hanoz

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by hanoz 3y ago
The buy experiences meme has always had a slight air of having been engineered in travel industry laboratory somewhere and released into the wild.
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by hanoz 3y ago
That quip doesn't really work like it does for its more usual target, the Eiffel Tower, because unlike the tower you also can't see the Pompidou Centre from pretty much everywhere in Paris, except right next to the Pompidou Centre
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by hanoz 3y ago
Wouldn't it do just to hook it up to an online processor, as if a web page?
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by hanoz 3y ago
That would never have flown in our (UK) class, where we grew up drinking Dandelion and Burdock pop It was however playground lore that touching them and licking your fingers would make you wet the bed. Indeed the French name for them is lit
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by hanoz 3y ago
Okay, massive tangent, but it's been bugging me for a while and this has finally tipped me over the edge - why is it called personally identifiable information ? That would be information that someone can personally identify surely? S
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by hanoz 3y ago
How would it be less likely to induce confusion? What is it even supposed to mean in that form? I had no idea what you were talking about until someone explained your error.
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Mike Lynch: Autonomy founder extradited to US in criminal case(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by hanoz 3y ago|0 comments
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by hanoz 3y ago
Isn't that exactly how the the greatest acts of stealing are performed?
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by hanoz 3y ago
Your high latitude health service must be better than mine. I can hardly imagine my GP's receptionist's reaction if I tried to book an appointment to check my baseline vitamin D levels!
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by hanoz 3y ago
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/pdfs/uksi_20200... Restrictions on movement 6.—(1) During the emergency period, n
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by hanoz 3y ago
No, it was law. Immoral law which deserved to be broken, but that is no consolation to the millions who suffered greatly by going along with it. To hear one of the most shameful periods in our legal history being brushed off as couple of mo
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by hanoz 3y ago
You broke the law and got away with it. That doesn't mean millions of people weren't having a thoroughly miserable time of it observing the law, and for a lot longer than "a couple of months in 2020".
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by hanoz 3y ago
> questions which you could've easily included in your first e-mail That's not really how conversation/chat works is it?
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by hanoz 3y ago
If I wanted to have a conversation about it, and you wanted to charge me a flat fee per utterance on the basis that you had to reread the text anew every time, I wouldn't be paying you at all.
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by hanoz 3y ago
The more token capacity that's added the more wasteful it seems to have to use this statelessly. Is there any avoiding this? Wonderous as this new tech is, it seems a bit much to be paying $2 a question in a conversation about a 32k to
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by hanoz 3y ago
"Just build more houses" , yet alone when framed as "it's up to you to convince your neighbors to let you to build more houses" just doesn't cut the mustard any more. We need serious changes that are actuall
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by hanoz 3y ago
I seriously doubt there's a $120k countryside house within 500 miles of me.
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by hanoz 3y ago
Western leaders had better start coming up with radical solutions to housing market driven inequity or there'll be ructions.
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by hanoz 3y ago
Fair point. It's a sorry state of afairs when you have to speculatively reverse engineer the algorithms run by a state-sanctioned oligopoly of private firms holding your own data gathered with, at best, coerced consent, and artificiall
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by hanoz 3y ago
That doesn't make sense. A credit card provider may profit more from a customer who carries a balance and maybe makes the odd late payment, but a mortgage provider inherently has a customer who carries a balance, and the ideal is a cus
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by hanoz 3y ago
What exactly is supposed to have happened to that cat? Leading with that photo with no explanation is completely ridiculous.
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by hanoz 3y ago
Why are these even remotely necessary? I've got a fair sized garden, surrounded by deciduous trees, and half an hour with a rake on a few weekends in Autumn is all it takes to keep on top of things. What am I missing?
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India's population to surpass China this week – UN(bbc.co.uk)
8 points by hanoz 3y ago|3 comments
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by hanoz 3y ago
I'm no linguist but it seems to me that that word doesn't really work for that definition. It sounds like it should pertain to hidden form, not hidden similar form, like say, cryptoisomorphic .
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by hanoz 3y ago
All around the western world, money printing to prop up the house price bubble is finally reaching breaking point, with housing costs completely decoupling from fundamentals, and inflation breaching the banks and flooding into consumer pric
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by hanoz 3y ago
> At the other extreme you have the medical profession where the first thing you learn in medical school is that left/right always refer to the patient's perspective. Didn't know that! So how pervasive is this principal?
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by hanoz 3y ago
It's exactly the people keeping the wheels turning, the working class and lower middle class, who can't afford to have children at the moment. The spongers above and below are the ones able to breed with abandon. Doesn't seem
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SpaceX halts Starship launch at last minute(bbc.co.uk)
7 points by hanoz 3y ago|1 comments
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by hanoz 3y ago
Yes, the thing that has happened, as mentioned in the article, is the treating of ones neighbors, and indeed ones own people, as criminals at the border.
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by hanoz 3y ago
Can't an intelligent agent, artificial or otherwise, no matter how strict and out of band their orders, always be talked out of it?

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