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I Watched the Coinbase Documentary So You Don’t Have To(newsletters.theatlantic.com)
2 points by whyleyc 4y ago|0 comments
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by whyleyc 4y ago
*Her
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by whyleyc 5y ago
You can install "nyx" to check what's going on: https://nyx.torproject.org/
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by whyleyc 5y ago
There's a great 10 episode Podcast on this debacle on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m000jf7j It's really well paced and includes contributions from many of the sub-postmasters affected
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by whyleyc 6y ago
TL;DR Lone Norwegian physician proclaims he’s pretty sure there’s no other link to blood clots, so it must be the AZ vaccine. Flying in the face of the European Medical Agency[1], the World Health Organisation and the UK’s medicines regulat
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by whyleyc 6y ago
Actually it’s possible for people to have opinions on matters where they are not a published author or academic. Also “little mice noisily speculating about the state of the world” is a pretty good summary of a lot of academia.
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by whyleyc 6y ago
You are looking at page 30. See the next slide. Title is “What best describes your company’s average Month-Over-Month (MOM) growth rate over the past 3 months?”
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by whyleyc 6y ago
There is a slide on page 31 showing revenue growth expressed as a percentage.
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by whyleyc 6y ago
Indeed. Fortunately for us free speech doesn't guarantee access to an active Twitter account.
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by whyleyc 6y ago
“To date, no court has tried evidence, nor have any administrations publicly committed to audits” Trump’s team has notched up over 60 losses in court so far.[1] “They are being told by the other side that there is no evidence, but this is t
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by whyleyc 6y ago
They were literally just given the right to exercise their voices in a democratic election. That’s the opposite of silence.
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by whyleyc 6y ago
Estimated that >1% of the UK population (769K) were concurrently on the site before GA topped out.
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Gov.uk site broke Google realtime analytics during lockdown announcement(twitter.com)
101 points by whyleyc 6y ago|75 comments
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by whyleyc 6y ago
Can you share examples of Brave having a poor privacy record? I've recently switched to it as my main browser, enjoy using it and have recommended to others who want to opt-out of the Google ecosystem. However, if there are examples of
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by whyleyc 6y ago
I'm not 100% convinced Greg LeMond is hanging out on HN, nor that he handcrafted this particular website. If he is and he did then he has made a spectacular midlife career pivot.
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Protests and Power – Maciej Cegłowski's rejected NY Times Essay(idlewords.com)
6 points by whyleyc 6y ago|0 comments
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by whyleyc 6y ago
H.264 in each case.
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by whyleyc 6y ago
I tested with a 64MB, 124s long, 1152x720 .MOV video converted to .MP4 and here's what I saw: modfy.video - 258 seconds native ffmpeg - 23 seconds This was using a 2020 MBP with a 2.3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 processor &a
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by whyleyc 6y ago
Not sure where to start with these statements, but they aren't helpful. "We've seen that herd immunity can be achieved (see Sweden)." No it can't. By the end of July 2020 only 6% of the population was known
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by whyleyc 6y ago
Totally unrelated Jeremy, but did you know the SSL cert on https://minops.com/ has expired? (Was interested to see what you were up to these days, which is how I stumbled on it).
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by whyleyc 6y ago
Is there talk of an ETA for any fix yet?
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by whyleyc 6y ago
Looks like if they did do this in the past they are now attempting to move away from it: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/seaga...
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Apple Glass leak – Launching 2020/2021 for $499 with Lidar(youtu.be)
2 points by whyleyc 6y ago|0 comments
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by whyleyc 6y ago
No. Not everything is about increasing in efficiency. GIFs are a throwback to the charm and chaos of the early days of the web, and I hope they stay part of the fabric of it long into the future.
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by whyleyc 6y ago
We interviewed the inventor of PowerPoint for our blog, and he gave a fascinating inside story of how he almost sold to Apple before eventually sealing a deal with Microsoft: https://blog.zamzar.com/2016/06/10&#x2F
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by whyleyc 6y ago
This is still a thing! In Hampshire (UK) you can catch the Real Ale Train (RAT)[1] - an old fashioned steam train which potters up and down a few miles of track, serving beer from local breweries, via an on-board bar. It stops at various st
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by whyleyc 6y ago
You’re commenting on the plot of a book you haven’t read.
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by whyleyc 6y ago
Have you actually read the book? Or it’s precursor “The Peripheral” which began the development of these concepts. Surprisingly the various plot lines are somewhat more nuanced than this description! It’s like describing The Old Man And The
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by whyleyc 7y ago
My favourite quote: "I did play (poker) with Bill Gates for tiny stakes at the kitchen table. He was really good at reading people."
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An Interview with Richard Brodie – Creator of Microsoft Word(blog.zamzar.com)
2 points by whyleyc 7y ago|1 comments

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