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by cmdkeen 11y ago
As someone in similar circumstances a couple of things jump out which trouble me: Project Managers - That this role is mentioned, but not that of Scrum Master, is odd but unsurprising. PMs aren't mentioned in Scrum at all and often the
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
The USSR becoming the world's first space faring nation is to a large extent the result of the Second World War and the knowledge gained from German scientists - because Stalin purged the nascent Soviet programme during the Red Terror.
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I'm British - the police over here killed 3 people last year, and that was an above average year. The USA is not the entire set of Western Liberal Democracies.
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
I think there is a better (though still rather disanalogous) comparison between the US with the decline of the Roman Republic into the Principate. Some of the same arguments apply to the EU. In both cases a large (and roughly similar) numbe
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
We never had several deliberately inflicted famines killing millions of people. In every single example you listed Communist countries were demonstrably worse. Humanity is capable of some pretty awful things under any system of government -
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Not in the developed West it isn't. I'm a fortunate young professional in that I have a stonking great mortgage and still owe (some, it is the UK) of my student loan. In wealth terms I'm doing OK but not great, certainly not
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
We've made over a billion of the poorest of the poor less poor - that is a massive achievement. The crucial thing about that being less poor is that they are then not in subsistence mode and able to consider things like educating their
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In 1981 since when we've moved on from the Cold War (political crisis), massively decreased world poverty (economic crisis) and moved from an era of 14% inflation in the West being considered something economics couldn't address.
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Or alternatively human ingenuity adapts and overcomes - Malthusians have been consistently proved wrong in their constant cries of overpopulation. There is still plenty of land, plenty of ability to grow food to feed us and plenty of advanc
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One slight issue there is that React is much less frequently referred to as reactjs compared to Angular - even down to the official project URLs. Obviously the Google trend search for "react" has lots of false positives, but some
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But they get the money by having a much higher oil price. Saudi needs oil to be $106 a barrel to balance it's budget, up from in the $50s in 2010. You can't pump your way to profit, that's why OPEC operated as a cartel, thoug
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Not really - there are benefits to being based in the US. If everyone just chased the lowest taxed jurisdictions then every corporation would be based in a tax haven. Corporations aren't repatriating the money they hold offshore. I can
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Bollocks. Given fund managers are obligated to obtain "best execution" under MiFID (and regulations in general) if HFT were impacting that then they would raise merry hell. The fund management industry is orders of magnitude large
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No, it really isn't. It is just money, an actual judgement, especially these days, can lead to actual market bans which is then a death sentence for the firm. The flip side of this is that US governments (Federal and State) are able to
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
In part seemingly by sending them off around the world. I know of people permanently based in Dubai for instance - below market pay but no tax and a very expat lifestyle is appealing to many twenty-somethings. Plus the Accenture/McKins
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
It isn't just lying on resumes, my Indian colleagues have horror stories of the levels of cheating they experienced doing their CS degrees at Indian universities. They all felt they had to do an MSc at a UK university, at huge expense,
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It's not even a new idea. My late great aunt had all her teeth removed when she was 21 and dentures fitted.
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It may be worth that but as stated in the article it can't be realised without tax bill potentially up to $10bn.
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"The best programmers" aren't all fixing bugs in iOS apps. The blog post perfectly outlined people who are motivated by other things. I don't want to work at a company where "realistic" work is me working alone
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
It is absolutely about extreme cultural values. Some times extreme cultural values are good things, sometimes not. Some cultures fight to the death, others do not. The overwhelming evidence was that the body count, on both sides, of an inva
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Here's the rub with that argument though, Japan was not a great power in 1945. Indeed there were few enough targets left to drop the bomb on which had not already been devastated by conventional bombing. What Japan still had was a warr
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Or it has its origins in both. Especially as the Fête de la Fédération was the commemoration the year after the storming of the Bastille. It might help were the 14th not commonly referred to as Bastille day and feature a military parade.
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David died in 1825. He fell out of favour for his part in the Terror but was kept on and even offered roles in the restored monarchy.
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For those not in the know the company in question is going to be Games Workshop. "Revenge" is also the wrong word for this. I'd suggest schadenfreude.
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The US justice systems != all jury systems. I've experienced the justice system in both England and Scotland (they're different!), from the Scottish perspective as a police officer and the English one as a member of a jury on two
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"David Camerons wife consultant for Goldman Sachs" She worked at Smythson, a British luxury goods manufacturer that got bought out by a consortium lead by the Goldman Sachs executive in 2005. "Two days after her husband becam
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"now common" - the singular they was used by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen, Thackery and Shaw. Traditional grammar types might not like it but that doesn't mean it is some new usage.
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Which is ridiculous when Steam is there as a shining example of what a store could be. Not having to worry about keys and updates is fantastic for me, plus good discovery and upselling opportunities for developers. Someone is going to crack
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My point was that the whole period, starting with Augustine, was about Christianising the previous philosophy and government. The Greeks had well developed morality but universalism was not really a part, even the Romans firmly split betwee
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Places like Irish monasteries were also saving ancient literature. Indeed it was them, and not Arabs, who kept alive literacy and reintroduced it - along in cases with Christianity, to the West.

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