tobtoh

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by tobtoh 9y ago
Are you saying you believe the US spy network (in China, or in general) is only for gathering information?
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by tobtoh 9y ago
Using your examples, there is nothing stopping people from the opposite political leaning from reading that certain newspaper (and many people do read newspapers covering both sides). Same with 6am radio - there is nothing stopping under 35
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by tobtoh 9y ago
> For instance in Australia they sometimes check for people not wearing seat belts with similar camera arrangements. I live/drive in Australia and I've never heard of such a thing - neither location or anyone fined by this meth
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by tobtoh 9y ago
> So he's very clearly biased toward proving minimum wage increase's success. You may not have meant it this way, but that sentence implies you have already dismissed any point he makes purely based on what he believes in. With
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by tobtoh 9y ago
In Australia, you can terminate a lease without issues if you intend to sell the property or move in yourself. However, in Melbourne, it's estimated (from water usage analysis) that 20% (1) of investor owned properties are vacant (4.8
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by tobtoh 9y ago
Fair enough. That makes sense. Thanks.
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by tobtoh 9y ago
I'm not quite parsing the logic of doing this. If she is getting fooled that carbonated water is 'juice', then I'm assuming she doesn't know what juice actually is and therefore has no association of juice = sugar d
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by tobtoh 10y ago
Reading this article brought back memories when I was getting training to go solo skydiving. The first day was all theory and drills in the classroom. In all my years at school, university lectures, and work-related training workshops, that
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by tobtoh 10y ago
Thanks for that fantastic explanation! It wasn't explained to me either when I had my hearing tests - i just assumed they were doing multiple tests to get an 'average' answer.
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by tobtoh 10y ago
Yup - it's still done by that method. Although they do run through multiple frequencies multiple times to try and get consistency. I know what you mean though ... especially if you suffer a bit from tinnitus, it's sometimes really
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by tobtoh 10y ago
> The greatest frustration among potential users is that a hearing aid cannot distinguish between, for example, a voice and the sound of a passing car if those sounds occur at the same time. The device cranks up the volume on both, creat
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by tobtoh 10y ago
Just to nitpick ... 'on the (would-be) plaintiff.' ... IIRC, Susan has not made any indication she intends to sue. Her article merely commented on her experience at Uber and I didn't pick up any language which indicated she w
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by tobtoh 10y ago
I don't think #1 is as easy to deal with as you may think. In any other normal company, sexual harassment normally stems from isolated individuals, or at worst a particular department. But from Fowlers account, it sounds like the cultu
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by tobtoh 10y ago
The last line of the article is something that has been blazing out to me since the first few negative media articles started appearing about Uber's work practises. For all the continual PR damage control that the CEO utters, the probl
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by tobtoh 10y ago
> but it's largely a gimmick for most videos as they are now Absolutely agree. There has been exactly one video where I was constantly spinning around 360 and it was the Lion King musical 360 video (1). The reason it kept my interes
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by tobtoh 10y ago
I can't remember which ex-newspaper editor said this, but it was in regard to a Murdoch paper and it was a discussion about the influence of newspaper owners and editorial boards, his commment was along the lines of: If the Editor can&
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by tobtoh 10y ago
> If everyone ran red lights there would be chaos and public safety would be at risk. And yet, the vast majority of road rules exist without any remote automated enforcement mechanism, and there isn't chaos, and for the most part, t
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Reddit Enhancement Suite may cease Safari support dueto $100 Apple developer fee(medium.com)
3 points by tobtoh 10y ago|0 comments
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by tobtoh 10y ago
Competition is great. I ended up with the HTV Vive this year, and I've had more problems than fun with it.
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by tobtoh 10y ago
Couldn't it be the charging circuit? Or some fault in the power circuits that draws too much current too quickly? ie it might be something that is easy to replace like the battery, but something that requires a fundamental redesign of
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by tobtoh 10y ago
I do like that quote ... but it did get me thinking about my own circumstances. As someone who believes that we probably evolved/migrated out of Africa, I feel no unity or connection to that continent. I only really feel a connection f
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by tobtoh 10y ago
Or being on long (support) conference calls whilst keeping your phone charged.
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Aust banks seeking 'boycott cartel' to force non-Apple Pay wallets on iphone(theage.com.au)
2 points by tobtoh 10y ago|0 comments
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by tobtoh 10y ago
As a manager, I tend to frame my feedback/opinions as 'Have you considered <something>?' or 'Can you explain your thinking behind this <feature/function/design>?' Doing it this way, I get an un
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by tobtoh 10y ago
It does reroute it. If you use Messenger to call another Messenger user, it will attempt to make the call as a VOIP call using your data. If you don't have Messenger, it routes it as a normal phone call via your telco 'voice'
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by tobtoh 10y ago
I expected Messenger would just handle chat messages (ie a direct replacement for my web-based FB chat). That it also would re-route voice calls was not expected, but I don't blame it for that. I do blame it that it doesn't give m
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by tobtoh 10y ago
> If you can't provide me with all of the features of messenger in the browser then that's fine. And I'd also prefer if they don't try and hijack other features. I had installed Messenger, but had notifications turned
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by tobtoh 10y ago
'convolute' != 'contradict' Convolute means (in this context) to making something more complex to explain or difficult to follow. It does not mean that they excluded data that contradicted their analysis. In this case, t
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by tobtoh 11y ago
Based on your comment, I went over to see if I could obtain a certificate. It took all of 5 seconds for me to do - it's all automated via the admin panel now. Just tick the box to make your site secure. Looks like DH has resolved any i
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by tobtoh 11y ago
I'd argue that the purpose of justice is to ensure that a society can be sustainable in the long term. That means justice is combination of deterrence and rehabilitation to a. discourage behaviours that are detrimental to society as a

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