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by adwww 6y ago
That letter Slack wrote to Microsoft after they rejected a $$$ takeover a few years ago has not aged that well. https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/blog/news/dear-microsoft
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by adwww 6y ago
Why does a non-profit hospital even remotely need 18k for that though? What is inflating costs so much?
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by adwww 6y ago
That might be possible if healthcare companies were upfront about the cost of their services. But I bet you couldn't find an upfront cost for stitches from 3 hospitals in your area.
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by adwww 6y ago
Are insurance and healthcare companies trying to milk the system dry for the last few years before inevitable reform? Because that's what these sort of prices look like - you see it in tech when a service is clearly on the way out, but
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by adwww 6y ago
If you're not able bodied enough to ride a mobility scooter you probably shouldn't be driving a car.
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by adwww 6y ago
I'd argue the car based status quo is not great for the majority of less able bodied people in places like the UK though. Especially when you think a lot of disabled people can not afford to drive or use taxis. Eg. Drop kerbs are frequ
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by adwww 6y ago
> which is most cases anyway in my experience Which is interesting, because every other comment here is saying it shouldn't.
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by adwww 6y ago
Yeah, the Adam Smith, purely financially motivated thing to do would be to sell the cows and charming old barns, move out of the ancient manor farmhouse and make a fortune from renting that out as well. But the life satisifaction of being a
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by adwww 6y ago
My family make more profit renting an old workers cottage on the farm as an Airbnb than they get revenue from the entire organic diary operation.
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by adwww 6y ago
This is what the UK did a number of years ago. At the time we got a lot of praise for dramatically cutting emissions. The problem is, that change didn't effect anyone negatively, and thanks to cheaper gas imports it was essentially fre
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by adwww 6y ago
Also the request timeout needs to be raised. I have a few workloads that execute only very infrequently, which makes them suitable for functions, except when they do run they sometimes exceed the 10 minute timeout.
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by adwww 6y ago
I actually find VMs harder to manage than k8 via GKE. At least kubernetes has defined for you what the orchastration and configuration files should look like. With VMs you have to figure all that out yourself, unless you are happy just inst
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by adwww 6y ago
That's very true. Although so far no GCP services that I've come across have been deprecated.
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by adwww 6y ago
I don't bother, but then I live in my own home and my background is an empty study. I have coworkers who are in house shares with 5 other adults all trying to work from home around tiny desks. Background blur for them is a nice way to
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by adwww 6y ago
As a developer I'm a huge fan of Google Cloud. But I'd actually think really hard about chosing them if I started by own business, as the customer service is both expensive and woeful.
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by adwww 6y ago
Or into reducing demand. How many homes could you insulate for even a tenth of the cost of this project? There are around 4 milion UK homes using electric storage heaters or ancient oil heating systems for starters. Office blocks waste vast
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by adwww 6y ago
Yeah I'm mostly a backend developer who also does infrastructure work, and feel "full stack" misses the mark for me too.
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by adwww 6y ago
It's a good thing that it isn't private cars, sure. But I'm not convinced of the merits of that many Ubers in a city with very good public transport and improving active travel options (bike lanes).
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by adwww 6y ago
My wife and I share just one car, and keeping two devices happily pairing with it is a constant struggle.
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by adwww 6y ago
Same in London - it feels like almost every vehicle on the road is a private hire Uber in central London.
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by adwww 6y ago
Why would you buy a new one every 1-2 years? My work MBP is a "mid-2014" i7 that I still see no reason to request a replacement for.
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by adwww 6y ago
In the UK I get every single parcel from the US intercepted, but I've never had anything intercepted when ordering from Hong Kong. In theory both the US and HK should be taxed the same. The most annoying thing is the Post Office chargi
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by adwww 6y ago
The approach to safety in the aviation industry is all about learning from mistakes. Whereas in Healthcare it is often more about winning an inevitable legal battle. There have been a few efforts recently to try and apply aviation safety le
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by adwww 6y ago
I have totally worked for this manager. Fuck them.
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by adwww 6y ago
> basically all land is freely accessible by anyone, except when explicitly forbidden That's not strictly true for England. Although it's not illegal to trespass (outside of power stations, military bases and ports) unless you
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by adwww 6y ago
I don't disagree, and the opaqueness of land ownership here is a real problem. That said, England does have a fantastically extensive network of public footpaths. It's really something you don't appreciate until you go somewh
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by adwww 6y ago
Ah, that explains the 'Share on Google+' button I saw then!
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by adwww 6y ago
Plural? Like one could make sense, in a siege type situation or bank robbery in progress perhaps. The sort of event that might happen once a decade or so maybe. But how many sieges or bank robberies are they expecting to need multiple of th
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by adwww 6y ago
> I found it interesting how hunting backfires (scatters them and increases their range) You missed one of the bigger reason it backfire... people enjoy hunting them, which has made it a fairly lucrative industry in some areas. Therefore
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by adwww 6y ago
> 40 day insurance lapse How does that sort of thing affect you? I can't imagine the pressure of knowing you 'can't' get ill for a period of time! Do you stop biking to work, avoid DIY projects, skip the 5-a-side sess

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