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by soneil 7y ago
The article mentions a gentleman that somehow 'disabled' his street in the waze map editor, and described the effect as a tap being turned off. I think that's the goal here. Not "no traffic", but not "drinkin
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by soneil 7y ago
The whole premise of the article is that it only needs to coerce Waze’ routing. If the glut of traffic is just following the blue line, the minority that route themselves shouldn’t be enough to cause problems - or at least, they apparently
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by soneil 7y ago
Drivers don't pay for the roads - any more than smokers, drinkers, or anyone else that opts into a 'sin tax' pays for the roads. Vehicle duty & fuel tax both go into "general revenue", and roads are paid by loc
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by soneil 7y ago
A large part of what made WoW a landmark in my life was the community I found there. Some good friends, some life-long friends, etc. My big worry in "going back" is that you quickly discover the game was only a mechanism in a big
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by soneil 7y ago
There is a roadmap for Classic releases, rolling through the major milestones of Vanilla - content that went through gated or staggered releases last time, is being staggered again this time. It's unclear what happens when that reaches
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by soneil 7y ago
I think to make that an apt comparison, you'd be buying hardware from Microsoft that only worked with Windows, and only with volume licences. So when sold second-hand they'd be essentially nonfunctional.
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by soneil 7y ago
When it's difficult to find any compassion for these people, keep in mind that many of them are still awaiting trial, and haven't actually been found guilty yet (a poor example, but Epstein's trial was scheduled for June 2020
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by soneil 7y ago
The two needn't be mutually exclusive. Someone could have been enticed to look the other way. He could have had materials made available which he properly shouldn't have, etc. Now I'm not claiming any of these things, but I
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by soneil 7y ago
I think there’s talk of moving to a household fee here too. Oddly, making it universal seems to be more acceptable than a consumption tax. On one hand, I can see the plus sides - there’s a lot more ways to consume national broadcasters no
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by soneil 7y ago
I must admit I never noticed that! Apparently I don't downvote often. The more you know - Thanks!
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by soneil 7y ago
I don't begrudge the TV licence too much. I used to, and then I moved to Ireland - where I pay a roughly equivalent amount for a roughly equivalent licence, which funds RTÉ (and tg4? unclear) with nowhere near the same results. And s
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by soneil 7y ago
I've never seen a coin-op TV, but "back when I were a lad" we had electricity on the same principle. IIRC (and this is dark & distant memory) it started off coin-op and transitioned to cards you had to buy from local sto
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by soneil 7y ago
Here breathlyzers aren't evidence, they're probable cause. To be admissible they either need you to accept the result, or go custodial for a blood test.
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by soneil 7y ago
I fat-finger a lot, especially on mobile where these tiny little arrows are a challenge. And one thing I notice is that since both the arrows disappear, you're never quite sure if you did. You have to question your fat fingers yourse
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by soneil 7y ago
I'm not sure I'm comfortable with this. It's a work-around, not a solution. There is a legal duty, when at sea, to render aid as necessary to ships in distress. If EUFOR or the coastguard don't have an asset nearby, t
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by soneil 7y ago
I was more aiming at the dumb pipe analogy than this specific instance. Kinda "be careful what you wish for". When people say they want the internet to be a Utility, they overlook a lot of what they're asking for. They&#x2
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by soneil 7y ago
I always find the utility comparison an interesting one. If the water supply was poisoned, would you expect the utility company to cut your supply until it could be cleaned? If they could cut it off closer to the source of the poison so y
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by soneil 7y ago
I think the issue here is scarcity. There's waiting lists for most council housing. The whole idea of council housing is that the state provides you housing because you can't provide your own. If they're renting out theirs,
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by soneil 7y ago
I'm not sure low power was ever a goal. They've chosen USB as the power source, for whatever reason, and fairly consistently managed to just scrape (or just miss) the power budget. I mean, this is a device with no power manageme
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by soneil 7y ago
Why does it need to be either/or? The way I look at it, every single hobbyist, retropie, dust collector, etc is just enabling the scale that allows them to deliver the hardware at the price point. If 100% of Pi went into schools, the
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by soneil 7y ago
I spent a few years in Michigan, and was all but told this. In one conversation that stuck with me, a chap was on one of his frequent rants about "them", and I felt compelled that he was ranting about immigrants, to an immigrant.
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by soneil 7y ago
> good (i.e. fully featured) cables will always work in all combinations. AIUI, that's actually what's going wrong here. It only works if the charger+cable combo are both dumb enough. If there's enough fully-featured comp
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by soneil 7y ago
I think that is a large part of it, yes. There's been a good few kit computers in the last few years - the rc2014 being my favourite (not because it's particularly amazing, but because it's designed to be understandable and
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by soneil 7y ago
I prefer to have ours default to on. It means the "dumb switch" (as the grandparent puts it) still works as expected, which is really important for .. everyone else in the house. (It does make outtage recovery inconvenient, but t
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by soneil 7y ago
They label the x86 architecture i386 - even though it's not actually compatible with 386 processors anymore. So when they're talking about dropping i386 - they're talking about dropping 32bit, not your 25yo sx16.
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by soneil 7y ago
The main difference I see is that most of Europe isn't built on grids. It strikes me they cause as many problems as they solve. Most road networks are essentially hierarchical - you have (more or less) arteries, collectors/feede
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by soneil 7y ago
ah, I didn't realise it was actually coming out of the fab like that now? I could have sworn that at least initially, it was being offered as a value-add service. Anyway, I should stress it wasn't a criticism - just that if that&
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by soneil 7y ago
yes/no. it's sized to match the Pi Zero, which by default comes with no headers - so to add this board you'd need to add headers. But many vendors (including OP) offer them pre-soldered, which makes the hardware side "
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by soneil 7y ago
That's the disconnect. Each draw's odds are independent, but each draw's winnings aren't. So there's a collectivism that goes into a growing pot. This is the only thing that really makes a "rollover" enti
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by soneil 7y ago
The simple correction is that the pot doesn't live in your pocket. And the lottery don't offer a fixed jackpot, they offer the contents of the pot. So a realistic correction of this, would be that for each $1 game, 50 cents goes

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