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by spuz 8y ago
I believe when Charlie Brooker first got on board with Netflix to produce the third season of Black Mirror, he made a suggestion to introduce some kind of interactive element to the show but Netflix decided it wasn't technically possib
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by spuz 8y ago
The article doesn't mention voting. Not sure why it's relevant to Estonia's ID cards.
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by spuz 8y ago
> have we as a collective lost the ability to discern the real from the fake? I don't think so. Even people who frequently click on fake news articles probably would accept the content they read is probably fake. Those articles sati
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by spuz 8y ago
Okay then: > Herein lies the real power of the Gerasimov-style shadow war: It’s hard to muster resistance to an enemy you can’t see, or aren’t even sure is there. But it’s not an all-powerful approach; the shadowy puppeteering at the hea
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by spuz 8y ago
There is a good Planet Money episode about New Jersey's overhaul of the bail system: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/29/643072388/epis...
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by spuz 8y ago
Is that USD or CAD? Also, according to that site, there has been a 32% drop in prices since last year. I wonder what the reason for that is?
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by spuz 8y ago
The video showing the guy typing and the sound of the haptic feedback gives you a good idea of what it feels like. Watching it I can see how it might work well. I am sure it would take some getting used to. I can also see how some people&#x
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by spuz 8y ago
That's a lot! Where did you get that information?
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by spuz 8y ago
Yes of course, but the reason I mentioned the hardware cost is because that scales linearly with demand and software cost does not. The market for these kind of security devices is tiny right now but has the potential to be huge in the futu
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by spuz 8y ago
If a bluetooth locator tag is only about £3.34 [1], then a tag with an encryption chip should not be 10x the cost. Google has an incentive for their keys to become widespread and well adopted because people will associate their brand with &
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by spuz 8y ago
$50 seems very expensive. The actual hardware probably does not cost more than $10 and I can't see adoption of FIDO keys becoming widespread unless companies are willing to sell keys at or below cost.
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by spuz 8y ago
Yes and no... teenagers are pretty smart. If they think it's lame when their mum spends all weekend scrolling through her Facebook feed, they are going to recognise the same bad habits in themselves scrolling through their Snapchat fee
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by spuz 8y ago
What is classless JavaScript? I don't understand how you had trouble doing things without typesafety but found that going from JavaScript to Elm is a step backwards? Maybe I'm missing something here?
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by spuz 8y ago
As far as the Fermi paradox is concerned it's a much safer assumption to make that advanced civilisations will achieve interstellar communication before they achieve interstellar travel. Even so, my point is that human technology tells
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by spuz 8y ago
That's true, but when you are talking about meat, it's usually safe to assume 'bleed' means to 'bleed blood'.
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by spuz 8y ago
> No. It's simply that statistically, we can't believe we are the first, nor that we are unique. It would be (statistically) extremely odd if we were, and there is a bias against anthropo-centric theories. Fermi's paradox
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by spuz 8y ago
It's not bigotry if the numbers prove it out. Almost every politician who wants voter IDs is a Republican and almost every politician who opposes IDs is a Democrat. If it would have no effect on voter behaviour you would not expect suc
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by spuz 8y ago
Could you elaborate on the risks of not using cash for you?
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by spuz 8y ago
What lies do you think we're being told exactly? The talks of solutions have been going on for decades it's just very hard to get different governments to agree to anything even if it's non binding. Have a look at the Paris a
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by spuz 8y ago
The comparison is still valid even if the units don't quite match. For example, if you flip the comparison you get "The US's total gross domestic product for 2018 is equal to 20 times the Apple's total market cap" w
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by spuz 8y ago
In the UK, it's not possible to buy over the counter, however it's legal to import from another country where it is legal. I've purchased it several times from https://www.biovea.com/uk/ The products I o
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by spuz 8y ago
Interesting! That sounds like a really nice low-tech solution. I like it.
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by spuz 8y ago
Interesting, I didn't know that Sonoff did a power consumption monitor. That makes sense for something like a washing machine. Presumably though you never actually use the relay/off-switch capability of the Sonoff, right?
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by spuz 8y ago
What kind of display did you use for the tram-stop times? I wanted to do something similar but worked out that the cost to update the display every minute was too much in terms of battery life even with an epaper display. Also, it was too i
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by spuz 8y ago
That is genius.
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by spuz 8y ago
I built an accelerometer-based washing machine sensor which sends a notification to my phone when the washing is done. This is useful because the machine itself has no indication when it's done: http://www.instructables.com&
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by spuz 8y ago
Yes, same here except it turns off at quarter past midnight. I reprogrammed a Sonoff switch so that when it turns the main router off it turns on a wifi hotspot which allows me to turn the switch on again - but only for an extra 15 or 30 mi
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No, of course not. They have to pay attention as a driver. The car does all the diagnostic recordings.
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As far as Uber being negligent for putting an easily-distracted human in charge of a car that ostensibly (even if they claim otherwise) needs little attention, I totally agree they are negligent. The reason for that is I believe it's u
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Yes I don't understand why so much focus has been put on the failure of the technology rather than the failure of the back up driver. We all know that self-driving technology does not exist yet, that is why the back up driver is there.

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