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by biomene 2y ago
From the article: > Tesla’s drop came as the German EV market in January grew more than 50 per cent year on year, pushing its market share down from 14 to 4 per cent. So to answer your question, it seems like people don't mind buyin
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Life is more than an engineering problem(lareviewofbooks.org)
394 points by biomene 2y ago|243 comments
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by biomene 2y ago
The reason for these accidents to happen more frequently is explained in the WaPo article linked by the parent: Russia is smuggling oil out via the Baltic to fund the war, and it's hard to find experienced crews for these smuggling ope
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by biomene 2y ago
That would be mudchute farm. But Canary Wharf is not considered part of central London, which is what the author is concerned with.
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Is Twitter Down?
2 points by biomene 3y ago|1 comments
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by biomene 3y ago
It's the escape tunnel for a tram tunnel with an extra coat of paint: https://www.lifeinnorway.net/bergen-cycle-tunnel/
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French publisher arrested in London for refusal to tell police his passcodes(theguardian.com)
318 points by biomene 3y ago|236 comments
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The rise and fall of a celebrity scientist who fooled almost everyone (2017)(theguardian.com)
2 points by biomene 4y ago|0 comments
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by biomene 5y ago
This article also inadvertently shows what I think is a big drawback of the inversion of control pattern. Imagine you are trying to debug an issue with user creation. In the last example, you would have to look up everywhere `createUser` is
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by biomene 5y ago
There’s a proposal for new units to solve this problem: https://twitter.com/argyleink/status/1407026742460440577
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by biomene 5y ago
I built this website, nearly 10 years ago. Crazy to see it's still up and running, without any maintenance. Got to give it to WordPress, it doesn't die easy.
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London will be overwhelmed by Covid in a fortnight says leaked NHS briefing(hsj.co.uk)
271 points by biomene 6y ago|374 comments
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by biomene 6y ago
Thank you for bringing up the point that Capitalists aren't evil, or that Capitalism should be rejected for moral reasons, I think many people miss that. But I'm not sure we can talk about a central point in Capital. Capital is a
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by biomene 6y ago
Came here to upvote typescript with jsdocs too. We use it in our project and it’s been really helpful. No overhead and you get the nice dev experience of typed code. Been doing it for 2 years, have yet to encounter a situation that would be
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by biomene 7y ago
Not sure you can still call Spiked a Marxist outlet these days. They have more in common with /pol than Marx.
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by biomene 8y ago
I’ve switched to MailMate after years of thunderbird and am very happy with it. It ticks all the boxes you mention.
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by biomene 8y ago
The financial crisis was not a result of bad mathematics. Investments are made because they promise to return dividends. But there is always a chance that they might return lower than expected dividends, or none at all. This can be because
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Temple Grandin(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by biomene 8y ago|0 comments
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by biomene 8y ago
Assuming the article is correctly summarising his argument, this is the same critique that Hegel put forward of the distinction of Force and Expression: > It is often said that the nature of Force itself is unknown and only its manifesta
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by biomene 8y ago
> personal data is any information relating to an individual, whether it relates to his or her private, professional or public life. It can be anything from a name, a home address, a photo, an email address, bank details, posts on social
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by biomene 9y ago
Do you reckon the increase in restores has anything to do with APFS? I also lost my computer and Time Machine this week after upgrading to High Sierra, had to restore from backblaze. Btw, unlike parent comment, I had a great experience with
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by biomene 9y ago
That depends on what you mean by "richest". Measured in GDP, Germany is the richest country in Europe, by a big margin [1]. I think that the point of the article is to demonstrate that a country's power and wealth doesn'
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by biomene 9y ago
Do you have a source for this? I'm interested in reading more.
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BA shutdown caused by contractor who switched off power, reports claim(theguardian.com)
8 points by biomene 9y ago|1 comments
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by biomene 9y ago
London has a proud tradition of failed festivals. See: OktoberFest London 2015 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/shopping-and-consumer-news/1... Jabberwocky (I had tickets to this) http://www.nme.com&#x2F
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by biomene 10y ago
I've tried to use org mode several times. Its functionality is truly great, but having to use emacs to use it is too much of a hurdle for me. I struggle to remember all the emacs key combinations, so in the end I just give up and rever
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by biomene 11y ago
> so forgive me if I'm not willing to throw them under the bus for at least trying to help It's not Amazon I want to throw under the bus. They did what any rational player would do in their situation. What I want to throw under
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by biomene 11y ago
> Working for an employer has nothing to do with the extravagantly wealthy. You're very right about this, it was wrong of me to describe the purpose of the operation as being that of making someone rich. The purpose is to maximise p
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by biomene 11y ago
> What it were proved that Amazon was offering jobs to the homeless at the exact same rate and conditions that it offered to all its seasonal workers, thereby not treating the homeless any worse than others The reason Amazon hires any wo
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by biomene 11y ago
I think that what you are saying is that these people are so miserable that they have no other choice but to take the rare jobs that they are offered, no matter how terrible. If so, I totally agree with you. I would just like to take a mome

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