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by gaius 8y ago
You have to wonder how much someone who doesn’t understand the difference between the EU and the Eurozone can confidently make predictions about either.
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by gaius 8y ago
Yes and no. You can certainly practice GMAT style questions directly and get better at them that way, but the real trick is to meta up a level and see that they follow a pattern, at which point getting a very good score is easy. I think the
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by gaius 8y ago
I scored very well on the GMAT and it’s really testing how diligently you prepare for it, and that is the predictor of success, not the content of the test itself, IMHO.
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by gaius 8y ago
70 miles of strait?
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by gaius 8y ago
It's a great barometer. From the people in my feed getting jobs as CISOs I know for example that CISO is one of these bullshit jobs.
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by gaius 8y ago
Underpaid relative to other professions. Lawyers, accountants, doctors, MBAs, etc etc. Even civil servants once the final salary pensions are factored in. Low pay, low prestige (if that matters to you), low job security, relative to others
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by gaius 8y ago
A border is a community saying "we believe certain things and within this physical territory, our beliefs prevail, by force if necessary". And if someone says "I believe those things too, can I come in?" that's OK.
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by gaius 8y ago
The synthetic hormones in The Pill don’t break down either, they are steadily accumulating in the drinking water supply.
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by gaius 8y ago
You forgot the /s
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by gaius 8y ago
Apple doesn’t offer a consumer cloud, what they refer to as iCloud is just a SaaS similar to Dropbox. For their internal requirements they use both GCP and Azure IIRC.
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by gaius 8y ago
Dr Dre advocates marijuana usage...
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by gaius 8y ago
According to this article https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/08/airwave_tetra_switc... that is the example given by the Armed Forces as to why this is problematic Push-to-talk latency isn’t a problem in t
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by gaius 8y ago
While a fashionable self-diagnosis, actual overtraining is essentially impossible for the average person to do. That isn't true. Overtraining can really be thought of as under-recovering, and if you aren't getting enough sleep i
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by gaius 8y ago
The government (taxes), secured creditors and banks are paid out first. Then employees (pension funds etc) come next. There just isn't ever anything left for customers. Generally, the receivers (bankruptcy administrators, lawyers, ac
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by gaius 8y ago
Customers have gotten used to the latency of digital mobile phones, but some of us still remember the truly simultaneous conversation of a landline or analog cellphone Right now in the UK there is a project to replace the emergency servic
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by gaius 8y ago
The US military from what I've seen takes Posse Commitatus fairly seriously.
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by gaius 8y ago
Those are the words that are part of the language itself! The _ prefix is used for variables .
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by gaius 8y ago
I see the parallels in the way jobs are scheduled on the cluster rather than an individual node, storage is common across the cluster, nodes and leave and join hot, the manageability of it all... all seems very familiar!
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by gaius 8y ago
You can have a senior programmer in their 30s and a junior programmer in their 50s, if the latter is a career-changer fresh out of a coding bootcamp, or with a couple of MOOCs under their belt. Age is often correlated with seniority, but co
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by gaius 8y ago
there are 20x-40 fewer “free” hours in the week Giving up Facebook was a huge win for me. People just don't appreciate how much of a time sink it is (by design). You might think "I'll just check it" then you look up an
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by gaius 8y ago
I'm guessing because each one is only set up to bill a particular NHS Trust? But you're right, it should be possible keyed just off an NI number or something. There is a hospital in my town but it's A&E was closed in 2007
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by gaius 8y ago
slowly become less fluent in adopting new tech, and it shows For me, it's the exact opposite. Containers? Oh yeah, they're just like zones on Solaris. Kubernetes? Works like a VAXcluster. Cloud? Been there, done that, let's
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by gaius 8y ago
I don't know why this is downvoted, anyone who has ever worked in retail knows it's true.
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by gaius 8y ago
We also have this story on HN today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18781473 Imagine a world in which Google Pay is dominant, and your Google Play account is terminated, and nowhere takes cash, and you can't buy f
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by gaius 8y ago
Surely you should be allowed to visit any GP anywhere A GP practice is a private business, usually all the GPs are partners just as lawyers or accountants would be, and the staff such as receptionists are not NHS employees, they work for
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by gaius 8y ago
he fact that this was an issue for more than five minutes is absurd and cannot be used as an indictment against public systems. We also have issues with prescription abuse, such as people getting prescriptions filled who no longer need th
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by gaius 8y ago
I have very fond memories of the UK equivalent of this, Prestel, which I accessed on a 1200/75 modem from a BBC Micro. In terms of simplicity and reliability in many ways the modern web is s step backwards from those old systems.
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by gaius 8y ago
Wear and tear on the knees generally. And yes, many infantrymen do have permanent problems by their 30's.
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by gaius 8y ago
The entire project, of course, was eventually cancelled Been there, done that. Once spent months working on a project but when I finally got to talk to the users they told me it didn’t do what they wanted and even if it did they wouldn’t
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by gaius 8y ago
Didn’t Massachusetts General develop MUMPS in-house?

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