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by gaius 8y ago
It is really easy to connect a Beeb to SCART.
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by gaius 8y ago
The direct cost to the NHS is £2.7Bn, £5Bn is an estimate of the total cost from The Nursing Times.
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by gaius 8y ago
Chrome is a data collection app with a built in browser
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by gaius 8y ago
Some taxes are on “sins” and some are on “luxuries”. But the money’s still got to come from somewhere. Who wins if we ban smoking and cut that money from the NHS? No one.
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by gaius 8y ago
...according to the people who sell cigarettes Smoking related illnesses in the UK cost the NHS (taxpayers) around £5Bn year, and taxes on tobacco raise around £9Bn. So it's pretty close, but that £4Bn gap will need to be made up fro
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by gaius 8y ago
never going to be paid back Many investors in government bonds don’t want to be paid back. They just want interest payments forever. So the rating is really just about the confidence that it will happen. I was chatting to a guy from Sybas
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by gaius 8y ago
Even children can use it Im my generation children used assembly language without any problems, and those who didn't have assemblers just worked out the hex codes on paper and POKEd them in and CALLed them.
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by gaius 8y ago
I remember in the 90s Smalltalk was going to be the next big thing, IBM were all set to throw their weight behind it with VisualAge as the next big enterprise development tool... Then Java happened and IBM ditched Smalltalk and leaped on th
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by gaius 8y ago
I find that feature of Facebook pretty distasteful. Someone at Facebook said “how can we use natural disasters and terrorist attacks to boost our engagement figures?”
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by gaius 8y ago
This is exactly the case in the UK. GDP goes up so the country is richer, but GDP/capita goes down, so everyone in the country is poorer. Well, not everyone, the fatcats always do well.
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by gaius 8y ago
The web in 1995 seemed magical. A whole new universe to explore. The web in 2018, in fact for a few years, is actively hostile on every level. You so something as simple as view a document and someone will try to execute code on your comput
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by gaius 8y ago
The non-traditional databases got better and better while Oracle kept doing a lot of the same stuff I'm not sure this is true, you can look at the new features in 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g, 12c and see that Oracle is adding a lot of features,
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by gaius 8y ago
I am happily married now (and haven’t used FB in a year) but this strikes me as a terrible idea. Why would you want dating and current and previous partners integrated with the entire rest of your social life? This just has drama written al
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by gaius 8y ago
Oblig XKCD https://xkcd.com/1570/ Seriously tho', articles like this need to come with a big banner at the top saying warning: do not try this at home .
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by gaius 8y ago
primarily Azure which is by all measures inferior to the other two and they don't even know. That's a really weird thing to say, by what measures do you mean? In terms of market share, they are AWS, then Azure, then a big gap, t
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by gaius 8y ago
I believe we can find the way to reuse nuclear wastes Nuclear waste can be fed in to a breeder reactor and continue to generate useful energy. The key is understanding why nuclear waste is dangerous in the first place: because it still co
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by gaius 8y ago
The purposes of the layman are nothing like those of the research community. The "laymen" are the ones funding all of this through their taxes. I'm sure scientists would love it if the plebs just shut up and kept on giving
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The replication crisis in every field of science. Two-thirds of reported results cannot be reproduced.
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by gaius 8y ago
Exactly this. A dev comes all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and says we can save a week on the project if we use this open source library instead of writing it ourselves. But he or she doesn't see that they are committing the organisati
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by gaius 8y ago
Both need to get back to their roots. Scouts locate the enemy and report back. Guides find routes through hostile terrain. Neither has to be a specific sex to complete their mission.
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by gaius 8y ago
I still remember when their scientists used a scanning tunneling microscope to write the letters IBM in xenon atoms, five atoms tall. That is what is known as “a marketing stunt”. Same as having Watson play Jeopardy.
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by gaius 8y ago
Why don’t they just merge? If the Boy Scouts can go gender-neutral why can’t the Girl Scouts too?
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by gaius 8y ago
It is very unlikely, because that's just not how this works. Remember all those execs have been in secret talks with each other for months without any employees having a single clue. They aren't going to divulge anything which cou
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by gaius 8y ago
The people vote for their representatives directly, and the party with the most has the opportunity but not the obligation to form the government. The alternative, PR, breaks the link between constituency and representative. That's why
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by gaius 8y ago
it is better than FPTP. We use FPTP in the UK because it directly correlates an MP with a constituency. Even if the candidate you didn't prefer wins, they are still your MP and have a duty to represent you. We had a referendum on P
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by gaius 8y ago
Does anyone have any idea what regulations might impinge on Chris's choice of format for sharing his thoughts? None. People who learnt that their companies are being acquired via public news services are not in possession of any info
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presents significant and unique opportunities to move vertically and/or horizontally to improve your situation If you are better paid than the existing employees it's actually more likely that your salary will be frozen until it
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by gaius 8y ago
Because these skills are use-it-or-lose-it. They will be LRU'd out by the skills you will actually use every day. I guarantee at your next job you will not have to roll your own red-black tree from scratch...
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by gaius 8y ago
it is big corporation which guarantees stability to the employees. IBM lays off employees by the thousands every year, paying only statutory minimum severance packages. This has been extensively covered by the trade press, e.g. El Reg. It
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by gaius 8y ago
My experience of having been through 3 acquisitions: the person driving the process from the acquirer who says nothing will change genuinely believes it. But a year later he will have moved on to his next role and the business unit the aqu

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