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by elemeno 13y ago
DictateIT - London (North), UK - Fulltime We're the UK's largest provider of digital dictation services to the NHS, having processed over 120 million lines of dictated letters and patient notes in the last year over more than two dozen hosp
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by elemeno 14y ago
Yes, that was the point I was making - your original post was implying that people won't use a Bloomberg feature because "other people might work out how they're trading".
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I disagree with you and I suspect it will be used by more than a few traders as an indicator of sentiment - they'll use it a way to quickly gauge what people are thinking about particular companies and use that as another variable for their
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It's a nifty idea, but sadly there's some problems either with the data, or how the data is being handled - it's currently showing trains running on parts of a line which are shut down for engineering work this weekend. (Northern Line, Camd
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by elemeno 14y ago
I don't think they'd be quite as hard to displace as people assume either. I've not spent very long looking at MtGox but I'm sure that all the usual tricks that real-world exchanges use to boost usage would work against MtGox as well - offe
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Because the daily volume of global FX markets is in excess of $4.5 trillion. The total value of all BTC in existence right now is in the low, likely single digit, billions of dollars. A major volatility event in BTC will have an almost non-
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by elemeno 14y ago
The security and technical challenges aren't as high as most people seem to think and are pretty familiar to people who work on the technical side of trading in the financial world. I would imagine though that most of the people with the kn
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by elemeno 14y ago
Since Mono still seems to be going strong and seems to be one of the official platforms for F#, I'm not sure that something that happened seven years ago is necessarily great proof that they're smothering Mono.
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You generally can't just change the policy - you entered into a contract with the people who paid $99 for a year of free delivery. You can change the policy for new buyers, but the agreement with the older ones still exists.
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The build-your-own-space-launch-system isn't a small difference, and I'd argue it's where much of the educational aspect of KSP comes from. It teaches you how to design a spacecraft and forces you to work out exactly what you need to get a
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by elemeno 14y ago
A gas chromatograph? I'd imagine it would need a decent database to compare to as well, and it certainly wouldn't be too trivial a task.
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anarky - your comment is showing up as dead, which is a shame since it was interesting > And 5 years before Cryptonomicon there was Tim May's Cyphernomicon (which obviously inspired the title and theme of Stephenson's book). > In 19
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by elemeno 14y ago
That's not correct with regards to the dollar. It's inflationary because the purchasing power of those dollars in the bank decreases more rapidly than you accrue interest on them. The current US inflation rate is around 2%, so unless you're
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Con artist: The true story of a master forger(haaretz.com)
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The point the author was making is that quality digital journalism is in a tough place right now, with small budgets to spend on features, but also the expectation that they'll churn out good work and worthwhile articles.
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They're not claiming to own the style or colours, they're claiming that some of illustrations used in FlatUI are illustrations that LayerVault owns the copyright to.
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The rebuttal is a DMCA Counter-Notification. They're easy to write and just asset that you do in fact own the copyright, or are otherwise authorised the use the materials that the DMCA notice referred to. Once that's been done, the host has
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by elemeno 14y ago
We might want to see if they're actually trolls first. While I know it's pretty de rigueur on HN to assume that anyone who issues a DMCA takedown is evil/a troll/an idiot who doesn't understand the internet, it doesn't mean that some of the
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by elemeno 14y ago
University of Bristol teaches Haskell in the first year (along with C, Java and a Prolog varient called Frill) if you're doing CS or CSE (Computer Systems Engineering, four year mix of CS and EE). I wouldn't be surprised if Oxford and Cambr
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The taste difference might not be worth the price, but to my mind the difference in how the hens are treated more than makes up for it. I think that both Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall have done programs that have covered how
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by elemeno 14y ago
I've got a feeling that I first heard this story in the paperback version of the Jargon File - The New Hacker's Dictionary (3rd Ed). That book alone is a pretty great compendium of stories from the 70s and 80s.
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by elemeno 14y ago
"boffin" is British slang for a scientist/researcher. It's got generally positive connotations indicating that the said person is smart. Since The Register is a British site, and is also known for often being somewhat tongue in cheek, there
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by elemeno 14y ago
From the caption, it looks like the S3 was just being used as a compass. It's a strange state of affairs when, in what's effectively a war zone, it's easier to use the compass in your phone than a real physical compass!
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In the UK, it's not unusual for employers to offer private health insurance (or at least, it's pretty common for profesional jobs - I can't comment for other types of jobs!). From their point of view, it's comparatively inexpensive and the
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I'd imagine that it's a result of people running into the same issue whilst duel booting Windows on Macs with Retina screens.
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Yup. You can happily pay for private insurance, or pay out of pocket for private care, and you'll be able to get all the drugs that the NHS thinks are too expensive for the benefits they bring, or surgical procedures that are considered exp
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by elemeno 14y ago
Both of your examples are tragic and clearly represent failings of the system - some of which have since been fixed, and at least one of which would likely have happened in the US as well. I hope you'll forgive me if I sound callous in this
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It's not about autistic biases for me, at least not when the topic is the NHS. All of my father, uncle, aunt and other-half are doctors all of whom work for, at least in part, the NHS and are respectively an oncologist, dermatologist, GP an
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> In a system where you can't sue your healthcare provider for egregious malpractice because they're a governmental body and are thus subject to the same citizen-sues-state rules as law enforcement or any other public service, I fear fo
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They were freshmen studying wine and wine making.

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