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by codev 2y ago
Connections is very similar to Only Connect’s third round: https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-new-york-times-just-invente...
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20k honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office during lockdown(qz.com)
283 points by codev 6y ago|78 comments
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by codev 6y ago
If you're in the UK there are lots of Mutual Aid societies that have set up to help neighbours who are self isolating. You can see the directory here - https://covidmutualaid.org/ I'm in one of these in Shacklewel
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by codev 7y ago
Such a strange stance. To point out the hypocrisy visible to 99.2% of the world's population.
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WhatsApp down(independent.co.uk)
4 points by codev 9y ago|0 comments
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by codev 9y ago
The law in the US is the CAN-SPAM act in 2003. It requires email to have unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email and to take people off the list within 10 days of a request. There are similar laws, many of them stricter, in dif
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by codev 10y ago
I walked it this year and found http://www.shikokuhenrotrail.com/ is a great site for information, particularly about the individual temples. It has a forum as well where you can ask questions. It took me 50 days but I did
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by codev 10y ago
I walked it this year as well, about 20 days before you it seems. I've started reading your journal, it's great. I found a picture of a woman who gave me a mikan and told me "when you are hot, it will exist" on Day 5, sh
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by codev 10y ago
Great. It's a nice project, nice demo as well. I realised when I was living in Japan recently how much I miss the UK postcode system. When I'm in the UK I can give anyone a short alphanumeric string and they can find me. A global
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by codev 10y ago
My current location is 5308 AFRAID ANUS. Might be best to exclude ANUS from the word list.
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by codev 10y ago
I spent six months travelling and working remotely recently, in Japan, Taiwan and Australia. I only had a carry on suitcase and I never missed anything. I'm now back in London and after two weeks I have bought at least three small suit
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by codev 10y ago
In the UK I'd always been told you had to give a reference, usually by phone, and couldn't say anything negative but would just say "she worked here" if the employee wasn't very good. One day at a small company I wo
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by codev 11y ago
They're cousins, they were both at Cambridge. Simon is a world renowned expert on autism, Sasha on comedy.
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by codev 11y ago
This article on a site I manage provides a great overview of sleep hygiene and other behavioural changes needed for good sleep http://en.hdbuzz.net/120 It applies to anyone, not just Huntington's disease patients. The
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by codev 13y ago
Bullshit Read the main paper cited in the article by Alexander at Texas A&M in 2002. It says: female MONKEYS prefer COOKING POTS. Then if you aren't debilitated by laughing read the methods, it's a total piece of shit yet is q
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by codev 13y ago
Beta blockers really helped me when I started consulting and started having to pitch to a room full of people. I was very nervous and used to go red, get shaky and my voice would be unsteady. I went to the doctor and got some and they reall
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by codev 13y ago
Ugh, I would have hoped by now we'd be moving to the US implementing privacy laws. Instead it seems like we're moving in the opposite direction. Corporations are learning how to spend money in the EU to stop pro-consumer legislati
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by codev 13y ago
Right but BMW/Daimler/et al's company models are not based around the kind of massive 'moonshot' R&D that is needed to enter this market with a full self-driving car. They do a lot of R&D but in a very struc
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by codev 13y ago
Zopiclone can be habit forming and has an associated increase risk of road traffic accidents like most hypnotics - wikipedia is a good start for the risks. I think melatonin is a better drug for correcting problems with sleep cycles which c
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by codev 13y ago
That link shows some automated content brought in from healthnotes/aisle7 which is a Portland, Oregon based company. If you search Amazon UK for melatonin you'll find lots of supplement that are described as 'melatonin-like&#
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by codev 13y ago
With the known NSA backdoor in Dual_EC_DRBG then many people within the NSA must have access to the backdoor constants (even if they don't directly realise it and have access to them within an application). If Edward Snowden was willin
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by codev 13y ago
The Guardian is pretty progressive in style terms. I think there's an increasing tendency to write it as internet and they're closer to the cutting edge than a more conservative (style-wise) newspaper like the NYT. Here are their
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by codev 13y ago
Of course there are back doors, like the well known NSAKEY one [1] in Windows. Apple also seem to have backdoors into encryption on both Mac and iOS [2]. If you want your data to be reasonably secure against someone who casually steals it t
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by codev 13y ago
Sortition has a lot going for it and certainly encourages participation far beyond our current democratic engagement. I'd like to see it start to appear on a small scale, beyond Juries, in modern democratic states. There's an inte
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by codev 13y ago
Google Apps for Nonprofits page states it's only available in the US: https://support.google.com/nonprofits/answer/1614602?hl=en&t... If you could ask someone involved in that charity how they got free Go
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by codev 13y ago
I had a similar situation where I switched a 50 person charity to Google Apps. They had a 30 day trial period and during that time the CEO's credit card was stolen and replaced. I changed the information but the Apps interface said &#x
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by codev 13y ago
A lot of the early programmers were women all the way back to Lovelace [1]. People seem to have thought of the hardware as masculine and the software as secretarial and therefore feminine. Then when it turned out there was money it men took
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Open Rights Group ORGCon meeting this weekend in London(orgcon.openrightsgroup.org)
2 points by codev 13y ago|0 comments
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by codev 13y ago
> The point is, Google as a company opposes giving the data That's great and much better than some of the other tech companies who silently hand it over. However Google doesn't oppose collecting the data, it doesn't seem to worry about
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by codev 13y ago
> There's simply no way Googlers would tolerate something like secretly sending user data to the NSA It doesn't matter if employees would tolerate it: phone company employees wouldn't tolerate it either but the cell phone and location r

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