J-dawg

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by J-dawg 10y ago
I think you're right. Time to get out of this rut.
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Ask HN: What cities have the best salary / cost of living ratio?
25 points by J-dawg 10y ago|42 comments
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I feel the same as the OP, and had never thought of this as a possible cause. Unfortunately none of my friends live close to me.
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by J-dawg 10y ago
That does seem awfully low given your experience. I hope you could double that by moving to one of the places you mentioned.
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Front end developer, large IT consultancy, £35k, no bonus. Feeling underpaid.
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by J-dawg 10y ago
A related anecdote: a friend used to be a chef at a restaurant in London (not Michelin starred, but a very high-end, global brand). I was shocked to learn that there was no paid sick leave. So, not wanting to lose money, people come to work
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I remember reading stories several years ago of Scottish prawns being shipped to Thailand to be shelled by hand, and then shipped back for sale in the UK [0]. I have no idea whether this still happens, but I find it utterly mind-blowing tha
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by J-dawg 10y ago
That is utterly infuriating. Stuff like this really shakes my faith in capitalism. To think that someone in charge at Bosch has actively decided to 1. Screw over the customer 2. Impose a massive external cost on society and the ecosystem. I
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by J-dawg 10y ago
This idea seems so sensible it's a no-brainer. (I'm almost dreading the comments explaining why I'm wrong!) The human race is producing unprecedented quantities of non-recyclable "stuff". It's pumped out of the
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by J-dawg 10y ago
A researcher from Bath University found that drivers gave him less space when he was wearing a helmet. They gave him the most space when he was wearing a long blonde wig. http://archive.cosmosmagazine.com/news/blonde-wi
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by J-dawg 10y ago
It is puzzling that they both pleaded guilty. They also both represented themselves in court, so it seems they weren't getting any legal advice at all. Perhaps they weren't entitled to legal aid? I was under the impression that an
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I'd never considered that set of circumstances before. The politicians who voted it into law probably didn't consider it either. And that's exactly the problem: we have layer upon layer of vague and badly-written legislation,
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by J-dawg 10y ago
1. The first sentence in the article is "Two UK men have been convicted of possessing extreme pornography". Am I missing something? 2. Why should this be illegal? Yes, it's offensive. But I don't think offending someone
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by J-dawg 10y ago
It looks that way. Does anyone know what the UK legal position is about forcing someone to unlock their device? I know you can be jailed here for refusing to hand over an encryption key. I don't know whether your passcode / finger
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by J-dawg 10y ago
In the UK, somebody can send you an obscene file over Whatsapp, unsolicited, and get you convicted without you even opening it . [0] We have sleepwalked into being a police state and barely anyone seems to care. Police have also started t
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Reddit user arrested and convicted after police conduct “intelligence research”(reddit.com)
1 points by J-dawg 10y ago|0 comments
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by J-dawg 10y ago
That seems plausible. But I was once told that ideally you shouldn't even take a shower in contacts (Not that I always followed that advice). Maybe I just had an over-cautious optometrist.
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I don't think that's true at all. I think the issue with contacts (even dailies) is that they can trap pathogens on the surface of the eye and give them a place to breed, allowing an infection to take hold. This could happen withi
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by J-dawg 10y ago
That sounds really scary. I have gradually given up on contacts and gone back to glasses over the years - partly because of comfort, and partly because of hearing nasty stories of infections and complications caused by keeping them in too l
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Thanks for the link, really interesting. It does seem that there's a huge amount to overcome as autopilot moves from driver aid to fully autonomous. I'm starting to think the ideal compromise (for now) is a car where I'm in c
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by J-dawg 10y ago
On the subject of renting in London, something that disrupts letting agents, and/or facilitates renting directly to tenants. They seem to be the worst kind of parasitic middlemen, and it seems to be in the interests of both landlord an
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by J-dawg 10y ago
What do you think they'll be replaced by?
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by J-dawg 10y ago
What I'm trying to say is that it's not appropriate to classify accidents as either caused by autopilot or human error. The fatal accident was, tragically, a failure of both the autopilot and the driver. But the driver was relying
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by J-dawg 10y ago
The "Catch-22" doesn't make a lot of sense, really. In either case you are driving. Until we legally recognise autopilots as being fully in control of the car, the driver is always driving. Her statement does make me wond
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Putting aside the semantics of the word "autopilot", haven't Tesla always been clear that the system was in beta and should only be used by a fully attentive driver, with your hands held close to the steering wheel? This und
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Brewbot yet http://www.brewbot.io
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Stories about fake food seem to be everywhere at the moment. China is the source of the most stomach-churning ones ("gutter oil" being my personal favourite - don't Google it if you're planning to eat any time soon). But
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Ask HN: How do you choose which frameworks to use for a side project?
2 points by J-dawg 10y ago|1 comments
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I was surprised by this comment, because UK drivers are actually pretty bad at keeping left on the motorway. Motorway driving is not part of our driving test, so you can qualify without ever being shown how to drive on a 3 lane road. It&#x2
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Given what Tesla have achieved, and the engineering hurdles they have overcome, it's kinda strange that they neglected the interior so much. I would have though that this would be one of the easiest parts of a car to get right. Hire so

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