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by altacc 4y ago
I loved walking along the foreshore of the Thames when I lived in London. We also had regular social gatherings & parties on the beaches. Once you descend the steps you're immediately removed from the busy city and people and can e
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by altacc 4y ago
What annoys me about this unfortunately rather common comment is that is seems to suggest that women and people of colour could never be more qualified than 6 white men. Exceptionally qualified people get labelled as token representation, r
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by altacc 4y ago
One, that’s not a race so is false equivalence. Second, if you’re an institution that for decades actively restricted active astronauts to be solely white men, acknowledging that there should be a fair representation of people on space miss
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by altacc 4y ago
I think you might not be taking a significant numbers of factors into account as these are not comparable programs. Artemis & the SLS have very different requirements to SpaceX’s falcon. The closer comparison is to Starship & Super
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by altacc 4y ago
It is wrong to compare these two very different eras. The Apollo program was an ideological race, so there was a mush higher tolerance of risk and financial and human costs. Remember, people died on the US & Soviet space programs as the
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by altacc 4y ago
Due to the volume of messages and the endless need to maximise profits, companies will accept 10% flagged content may be false positives but act against all 100% of flagged content, meaning that the default will be innocent people having ac
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by altacc 4y ago
The most likely option being "the British destroying a lot in order to steal a bit".
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by altacc 4y ago
How come? It gives modern context to the amount lost, in the currency that country now uses. Surely as long as you follow the conversion rates between currencies when they changed, then it's possible to provide an approximate current v
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by altacc 4y ago
History is full of instances of barbarism masquerading as archaeology, so gently investigating then reburying sites seems like an enlightened approach.
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by altacc 4y ago
In the UK jury nullification came into the spotlight at the beginning of this year when four people who helped topple a statue of a slave trader in Bristol were found not guilty by a jury, even though they admitted doing so and there was vi
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by altacc 4y ago
Their lawyers know the laws and they write hospital policies that stop them getting prosecuted and losing their license to operate, so will err on the side of the law, not patients.
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by altacc 4y ago
The HN title should reflect Nature's: "Polar bear population discovered that can survive without sea ice" These are not polar bears that have adapted to the current, rapid loss of sea ice due largely to anthropogenic climate
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by altacc 4y ago
>>I think I'd just quit if I was told to lay off people on my team. I did that in the dotcom bust. As a manager I was highest paid and had least billable hours, so when asked to reduce costs in my team I was the logical choice to
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by altacc 4y ago
Beware of tests and their data. Long ago the consultancy I worked in took on a tobacco company as a client, which a lot of people didn't like. One of the copy writers testing the CMS used text from an anti-tobacco campaign that was ver
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by altacc 4y ago
One of the reasons enterprise organisations are so slow to adapt and release new products is the number of people needed to make a decision. I've seen large companies try to implement agile and it generally fails because they can'
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by altacc 4y ago
It was a statement by the richest person on the planet on communication channel that he regularly uses to his declare personal and business intent and which is obsessively over analysed and therefore has real effects on business markets. Pl
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by altacc 4y ago
And maybe the pro-oil and anti-green conservatives will now hate electric cars a bit less because Elon is one of them. Benefits Tesla and benefits Musk.
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by altacc 4y ago
I'm in enterprise, insurance industry. Our witticism for future functionality is "Any decade now!" Enterprises are slow, they have high inertia for many reasons and tech can only affect that so much.
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by altacc 4y ago
Indeed. Corruption takes many forms and in most Western countries that like to think they don't have corruption, allowing the rich to set the rules, decide the referee and how to hobble them is a very popular and effective form of corr
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by altacc 4y ago
I think most people grossly overestimate the ability of government to act on fraud, scams and crime, even when there is information available. I see this with other scams & ponzi schemes. A common sentiment from both victims and con-art
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by altacc 4y ago
As a counterpoint, I know someone who went back to academia after getting disillusioned with tech (academia > tech > academia). The key difference may be that they live in Europe, have no student loans and the pay disparity between a
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by altacc 4y ago
The significant increases in security were in place long before 9/11. There was a small increase in the effectiveness of security measures post 9/11 but it is difficult to measure the effectiveness of them as most of the attack ve
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by altacc 4y ago
I'm not a fan of betel nut chewing, it's really unsightly & messy, but it's basically their equivalent of smoking. A lot of missionaries have odd ideas about how the people they are trying to "save" should behav
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by altacc 4y ago
The Karen (no S) you met were most likely refugees from Burma. For decades their lives have been very controlled by the Thai authorities, who use them as exotic tourist exhibits. The Thais don’t allow them to farm for themselves as they wan
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by altacc 4y ago
It's foolish to make a prediction without the aid of a time machine. Bitcoin has been declared over many times before. I think one thing he hints at is key to bitcoin: it is part of the global financial system, not an alternative. Rega
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by altacc 4y ago
I'm all for false equivalence disco parties but this one is quite a stretch!
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The pollution isn't an issue as 1) they would be kept in the Acropolis Museum, in a controlled environment and 2) the British Museum "cleaned" their marbles and removed their protective layer that means even pollution free no
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by altacc 4y ago
If the deal falls through then Twitter will probably have to announce some big changes to keep its stock price from falling too much. Although this move could have been made after the deal's collapse is announced but maybe he wants to
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by altacc 4y ago
Glibly, because the theory of self-correcting markets only works in economists' minds, not in real life. Oil price is affected my many variables including speculation, supply & demand, latency and panic buying, but the supply is ar
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by altacc 4y ago
I would go a step further and say that sometimes that moment of uncertainty is useful and needs cultivating as it is where you have most freedom to define solutions. Once you step away from uncertainty your path is one of ever decreasing op

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