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by ck425 10y ago
IIRC part of this argument was that Scotland contributed more than the uk average as well, they most per person outside London/South-East England. Additionally parliament haven't been particularly forthcoming over tax rights, easi
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by ck425 10y ago
One supreme parliament that governs two countries joined by a political union, both of which have separate legal systems. Which is very different from most "regions", within most countries. Thus why your characterisation of Scotla
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by ck425 10y ago
Not entirely accurate. The UK is technically a political union between England and Scotland, with both having separate legal system, currencies and a few other things. It is in many ways more one country than two countries but to say Scotla
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by ck425 10y ago
One of the key arguments against independence was uncertainty over if/how soon we would join the EU. At the time that vs just staying in. Now it's vs definitely leaving. So while the argument hasn't changed the alternative ha
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by ck425 10y ago
6 weeks vacation is considered lazy? I don't disagree with your point btw just shocked that that's considered lazy.
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by ck425 10y ago
I hope Switzerland votes for UBI, it would be interesting to see actual data rather than just conjecture. The point about people losing the will to work is interesting, as he also makes the point that jobs give us purpose and structure in l
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by ck425 10y ago
The article states 3 seconds is a view. If I'm on desktop and stop to read a post above or below an autoplay video then it would likely count as a view. I'm sure some people do watch video without sound but I agree the 85% figure
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by ck425 11y ago
Yet even if you do all that you'll still have more debt, higher rent and more expensive home prices. Even those who work their ass off with lower expectations are going to end up less well off than they would have in a previous generat
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by ck425 11y ago
This. I went to Uni with a lot of Americans and grew to quite like the whole 'date' idea, it's a lot more common now to ask people out on dates than it used to be.
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by ck425 11y ago
Hmm personally the majority of people I've worked with are all of at least above-average intelligence and many of them are also very interesting. Met quite a few self-assured smart people at uni (I was one to an extent) but I think mos
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by ck425 11y ago
I agree with this, except for the last line. Software Engineering is a great career in a lot of ways (interesting subject, smart people, flexible, relatively less bureaucratic, good pay etc) and sometimes I forget how damn good I have it co
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by ck425 11y ago
Unfortunately not an option in that case as the issue was tickets not gotten closed full stop due to a long process to complete them after my input.
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by ck425 11y ago
I've been judged on this before. Me and a colleague were working on a system slightly different to others in our dept so the tickets got kicked around for ages after we'd done our bit. My manager kept pointing out how few tickets
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by ck425 11y ago
In Northern European countries rehabilitation of prisoners to enable reintegration back into society is viewed as the primary goal of incarceration. So if they're unable to rehabilitate someone after 16 years that's viewed to an e
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by ck425 11y ago
Do you have a link to that report? I'd be curious to see if that's just the US or worldwide.
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by ck425 11y ago
I don't use an iPhone so have to ask, can users not select the search engine they want to use? Oneplus tried to change the default search on their phones to Bing and the first thing I did was switch back to Google.
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by ck425 11y ago
It sounds to me like you've never actually worked in software engineering. I'd estimate only 30-45% of my time in actually spent 'programming'. The rest of it is spent (re)designing systems, learning new technologies and
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by ck425 11y ago
I can't find links atm but much of what this refers to is just creating a hard magic system and sticking to it. Brandon Sanderson wrote a couple of very good essays on this topics doing with Sanderson's rule of magic which day muc
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by ck425 11y ago
I do the same. Having to find an atm is also good at stopping me from getting money out for small spends like coffee or cake that I really don't need.
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Hipmunk Turns to Skyscanner to Fill Its Global Airline Gaps(skift.com)
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by ck425 11y ago
I had the opposite experience with SourceTree going from Windows to OSx. The lack of tabs on the OSx version is horrible.
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by ck425 11y ago
We're talking about this mainly in the context of software development, physical strength is irrelevant to ability and as a dev.
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by ck425 11y ago
That his article has over a 1000 points on HN is probably a pretty good reason if you tend to enjoy reading HN.
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by ck425 11y ago
That would work if people could disregard their feelings and considered only the logic of arguments. But that's not always possible, as much as we try feelings can't always be controlled (though learning to control them is definit
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by ck425 11y ago
I think this is the book he's referring to: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Multipliers-Best-Leaders-Everyone-Sm...
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by ck425 11y ago
The one complaint I can understand from authorities is that many app drivers don't have adequate insurance. I think there's a legitimate worry that if an accident happens while drivers are working their insurance won't cover
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by ck425 12y ago
> people don't generally know what professions are like until they actually start working in them. Which is exactly why stereotypes are so harmful because it puts people off ever trying and learning differently. Your story just rein
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by ck425 12y ago
I'd be interested to hear your reasoning behind that? I think the increased number of sympathetic and 'normal' gay characters in TV and Film is a bigger factor.
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by ck425 12y ago
>This extra time will be spent being old. Whether you're 70 or 100, you will be frail, dim-witted[1], and unattractive I refute this and so does the article. One of the striking things about this community was not only how many old
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by ck425 12y ago
I believe the proposals state that the mitochondrial donor has no legal rights in regards to the child.

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