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by tompccs 6y ago
'overdue' is obviously a rhetorical device in this context. Otherwise I agree. I find however that bashing people trying new things and pushing the envelope very distasteful, especially from Americans whose culture historically su
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by tompccs 6y ago
Air travel is a better natural competitor than highways. Ultimately highways are already sunk costs which can be seamlessly upgraded to work with new tech (ie more efficient, and soon electric, cars). Air travel is heavily taxed rather than
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by tompccs 6y ago
A 5 minute Wikipedia search will show you that's not true
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by tompccs 6y ago
Amazed by the negativity of this article and comments. We haven't invented a new form of transport since the Second World War, don't you think we're overdue? And to Americans who think that getting high speed trains is just a
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by tompccs 6y ago
Sorry, I just can't believe that the first person to guess Trump's (surely the most valuable target in the world for hackers) password as 'maga2020' would be a white hat. This looks like a hoax to me.
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00's-vintage website design for a London bike shop(aboutthebike.co.uk)
2 points by tompccs 6y ago|1 comments
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by tompccs 6y ago
This is a survey by a respected polling company with an overwhelming result that goes against what is clearly the preferred narrative of most people on this site. Naturally, the most upvotes comments are people countering it with anecdotes.
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by tompccs 6y ago
This is spot on and I think the reason why no country has been successful at digital contact tracing. The human factor is so important. In the UK we have recently scrapped our big, centralised contract tracing service because, among other r
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by tompccs 6y ago
I was paying a bill in a bar in London about an hour ago and they couldn't process any payments. Seems likely related.
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by tompccs 6y ago
"Phrenology (from Ancient Greek φρήν (phrēn), meaning 'mind', and λόγος (logos), meaning 'knowledge') is a pseudoscience which involves the measurement of bumps on the skull to predict mental traits." https:&#
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by tompccs 6y ago
Arguably Google started this trend - it had a multicoloured logo, their head office was called a "campus", they had beanbags, etc. It has defined a generation of corporate messaging: non-threatening, childlike simplicity. Compare
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by tompccs 6y ago
I'm not arguing about whether or not there were cuts in NHS spending or whether or not austerity was a bad policy. I'm asking what it has to do with the recommendations of a government committee made up of independent scientists.
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by tompccs 6y ago
It's frustrating that all the valid criticism of SAGE and the scientific leadership of the UK (frankly they should all resign) is blunted by blatant propagandising over austerity and wider political beef. I cannot see the link between
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by tompccs 6y ago
This is a subtle and often-missed point. In the markets where they are trying to acquire customers and become dominant, the "Uber-for-X" businesses have negative gross margins. But they will have surely demonstrated (or the invest
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by tompccs 6y ago
Amazon needs to stop internally framing labour dispute problems as PR problems. Huge respect to Tim Bray for walking the walk in defence of his values, something I've only rarely seen from high-earning people with left-wing sentiments.
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by tompccs 7y ago
It's because they acted early. All the epidemiological models show that if you lock down when there are only a handful of cases, the disease can be managed effectively. There is no mystery to this, it's because they "overreac
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by tompccs 7y ago
This is an interesting and important topic buried under George Monbiot's usual political posturing and making any and every issue about Brexit. An example of where EU hasn't regulated properly is somehow supposed to automatically
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Google's Bug Tracker Has a Bug(issuetracker.google.com)
1 points by tompccs 7y ago|0 comments
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by tompccs 7y ago
Since they're not launched yet, I think we can safely assume that this press release is not targeted at potential users.
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by tompccs 7y ago
The family is suing Tesla. Would you rather this evidence was presented in court after the family have already spent thousands in lawyer fees?
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by tompccs 7y ago
Old film was less sensitive, so it needed longer exposure time. Film was therefore cranked slowly to avoid under-exposure. During playback, it was generally preferred to run the film slightly quickly than to have a lower frame-rate (which w
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by tompccs 7y ago
A lot of people need reminding of: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tompccs 7y ago
Nothing about supporting Palestine bothers me in the slightest. I'm explaining why someone might think a thread about organising a conference about an open source operating system in a city with many open source contributors is not the
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by tompccs 7y ago
Headline is misleading. He didn't 'offer to speak', he proposed splitting the conference 50:50 between Israel and Palestine. Fine, if that's something you think would benefit the community, but then should we also be spl
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by tompccs 7y ago
Are you serious? There was an article on HN just yesterday about how Turkey censored Wikipedia for two years. I think a lot of Israeli engineers would just like to be able to host conferences without it turning into a geopolitical debate.
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by tompccs 7y ago
He does talk about Germany's 200 year manufacturing excellence. That doesn't explain why in 1992 Germany had a massive trade deficit and UK had an equally large trade surplus, or how they've been able to avoid the fate of Jap
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by tompccs 7y ago
If you'd bothered to read you'd realise that the author isn't an economist, and that he does talk about Germany's manufacturing excellence. That doesn't explain why in 1992 Germany had a massive trade deficit and UK
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by tompccs 7y ago
Interesting. I think Austen is a brilliant self-promoter, which is the source of much of his and LS's success. Not knocking that at all, the product seems to work for a lot of people and the more he can scale it the more people he can
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by tompccs 7y ago
These are old stories. Given pg's statements on Twitter it's likely Lambda School was at least at the back of his mind when he wrote the piece but I don't think it's the sole reason.
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by tompccs 7y ago
The author discloses that he works at Intel. It was actually an informative article about the state-of-the-art in CMOS

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