IceCreamGondola

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by IceCreamGondola 6y ago
Really interesting read. I used to work for gov in the UK as a Data Scientist doing similar work to understand impact of policy/production of statistics. My team was given the freedom to explore and implement improvements as we saw fit
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by IceCreamGondola 6y ago
2 main things Devoted [0] - An app to explore historical prayers and creeds from the 3 main Christian traditions God's Green Earth [1] - A pet project that doesn't even have a website yet. It will be a blog/photo gallery expl
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by IceCreamGondola 6y ago
As someone who used to work in Civil Service I can't say I'm surprised. The range of technical competance across the different government departments is staggering. Some are really making leaps and bounds while others are bloated,
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by IceCreamGondola 6y ago
Yes, nowhere near as bad as Slack though. Zoom is awful on iPhone, it drains battery very quickly and has crashed my device probably 5 times in a row.
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by IceCreamGondola 7y ago
NHS certainly don't need a central IT system but there are massive gains to be made inside health boards. My wife works in the NHS and the fragmented nature of a lot of the data makes their work incredibly inefficient.
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by IceCreamGondola 7y ago
The NHS is notorious for having little to no connected IT systems. It's not that the data doesn't exist but it's so siloed that even within Health Boards it is hard to access.
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by IceCreamGondola 7y ago
As I've said elsewhere, I have no issue with global trade. What I have an issue with is our over-reliance on global trade.
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by IceCreamGondola 7y ago
That could be a possibility
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by IceCreamGondola 7y ago
Nothing wrong with needing to transport but the problem is that globalisation has made it economically more viable to sell globally than locally. Produce should first be sourced locally then globally when they really need it.
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by IceCreamGondola 7y ago
> In the 1970s, increasing incomes in urban areas stimulated the demand for meat and dairy products, but by the early 1980s government programs were only partially successful in increasing domestic production. Bedouin continued to raise
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by IceCreamGondola 7y ago
Without knowing the in's and out's of supply and demand this really raises the question as to why 14,000 sheep needed to be transported. Our reliance on global markets for our produce is out of hand (probably preaching to the conv
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by IceCreamGondola 7y ago
If that's what they're going for then fine. I expressed my opinion that I wouldn't take them seriously. Underneath the ridiculous branding they may very well be a great VC firm but the website doesn't sell that to me.
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by IceCreamGondola 7y ago
Totally agree
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by IceCreamGondola 7y ago
See my response to TeMPOral downstream. Using names isn't the problem, saturating your company with the mythology is.
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by IceCreamGondola 7y ago
> A good chunk of countries, counties and cities on the planet have mythical beasts in their official signage. So do the militaries and companies dealing with them. Yes they do and that isn't a problem. There is a difference between
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by IceCreamGondola 7y ago
These I don’t really see a problem with. The name is inspired by fiction that’s fine. When I go onto a firms website and see images of a mythical monster plastered everywhere that’s when it gets a bit ridiculous.
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by IceCreamGondola 7y ago
Exactly, this type of question is to appraise the student's critical thinking and how well they can defend an action. Not an assessment of morality. It reminds me of Religious Education GCSE exams where they give a statement such as (f
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by IceCreamGondola 7y ago
Sorry but I would not trust a company that brands itself using a mythical monster to give me funding. If I'm putting the future of my company in the hands of some venture-capitalists I'd want to know they're the real deal and
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by IceCreamGondola 7y ago
Making a mountain out of a molehill. As others have said, the further up the chain you go the harder the decision you have to make. The wording of the question is careful to avoid the outrage that people are stirring up. If you believed the
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Upvotes on questions now worth the same as upvotes on answers on Stackoverflow(meta.stackoverflow.com)
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by IceCreamGondola 7y ago
Agreed, the quality of content on there isn't poor in itself but is aimed at getting low hanging fruit.
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by IceCreamGondola 7y ago
The idea of “centrist apathy” is pretty much unfounded. Most of the time people who describe themselves as center-x are people who would normally be characterised as left or right in the past. Instead we have increasingly polarised parties
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by IceCreamGondola 7y ago
This really is the case for people like myself who have typically been center left. I would never vote for Trump but additionally I can never see myself vote for Sanders, Warren, etc. On the left end of the political spectrum there is no lo