Andy_G11

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by Andy_G11 5y ago
If there is a coupling between electrons and photons, however brief, then could the photon be influenced along this coupling by acting on the electron and affecting the state of the coupled system? Or is this precluded because it would impl
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
This is pretty amazing. The guys are absolutely right - it's still early days for this tech and the sky would seem to be the limit. Coders are always climbing the learning ladder and should add co-working with a code-writing AI to thei
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
You win.
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
The flip side of the egomaniacal types in the story and comments is that the world is equally full of skilled people with great ideas and coding skills who write really useful software but have no clue of how to get it off the ground and gr
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
The need to maintain or replace / upgrade infrastructure places an obligation (liability) on the owner of the infrastructure to do so. Perhaps technical liability would be more accurate, but I like the sound of technical debt. There is
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
The world does not act in accordance with "society's" proclaimed values - it acts according to the sum of individual actual values. On this basis, Bolsanaro is right: we can talk up a storm about how Brazil needs to protect t
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
The vax has been rushed to market and the risk of unpleasant side effects is probably a lot higher than normal. Throughout the chain of manufacturing, sales and distribution will be a myriad of people with a profit motive, so even if feedba
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
Non-story: individuals in a community will tolerate unjust behaviour of their community as a whole provided they are not affected. Communities pretend to recognise rights of others out of principle, but in reality 'rights' are onl
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
There are two ways to approach the problem of deepening inequality: 1) With the perspective that this feature of how society operates can and should be changed; 2) With the perspective that this is simply how society works and you can adapt
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
Could it be that firms are simply claiming to be "Agile" irrespective of how they actually work because "Agile" has good PR? Customers may think that "Agile" teams are stacked with experts all working in a stat
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
MS Access can be directly linked to a spreadsheet for upload / download, or you can copy and paste data directly or import data files. Other databases (MySQL) also allow for import of CSV data.
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
'000s of rows of data in a spreadsheet - sigh. But say 'database' to some people and they hear 'The Devil'. Excel is a glorious tool which welcomes all, the savvy and the unskilled but imaginative newbies alike. The
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
The Due Diligence HP did on Autonomy sounds like an absolute shambles if this article is anything to go by: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/28/hewlett-pac... 6 hours of cursory 'scrut
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
The most prevalent countermeasure deployed against lying seems to be identity verification. For example, to combat lies about the source of money from crime, banks are required to verify the ID (photographic, residential address) of deposit
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
From experience with staff of different levels of expertise, the points seem to hold true, e.g.: Reaching out to other people - generally true that staff w. greater expertise are more likely and comfortable doing so; Form elegant abstractio
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
Might be different for different fields: if a firm with initially lower domain expertise but greater development & implementation resources can get sufficient understanding of a good idea to generate a practical solution themselves, the
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
I would think tech is now at the point to undermine micro-exploiters who extract punitive payments from people who feel that there is no viable alternative provider (e.g. a specialist who requires completely unnecessary monthly visits, give
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
SNAFU. Go to sleep before you do something that effs it up beyond all return. On Monday, before you serve yourself up as toast, have a triple shot latte and take a long look at the hollow-eyed face in the mirror. Why is this person about to
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
I feel discourse nowadays could be substantially advanced by a new science of Discourse Mechanics which would include a Schrodinger operator to quantify the superposition of states applicable not only to the identity of participants in a di
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
It is tough starting from very little and when your family has very few financial reserves - to deny this is disingenuous. You have fewer resources, less influential contacts, less social standing, and are viewed as more of a credit risk. Y
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
True - I have seen this on a few occasions; sometimes the 'tucking away' includes a social element applied by overriding responses in conversations, making detracting remarks and generally casting shade over said whizzkid - boxing
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
Work is a drug and I seriously think it triggers some sort of endorphin response in the same way that exercise does. Unfortunately, many white collar types of work are insular and while you are sitting on front of a screen getting a buzz ab
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
Ulysses is literary viagra and should be consumed with care. The government acted responsibly in controlling its availability until its side effects on consumers became apparent. With the benefit of hindsight we can see that the strong mora
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
Groups have and are discriminated against. You assumed that 'we both know' this is about 'reverse discrimination' but I am not so quick to accept that, hence why I stated what I can agree with. Why do I not accept that t
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
I agree that that using destructive blanket terms for groups and making caricatures of people is not novel, nor is the adoption of unfair, discriminatory policies novel. Because what constitutes hate speech is subjective, it might be someth
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
Laws that cannot be applied equally to everyone are subject to abuse; the concept of 'hate speech' (defined here https://www.rightsforpeace.org/hate-speech as communication that ‘attacks or uses pejorative or disc
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
Little Johnny knows the rules in the house. If he calls his sister Betty the C word, that is VERY bad and Betty can hit him with a stick, take his toys and make him be sent to his room. But everyone knows that being called a d@#k is harmles
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
What is the point of articles like this? They are so disingenuous, pretending a faux-surprise that innovation has to work against immense resistance in the workplace (and life in general). You have to be hopelessly naive and indoctrinated b
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
Universities should get some financial credit for inventions arising from their studies. But there might be instances where important science should be undertaken even if it offers no medium term opportunity for commercial reward. E.g. stud
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
Is this only for numbers where the number of digits is a multiple of 6?

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