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by tobylane 8y ago
Pen and paper, iOS/macos notes or iOS/web Dynalist. Sometimes I say it out loud or to other people for non essentials.
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by tobylane 8y ago
Which BT are you talking about? BT the end user ISP or BT Openreach, the owner of the phone lines? Both have large oversight from Ofcom, the most visible of all the regulators.
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by tobylane 8y ago
EU residents in the EU, EU citizens worldwide.
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by tobylane 8y ago
The seasonal worker visa is talked about for Brexit. The people who need the workers, the fruit farmers, say it's far too much effort and isn't workable. The poor here just aren't willing to do that work at that price. The su
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by tobylane 8y ago
Mildly related: The bus replacement rail service - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WHmETKW72E
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by tobylane 8y ago
They learned that $null = test is bad, that $a = $b is bad, but didn't learn that you do either x$null = xtest or "$a" = "$b", not both.
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by tobylane 8y ago
No, this is a disease like few others. When a mother and father's blood type only varies by the positive or negative part there's a chance that from the second pregnancy onwards the mother can react to the fetus's blood. Comp
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by tobylane 8y ago
You're competing against PHD rocket scientists employed by people who buy data centres milliseconds away from exchanges.
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by tobylane 8y ago
If it's been seven days since you unlocked the phone you will need to enter the device passcode while connected to the device, the prompt coming up because you connected it.
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by tobylane 8y ago
Within seven days of the last time you entered your pin, the USB port will function without requiring you to enter your pin.
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by tobylane 9y ago
I don't think any such thing exists because then what does the community benefit from. A no-clone licence is pretty much a 'You can look and build for yourself and make PRs for me' deal.
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by tobylane 9y ago
Good thing there's a multi-country grid. It could be windy in one country, tidal in another, sunny in another, water stocks high for hydro elsewhere.
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by tobylane 9y ago
Worth trying out the third party reddit apps, like Alien Blue (before it was acquired by Reddit and ruined).
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by tobylane 9y ago
>I would argue that at that point they should be considered a governmental entity for laws around freedom of speech. That's then infringing on their freedom of speech (or lack of). It's an interesting opinion but as it's s
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by tobylane 9y ago
By some measure Gates has none, as he bought a product and called it MS-DOS1, with the profits of that hired other people to make everything else. Zuckerberg at least personally made the thefacebook complete with algorithms a friend drew on
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by tobylane 9y ago
The US federal government learns from the states. Obamacare is largely from then-governor Romney's healthcare plan for MA.
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by tobylane 9y ago
The only people suggesting anything else were anti-EU commentators. Just like the £350m a week the UK supposedly sends to the EU.
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by tobylane 9y ago
They are targeting companies from personal data protection-weak jurisdictions who want EU customers. To use your example, US has targeted companies from IP-protection-weak countries. Was it directly targeting China? I'd say not necessa
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by tobylane 9y ago
You can only degrade when the users denial exactly relates to the function of the service. I have history turned off in google maps. I can’t name the points I make, it tells me I need to turn history and tracking back on. I hope that become
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by tobylane 9y ago
Some regulation only applies to incumbents, monopoly law for example.
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by tobylane 9y ago
The other side of that is how much mental energy do you give to the ways companies are allowed to lie or mislead. If you’re renting an apartment is the sticker price what you’ll actually pay or are there admin costs both to starting the con
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by tobylane 9y ago
They had problems with CocoaPods and Homebrew each using up several servers worth of CPU/network, and rather than ask those projects to change Github added functionality to make the workload lighter (an HTTP code for checking if there&
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by tobylane 9y ago
Tom Scott's youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A
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by tobylane 9y ago
Because the benefits of the extra people cycling without a helmet outweigh the safety benefits of the fewer cyclings all wearing helmets. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/12/mandato... t
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by tobylane 9y ago
>3) Maybe helmet laws encourage casual or impaired cyclists (uncoordinated people, children, people with bad awareness, etc) to get on bikes, and/or repel the confident types who choose to do other exercise rather than wear sweaty a
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by tobylane 9y ago
Why were mobile devices candidates for superpeers?
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by tobylane 9y ago
Instapaper have a send to Kindle option on a daily or weekly frequency.
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by tobylane 9y ago
It's a genuine mistake like lead in gas/petrol. The financial people will like this event but I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up near to zero sum (delayed purchases). They won't give time to three letter agencies to a
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by tobylane 9y ago
It's not just one 20 minute session. It's the lifetime of care of an average person, or the average cost per person of care for the nation.
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by tobylane 9y ago
Take the first point, "The US is philosophically much more egotistic than other developed countries". If all Americans accepted that they as a whole would pay less if they pre-paid in taxes rather than post-treatment bills then th

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