BenElgar

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by BenElgar 10y ago
From a quick search: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13815764 TLDR: The videos were removed because of a lawsuit relating to the lack of captions, making t
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by BenElgar 10y ago
For an example of the top of my head, take tax returns. In the UK the vast majority of people don't need to file one—your employer deducts the right amount each month from your salary and off you go. Moving to America I found I had to
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by BenElgar 10y ago
Finally! I've been making the point for years now that the reason new developers start with AWS is because of their much more useful 12 month free tier. People from GCP would come to our university every couple of years and ask us &quo
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by BenElgar 10y ago
There's an important difference between the members of the party and its members of parliament.
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by BenElgar 10y ago
In my mind, the problem with Approval Voting is that it's harder to decide how one should vote. What's the cut-off? Do I vote for everyone I really believe in? Or everyone I don't loathe? And it's exactly that sort of qu
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by BenElgar 10y ago
It's certainly regulated in some places, Iceland for example, and in the UK there would often be the assumption - though probably not the legal requirement - that you'd taken a degree that has been granted accredited status by the
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by BenElgar 10y ago
As I understand, no. There's some suggestion that small children, usually under the age of 10, can acquire perfect pitch, but no adult has ever been documented acquiring it. Source: http://www.zainea.com/absolpitch.pdf
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by BenElgar 10y ago
Even more off topic, but have you got a source for that? :)
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by BenElgar 10y ago
I think the idea of offering loans only for 'vocational' degrees is extremely damaging. It leads to people taking 'Software Engineering' degrees rather than computer science or maths or physics when really these less dir
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by BenElgar 10y ago
I disagree. See the Stack Overflow model: https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2016/02/why-stack-overflow-do...
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by BenElgar 10y ago
I'm all for investment in nuclear but it would take a really bloody colossal nature preserve. The Chernobyl exclusion zone is only 2,600 km^2 but about 3,900,000 km^2 of Europe - about 40% of it's total land mass - was contaminate
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by BenElgar 10y ago
I'm actually surprised it's so low.
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by BenElgar 10y ago
I suppose the difference is that you're more likely to claim compensation whilst you've got nothing better to do than waiting to get on a plane in a terminal full of posters telling you to claim that compensation than once you&#x2
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by BenElgar 10y ago
I don't believe that's true. It's merely a recommendation. Source: http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/european-commissi...
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by BenElgar 10y ago
In some UK cities and in New York there is one. It's called Gett ( http://gett.com/uk/ ). It's more expensive and the experience is worse.
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by BenElgar 10y ago
Does that same logic apply to Safari?
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by BenElgar 10y ago
Does anyone know of anything similar for Linux?
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by BenElgar 10y ago
My general advice would be to check the Arch wiki ( https://www.archlinux.org/ ), whether you intend to run Arch or not. It's a pretty good indicator to determine how much support you're going to get with the laptop