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by frobozz 6y ago
I'm not saying Jira is great. I'm just surprised that people, particularly ICs, hate it.
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by frobozz 6y ago
Yes. I've used Jira for years and never understood the hate. The only times I have had real problems have been with particular idiosyncratic configurations or conventions that someone at my end has put in.
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by frobozz 6y ago
Do that, and set up a sensible network of polling places with appropriate opening hours so that everyone can vote easily without 100k people all turning up at the exact same time and trying to squeeze into the same crowded space.
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by frobozz 6y ago
That was essentially my point. With euthanasia and abortion you will find plenty of people who would call them unambiguously harmful and think they should be banned outright, regardless of context. You'd be hard pressed to find people
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by frobozz 6y ago
The relevant difference between medicine and software development is that doctors provide a service and software developers create a product. A doctor's responsibility is solely to the patient. When the treatment ends, the doctor has
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by frobozz 6y ago
> So does abortion and euthanasia, and probably plenty of other practices as well. A less controversial example would be something like chemotherapy. In fact, a lot of treatments for terminal and chronic ailments are pretty harmful.
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by frobozz 6y ago
A solution for that is for judges to award costs based on the merits of the case and ability of each party to to pay. Tricky case where both sides have a legitimate reason to believe they are in the right - no costs awarded. Borderline bar
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by frobozz 6y ago
> I think you have just as much a caricature of the other party as they have of you. That was the point.
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by frobozz 6y ago
The left does not want people hooked on benefits. Paying benefits is expensive in a socialist society. The left wants workers who are properly compensated in line with the value they provide, and a social safety net for when they are unabl
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by frobozz 6y ago
In some circumstances, it may even be violating your termination agreement with the former one. Often, if made redundant by a company, you cannot return to work for them (as employee or contractor) for a year, otherwise you have to pay back
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by frobozz 6y ago
If you don't want to tell them to F Off for this reason, you can contact their line manager, HR or customer service department and ask them to do it for you. The kind of person to lay into you like this is not going to give you a glowi
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by frobozz 6y ago
You missed this bit: > after a bit of an ear bashing If someone from my old employer calls and asks me politely for a bit of help with something I know well, I'd help. If they call to yell at me about how I left behind a fragile sys
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by frobozz 6y ago
> 3. Charity - let's say we actually give every person enough money for food, housing, and utilities. Some people will mess up. This is why it should be a regular and frequent income, rather than giving people a lifetime's wor
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by frobozz 6y ago
> if the introduction of a UBI was followed by a drastic reduction (or complete elimination) of the means-tested system we know today, As I understand it, that elimination is part of the point of UBI. The MTBs are no longer needed. Why
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by frobozz 6y ago
Briefly, my point is that tax efficient charitable donation schemes can only be said to benefit the donor if you start with the assumption that part of their lifestyle includes the charities getting a certain amount. E.g. if I want the cha
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by frobozz 6y ago
Yes, you pay less tax overall, but the reason for that is that the money is treated as having been given to the charity pre-tax. It does not make your net income go up. In the illustration in your link, Sue gives 1k to charity, and as a re
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by frobozz 6y ago
That's not how reducing your taxable income works. If you earn 50K, you net 37640. 51K and you get 38220. If you earn 51K and donate 1K, you net exactly the same as if you just earned 50000. i.e. 580 less than if you had just kept it
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by frobozz 6y ago
Cofiwch Dryweryn!
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by frobozz 6y ago
I would blame nefarious church leaders who should know better but deliberately misrepresent the scriptures to their own end. The verse structure does facilitate this. For example: Leviticus 18:22 seems quite popular amongst homophobes, but
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by frobozz 6y ago
Whenever people mention licensing practitioners of some trade, the interesting question is always "licence to do what?". All too often, the answer tends to be a boring and poorly thought out "licence to call yourself an X&quo
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by frobozz 6y ago
Licensing only works if you have to be in a certain jurisdiction to operate in it. Given that more "journalism" is online, if Murdoch or the Barclay Brothers or whoever don't like the restrictions of your licence, they can j
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by frobozz 6y ago
"I love wandering around my local wood yard and I've just come back with these lovely panels for making a jewellery box, and this great piece of yew I'm going to turn into a longbow." Every sawmill/timber merchant&#
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by frobozz 6y ago
At what, exactly? The President's announcements? I think I'll stick to those parts of the world where opposing Fascism is legal.
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by frobozz 6y ago
I agree with most of your points, but I'm a bit puzzled by this one: > a lockdown does not come without its own harmful ramifications: delaying health interventions, The other harms make sense, but as I understand it, the main point
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by frobozz 6y ago
Given that the PM and most of the cabinet seem to have a similar attitude to the truth, the only way this can be significant is if enough Tory MPs have enough spine to back a no confidence motion.
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by frobozz 6y ago
The trouble with running these sorts of things as a web service is that it often means the assessment has to happen after deployment. Obviously, it doesn't have to be live. You can deploy to test.example.com and try it out there, but I
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by frobozz 6y ago
Even further: without a way for end users to take action based on that comparison. If I decide that I don't want to use Slack because it drains my battery, then I can't take part in Slack conversations. Because Slack is the go-to
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by frobozz 6y ago
Go with the signage. When asked to put in opening hours, if the sign in the window says 0800 daily, you don't write "well, I was there at 0830 last Wednesday and they weren't open yet, so maybe 0900?". Similarly, you do
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by frobozz 6y ago
It definitely can. I'm just saying that as a newcomer, being able to fill out things with obvious personal usefulness like "does this bus stop have a shelter and seating" is really cool and engaging. As is having a diverse r
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by frobozz 6y ago
Depending on where you are, the available things to do can be limited and uninspiring. I have been using it for a while, and I have filled out useful things like bus stop shelter and seating, road surfaces, opening hours on shops etc. Near

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