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by tboughen 8y ago
I think the idea is that the ‘long tail’ of users that such use features can still be 10s of millions for google, and preserving can act as a most preventing these power users from seeking alternatives. And then taking other users with them
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by tboughen 8y ago
As a teacher I used to spend about 6 hours a day sitting at a desk, and was having progressively worse lower back issues. 6 years ago I got a standing desk, which improved things quite a lot but only to a point. 3 months ago I started a bod
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by tboughen 8y ago
My father is a keen birdwatcher, and he told me that birds go low to the ground as a defence mechanism against birds of prey - the bird of prey cannot catch the swooping bird without crashing into the ground. I suppose they might do similar
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by tboughen 8y ago
Indeed. A study in Africa I read about halted the trial part way through on ethical grounds because the STI contraction rate in the circumcised cohort was so much lower. However I found no evidence that they had taken into account a healing
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by tboughen 8y ago
I would like to hear more about your experience!
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by tboughen 8y ago
This is false dichotomy. For me the question is “of hunter-gathering and agriculture, which better leads to sustained and sustainable technological development to ensure the permanent* survival of our species”. *permanent being like Musk’s
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by tboughen 8y ago
If my wife or I fail to communicate that we want emotional, rather than informational, support we just say “It’s not about the nail” and the other instantly understands. The short video this idea is from: https://m.youtube.com&#x
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by tboughen 8y ago
There must be something about the Malvern Hills! Last year I ran up Worcestershire beacon from Great Malvern on a gorgeous spring day. Quite a few people were up there enjoying the day. There wasn’t a breath of wind, no one was talking, and
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by tboughen 8y ago
I thought that too. However last Black Friday I found the best deal on an iPhone X was to pay £450 up front and then pay £29 per month for 2 years (totalling £1147 or £6.13 per month above the phone’s list price). The data and minutes I get
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by tboughen 8y ago
They have enough location data to show UK pricing (I am in the UK), but when I ask about where I can trial a headset they silently fail and show me somewhere on the east coast of the USA.
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by tboughen 9y ago
I’m in the UK - We have a 2 year old and a 4.5 year old both in rear facing Swedish car seats. It was cramped in the front of my old Kia Ceed, so we replaced it with a Honda CRV, which is on the the large end of mid sized SUVs. We carted th
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by tboughen 9y ago
I think you touched on the fundamental reason self driving cars cannot currently do this. It would mean programming self driving cars to, in some circumstances, break the law. I agree with the thrust of your comment though, and think that a
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by tboughen 9y ago
If it’s not technically cheating, it could be described as gamesmanship. From Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamesmanship “Gamesmanship is the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win
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by tboughen 9y ago
We still use these now in the UK secondary school where I teach. Generally they are given to students who have a short term inability to write (broken arm etc).
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by tboughen 9y ago
Why does the author implicitly assume that the amount of spare local storage is enough for the swarm+redundancy? Furthermore how many backups are required for data to ensure the same level of protection as a modern cloud provider? Does the
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by tboughen 9y ago
Land Rovers are designed, manufactured and (around the corner from me in Herefordshire) tested in the UK. Jaguar Land Rover is owned by Tata. Does that make them Indian cars?
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by tboughen 9y ago
I believe it us due to the installation deaths. Typically solar cells are installed on rooftops, which are non-trivially dangerous places to work. Multiply the risk by tens of thousands of installations and we get fatalities due to solar po
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by tboughen 9y ago
Do you think coal mining deaths should not be counted if they occur 200 miles away from the power station the mine supplies? What about if the deaths occurred a continent away?
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by tboughen 9y ago
Make it run on as a part of a distributed cloud computing service on a device that consumers are paid to install and keep. Maybe its a radiator/secondary water heater too. The payment is for reduced datacentre cooling expense.
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by tboughen 9y ago
I suspect latency issues may preclude this.
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by tboughen 9y ago
We tend to assume that one would want to be able to walk and live inside a 1AU Dyson sphere, so structurally it would have to be sufficiently strong to support such uses.
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by tboughen 9y ago
I think it depends entirely on the incentives of the civilization in question. If the primary goal was hiding your world from the Borg/Dalek/Alien bioweapon your species discovered was ravaging the galaxy, then a 99% Carnot effici
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by tboughen 9y ago
If someone with a glass eye is using a smartphone then one would suspect they are seeing their other, real, eye. This can then be scanned as normal.
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by tboughen 10y ago
My wife and I both use our Xbox One with Kinect and Amazon Echo daily. Alexa works extremely well, but Cortana works only 80% of the time and so slowly we usually pick up a controller, even just to pause Netflix.
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by tboughen 10y ago
Apple's justification for removing the headphone jack is that it helps make the iPhone 7 water resistant and thinner (so increases the premium feel). Both of these features add value so potentially raise the selling price. The lack of
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by tboughen 10y ago
I live in a rural location and don't want to wait 30 mins for a car to arrive from the nearest city to take me 10 minutes away to fetch groceries. Also my children (7 months and 3 years) require car seats set to their size/weight
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by tboughen 10y ago
People are still impressed with the hardware of my 10 month old Lumia 950xl. Removable battery, microSD card slot, physical camera button and top notch camera. They are so useful, my next phone will have all these features too.
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by tboughen 10y ago
No, because large companies buy computing goods and services from more than one business. There will be significant overlap.
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by tboughen 10y ago
Works fine on my 950xl in Edge. The video is an embedded YouTube link.
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by tboughen 10y ago
Mine too. Though I've never been sure why PowerPoint is so much more capable for this than Publisher. When creating resources I intend to be printed I've had to make things in PowerPoint then copy them over after finding out Publi

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