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by treerock 11y ago
Basically an oxymoron. Shakespeare loved them [1] [1] http://kerbev.hubpages.com/hub/shakespeare-oxymorons
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by treerock 12y ago
Except "climate change" was in use in scientific papers back in 1979 and defined as "a long-term change in the Earth’s climate, or of a region on Earth", including "global warming" and other changes. I doubt th
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by treerock 12y ago
What character assassination?
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by treerock 12y ago
A very long time. Talking drums[1] seem to have been around forever. There was a good chapter on this in James Gleick's The Information[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drums_in_communication [2] https:&#x2F
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by treerock 12y ago
Tried inline block a few times but find the spacing on inline elements (and the various workarounds[1]) a bit awkward and unpredictable. [1] https://css-tricks.com/fighting-the-space-between-inline-blo...
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by treerock 12y ago
I presume he's referring to Babel. "Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. "Come, let Us go down and there
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by treerock 12y ago
Aren't there benefits other than listening quality to having the music available in this format? Imagine 200 years from now, finding an old, lost stash of music in the attic. What would you prefer, a bunch of CDs or some drives with 2
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by treerock 12y ago
So should coffee shops be responsible for monitoring their customer's discussions and reporting suspicious behaviour to the police? Should they be forced to record the name and address and date visited for all their customers to aid an
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by treerock 12y ago
> The couple have sought a refund via their credit card company. I'm curious how that will play out. It's surprising how well the credit card system seems to work, when it relies so heavily on trust.
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by treerock 12y ago
So what benefit do you get from that? i.e. have you ever gotten yourself in a mess and thought, 'thankfully I used git here, otherwise I'd be fecked.'
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by treerock 12y ago
Google's design guidelines advise using flat buttons "for contexts such as toolbars and dialogs to avoid gratuitous layering". Seems to me there may be cases where they are useful. http://www.google.co.uk/desi
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by treerock 12y ago
Yesterday I had to update my rarely used Windows partition and install some software for work. Virus/Firewall updates, Windows updates, Java updates, repeated forced reboots (four times in total) and playing hunt and peck with all thes
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by treerock 12y ago
Personally I like that the password manager is independent from the browser. If you switch browsers it's handy to be able to take your passwords with you.
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When is it ok not to open all source code?(gds.blog.gov.uk)
21 points by treerock 12y ago|15 comments
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by treerock 12y ago
They probably need to present how the data can and is actually being used in a way that hits people personally. The UK phone hacking 'scandal'[1] showed that the public doesn't really care that much about phones being hacked
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by treerock 12y ago
Not sure how that is to the contrary? Press may report that it's too close to call to motivated No voters to get out and vote. (I don't know either way, not being paying much attention to the press, though BBC Scotland has seemed
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by treerock 12y ago
Checked the facts. "The referendum resulted in a 51.6% support for the proposal, but with a turnout of 64%, this represented only 32.9% of the registered electorate, short of the required 40%. The Act was therefore repealed." This
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by treerock 12y ago
I find it weird when press call what are basically kids playing toy helicopters 'drone operators'[1]. They are definitely playing on the negative connotations have with the word 'drone' which, as you point out, is closel
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by treerock 12y ago
It kinda refutes some stereotypes about men. The graphs show that men find younger women more attractive. But most men end up dating/marrying women around the same age (I'd guess a few years younger on average). This suggests that
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by treerock 12y ago
Not often though. >some senior officers it had interviewed "did >not appear to believe this was a disciplinary >offence" http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/mar/18/g20-protest-office...
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by treerock 12y ago
The winners are on the edge of the bell curve. Averages are meaningless.
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by treerock 12y ago
Tuna £0.67/kg [1] Condensed Milk £2.67/kg [2] Not that it negates your point. Just struck me as interesting that tinned tuna would be seen as expensive in some places in the world. I guess it depends on the quality of the tuna[3].
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by treerock 12y ago
Doesn't have to be accidental. The criminal could intentionally leave someone else's DNA at the scene. Or less subtly, leave a DNA Bomb [1]. [1] http://almost-human.wikia.com/wiki/DNA_Bomb
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by treerock 12y ago
To use your example the workers can generally just turn up and work. The bricklayer doesn't have to be concerned with the carpets. The joiner doesn't have to worry about zoning restriction. I'm curious if software developme
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by treerock 12y ago
If my garden was big enough, I'd get a shed. Or a gazebo, but I'd still call it a shed. http://www.shedworking.co.uk/2010/07/neil-gaiman-shedworker....
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by treerock 12y ago
Works in Chrome for me. In firefox I got a blank screen, then an 'easyXDM' window popped up with some logging data in it. Strange.
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by treerock 13y ago
You could try Little Outliner[1]. Dave Winer has been making outliner software for decades[2]. I remember playing about with a desktop app years ago. I guess Fargo is the latest iteration. [1]: http://littleoutliner.com/ [2
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by treerock 13y ago
I liked all the 80s movie and video game stuff in the book. Though I think most of it would have been like ancient history, rather than pop culture, to the teenage readers the book is aimed at.
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by treerock 13y ago
I found this an interesting article on various tax rates, and the US is surprisingly high[1]. Difficult to compare countries, but (unless you've got kids) the tax you pay in the US is pretty average. And if you are a high earner, it se
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by treerock 13y ago
> So what does it take to be a genius then? A genius is a person who is capable of incredible leaps of understanding and originality. That's difficult to measure so we recognise geniuses through the work they achieved...the theory o

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