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Let me check my maths... So population of london is 9M Say your network and you is 250 people. (friends, colleague, family, neighbours, community) Probability (P) of not being chos…

Thanks for sharing! We're blessed that such a hobby is lucrative enough to pay our bills. Not many hobbies are, and usually this leads to wage suppression as there's too much suppl…

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My high level understanding is there are countries where things like IMEI barring aren't enforced and the actual unlocking of the phone is possible. Via jailbreaking or flashing I …

It always shocks me how people like to excuse crime in London. 70000 phones snatched in a year. 3000 stabbings a year. The phone snatchings are so common that I can name several vi…

I think it was implied through the conversation but the other thing I have come to realise is that your hobby and craft should be about producing not consuming. Too many people thi…

Hobby should only become job if you enjoy the craft of it and if the profession / job rewards craftsmanship. People in it just for the money won't care about craft - you see the sa…

It's ok - who cares about Europe anyway, they will be irrelevant imminently. How about they create a new national league in the US, say called the National Football League and sell…

My favourite is the food you get in Xi'an which is pretty distinct from what you'd ordinarily consider "Chinese" food (ie Sichuanese or Cantonese) The flatbreads, cumin and lamb do…

How much of that is pegged to global literacy I wonder. You won't have popular standardised recipes until chefs and homemakers are literate

Extremely cool idea! Are you planning to share the source or prompts at all? Do you know what are the scaling limits of this kind of graph? EDIT: In the past people used to pore ov…

Finally an advantage for Chinese after being penalised during the early stage of compute!

I have to admit that people interpreting current affairs/hot moments in real life through the lens of anime tropes really tickles in a way I never believed possible. The aha moment…

I didn't get it when it first was a thing (like 15 years ago) but now I watch streams of esports/pvp and I watch longplays to scratch an itch for games I have no intention of putti…

I was very curious about Dataflow programming years ago - I think a lot of people were coming at this problem from various angles. This specific library immediately reminded me of …

Yes I am very paranoid about CTE. For years I've dialled down the sparring intensity and mostly train technically, working on timing. I appreciate that studies show that the brain …

As an avid gamer, I'd argue the actual physical threat of being hit is hardwired into us because it is tied to our survival instinct on a primal level. I like to do all kinds of si…

Your confident ignorance motivated me to at least dig up some cursory research on this space, I hadn’t previously bothered because I live and breathe this stuff (pun not intended).…

I find this is definitely true for americano and pour overs but I don't drink enough espresso to know if this also true? I at least feel the sentiment that you want to drink an esp…

Community is the one that I feel is most under threat these days...

How did you know you almost blacked out? I'm most terrified of the stories that you can fade without knowing

We will need some time to iterate on the form factor and user experience but it is hard to imagine a portable AR computer isn't the direction we're heading. While I truly appreciat…

Yes! Exactly - there are plenty of other rare metals but many of them are really hard to work with. Iridium, Rhodium and Platinum are plenty rare but mankind has lacked the technol…

That's ok - given central banks' continued love of gold, I have no qualms of there being a buyer in my lifetime and probably my kids'

I think gold's chemistry actually is why gold has been and remains a store of value. It is rare, inert, malleable, has a low melting point and has a distinct unique colour. All of …