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by fergie 5y ago
You just have to look at Norway to see that these arguments are pretty baseless.
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by fergie 5y ago
"Rarely do we stop to ask ourselves questions about the media we consume: Is this good for me? Is this dense with detailed information? Is this important? Is this going to stand the test of time? Is the person writing someone who is we
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by fergie 5y ago
Recently got my license after a summer of driving an MT-07. It really is insane how powerful those bikes are, particularly when you consider that they are often regarded as "middelweight". I am also considering a Grom.
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by fergie 5y ago
Was alarmed to see an otherwise good article descend into a defense of Agile. "Agile project-management methodologies didn’t alleviate the need for programmers to strive to be better coders, but they did prevent the developers from hav
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by fergie 5y ago
Good question. You have to understand that "labour shortage" is code for "I cant find workers for the price that I would like". Clearly there isn't (and can't be) and actual shortage of workers, there can only
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by fergie 5y ago
Yes, but in practical terms the opposite of wage inflation is asset inflation, and this has probably been the defining problem of the UK for the last 20 years.
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by fergie 5y ago
The labour squeeze is placing upward pressure on wages, which is pumping more money into the economy which is in turn exacerbating the labour squeeze. Wages have been stagnant in the UK for too long. In the last decade or so certain sectors
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by fergie 5y ago
I mean it sucks, but your boss gave you solid advice: If you are looking to get promoted internally in a massive technical bureaucracy, one of the best things you can do is get an external offer.
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by fergie 5y ago
Well done lads!
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by fergie 5y ago
I assumed that this case had been resolved like a decade ago. Does anybody else remember when SCO vs Linux (as reported by Groklaw) was an obsession of tech news sites?
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by fergie 5y ago
I always assumed that Reader Mode was used pretty heavily.
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by fergie 5y ago
Its hard to explain, but "AmCar" is a sort of cultural identity think for many rural Norwegians. I agree with the point about "British Ford”. Capris, Escorts and Sierras are quintessentially British cars, especially the ones
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by fergie 5y ago
Aren’t all approaches to search indices essentially based on vector similarity? I get that here they are applying "non-traditional" machine-learned magnitudes and scoring schemes, but couldn’t you do the same thing on, say, Solr g
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by fergie 5y ago
Sorry, should have said "outside of the UK" then. I have been living overseas for a couple of decades, and Bells/Grouse/Teachers are not that easy to come by. Internationally, at least in my experience, Johnny Walker and
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by fergie 5y ago
You could almost call it _ironic_ that an article identifying a general failure to satisfactorily explain irony, itself fails to satisfactorily explain irony... ;)
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by fergie 5y ago
The Speyside malts are pretty underrated in my opinion. Equally, Bells and Famous Grouse, _are_ the purest expression of what Scotch is, and in fact not that easy to get hold of outside of Scotland as we scots might presume.
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by fergie 5y ago
> Put aside the moral and ethical cost here, just the shear financial cost or this punishment is unbelievable. Yes, it is very odd. It seems like a lot of people have gone to a lot of effort to keep Ian Manuel in prison- but why? What is
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by fergie 5y ago
If pedestrian fatalities are increasing as cars become "smarter" or "autonomous" then this is a cause for concern. I am always baffled by some of the driving coming from supposedly super-duper-AI-enhanced cars. You would
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by fergie 5y ago
The real tragedy of class is not that people try to switch classes, its that people dont want to. Working class people regard the privately educated elites as "poncy wankers" and dont want anything to do with them- they actually e
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by fergie 5y ago
Norwegian here- I haven't seen this at all- maybe the author has been somehow "fingerprinted" and targeted?
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by fergie 5y ago
Some smart crypto people are saying that if Tether goes down it will take a whole load of other crypto down with it.
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by fergie 5y ago
The answer is yes. In a functioning modern capitalist economy, workers must be able to choose if and where they work. A good way to think about this is to frame the question on yourself: should I be forced to work for less than a living wag
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Why are so many cops blasting music while being filmed?(youtube.com)
11 points by fergie 5y ago|3 comments
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by fergie 5y ago
If very powerful companies are appropriating and reproducing code in contravention of copyright then that is something that should be called out.
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by fergie 5y ago
I'm sorry that you had that experience. My NHS practice has a nurse that "syringes" ears, and its fairly straight forward to set up an appointment. They do ask that you apply oil to your ears in the days leading up to your ap
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by fergie 5y ago
In most jurisdictions a board is a legal requirement for a limited liability company (equivalent) from the day you incorporate.
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by fergie 5y ago
This is either masterful trolling or bad typing. Either way- you made me google it.
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by fergie 5y ago
There is a long and proud tradition in the UK of undermining the ability of the working classes, coupled with a fear/distain of the state education system. The idea that comprehensive schools are producing illiterate and innumerate sch
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by fergie 5y ago
I am pretty deep into open source, and have not done this myself, or seen this anywhere? Examples?
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by fergie 5y ago
Right, but what about the legions of mediocre developers? Or just developers with other stuff to do?

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