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by cbeach 10y ago
The agility of the UK to negotiate trade deals is far higher than that of the EU, where any one of the 28 nations is able to veto the deal. TTIP, a case in point. And as Trump has made clear, post-Brexit, the UK is now at the front of the q
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by cbeach 10y ago
I see your point but the UK is in a very different situation to Canada. The US doesn't prevent Canada from trading freely with other major world nations. While the UK remains locked within the EU, EU treaties prevent the UK from establ
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by cbeach 10y ago
That sounds alarmist to me. Britain just selected their second female prime minister. Far from a warmonger - Theresa May has been conciliatory and has expressed her desire to make "Britain work for everyone" As for the EU being th
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by cbeach 10y ago
The UK has the tantalising prospect of new trade agreements with major non-EU nations here. Can't understand why anyone in the UK thinks remaining in the EU makes sense? A bloc of 27 nations in various states of ill-health, with whom t
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by cbeach 10y ago
Your analogy breaks down due to the lack of a "men's 400m" event in technology.
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by cbeach 10y ago
I suspect if there is a bias toward criticising women who fail in technology, this might be a direct backlash to the many articles that fetishise women in technology. That's not to condone the backlash, of course. But perhaps we ought
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by cbeach 10y ago
Do you have any evidence to suggest women are encouraged into our industry by this kind of tokenisation? And not discouraged by it?
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by cbeach 10y ago
To claim Samantha was the founder of Open Bionics does a massive disservice to the CEO, Joel, who is the guy that actually came up with the concept (before Sam joined as a "bizdev" person). It's Joel who had been making bioni
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by cbeach 10y ago
I don't think any of us feel "threatened" by these identity politics articles. Just a little sad that we still patronise women and minorities in this way. Why do we see women and minorities as fair game to be tokens for our s
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by cbeach 10y ago
Been attending HNLondon for several years now. IMO its success is down to Steve and Dmitri's efforts to source speakers that cover diverse topics, are not salesy, and are often completely and unexpectedly inspirational. They avoid the
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by cbeach 10y ago
Imagine the cost of the drone ship, the landing system and the logistics of recovery - I suspect that's the reason it's only a 30% reduction.
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by cbeach 10y ago
The survey asked journalists to self-define their politics on a 1 to 10 scale. According to their own judgement about half of journalists take a left-of-centre political stance, with barely a quarter outing themselves as right-wing. Right-o
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British journalists twice as likely to be leftwing [Reuters Institute survey](reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk)
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Charging fees for a service is not "robbing" anyone.
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Yikes! Do you know of a bank that has robbed from the small people? I work in finance and there's tremendous protection for the small people in everything we do. Their deposits are covered by government guarantees, whereas the richer c
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by cbeach 10y ago
I just walked past a long row of diesel cabs, sitting with engines idling, waiting for fares at Canary Wharf. They sit there all day pumping out noxious fumes. I'd much rather see the efficiently-allocated modern hybrid vehicles of Ube
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by cbeach 11y ago
Weary = tired Wary = skeptical
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by cbeach 11y ago
Renders nicely in desktop browsers and I'm a big fan of the mobile app. Am I missing the login option? Minor suggestion - I'd like to see more items on a single page. Could I have the option to condense the item UI vertically? Per
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by cbeach 11y ago
If you want to be sociable, it's your responsibility to socialise where your friends socialise. It's not the bar's fault, or the sports club's fault, or Facebook's fault, if your friends choose to go there but you d
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by cbeach 11y ago
Let's celebrate the achievement of these -people- Not these "men" or "women." These people. Stop tokenising gender for your own agenda.
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by cbeach 11y ago
You have an incredible sense of entitlement when it comes to a website that is provided free of charge (with fairly well-targeted and unobtrusive advertising) for you and your friends to use. If you think the site is not sophisticated enoug
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by cbeach 11y ago
Your post sounds a bit like "all the kids are in the playground, but I don't like it, so I sit on my own in the library. The playground sucks and all the other kids are wrong"
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by cbeach 11y ago
Facebook is not a blogging platform. It isn't promising a long-term store of curated searchable data. It's an endlessly scrolling feed of what's going on now, plus an events tool and photos etc. When did it ever promise anyt
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by cbeach 11y ago
You can control what you see from individual people and what things they share. It's very granular and it works well. You can also follow really interesting people, pages and groups. It's all about using the tool properly.
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by cbeach 11y ago
I find that my friends who don't use Facebook become a little bit detached from my social scene. It's sad but true. It's a bit like those friends that stubbornly refused to get a mobile phone in the nineties - I just didn&#x2
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by cbeach 11y ago
Yet more leftist political spin from the Guardian hits the HN front page. For a bit of balance, here's the equivalent story from a rightwing (aka taxpayer) perspective: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics&#x2F
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by cbeach 11y ago
The Guardian seems to be doing well on HN recently. For such a one-sided political publication, with no technical merit, that seems odd.
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by cbeach 11y ago
Step 1 (going well so far): put their URL on the front page of HN, launching an effective DDOS on their unsuspecting infrastructure. Their site is already creaking under the load. And I'm sure we can all contribute a few more random cl
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by cbeach 11y ago
I waited a week or so for my SSD to be delivered from America to the UK and fitted it myself. It was trivial.
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by cbeach 11y ago
I upgraded the SSD on my Retina MBP. It's easily accessible after unscrewing the back panel

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