shapefrog

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by shapefrog 3y ago
https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110340953550548309 "Yes, we fund Matrix dev by selling encrypted messaging to governments, which includes police: if you don’t like that then please feel free to use a differen
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by shapefrog 3y ago
People are incredibly comfortable with everyone elses privacy and rights being violated
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Could have done it with poop emojis on twitter
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by shapefrog 3y ago
IT came back asking for a budget of $750,000 to put the macro that one team uses into production.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
data science isnt that hard!
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Gang gang ice cream so good yum rawr yum pumpkin yum yum gang gang balloons pop pop
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by shapefrog 3y ago
"non-doms" are rich foreigners in England (and the very rare Englishman who hasnt yet had the taxman rule on their attempt to pretend they are no longer English), immigrants are poor/average foreigners in England. Expats are
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Using Crypto is probably the #1 reason for being debanked ... Unverifiable, untraceable money arriving into your account does not work well with AML regualations.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
> on the edge of Clapham Common Clapham is the land where the war is fought between the SUV and the SUV impaling cones - placed strategically on the pavement to lure them and trap them. https://www.reddit.com/r/londo
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by shapefrog 3y ago
There is an awkward infinte loop there - arresting all the lawmakers who are underming the country would undermine the country.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Considering it now - my PE funded nursery school is going to be a feeder nursery that gets lots of students into the fancy primary school that feeds to the best secondary schools ...
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by shapefrog 3y ago
These numbers are also ignoring the gap in (median/average/decent) pay between the US and UK (2021 averages in USD: $58,260 for the US and $38,291 for the UK). Oddly it has conditioned many friends who were stauch opponents of pri
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by shapefrog 3y ago
X must be worth well south of $10bn if that is the number that they are using for employee share issuance.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
I, as a free speech advocate, agree Elon is free to say his core values are freedom of speech while censoring peoples speech.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
It says it on the sign.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
You should patent that process.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
The permitted right of access is without rights to photograph on said property.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
"The landowner may, as a condition of granting entry to the private property, choose to place conditions or restrictions on photography, but the only consequence of failure to comply with these conditions is the photographer being requ
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Navy boats are owned by a public organization, but I don't get to borrow them for a weekend in Ibiza.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
> "hiring low performers will hurt your company" People who hire people just can't seem to help themselves but hire shit people, especially people who talk a lot about how they need process etc so it doesnt happen. Day in
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by shapefrog 3y ago
The amateur radio community invented gatekeeping
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Stand in a room with an actual representation of the population and you will feel very differently about what it takes to get to 51%.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
I thought they pivoted to Ai.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Perhaps I am a snob - but when I see the logged out YouTube feed I wonder what is wrong with humanity and where it went horribly wrong, have we already arrived at the Idiocracy depicted in 2006. If that is better than your logged in feed th
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by shapefrog 3y ago
So as a teenager, I was carrying 5-10kg of books and walking back and forth between classes every 40 mins. As an undergrad I was travelling across campus multiple times a day, spent hours on my feet in labs, did multiple heavy grocery shutt
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Being curious about a thing - going away and learning about it - is having a goal in mind.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
> If I were at the CMA I'm not sure that's a factor in this deal that I would have given much thought at all. If a "someone" came along and offered you a benefit in exchange for saying "but won't someone thi
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by shapefrog 3y ago
It may be part of the zeitgeist, but it is also a meme. The subtle hidden message is that rich people are idiots who misattribute their success to factors like dropping out of college or getting up at 6am.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Since formal education - I don't think I've learned anything without a goal in mind.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
I have poured the flight log into a fisher price abacus and the say and see machine, leading us to conclude that Flight 62 will surpass Flight 60's top speed of 8m/sec and a cow says 'moo'.

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