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by adwf 9y ago
To play a bit of devil's advocate here: At what point does a socialised health service with limited resources, stop providing care for "self-inflicted" injuries? In a busy hospital, the doctors have to triage and make priorit
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by adwf 9y ago
From what it looks like, yes.
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by adwf 9y ago
Because people have a natural tendency to give when they have plenty. A poor person can spare little, a comfortably off person can spare more. If you really want to increase the charitable givings of a population, decreasing wealth dispari
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by adwf 9y ago
Timestamptz is better practice. Same size (8 bytes) on disk and saves you from headaches further down the line.
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by adwf 9y ago
I wouldn't be that pessimistic. The key difference is that Firefox used to have a lot of market share that it lost to Chrome, whereas Opera never really had any to begin with.
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by adwf 9y ago
I think there'll be a big rise in near-shore work. I've worked at companies in the past with either direct satellite offices in eastern Europe, or just simple sub-contracting to an outsource firm. The difference between a team of
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by adwf 9y ago
That is my experience recently. Developers storing 500GB on a database (pre-launch), with < 1GB of meaningful data. A bunch of json logs that they knew data science would want eventually, but couldn't be bothered to either pare dow
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by adwf 9y ago
Doubt it will succeed. I use "hoover" when I'm actually using a Dyson. I'd never say I'm googling something when I'm actually using Bing.
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by adwf 9y ago
You still need to remember to sync your new books to your local device at some point. This lets you do it anywhere/anytime, thus avoiding the scenario of leaving for holiday and forgetting entirely.
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by adwf 9y ago
Redshift is designed to fill the classic accounting datawarehouse role in an organisation. Whilst I'm sure there aren't too many companies with account ledgers that large (or any), I doubt too many accountants would be happy with
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by adwf 10y ago
Yeah I'm much the same. If I've got one monitor, give me 32" with as many pixels as you can get. Two monitors, give me 2x24"; Three monitors, 1x24" central, 2x22" side panels. I use a tiling window manager.
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by adwf 10y ago
I've never 100% bought into the idea of the singularity. Yes, in concept sure - if we make a computer sufficiently smarter than us, it can then design a smarter successor and so on. But in practice? What if there's an asymptotic
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by adwf 10y ago
Yeah, it's a bit like a scientific atheist version of finding God on your death bed. Really hoping that the singularity comes about before you kick the bucket, because then maybe it's not the end.
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by adwf 10y ago
That isn't just a Google issue though. You'd have had the exact same trouble with AWS/RDS if you're running with no replica. The lack of filesystem access is a security "feature" for both. If you have no HA
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by adwf 10y ago
Spideroak One is miles better in terms of UI than the old version, but the performance is still baffling sometimes. eg. Edit a single ~5kb file and you can be seeing multiple minute upload times. Encryption doesn't take that long and
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by adwf 10y ago
Yep, that's why it's so scary. By the time the effects have become so obvious that even the strongest deniers realise something must be done... that's too late. And it's not just about temperature. It's about the s
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by adwf 10y ago
I've never opened those since I bought the phone. Installed the sim and SD card and then never touched it again. That's why I listed magnetic charging as a key feature ;)
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by adwf 10y ago
Yep, the Sony Z3 compact did this a couple of years ago and was amazing. Top notch waterproof, superb battery, headphone jack, magnetic charger, SD card. Just one of those phones that really managed to hit the spot. Oddly enough, the main
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by adwf 10y ago
A lot of the time you can't define exactly why you can't do something though. If someone asked me to just write a natural language recognition app, I'd be quite excited to give it a go, but instinctively I know it's a
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by adwf 10y ago
This was on the front page a while back, probably what they're referring to: https://news.mit.edu/2016/artificial-intelligence-produces-r...
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by adwf 10y ago
My local pub is a pokemon gym, so they got something right at least. Planning on going for lunch there tomorrow because of that, so I wouldn't discount the potential opportunities for local business advertising. The real question is h
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by adwf 10y ago
Undervalued if anything. Unity is almost ubiquitous in the indie games scene.
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by adwf 10y ago
Yeah, they'd laugh at you in London for asking for this kind of valuation unfortunately. (Except for the usual caveat of knowing the right people, etc.)
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by adwf 10y ago
> in the sense that she controls 50% + 1 of the votes Well there's the issue, a lot of these companies distort their ownership structures with multiple classes of shares in order to get around the usual 1 share, 1 vote scheme. So d
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by adwf 10y ago
Depends on a number of factors for me. If it's a small, well-defined project, just go with whatever you're happiest in. If it's a large project or a large company, then go with who you can hire (eg. Java, C#, etc.) Actual l
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by adwf 10y ago
I would've thought that GPS is too unreliable due to the deliberate inaccuracy? Only the US military have the clean signal. Particularly if you're using it to sync between two different time zones that could well be looking at di
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by adwf 10y ago
Yeah, that solves the price issue maybe, but it doesn't solve the space issue for Motion VR. Even in quite expensive houses, you're still going to be moving furniture to play a game. It just doesn't have the same ease of us
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by adwf 10y ago
There's the problem though. I don't think all that many people are ever going to get to play a room-scale title. First there's the expense of the headset. Granted, it might come down a bit, but it's still a large exp
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by adwf 10y ago
Now that's a cool idea! Not sure I'd want real people in it though, might end up a bit Second Life-ish. But if you could each get sharded into your own version of the world, that would be a cool experience.
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by adwf 10y ago
Yeah, Witcher 3 is one of the best games I've ever played and has some of the best graphics too. The characters are simply amazing and the general look and feel is superb. But... look at the ground and you'll just see a flat gree

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