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by tobylane 5y ago
Morse code, where dot is ‘think about tennis’ and dash is ‘think about home’? https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2010/feb/03/vegetative-s...
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by tobylane 5y ago
Video title: How Does Kodak Make Film? (Kodak Factory Tour Part 1 of 3) - Smarter Every Day 271 It's a good video, Kodak are open and answer questions. The chemicals later might be more of a trade secret.
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by tobylane 5y ago
When HSBC bought the Midland Bank, the UK government required HSBC to legally relocate here. The current cabinet are craven, but I expect they’d still require this, a deal breaker for Apple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by tobylane 5y ago
Perhaps the government are using it as a cheaper way to provide super fast internet (flexibly defined) to the last 1% or so who can’t be affordably reached by standard exchange - green cabinet - premises measures.
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by tobylane 5y ago
Cities that promote cycling can often be better for the remaining drivers.
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by tobylane 5y ago
Are you able to use the internal processes these companies made in response to gdpr? I wonder what happens if you copy a “delete/send your data on me according to your responsibilities in the EU” form letter and send it from a US addre
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by tobylane 5y ago
I wonder if the rail line is under used therefore investment can’t be justified therefore it’s not all that capable. I don’t know the geography on the ground, probably a lot of level crossings, but what of it could be sped up, run trains cl
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by tobylane 5y ago
The site is a few hundred metres away from a bridge built five times, first by the Romans. Those who want to avoid the risk of a minor national treasure on their plot should build further away from an area the Romans were clearly active in.
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by tobylane 5y ago
If you speak in your country and someone hears it where it's illegal then that's of no interest to you. But if you visit someone's home and they add your name to their guestbook you may care that you're in the records. Y
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by tobylane 5y ago
I'm sure they wouldn't, as it's not a US law. But a local company may be small enough not to have to bother, just as they don't have to provide certain US law based employer benefits. > The second exception is for org
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by tobylane 5y ago
The law applies to websites, not businesses. If your website has European visitors, then it is making the relevant interaction even without business happening. I’ve come across websites that simply deny me access, guaranteeing they don’t ha
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by tobylane 5y ago
On your last paragraph: It would be the people who failed at, or weren’t interested in, entrepreneurship. That might be like minded people, who just want the challenge of the job and not the company. It could be full of people who want to c
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by tobylane 5y ago
That applies to a lot of known future sanctions. Eg clearly Germany would like to not need any gas pipeline, and Russia will aim to build more pipelines to China before German governments can say no more Russian gas. However, could excludin
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by tobylane 5y ago
My expectations are what I get from a base metabolic calculator. For a 30 year old man with your measurements, that is 1700 cal.
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by tobylane 5y ago
Russia cares in the short and medium term, while their gas setup is nearer to and pointed towards Europe.
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by tobylane 5y ago
It doesn’t fit in. This is employee protections.
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by tobylane 5y ago
Not just civilian VCs, but mixed country of origin? Somewhere along the line it will matter if you have a British board member, or maybe angel investor.
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by tobylane 5y ago
Because it’s a crime for them to make use of the passwords, and I’d be able to claim back any financial loss. I picked Bitwarden because it’s widely trusted, it’s trusted because it’s open source and widely assumed to be casually audited by
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by tobylane 5y ago
Or a decrease in the previous years. With how predictable US politics is, I would expect accountants to suggest holding these things until a Republican government, which will be no more than 8 years away. But looking back or forward there’s
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by tobylane 5y ago
I agree with you, but note that NYC (a frequent point of comparison with London, despite stats incompatibilities) has more knife murders than London, ie their second biggest category is bigger than our first category of murders by weapon.
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by tobylane 5y ago
> And since most lost items turn into stolen items after a few hours Is that a feeling or something you can source?
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by tobylane 5y ago
I don’t know if a debit card counts, because they are 16+. Many of us took a while to move onto credit cards but still had access to cashless, online and overseas payment.
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by tobylane 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAd They had this mobile advertising platform then closed it, or reduced it to the ads GP mentioned.
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by tobylane 5y ago
Almost every other episode of Grand Designs has some smart lorry driver reversing down a tiny access road.
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by tobylane 5y ago
If someone does that, I hope they find a newer version of bash. The old (3.27?) GPL2 bash should give a warning like that.
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by tobylane 5y ago
Cubesats fill that role, for when those groups need their own. JWST is from the consortium of half the first world, because they want to measure the same thing. It’s not an either-or.
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by tobylane 5y ago
What was the intended mission? I’ve read about the classified missions that went ahead, iirc one of them did use the full capacity.
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by tobylane 5y ago
I only know one person on WhatsApp without a contract (which all have hundreds of free texts), and the Pay As You Go options I see in the UK go as low as a penny per text.
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by tobylane 5y ago
Why is that better? It sounds like a contract for no purpose, much like the previous companies deals that are the issue of comments upthread.
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by tobylane 5y ago
Do you know any numbers for the staggering amounts? And what size these machines are?

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