desertedisland

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by desertedisland 5y ago
Well the FAA discovered the pilot lied and now the pilot is in serious ** with his career and reputation destroyed: I'm assuming he is looking at possible jail time (not a lawyer). I'd say this is a serious deterrent to pilots con
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by desertedisland 5y ago
You (probably purposefully) make no distinction between the long term / residential rental market and the short-term / holiday let one. That is what Airbnb trades on (and the point of the article): they muscle in on the role tradi
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by desertedisland 5y ago
> It has a real effect Let me play devil's advocate here. Because I worry a lot about this. In as much as it affects the outcome of climate change you're wrong: not eating meat, driving and flying less, etc. will not, in any me
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by desertedisland 5y ago
>If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career, skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you l
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by desertedisland 5y ago
I once went out with a nurse in the UK who worked in palliative (end of life) care. On a daily basis she was responsible for life-changing decisions concerning medications; she had to comfort the dying and tell bereaved people that their re
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by desertedisland 5y ago
Creating a UK corporation takes ten minutes online and costs you USD $20 (and anyone can do it). But the compliance / Know Your Customer rules are very strict in the UK: it's almost impossible to get a bank account there unless yo
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by desertedisland 5y ago
It's genuinely surprising to me that a researcher at MIT lacks the awareness to attempt at least the pretence of impartiality in a paper about bias.
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by desertedisland 5y ago
Not trying to be aggressive but I'm guessing that you use an adblocker to browse the internet? I'm guessing that you believe content on the internet should be universally free (and contributors unpaid). Quick aside: even if you do
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by desertedisland 5y ago
The story is that - certainly in the early days - you could be fired from Amazon as a manager if your section made a profit. The argument is that your entire focus as a software / service business is growth (aimed at profitability for
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by desertedisland 5y ago
I've often thought that coding - for me - is more visual / graphical than anything else. If you could find a way to quantify + test people's ability to do that, you could throw rubbish coding challenges out the window and, gi
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by desertedisland 6y ago
The real tragedy is that their treatment is certainly a dis-incentive for drug and other companies to ever do anything pro-bono / for the benefit of humanity again. Well done EU!
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by desertedisland 6y ago
The voters were asked three times: one referendum and two general elections, the last of which was won overwhelmingly by the party which had a single message - to 'get brexit done' - and lost by the party which denied the democrat
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by desertedisland 6y ago
I once worked for a very successful small firm whose primary product was a weekly email / newsletter: subscriptions start at around £20,000 / year. Their product was analysis (energy markets), their customers were the banks /
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by desertedisland 7y ago
Most reasonable estimates are that a vaccine is at least a year to eighteen months away: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/coronavirus-vaccin... Are you really proposing to quarantine everyone for a year?
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by desertedisland 7y ago
> This is a health issue not because of the disease being too deadly but by being a perfect combination of not being deadly enough and requiring intensive and long care for those affected by a severe case. Yes and so that's why the
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by desertedisland 7y ago
You simplify too much. Hospitalisation rate (and in particular admission to ICU) + mortality rate are strongly dependendent on age and health - no children have yet died of Coronavirus. The Italians have one of the most elderly populations
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by desertedisland 7y ago
Well it's an interesting question and the answer is not ambiguous as far as I can tell. The US share of global R&D spending on pharmaceuticals is approaching 60%: https://www.abpi.org.uk/facts-and-figures/scien
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by desertedisland 7y ago
Tbh I'm glad to see that Linus is still as passionate, opinionated and as concerned about the project as he always was. Was thinking that we were going to get a hippy Linus after his sensitivity training but nope, same old Linus!
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by desertedisland 7y ago
> ‘when you and mom divorce, I’m going with mom.’ Wow! Adult, professional writers could work for a long time to produce such multiple brutal takedowns in so few words. I pray for the sake of all of us that your daughter uses her powers
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by desertedisland 7y ago
Hmm... Don't take this the wrong way but the point of CSS is that it can be modified by people that are good at, you know, CSS - a class of people that generally does not include your average java / PHP / javascript develop
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by desertedisland 8y ago
Stopped to watch one take off from Heathrow yesterday. They're iconic but then so was the Concorde - being iconic is not a substitute for being commercially viable.
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by desertedisland 8y ago
I work at a high (senior) level as a (Javascript) developer and I'm 48. I'm not aware of being discriminated against - I never have trouble finding work (and I'm a contractor so I change jobs frequently). Perhaps that is part
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by desertedisland 8y ago
Hey man no problem, we'll just take the £30 billion divorce payment to help us with our stupidity.
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by desertedisland 8y ago
Turnout for EU elections runs less than 30% in the UK: nobody here knows who's in it, what they do or how they got there. Oh I know you'll tell me of the ignorance and stupidity of the racist, little England British voter and how
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by desertedisland 8y ago
Here are some specific complaints about the EU: - Nobody in the UK ever voted for an external, supra-national government to have increasing control over numerous and increasing aspects of British life: farming, fishing, immigration, subsidi
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by desertedisland 8y ago
Hmmm... Pay 20% - 30% of my earnings before tax or take a $50 flight to Penang every three months.
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by desertedisland 8y ago
The alleged groping: https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p75x225/472313...
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by desertedisland 8y ago
The site looks good, I like what you've done here. The article came up after some delay! I'm quite interested in decentralised publishing, this is an interesting first step!
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by desertedisland 8y ago
Thanks! Bookmarked!
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by desertedisland 8y ago
Wow mine was completely the opposite. I told my clients that the largest number of productive hours you'll get out of a developer in a day is six (which I believe to be largely true) and that's how many I worked. Start at 9am, y

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