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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I agree - but it makes sense to try to spread work out in other cities rather than have all the jobs in London with soaring CoL and struggling infrastructure.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
There are currently four living people who have walked on the moon, the youngest of which is 83: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_walked... It is probable that we will return to there being no livi
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
From my friends in Physics he seems to be correct about foreign scientists - but that's not something to be proud of or emulate. It's just that since the Cold War the conditions in science have become rather awful.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Indeed. Michelson once said "… it seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established … An eminent physicist remarked that the future truths of physical science are to be looked for in the sixth pla
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Exactly - the alternative would be that students were doing worse or exactly the same despite having the huge benefits from new technology, teaching methods, resources etc. That would be far more concerning. As a personal example - KhanAcad
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The differences are trivial though? The main difference is the accent (when I was staying in California as an Englishman they couldn't understand me when I said "Kettle" and their pronunciation sounded more like "Keddle&
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I think some of that is just nostalgia though - I mean it will be interesting to see how popular it is. I started playing WoW when it first came out and stopped after a few months, but it seems bizarre to me that people would want to play a
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Yeah, but then you still need the time and environment to be able to do it which can be hard if you are working long hours in two jobs or whatever to make rent. Then you have the old problem that in many companies HR will still want a degre
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
30 years later and we have reinvented IRC, but worse as you can't use your own client, the protocol may not be public and it's harder to discover channels.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I just want to thank the author for not using Medium. Far too many tech blog posts use that platform now and I don't like it very at all as it feels really bloated and I can never be sure if what I'm about to click is a 'prem
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The House the Robots Built(bbc.com)
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I agree that we should investigate nuclear power, especially fusion as it offers an order of magnitude more energy (I remember when Greenpeace denounced ITER, I guess because it used to have Thermonuclear in the name..) But honestly, I don&
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
But if this is the case then why don't we see a massive amount of research and development, like larger than the Manhattan and Apollo projects, to ensure we get a technological solution in time? Instead we see that EU countries aren&#x
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I wonder if this might be due to the fact that most fighters will train against right-handed fighters so left-handed fighters might be less predictable and thus have a higher win-rate. This will cause them to be more successful, and more su
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I work as a data scientist but want to learn more about data engineering and software engineering as I prefer those aspects of the work. Hadoop seems outdated now though as we have moved to the Cloud whereas we used to have Hadoop on-site a
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Thanks, I've been looking for something like this! :)
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Social housing provision means the government building/renovating loads of houses though - not rent control.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I mainly use Python but that would still be unclear to me. I think the ternary operator is the sweet spot between too verbose and too confusing.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
When you look at the poor state of the job market in research for physics, chemistry, biology etc. hell even engineering disciplines - I'm not so sure it's lack of researchers that is the issue.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
If only you were a soft porn model, then you could request the Einstein Visa.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
The latter one you describe is basically what I had in grad school and it worked really well. The former is what I have in industry and if I forget my noise cancelling headphones I might as well go home.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
But why have I never seen this in Western Europe? We have mental people here too. (And homeless mental people, it's not like all of Europe is some social democratic paradise.) I think the root cause in SF is the crisis of homelessness
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
It's a cool project technically, but I don't understand the use case? I mean surely everyone can just have real python/jupyterlab - if you run it in Docker it's easy to handle the dependencies etc. Am I missing something
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
Wouldn't it be 2.4 as you are adding 20% of the already doubled estimate?
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
We have finally arrived at Jello Biafra's suede denim secret police.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
This seems to be a perennial topic on HN and this is one of the most concise summations of why open plan offices are disliked. That said, it doesn't seem like anyone is listening - are there any examples of companies moving away from t
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
The biggest issue I have observed is that it is much harder to get on the property ladder. This means that instead of paying a mortgage that converts your money from a liquid asset into real estate (minus the interest) you are just losing i
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
A public school - but ultimately that makes little difference to me as the consumer. Furthermore, none of the MOOC providers have cracked the issue of credibility to employers, if I felt an Udacity nanodegree would be taken as seriously as
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
For me, Udacity just has crazy prices. I mean I can pay ~40-50 euros for Coursera and edX (and lots of them are free). But Udacity costs thousands of euros - I could attend a brick and mortar school with a great reputation for that price he
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Shadowrun was an amazing game. Whenever I mention it these days people think of the FPS.

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