere, it makes it look more like they've ramped production up to
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by soneil 7y ago
China appear to be making special efforts to send whatever they can to Italy, in recognition of Italy going above and beyond in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan 'quake. For all that's going wrong lately, it's not a bad thing
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by soneil 7y ago
He also sent similar to Iran, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Spain - which makes it look a little less so, at least to my eye.
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by soneil 7y ago
An entirely accidental comparison - I recently finished a series of novels set in the US's pacific fleet during ww2, so that was simply the example at the forefront of my mind. But as a European, the US's military footing doesn&#x
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by soneil 7y ago
I say 6pm but write 18:00. I imagine things like that can very easily lead to awkward translations. I've found countries (Slovakia springs to mind) that would say "a quarter of 8" for 7:15 (think "7 hours and a quarter o
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by soneil 7y ago
The hospitalisation part really is key here. At this point stopping it really isn't on the cards. We need to slow it enough that hospitals can keep up. 7M people catching it next month, vs 7M people catching it over the span of a yea
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by soneil 7y ago
He seems to just treat everything as an us-vs-them argument. I get the impression he's facing an issue where there is no "them" and trying to figure out how to win this argument. It should be almost irrelevant to the discuss
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by soneil 7y ago
> Another interesting thing I have just noticed is that some journalists are now openly praising the Chinese handling of the crisis. I think this is a very interesting effect. China has a fantastic ability to mobilize as one when needed
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by soneil 7y ago
I asked my ISP, and got a template reply telling me they were shooting for late 2017. I asked again in 2018, and received a template reply telling me they were shooting for late 2017. I asked in 2019, and got the same reply ... They'
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by soneil 7y ago
A bit out of my wheelhouse, but I tend to believe the drawbacks would outweigh the benefits.
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by soneil 7y ago
The copyright line at the foot of the email seems to be the most reliable way to see which legal entity your account falls under. It’d be nice if they were a little more clear about this.
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by soneil 7y ago
It's still a very popular route for sailing. You essentially ride the tropical conveyors from the Azores until the Indian Ocean. The Americas are a minor inconvenience, solved by the Panama Canal. It's getting back which is the
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by soneil 7y ago
It certainly seems so. 2015 kickstarter [0] mentions nothing of FE at all. Just wants to break his previous record. Kickstarter flops, hard. 2017 gofundme [1] sells itself as $7500 of sponsorship in return for the prime advertising spot o
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by soneil 7y ago
The other issue brought up recently is when they try to enforce their licencing of public domain images, which is a lot more shady. Selling you a licence, sure, why not. Complaining you’re using a public domain image without getty’s licen
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by soneil 7y ago
I think we'd just have to have a chat about the definition of what's excessive? Fining me $1m for something would be excessive, fining AT&T $1m for the same thing would be trivial. "excessive" is relative. The GPDR
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by soneil 7y ago
I don't think anyone is arguing that the offense is greater - I think they'd argue they're putting the "proportion" back in proportional - making the fine proportional to the income, so that it has more equal impact
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by soneil 7y ago
> and that every port could deliver a minimum of 5V-3A. For the pi, “at the same time” is what most hubs seem to miss - often they can supply 3A per port, but not ports * 3A overall. (60W on 6-10 ports is a typical config, so you can pul
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by soneil 7y ago
And the third is just PD, no data. Searching for 2 ports is no better - they’re all one data plus one PD (with the exception of one that’s macbook-specific, so it can pass-thru two ports because it’s using 2 on the host). It seems like it’
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by soneil 7y ago
For me, almost purely nostalgia. As silly as it sounds, meeting goals I set for myself when I was 12. (Plus a sprinkling of convenience; the scan-doubler lets me use a leftover flatscreen instead of a hulking CRT, ethernet saves me a lot

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