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> “or, perhaps more usefully, be equipped with a battery that’s 30 times smaller.“ Please no-one tell Jony.

Excession is an outstanding book. (But note to others: Consider Phlebas or Look to Windward are better starter books if you’ve not read any!)

What a horrible moan fest of an article. The trypophobia comparison is nonsense and the author is obviously just trying (and failing) to include a memey word in the hopes of minor …

I broke at ‘not smiling in photos’.

(Obviously unlikely given the offshore-ness of ot all.)

Only scenario I can think of for those kinds of numbers is a big bank or hedge fund buying in.

I’ve definitely noticed tech, especially tech press, getting much more political and negative in the last few years. I don’t really know if it’s the WHOLE of tech (or just how it’s…

Seems like a reasonable way to prevent overly-broad fishing by law enforcement. If they have a warrant they can request information through legal channels. The raids are just theat…

I’d imagine the employees aren’t told why they’re paging the number, just that they should. The page might also trigger other processes such as alerting council, that they have the…

I did the same and filled it with things that are relevant to me, and now my ads are generally enjoyable — things I might not have otherwise known about. There was a lot of cruft i…

Yeah this seems like the most reasonable option. Even not having service trade isn’t a great disaster. Companies with sizeable EU revenue can just set up a European subsidiary (in …

Probably not a novel thought, but what if appearing in the sky over, say, a 100 year period beginning with the discovery of nuclear technology (or earlier) is a way of ‘warming up’…

Yeah, and didn’t the Pentagon say they’d lost track of $6.5Tn in spending or something? This is nothing compared to that.

This article expressed a lot of what I’ve been mulling for years. I must’ve spent hours of my life poring over the Wikipedia HTTP Response Codes page, looking for the most expressi…

Is the last part about licensing true (or sourced from somewhere)? Surely Amazon could just drop the Cast library into their iPhone and Android apps and they’d be all set? I can’t …

That’s a really great point! YouTube is probably the best placed brand in the whole market to offer a true OTT cable replacement. And Amazon wants to own that market with Channels.…

It’s 100% available in the UK. Bought one officially from Amazon. Not imported.

I love everything you said. It’d be so easy to structure a clean experiment to test this. Bad science sucks.

Yawn, nonsense. They obviously just used deep learning to predict these were the kind of people who would want to do a cheesy video, and predicted cat food was an obvious topic the…

Yeah, I totally should’ve phrased that bit more carefully The clearer, fuller argument would would be: if something terrible was to happen to Earth it would be objectively better (…

Tough crowd.

I mean, two of them have pledged to give away their wealth, and the other is actively seeking ideas to do so. If they’re giving it away anyway, what’s the problem? I guess if you’r…

I got into a conversation once that I think frames this well. We had WILDLY different views on whether going to Mars was a good idea (like, violently polar opposite views). The str…

Uncanny valley triggered.

It’s obviously bots. Frustrating the number of commenters who jumped to the “Facebook is evil” conclusion immediately.