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- Comment on YSK that SLS, an ingredient added to most commercial toothpastes, causes canker sores 11 months ago:
Sensodyne Pronamel is SLS free and has fluoride.
- Comment on Senior officer behind Met drug strategy sacked over refusal to take drug test 1 year ago:
There are presumably implications of being sacked instead of resigning. Like losing his pension?
- Comment on On the morning train 1 year ago:
I worked at a factory once where the day shifts swapped each week (6am-2pm and 2pm-10pm), but the night shift was just the night shift. And those fuckers were like ghouls.
- Comment on Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica 1 year ago:
Your data isn’t just being sold to advertisers. There are all kinds of companies that are willing to pay big bucks to get near real-time insights consumer behaviour, prices, manufacturing and anything else that can be tracked somehow.
- Comment on Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine 1 year ago:
Tech just isn’t his expertise.
Mehta has been described as an avid fan of hip hop music. In a 2015 copyright case regarding the similarity of two songs, Mehta noted in a footnote that he was "not a ‘lay person’ when it comes to hip-hop music and lyrics,” and noted he has “listened to hip hop for decades”. American rappers Jay-Z, Eminem, Kanye West and Canadian rapper Drake are among his favorite artists.
- Comment on Broken Britain: what went wrong? 1 year ago:
In some ways they’re arguing that austerity wasn’t aggressive enough to get the job done properly.
- Comment on All of Japan's Toyota Assembly Plants Shut Down for a Day Because Their Server Ran Out of Disk Space 1 year ago:
It wasn’t just Fukushima. There was a massive flood in Thailand at the same time that shut down a load of suppliers. It was a really bad bit of luck but they did learn from that.
- Comment on Sharp rise in Asian hornet sightings in UK causes alarm 1 year ago:
Bees with hips
- Comment on Most motorists want noise cameras installed to clamp down on loud cars 1 year ago:
A taxi driver in Singapore once told me that they hold this title, ahead of the UK. He then pointed out the cameras on almost every lamp post.
- Comment on All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU 1 year ago:
And was one of the least successful S series phones.
- Comment on Was in the city recently, so I snapped a few selfies. 1 year ago:
No way you took them yourself…