concerto | 3 years ago | on: Braess's Paradox
There are 4 real-life examples quoted at the end of the article under the heading "How rare is Braess's Paradox?"
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concerto | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Use rejection letters from Big Tech to get shortlisted to YC startups
Isn't the problem for startups the lack of developers rather than the problem for developers a lack of startups? This seems to be aimed at the developers but in order to solve the startups' problems?
concerto | 3 years ago | on: Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics: Men's Marathon
This is actually Reinout Scholten van Aschat, a Dutch actor who played Cruyff in a TV series
concerto | 5 years ago | on: Garmin obtains decryption key after ransomware attack
I was confused by the use of "sanctioned" in the byline. They meant it mean "had sanctions imposed", but I understood it as "given permission" which set the article in a completely different tone. What an odd word.
concerto | 8 years ago | on: Is Your English Accent British or American?
I am from Liverpool and got 98% British using my normal accent
concerto | 8 years ago | on: Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies
Surely that's even more rare than a black swan?
concerto | 8 years ago | on: Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller
Terry Pratchett had over 70 books published in his lifetime, and so his legacy is in his published works, while Kafka's masterpieces were largely unpublished at the time of his death and he was not widely known, so they are not really analogous situations.
concerto | 9 years ago | on: Facebook is telling everyone that they’re dead
Maybe Facebook knows something we don't...
concerto | 10 years ago | on: I wrote a small piece on planned death
Everyone's choice is personal, and while it is not fair for people to say your hypothetical choice would be selfish, I would also ask you to be careful about your judgements on others who are actually facing this and have made a different choice.
concerto | 10 years ago | on: UK pub chain Wetherspoons hacked – loses personal information
Yes, I guess it must have been a customer loyalty scheme or something.
concerto | 10 years ago | on: British jihadists had phones hacked by GCHQ before being killed by drones
The article claims GCHQ used a Surespot exploit.
concerto | 10 years ago | on: Steinway’s New Piano Can Play a Perfect Concerto by Itself
I approve
concerto | 10 years ago | on: The lost tunnels of Liverpool
Parts of them are open to visitors. Well worth a visit.
concerto | 10 years ago | on: Why do some countries drive on the left and others on the right?
"In the late 1700s, however, teamsters in France and the United States began hauling farm products in big wagons pulled by several pairs of horses."
I am interested about this statement and why it didn't happen in the UK which was also majorly agricultural in the same period.
concerto | 10 years ago | on: Google: New World Order Conspiracy Now Established Fact
In case you can't see what I get: http://i.imgur.com/k5aAvtv.png
concerto | 10 years ago | on: I've been scrubbed
It is slightly ironic that that comment was deleted on a post on this subject. Did the poster do it themself or were they censored? Part of the conspiracy?
concerto | 11 years ago | on: Close Call Database for Cycling
Unfortunately, many car drivers ignore this and pull into the box when the light is red.
concerto | 11 years ago | on: Why are you still here? James Meek reports from Grimsby
I love this article. It aims to show the political spectrum through a detailed study of a microcosm. While certain issues might be very specific to this constituency, through the piece it details the wider picture such as the battle between the hard left and the hard right for the same voters, and the issues they hold in common. I love it. I wonder how true this is of other countries or whether it is specific to the UK. Greece has had a similar situation with Golden Dawn and Syriza, although to a much larger scale as it is unlikely that UKIP or a socialist alliance/Greens could ever take power given the first past the post system.
concerto | 11 years ago | on: List of April Fools' Day Announcements
Is it an April Fool if you can actualy do it? More like an early Easter Egg?
concerto | 11 years ago | on: List of April Fools' Day Announcements
Not on the Highstreet. Happy Hatchery - hatch at home eggs ordered online.
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