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by bertil 5y ago
I understood the claims of the British government for energy sovreignty to not be dependent on hostile nations (:cough:ussia) not the Netherlands, not when the key company in the sector is a semi-public Anglo-Dutch merger. More importantly,
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by bertil 5y ago
Like a lot of users of the services of several government, gov.uk is consistently the best for many reason: simplicity, language clarity, accessibility, very lean design. There’s a certain… brand, i.e. the four aforementionned qualities tak
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by bertil 5y ago
Denying medical care is made either by individual health care professsionals or, in cases that require more consideration, health services ethics commity. I’d be surprised is anyone stating what you said would keep their medical license, le
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by bertil 5y ago
What you see on social networks is a reflection of who you choose to follow and engage with. I use social networks to engage with people who actually make those decisions and they do not encourage any of that.
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by bertil 5y ago
The organ board base their decision on likelihood that the receiver will benefit from the transplant (for a long time), so some habits that are medically relevant are taken into account: smoking, drinking, taking drugs, and when AIDS was a
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by bertil 5y ago
I wouldn’t quote this YouTuber for everything, but he was born in South Africa and was a teenager when the country was still under apartheid: if he was horrified by the blatant racism when he was in China, I can’t imagine it was light or ra
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by bertil 5y ago
> not minute into "min" That’s because MIN() is minimum?
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by bertil 5y ago
That's why ex-BigTech groups are so valuable: not the shared trauma of having seen a great project turn into a corporate frustrating slug, which is often why good people end up leaving, nor the shared experience of building certain rar
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by bertil 5y ago
The idea of making a validation publicly visible on social media is a good idea (many people had suggested having medical profressional in the last two years). The idea to leverage a blockchain for that could make sense (I’m still to see a
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by bertil 5y ago
Taiwan?
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by bertil 5y ago
> Anyone who suggests otherwise comes across as somewhat delusional and a little self obsessed to me. I have responded to repeated opening from several oil companies, including one last week, by saying that I have seen their employee bra
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by bertil 5y ago
I’ve worked in the gaming industry and I was surprised how some fairly standard questions about creativity, playing games, character development, etc. lead to detailed insights into the candidate’s personality. We’ve had candidates answer “
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by bertil 5y ago
Definitely. For the _Wall Street Journal_ to write most of their article about how the CEO is guilty of the worst and didn’t face any consequence, because the board supported him —— and use the word “rape”, he really need to have made a bad
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by bertil 5y ago
I suspect that they get around that by giving a total number, no personal details. If, for instance, they gave the rank of those employees, director or above former employees could argue that they were identifiable and couldn’t hide behind
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by bertil 5y ago
That’s why I like effective altruism: there’s a lot to be criticised on a purely utilitarian view of help, metrics are often wrong and all that, but any form of self-criticism is such a step-up from the usual white-saviour complex. "We
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by bertil 5y ago
I’ve been positively surprised by how leading newspapers have been, notably in open-sourcing their software. It’s far from perfect but some teams internally see the value of what they do, and a handful of managers get that by commoditising
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by bertil 5y ago
What criteria would you apply for independence? The ratio of the locally decided budget over overall government spending in the region?
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by bertil 5y ago
I noticed that the nearest power plant nearby isn’t here. It’s really small, so I’m not surprised but I’m not sure how to flag the discrepancy and share details about the station.
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by bertil 5y ago
Who is 'we' in this case?
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by bertil 5y ago
I’m surprised how little the histories of the web include the contribution of the French tech sector for DSL, the technology that made computer networks easy to expand to every house, and the general idea that the Internet could be a domest
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by bertil 5y ago
Fon! Thank you!
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by bertil 5y ago
What was the name of the Spanish company that offered a similar idea circa 2010? They had a big community branding and a catchy name – and the focus was on phone calls.
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by bertil 5y ago
Remote can be difficult if you have more members of the family than computers and rooms. That can seem absurd to you and me (I have five computers plus three smartphones and probably a tablet somewhere, for two people) but in many families,
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by bertil 5y ago
If key financial institutions had more trust in a blockchain than in the Federal Reserve, and the European Central Bank, and the Bank of England, and maybe the Central Bank of Japan to hold an account of their assets.
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by bertil 5y ago
I thought you were going after Aptera and Arcimoto for a second and I was wondering what they had done to deserve to be associated with that debate…
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by bertil 5y ago
These are machines that weight more than a train, countries health budget have to be provisioned around a single one of them, they require special architectural provision because of how heavy they are, need dedicated supply chain for liquid
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by bertil 5y ago
I don’t think that it will ever be widely used the way you describe, just like the "Truth serum" sodium pentothal wasn’t outside of counter-intellgence agencies. I would also be surprised if that system worked well in an adversari
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by bertil 5y ago
Great article! I’m developing Machine learning systems and my partner is working on psychiatric use of Deep-Brain stimulation, so a rare moment that we can share. Very minor point: the King - male + female = Queen is a good example, but wid
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by bertil 5y ago
You need spiked tires for your bike, just like for your car.
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by bertil 5y ago
I don't own a car, neither does anyone around me. We all rely on public transport and bicycles. I live near the Artic circle and the temperature is routinely near -20º. If Aury knew what he was talking about, he'd know that weathe

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