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by stordoff 7y ago
I have specifically had this explained to me as being due to the bystander effect. "Someone call 999/911" - chances are no one will do it, due to the bystander effect; "You (points) call 999/911" - they probabl
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by stordoff 7y ago
> How on earth is MSFT supposed to maintain comparability for quintillions of iterations of hardware across millions of machines with no data on what works and what doesn't? Isn't this the same problem they've faced for de
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by stordoff 7y ago
I suspect the full-time job is actually her blog, rather than the contests per se: > The operator of a popular sweepstakes blog, she has made the hobby into a full-time job. So far in 2019, she's won prizes equivalent to £5,389, or
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by stordoff 7y ago
Worth noting not in the UK, where Coke lives.
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by stordoff 7y ago
> That would makes the phones considerably thicker and/or make the battery life significantly worse. Would it? The Lumia 950 has a user replaceable battery: Thickness - Lumia 950: 8.2mm; iPhone XR: 8.3mm Battery - Lumia 950: 3000mAh
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by stordoff 7y ago
It's ambiguous, that's the problem. My first reading was it was a dataset of government information that had leaked on Tor (despite having a computer science background - that's not necessarily the context on HN). Even if it&
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by stordoff 7y ago
> There's configuration for automated system updates, which most technical people understand to mean security patches and things that are equivalent to windows hotfixes and servicepacks. Microsoft do exactly the same, and have done
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by stordoff 7y ago
Just audio is still an improvement over audio and video.
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by stordoff 7y ago
> In my experience, finding the right cable has never been an issue. All the USB-C devices I've bought came with a suitable cable in the box. Which is fine, until you need you need a new cable. When I lost the cable for my phone, fi
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by stordoff 7y ago
> Not great to stand on, however Only plugs that double as caltrops, if necessary. I like to think that it's a feature :)
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by stordoff 7y ago
From what I've heard (UK), earth at the top is marginally safer as if anything falls on a partially unplugged plug (coin, hairpin, something metal), it will land on the earth rather than directly on the powered pins. Of course, this is
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by stordoff 7y ago
I opened my bank account 11 years ago (2008), and never had any issues doing anything I needed to do (including cheques) at another branches over 100 miles away.
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by stordoff 7y ago
That seems open to abuse - wander around London until you get pinged with a false positive (vary your appearance - hat/glasses/beard - to make it more likely), then go and commit your crime, knowing one of the major tools is neutr
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by stordoff 7y ago
To that point, I routinely travel to London without ID (nearest ID would be at home two hours away). Last time I went there, I just had cash, Oyster card probably not in my name (I borrow one from family if I can't find me mine), and m
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by stordoff 7y ago
> Marijuana is illegal, so human tracking should be illegal too. I'm not sure I really see the connection here.
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by stordoff 7y ago
False negative rate seems like it would matter here as well, if it leads to people being discarded and _never_ considered.
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by stordoff 7y ago
You're simplifying matters. If money was clearly sent in error, the bank can protect it from being spent (and subsequently refund it), unless the recipient disputes it: > When you notify your bank or building society that you have m
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by stordoff 7y ago
Raises a question - if they've deleted _everything_, how would they know they are banned? Surely just keeping email address + "banned" (especially for a specific reason) is storing their data.
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by stordoff 7y ago
A&A: > We don't provide a filtering service to restrict or limit access to anything on the Internet. When you take services from us you are opting out of any filtering services. The Internet has a lot of good and useful things,
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by stordoff 7y ago
If it's additive (as in you can get by without it, but it helps), it may well be OK.
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by stordoff 7y ago
Derren Brown had an interesting example of this on UK TV a few years ago. It's nothing new, but showing it this way demonstrates how you can get drawn in: > The System, a Channel 4 special in which Brown shared his "100 percent
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by stordoff 7y ago
Hero: > Sir Tim Berners-Lee – for spearheading the 'Contract for the Web' campaign Contract for the Web: > [Governments will] Keep all of the internet available, all of the time > So that no one is denied their right to f
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by stordoff 7y ago
Microsoft had a patent application on a very similar idea: > Television viewing tends to be a passive experience for a viewer[...] To increase interactive viewing and encourage a user to watch one or more particular items of video conten
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by stordoff 7y ago
> I feel like a more "proper" solution would be to come up with shooty-shooty bang-bang game mechanics where "ability to aim with finesse at the things you're shooting at" is mechanically irrelevant, so that &quo
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by stordoff 7y ago
Scunthorpe is a common example for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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by stordoff 7y ago
Audio-Technica ATH-M50x with a set of memory foam ear pads (the stock ones are uncomfortable). Great sound quality (bass is _slightly_ exaggerated, but it works for the music I listen to), extremely comfortable (I can wear them 12 hours plu
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by stordoff 7y ago
> As much as people crap on Subway I don't think I've ever had a negative experience at one Same here. I'm never going to come out of one thrilled, but they are consistently _fine_.
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by stordoff 7y ago
Doesn't appear to be the case in the UK at least: > It is illegal to circle a roundabout more than 3 times > FALSE > There is no evidence to support this, other than the 'careless driving' argument. You should plan b
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by stordoff 7y ago
Interestingly, I find I'm the other way. Reading for pleasure, I want a physical book. Anything where I'm flipping back and forth, I prefer an e-book, so I can quickly make bookmarks and have a clickable table of contents/ind
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by stordoff 7y ago
What was edited? The discussion still appears to make sense.

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