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in big cities in the uk (edinburgh, london, etc.) paying with a contactless tap of a debit card each journey will never result in paying more than the cheapest daily, weekly etc. t…

Have a look at MareNostrum [0] then. It's in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, in an old de-consecrated church, and looks awesome! 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MareNost…

you realise it is possible to mail unsealed, open envelopes, right? doesn't seem that tricky...

see also synechdoche [0] as a figure of speech, or "container for the thing contained" as james thurber's english teacher explained... 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche

just like colossal cave [0] YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT. YOU ARE IN A LITTLE MAZE OF TWISTING PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT. i remember getting lost in tha…

For those, like myself, who don't quite know enough Greek grammar to work it out properly, I looked up the definition of _Entomophagy_ ... it is derived from the Greek words 'entom…

no, the bit about having no money was a response to a claim that the advice was 'actionable' and i pointed out a situation where in believed it was not actionable dute to practical…

true. but, it could also mean they are demonstrating traits that make them a more desirable candidate! for example, if they have recently made the decision to stop smoking cigarett…

i guess, and intent is important as a factor, at least somewhat mitigating. teaching that actions have consequences based on their outcome, nom matter how well intentioned, is impo…

> If you stop to listen to a musician or street performer for more than a minute, you owe them a dollar if i am a child, with no money, or am un- or underemployed with very little …

i find it incredibly hard to believe that you "didn't ever do anything wrong on purpose" since you disclosed the fact that you were once a child. are you perhaps meaning something …

https://dat.foundation/ > is apparently deprecated in favour of https://dat-ecosystem.org/ > which is impressive since it only became the dat foundation in december 2019 ...

except the company haven't changed their policy, which is stated in their terms; contract; conditions of carriage and small print inter alia, which has always been that: account sh…

> Netflix decided to crackdown on password-sharing: my brother moved away some months ago and has been using our Netflix account, and we don't want him to pay Netflix for himself S…

ok, so in TVs? makes more sense, thanks! also i learned about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._2020 today...

> Quantum dot film are becoming common now (they have been used for a while, but are mainstream now because Rec. 2020) not really, there are essentially zero quantum dot based whit…

> until literally today you know this research was published in 2006, and is based on earlier work (from the citations you can see papers from the early 1970s onwards) which sugges…

> To extend this conclusion from the dead fish experiments to mechanical devices, and to demonstrate the applicability of these results in an engineering context, we also show that…

you could create some kind of modulated visual signal that activates only on the side that the vehicle intends to move towards?

sure, touché, i may well have my very own issues, this in no way stops me being correct though. also, in no way did i suggest you are a lesser or inferior person, you are just wron…

i think i recall reading a RAND study or similar that calculated the most cost effective megadeath per dollar, and it turning out to be equipping a very large number of people (pai…

the criticism is that it is necessarily entirely coincidental, due to there being no possible mechanism for these signals. if you really are under the delusion that you are predict…

surely you need to know where you are not, to know where you are. if the difference between where you are not and where you were, or vice versa, is correct, then you are being targ…

it's already illegal to cause a plane to crash, regardless of the mechanism used, and the legality of the mechanism generally has no bearing on its effectiveness...! but, gps (or o…