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by PaulAJ 6y ago
Also the self-employed in the USA have to pay over the odds for rubbish schemes. Large employers can be assumed to employ mostly healthy people, but an individual is more likely to want health insurance if they already know they are a bad r
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
When Obamacare was going through I read in The Economist that about 1/3 of Americans had their health care paid for by Uncle Sam. The schemes were Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Administration, and health schemes for government employees
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
I dunno. People read "The Dogs of War" and think "I could do that. Hold my beer and watch this!"
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
My first thought looking at the title was to wonder if he had Climbed Every Mountain.
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
I've got a first printing from new. Nyaah! No dust cover though.
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
Connections 2 wasn't a patch on the original. Connections 3 was just milking a dead cow. However The Day the Universe Changed is very good.
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
Utterly brilliant. If you haven't seen it before then do watch the whole series. It may be over 40 years old, but its still as relevant as ever. The opening piece about the fragility of our modern technostructure was eye-opening when I
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
The US also spends more as a proportion of GDP than anywhere else, by a considerable margin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea... Of course its not clear how much of this expenditure goes to
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
* Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence by Andrew Hodges. The definitive biography, with lots of detailed explanations of his work. * Making Software, edited by Oram & Wilson. A bunch of papers about evidence-based software engineerin
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
"... you will never use them in production ..." I'm a Haskell programmer. Continuations are part of my everyday toolbox.
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
When I registered a trademark I got a very similar fake invoice from a company in Serbia. They wanted £940 for their "trademark monitoring service". The only clue that this was not a real invoice was "This offer is not an inv
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Show HN: Safety case tool for safety engineers(diametricsoftware.com)
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
Nobody wants to be arrested or held in prison. Legal systems are supposed to ensure that this doesn't happen without due process. 3: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-to-stay_(imprisonment) As for "they d
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
Any prediction of decentralisation of the Internet, or anything built on it, needs to explain how this will overcome the economies of scale (1 big data centre is cheaper than 1000 little ones) and the network effects (everyone buys and sell
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
China is not going to provide a crypto version of its currency. The Chinese government is all about centralisation and control. It will go for electronic transactions via a few tightly-controlled banks combined with the elimination of phy
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
> For some reason the far right tend to ignore moderates rather than despise them as backsliders. IME the far right despises them as dupes of their favoured conspiracy theory.
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
It sounds like your work consists of one contract for this company in China. That makes you vulnerable. You need to find other contracts. Once you have four or five lines of income you will be a true freelancer.
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
Thats because winning a large government contract requires a great deal of expensive jumping through hoops. Those contractors treat the hoop jumping as their core competence: what they do after the contract is awarded is much less important
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
If you read the whole article you will find out that you are in complete agreement with it.
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Hydrogen has huge practical problems with storage. Ammonia is an interesting idea, but direct combustion isn't practical due to NOx emissions and low temperature, and ammonia fuel cells are still at the lab prototype stage. The toxicit
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
Could this provide a way to measure the fairness of redistricting vs gerrymandering? I'd expect a good set of electoral subdivisions would be insensitive to people moving, but gerrymandered districts would be much more sensitive.
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
First, prorogation was an act of the executive, not parliament. Second, the courts have previously acted to bring acts of parliament under judicial review, with the Investigatory Powers Act https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk&#
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
It is technically true to say the the GFA does not prohibit border controls. However the GFA was negotiated with joint EU membership as part of the existing political background, so it was taken for granted. In practice anything which stops
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
The military has one overriding priority: that when an officer says "charge" the men charge. If that doesn't happen you don't have an army, just a bunch of people holding guns. Everything is subservient to that one p
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
Haskell's type checker is not Turing-complete by default. This is a feature, not a bug, because it means that the type checker is guaranteed to terminate. Since this piece was written GHC has been extended so that non-termination can b
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
"Madness of Crowds" is an entertaining read, but its not really solid history. His account of tulip mania in particular seems to have depended largely on stories in religious pamphlets about the dangers of greed. https:/&#x2
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
Except he turned out to be wrong.
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Actually its a bit more sophisticated. Galileo ground stations measure their reported position against the actual, and then transmit correction data to the satellites which then retransmit it with the rest of the position data.
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This doesn't make sense. How can there be more satellites in the Eastern hemisphere than in the Western? Navigation satellites are in low earth orbit: they go around the earth every couple of hours. I could understand if one constellat
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
From the politician's point of view there is a very important difference. If you raise taxes and then use that money to pay for something then you are responsible for a tax increase. Opposition politicians can point to your tax increas

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