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by takno 10y ago
I've found that as long as I go to "I don't want to see posts from this page" on every single sponsored link, they stopped appearing at all fairly quickly. No defence of the app though - I strictly use the mobile website
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by takno 10y ago
I counted almost 10% of my friends list posting either an update or a photo yesterday. Given that I have a few people hidden for prolific boring posts it's likely closer to 15%. There were also posts from half a dozen organizations I&#
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by takno 10y ago
I don't even know what it stands for and I live in it! I'm declaring all calendars crazy.
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by takno 10y ago
The British national anthem is a complex affair. The final god save the queen verse is well known internationally, but the initial Sailing By and the shipping forecast in the middle are often missed completely
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by takno 10y ago
I've always found this odd. Declaring the last 2000 years the "Christian Era" seems much more offensive than a couple of letter standing for some fairly arbitrary latin. Added to which, even in countries which could be descri
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by takno 10y ago
The New York subway could make almost anywhere look clean. Certainly every subway I've been on in Europe was spotless by comparison, and even the ones elsewhere in the US were pretty good.
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by takno 10y ago
You could just do more to encourage development of balanced countries by deliberately skewing infrastructure investment to other places, and watching people move out when large cities grind to a halt. Just because all the money feels it wan
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by takno 10y ago
Absent any credible options you would certainly expect to be able to sell whatever power people could get their hands on.
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by takno 10y ago
The speed from the airport down to the depot is pretty shocking, mostly because it takes a whole bunch of ridiculously tight turns. Once it's through that it picks up quite a lot. Never seems to zoom along, although as much as anything
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by takno 10y ago
drawed only seems to appear in the type of dictionaries they let just anybody edit. The article mostly seemed to be trying to surprise us with the obvious.
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by takno 10y ago
Every time I've been on it it's been busy and reasonably fast, an impression which is well backed up by the usage stats. Definitely speeds up a lot of journeys from Edinburgh park. My impression is that most of the criticism comes
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by takno 10y ago
The stats for the UK were taken straight from the referenced ONS report and used in correct context. It also seems like a bit of a stretch to describe Forbes as journalism anymore EDIT: obviously the suggestion they make that the claimed 80
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by takno 10y ago
Yeah, the prices aren't that insane overall tbh. The small size of the free-tier suprised me, but my impression is that free tiers on services have been shrinking since last time I was in that size of company
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by takno 10y ago
I'm no great fan of Amazon. I think they manage to spread a veneer of disappointment over everything they brand themselves. The intrusive android video app with mandatory free app store, the progressively worsening courier service, the
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by takno 10y ago
That seems like an exceptionally low allowance for any kind of page view tracking. Given that they have the technology in place server-side, and it's not an incredibly hard problem, the server-side costs to Amazon of doing this would b
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by takno 10y ago
Several of the completely new bridges were built with single track capacity as well. I suspect the government thought they were being a bit clever forcing Network Rail to shave a few million off the cost this way, but actually just not layi
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by takno 10y ago
Lines like the borders line from Carlisle to Edinburgh and Birmingham to Cheltenham via Stratford were closed as "parallel alignments", and I sure everybody in the borders, along with anybody from Stratford trying to get to the So
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by takno 10y ago
To be fair it was budgeted at £450m when it was approved and the work started. Current expectations are that because all the preparatory work was done, and the trams and track were already bought, the route can be completed to Leith for abo
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by takno 10y ago
In terms of operations, the carriages were sold off for a song as 3 theoretically competing rolling stock operating companies (ROSCOs), which the francisees are pretty much obliged to lease from. These remain a license to print money. The s
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by takno 10y ago
To be fair his analysis would be better described as nearly competent than "done well". Government ministers were responsible for approving the cuts he recommended (and a few he didn't), but they did so based on partial and o
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by takno 10y ago
There are certainly things you can do to measure these things. The difficulty is that these measures aren't as neat as the ones you use for direct marketing, and are less likely to capture the whole value of the brand and thought leade
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by takno 10y ago
I would have thought the main issue is the sheer number of people who can now afford to go to these exotic locations, rather than the pictures themselves. On the upside I'm able to enjoy places like Devon much more now that the people
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by takno 10y ago
I think a lot of people over 40ish view Jeremy Corbyn as very much establishment left, with impeccable roots in the years when the establishment left were in the business of losing and losing hard. The guardian certainly give that view a go
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by takno 10y ago
The article finishes by saying it's the best job in the world. Did you read it?
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by takno 10y ago
I've never got much use out of AWS support for single-server installations, and my natural inclination is just to let things ride or work around them anyway. Once you are committing yourself to SLAs, and you've hired someone a bit
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by takno 10y ago
Wow. I literally didn't notice there was a video. Everything clickable just looks like an ad to me now
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by takno 10y ago
The amount of context required here is crazy. There is communication context (am I saying that to somebody in the room, in the neighbourhood, or somebody I am going to visit next week in a different town), as well as knowledge of locality (
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by takno 10y ago
I've only ever broken one screen on a phone, and that is not so broken that it is unusable. I appreciate other people break screens more often, but never breaking the screens is a fairly common situation. Given that old iPhones continu
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by takno 10y ago
Are they saying it could provide a third of America's power (I'm guessing current electricity consumption) from America's coastal waters, or from the whole of the world's oceans?
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by takno 10y ago
It does. The main reason I ended up uninstalling uber was because I didn't like it polluting my directions searches with adverts which didn't tell me anything I couldn't already have gotten from the driving directions

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