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by falsedan 9y ago
So in the UK it's a bit weird: all the lines from the cab or exchange are owned by OpenReach, but carriers can set up their own backhaul from the exchange. Thus, if you have an upstream issue with one provider, your other provider may
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by falsedan 9y ago
BT & TalkTalk both use OpenReach's infrastructure for last-mile; they have separate backhaul networks but the limiting factor is always the copper from the cabinet or exchange. I would say, the UK has 2 major infrastructure network
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by falsedan 9y ago
I meant the opposite, I agree with you. If they had used an STL[0] instead of a JPG then I think people would have liked it. 0: https://help.github.com/articles/3d-file-viewer/
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by falsedan 9y ago
Can't wait for CityFibre & Vodafone to get busy blowing cable everywhere and leaving OpenReach in the dust behind. Coming from SF & Sonic's tremendous quest to run fibre in Sunset, the state of broadband in the UK is atroc
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by falsedan 9y ago
People will post any old drek for karma & downvote anyone who questions the frontpage algorithm's objective rightness at displaying only the hackerest articles.
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by falsedan 9y ago
Note I'm not making any claims as to the health benefits/costs or existence of them, just to highlight the main justification for the tax: to limit the environmental impact caused by raising lifestock & growing feed for them.
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by falsedan 9y ago
From the article: > Using meat tax revenues to subsidise healthy foods is one idea touted to reduce opposition.
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by falsedan 9y ago
The bit which your quote is furthermoring is about the ecological impact of livestock farming, which is the headline justification for a meat tax. The health benefits are another, lesser, reason.
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by falsedan 9y ago
I think that product pages should clearly communicate what the product is to the intended audience. These are 100% buzzwords, so the message I get is, "you will need to spend more time with this project to see whether it is worth looki
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by falsedan 9y ago
I don’t think so. I think it’s quite interesting! Especially trying to understand Ramanujan’s thought process that produced this insight!
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by falsedan 9y ago
1728 = 12^3
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by falsedan 9y ago
Please don’t steal my bank cards.
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by falsedan 9y ago
Ramanujan’s observation about 1729 is actually quite interesting and not at all whimsical or silly. It was that is is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways: 1^3 + 12^3 10^3 + 9^3 Ramanujan pr
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by falsedan 9y ago
If I read it in a bookshop, I'd put it back next to the copies of Go the F@ck To Sleep / The Ladybird Book of the Mid-Life Crisis . My wife buys lots of children's books, and the art, writing, and topic wouldn't appeal
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by falsedan 9y ago
I'd write a story about a kid who found a incredible machine which did exactly what she asked it to (even when it made no sense). And because I think it's an important thing to teach, I'd show that, as the kid tries easy and
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by falsedan 9y ago
Salaries don't reflect the worth you're providing to the company (unless you're part of a worker-owned collective that disperses annual profit). Salaries are the lowest amount the company thinks it can pay you . If they had
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by falsedan 9y ago
Surprise, they quit to move to SF and get paid 3x as much.
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by falsedan 9y ago
I feel like you are using salary to measure worth. A junior dev in SF isn't significantly better than junior devs elsewhere; but the salaries are higher in SF, so if you don't match the salaries, you can't hire any junior dev
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by falsedan 9y ago
On the topic of clear writing, a longer work to follow on from this article is The Complete Plain Words by Sir Ernest Gowers. I heartily recommend it, and find its recommendations on reducing officialese quite useful for increasing clarit
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by falsedan 9y ago
Attempts at wit are so wearisome.
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by falsedan 9y ago
I guess the GP is a fan of abstracts.
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by falsedan 9y ago
> HN is an English site mostly written in American English, do you therefore reckon its content is intended for an American audience? Yes. The coverage and topics are heavily weighted towards companies in the Bay Area + local US events
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by falsedan 9y ago
I must not have read that far? hmm
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by falsedan 9y ago
> Perl is designed to make life easier for the guy who writes the code Whenever I write perl, I feel like the binary is actively fighting me, not helping me… perl is designed to make simple things easy, and hard things possible. Readab
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by falsedan 9y ago
The influences go both ways: Perl's object-orientation model was actually inspired by Python's.
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by falsedan 9y ago
Did you mean to respond to the reply to my post? I didn’t introduce this topic, and I’m trying to understand what about my OP caused the confusion which prompted the response.
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by falsedan 9y ago
Terrible short-form BBC reporting: here’s a guy who risks death treats to help scam victims! Sorry, were going to quote experts & give generic avoidance advice instead of sharing the threats or an example of how a victim was helped.
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by falsedan 9y ago
> I can think of no messageboard on the ‘net for which Lisp-related stuff is more topical. I acknowledge that in my OP. Do you think it is possible that there is a site more focussed on Lisp stuff than HN that you are simply unaware of
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by falsedan 9y ago
Oh shit, they are too
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by falsedan 9y ago
I get that this is important to the Lisp crew, but is this at all relevant to the general audience of HN? What's the takeaway: avoid Closure because of one drama? Rich is right about everything? Copmuters are terrible?

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