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by gaius 8y ago
One of the teaching union bosses in the UK said he’d start to care about pupils when they started paying union subs.
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by gaius 8y ago
Yes, the Soviets lagged in consumer and commercial computing but for supersonic aircraft, radar, SAMs and ICBMs , space, etc, they held their own.
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by gaius 8y ago
I suppose he could believe that midichlorians are a thing that gives telepathic/telekinetic powers without believing that they are sentient and have a will, whereas the Jedi do believe the latter
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by gaius 8y ago
Religion? “Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.” — Han Solo “Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not given you the ability to conjure up the stolen data plans!” — Moff Tarkins I
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by gaius 8y ago
I'm now actually wondering how 'lightspeed == hyperspace' in the SW universe? “Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy.” — Han Solo The terms seem to be used interchangeably.
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by gaius 8y ago
Exactly this. Anakin was a child slave and when he was “rescued” by a fundamentalist religious order for indoctrination they left his mother behind to die. Any one of us in his position would have destroyed the Old Republic too.
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by gaius 8y ago
When the Millennium Falcon arrived at Alderaan it was established that ships in hyperspace do not interact with physical matter
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by gaius 8y ago
If only they knew they could have used a single droid-controlled hyperdrive ship instead
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by gaius 8y ago
300 M$ effort into developing something If only they had! But MongoDB is 1% technology and 99% marketing, they had no technological moat to speak of. See also: Docker.
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by gaius 8y ago
because they run a good document-database-as-a-service Spoiler: they do not
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by gaius 8y ago
liberals and leftists alike Of the limousine variety, mind.
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by gaius 8y ago
From there I could probably train them to essentially be pets There is a comic book character with this power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_Girl
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by gaius 8y ago
Slight tangent: at one company, years after Yegge’s blog post, a senior manager presented those principles as his own cunningly developed strategy. The ridicule was palpable.
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by gaius 8y ago
I have never heard of the Starliner and the Starfighter went out of service before I was born but consider them both complained about too.
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by gaius 8y ago
The GDPR is extremely easy to comply with It’s really just a slight mental shift. Instead of seeing data as an asset see it as a liability. Once you do that everything comes naturally.
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by gaius 8y ago
Unless they have quietly invented warp drive, no they aren’t.
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by gaius 8y ago
they got quite a beating from regulatory agencies Not really, the British regulators and courts keep finding against them but there’s zero enforcement, Uber continue operating as normal. The Mayor Of London is weak.
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by gaius 8y ago
Lots of money, not much oversight, “won’t somebody think of the children”.
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by gaius 8y ago
when a company has massive layoffs, presumably they keep their best employees That is not how it works. Firstly positions are made redundant, not people. If the company is closing the widget factory, it doesn’t matter who is the best or t
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by gaius 8y ago
Startups are often great learning opportunities This isn’t really true. The experience you can only get at a startup is learning to work with VCs, the board, early strategic partners and so on. This will be dangled in front of you like a
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by gaius 8y ago
I don’t think any of them had body armour. The weight would have been mainly ammo, food and batteries. But it was over soft marshy ground.
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by gaius 8y ago
What is the transaction fee if I buy a pizza with Visa vs with Bitcoin? Or a round of drinks or a tank of fuel?
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by gaius 8y ago
They are also the clowns behind CMM too remember, beloved of bodyshops everywhere
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by gaius 8y ago
Well, they withdraw the blue tick as a punishment for people who say something unapproved, that person doesn’t stop being who they are!
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by gaius 8y ago
With a good macro assembler like DevPac on the ST or Amiga, writing assembly was actually not that far off a contemporary high level language. It helped that the 68k had a very programmer-friendly instruction set.
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by gaius 8y ago
where an intransigent minority of people have forced a large percentage of food to be certified This is very specific to tolerant Western culture. A 1% minority anywhere else in the world would be at best ignored and more likely steamroll
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by gaius 8y ago
That is completely true. But it is also true that if someone says X will happen in time T and at time T+1 it hadn’t happened then warning of X won’t be taken seriously next time, even if they only meant to highlight the urgency of the situa
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by gaius 8y ago
The NYT has form for it recently, they’ve rehashed some of Laura Loomer’s old work for example.
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by gaius 8y ago
In Germany unions ensure that Workers get a fair share of the profits - and they understand that the company must be profitable in order for that to happen. But in the UK unions just want to destroy companies in an effort to smash capitalis
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It’s no mystery. In the early-mid 90s IBM was ramping up on Smalltalk believing it to be the language of the future enterprise. In the late 90s they realised that jumping on the Java bandwagon would be more profitable so they ditched Smallt

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