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by brc 13y ago
I think they would just buy the parts on the black market rather than steal entire planes. As a lot of these old airliners are used throughout the third-world, I'm sure there is a brisk trade in parts. The story itself says they raid
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by brc 13y ago
[wrong parent - deleted]
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by brc 13y ago
Kudos for raising the 'chilling effect'. People who agitate for -insane- laws which can be applied to speech (whether lying, name-calling or whatever) have no concept of the chilling effect that laws have on discourse. A lot of p
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by brc 13y ago
My experience has been that many women drop out of development in their late 20's/early 30's, often to have a family. Of those that do come back, many go into a non-development career track including management, support, tes
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by brc 13y ago
I think you forgot a common career-path for the middling developer who has dropped off the back of the skills-wave - becoming a QA/Test engineer. It's not for everyone but I have met a lot of these guys over the years. They&#x27
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by brc 13y ago
I know a couple of COBOL guys with specialised 'network databse' skills. (Ever heard of one of those? They are what people used before relational DBs existed) These guys pull down big money, have very flexible working hours (2 da
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by brc 13y ago
Creating a personal brand is also important. Having a bunch of things listed on a resume or CV makes it hard to put across a level of experience and competence. As time goes by, people should be publishing interesting blog posts, getting i
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by brc 13y ago
Do you think the regulations are over-the-top, or are they reasonably balanced? It sounds like you spend all your time satisfying regulations, and actually providing the product falls far down the list. In your opinion, could the regulato
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by brc 13y ago
I'm pretty sure trains are more deadly, especially when you include the numbers from them hitting things like trucks at level crossings.
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by brc 13y ago
But you wouldn't go down to a half-inch, and there is a shortcut - '5 foot 7'. I'm not referring to accurate measurements, but the sort of day-to-day, rounded off measurements that pepper our daily speech. If I said a d
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by brc 13y ago
The sole advantages of imperial units over metric units is that they are easier and faster to say. 50 miles is a ton less syllables than 50 'kilometers' an inch is much easier to say than '2 centimetres' What would imme
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by brc 13y ago
M62 engine FTW!
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by brc 13y ago
Councils already have a 'nice little earner' in charging for parking permits for residents. And then there is the fines for people parking in a residential area without a permit. They are already making a ton of money from parki
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by brc 13y ago
EV owners will get an extra road usage charge. It's the model already seen in some US states. What is funny is that much of the benefit of an EV is effectively they are a rolling tax-avoidance scheme - in many cases you actually get s
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by brc 13y ago
Everybody gets what they want out of dating. If you want excitement, you'll get excitement. If you want stability, you'll get stability. If you want to confirm an opinion of yourself as undateable - guess what, that's what yo
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by brc 13y ago
Defense, defense, defense. Your code should be peppered with checks that should never go wrong. You should feel stupid writing them. They will save you a lot of headache one day. Really the only way to get better is to write stuff and s
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by brc 13y ago
I have a Surface and an iPad, so I completely understand what you mean about file management. But if you do find yourself in an iOS world - the killer app for file management on iOS is actually Dropbox. Organise your dropbox account on ano
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by brc 13y ago
Erm ,what about the videos where people have been beheaded? I have not and will not ever watch one, but its not some tidy guillotine. What about Lee Rigby, the soldier in England who was run over, then hacked to death in a London street?
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by brc 13y ago
A better way of achieving that would be to set aside a bucket of money to direct towards work that staff would like to see. The staff could then vote for where that money could be spent. It might be solar energy, or it could be cancer res
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by brc 13y ago
There are already plenty of taxes on 'non-green' energy, but the demand curve is inelastic so they make little difference. Nearly every country on the planet has taxes on liquid fuels, for example. Heavily taxing energy for any r
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by brc 13y ago
I would guess that they are saying so called because most people who say 'climate change' assume that human-created c02 is the major driver of climate, when all of the detailed measurements taken since the forming of the IPCC ha
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by brc 13y ago
But the cause is important, because that dictates the response. If people continue to think that failed policy ideas like the Kyoto protocol are the effective response, then all we are doing is wasting resources and doing untold damage for
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by brc 13y ago
It's very difficult to prove, but easy to disprove (change in one thing does not cause expected change in other). Sometimes disproving the causation is enough to gain valuable knowledge.
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by brc 13y ago
I think he means not the internal temperature, but the differential the thermostat sends to the heating, or somethign like that. I kind of get the analogy, but it is a little tortured if people can't pick it up immediately.
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by brc 13y ago
>I have no doubt it's a cultural misunderstanding rather than an attempt at deceit, but then... how the hell do you communicate technical knowledge to people who won't tell you what it is they need to know from you? Well, I hav
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by brc 13y ago
I don't know whether they are lying because they are dishonest - I don't know enough about the particular indian culture you're dealing with. It could be just an imcompetent set of people, or it could be the sort of thing th
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by brc 13y ago
The article for me pointed out just how unlikely the entire movie is. I already knew there were a lot of impossibilities in Gravity (changing orbital planes etc) - but reading just how much work it takes to keep two orbiters aligned, and h
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by brc 13y ago
What you're running into is a cultural clash where you have someone from a low power distance and highly individual culture [1] dealing with people from a high power distance and distinctively collective culture. Thus while literal co
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by brc 13y ago
Actually it's classic Henry Ford. The first ford factories used to make just about everything on site, including things like windscreens. It only made sense to go back to suppliers when suppliers were large and reliable enough to do
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by brc 13y ago
No, he means 'there are no good solutions to the situation we find ourselves in'.

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