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by fredley 6mo ago
I had the UK Age verification popup today. It verified immediately based on the age of my Apple account, I didn't have to take any further action. I am much younger than the OP, and probably than their Apple account. I am surprised tha
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AI toys for children misread emotions and respond inappropriately(bbc.co.uk)
39 points by fredley 6mo ago|15 comments
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M2x2(wattiv.nl)
2 points by fredley 6mo ago|0 comments
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by fredley 7mo ago
It's like the mastered Factorio and applied it to real life.
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by fredley 7mo ago
Brit here: It is very uncommon.
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by fredley 7mo ago
This is an interesting development. I would predict some of the biggest losers in the AI boom will be Indian (and similar) outsourcing companies. Companies like Wipro and Infosys have thrived off richer countries' businesses wanting gr
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Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss, review finds(bbc.co.uk)
33 points by fredley 7mo ago|60 comments
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by fredley 7mo ago
I genuinely can't tell if this is satire or not.
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by fredley 7mo ago
Americans always think a British accent is exactly one accent.
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by fredley 8mo ago
True, existing addictions are a good bet, but a brand new one with no competition, regulation or recognition? That's you you get Zuckerberg wealthy.
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by fredley 8mo ago
Me too. I first assumced it was an OCR error, then remembered they were emails and wouldn't need to go through OCR. Then I thought that the US Government is exactly the kind of place to print out millions of emails only to scan them ba
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by fredley 8mo ago
If you want to become a billionaire, the best way to do it is invent some new addiction.
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by fredley 8mo ago
Calling it now: this is ignobel prize-worthy research. If it doesn’t get a nod I’ll eat my hat.
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by fredley 8mo ago
I love this fact. If you're a fish with no neck, the route it takes is the most direct and obvious. But as evolution gradually lengthened necks the route remained the same!
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by fredley 8mo ago
As someone in the UK, this was especially chilling.
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by fredley 8mo ago
Once you start noticing how often you see content that references e.g. anything that's happening in the US right now (I'm in the UK), you realise how 'news' is everywhere . If you go on reddit, unless you've curate
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by fredley 8mo ago
Yes, laws only matter if they are collectively believed in. International law just the same. This has always been the case, but largely speaking in the West, for the last century or so, the rule of law has been broadly believed in, includ
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by fredley 8mo ago
https://mamota.net my ultra minimalist site
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by fredley 8mo ago
That's fair, library systems can be very variable, where we are we can access audiobooks on a desktop, so there's access to the raw files, I can see how if you're doing it with an iPhone app it's considerably harder!
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by fredley 8mo ago
The Yoto system actively encourages you to buy 'blank' cards to fill with your own content, and the process is relatively simple. Simply remove the DRM from the borrowed media, (convert to an appropriate format if required), then
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by fredley 8mo ago
Lego unveils tech-filled Smart Bricks - to play experts' unease https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmlnmnwzk2o
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by fredley 8mo ago
Ditto. I started migrating 3 years ago, and now almost nothing reaches my Gmail any more. Weaning off Google is hard, but this felt like the most significant step.
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The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered(bbc.co.uk)
30 points by fredley 9mo ago|2 comments
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Loopmaster(loopmaster.xyz)
1 points by fredley 10mo ago|0 comments
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by fredley 10mo ago
During the war, ships were arriving from the US packed with munitions. They needed something to take back, just for ballast, so they used rubble from the destroyed city.
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by fredley 10mo ago
Castle Park, where the barges were moored until recently was flattened during World War II. The rubble was exported to the USA, and was used as landfill to create Bristol Basin, New York. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places&
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by fredley 1y ago
Seems gurt lush to me.
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by fredley 1y ago
> faster than it would naturally Implying migration is 'unnatural'. Which it isn't, humans have migrated as long as they've existed, and without migration the population in the UK would be trending down, which is a ve
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by fredley 1y ago
Most water companies in the UK will not allow you to start a new flat rate tarriff though (and will definitely be applying pressure to those on a flat rate to get a meter). So if you move house chances are you will get a meter installed str
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by fredley 1y ago
[citation needed] Population growth in the UK is roughly in line with other developed countries. The past few years have been a bit choppy due to global events like the pandemic, but the UK is not an outlier in its population growth.

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