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by gaius 8y ago
The concept of abuse seems hilarious. What abuse? That people might visit their local doctor more frequently? That's a good thing! In the UK A&E is flooded with people with minor ailments that could have been treated at home with
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by gaius 8y ago
So, here we are in 2017 Here we almost are in 2019. The authors premise seems sound, but it hasn’t happened (yet).
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There is that, but there is also the massive palaver at Gatwick which reveals that the authorities aren’t actually very good with modern tech.
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The Star Trek: TOS episode A Taste Of Armageddon is about this
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by gaius 8y ago
she told me that parents have ruined the job she loves One of our guests for Christmas was telling us stories about this, she teaches art, and says it’s normal for her to check her work email on Monday morning and find that parents have s
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by gaius 8y ago
No it is purely ageing. I am very lucky to start from a high base, but I am still not as good today as I was 10 years ago Well, I am better that I was 10 years ago, and I look around me and see experienced guys are vastly more productive,
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by gaius 8y ago
Similar problem in the UK https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/18/nhs_buntu_trademark... The issues the NHS has with IT (with the glaring exception of WannaCry) are related to the vast fortunes they expend w
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by gaius 8y ago
That isn’t what happens in my personal experience! - management always looks after management - individuals job performance is irrelevant if an entire location or business line is closing - sacking key workers then discovering it after the
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by gaius 8y ago
As an aging dude I know my productivity and adapatibility is declining and I am not worth paying as much to employ as 10 years ago. Sorry, but that’s nothing to do with your age, that’s on you. The rest of us leverage experience to work s
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by gaius 8y ago
The story doesn’t mention if the protagonist (I won’t say “victim”) declared and paid taxes on his side income. If not it was a bit cheeky to call the police!
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Both Ellison and Musk are vying for the position of “real life Tony Stark”, I will wager in the next year they will have a major falling out.
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by gaius 8y ago
You also need to remove the Facebook tracking pixels they have embedded in it.
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with "useless" liberal arts educations Ironically it’s these graduates with the strongest opinions on what people should and shouldn’t be allowed to say. It’s not mechanical engineering grads freaking out on Twitter over cultura
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by gaius 8y ago
All managers see is that the work is getting done and no one is rocking the boat, they have zero incentive to look under the covers and see what’s really happening, then one day their unknown crucial engineer walks and they wonder why none
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by gaius 8y ago
He has worked there much longer than myself yet he ends up with most of the drudge work. Instead of working on cool full-stack JS PWAs and SPAs he is stuck putting content on WordPress sites and fixing WP plugins Your friend’s mistake is
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by gaius 8y ago
And Coldplay as well, now that you mention it
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What of those who already “self-medicate” with these things - will they be subsided too or go on paying full price? What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander after all.
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by gaius 8y ago
The U.K. is next door to France where eating horse is common. Many if not most British kids will have at least tried horse on a school trip to France. The French also eat frogs and snails.
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by gaius 8y ago
Almost all of the value of a photo taken close up at a concert like this derives from the band rather than the photographer. Indeed, just like almost all of the value in a startup comes from the MBA bros with the “idea” and the engineers
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by gaius 8y ago
Metallica really started the ball rolling on this one, they made their breakthrough via the underground bootleg scene and now, apart maybe from U2, they are the most corporate band in the world.
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by gaius 8y ago
a schedule must be ambitious so that the development team will work hard is severely misguided Several times in my career I have seen a CEO shamelessly say well done team another record breaking year but we didn’t meet our “stretch goals”
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by gaius 8y ago
I knew about talkd and other shenanigans but I have never heard it called “getting flashed” before
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by gaius 8y ago
Spend say 10% of the war money on development of alternatives to oil. Then cut off the money supply to Saudi Arabia et al, confiscating financial assets in the West, and cordon off the region. There would still be some force required to enf
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by gaius 8y ago
This was Chomsky's approach to all research.
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by gaius 8y ago
Umm, because there is no such thing as a time machine? Any serious proposals have to start with the state of the world as it presently is.
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by gaius 8y ago
I am genuinely curious as to the author’s proposed non-violent means of settling with Al Queda et al, but he doesn’t go into any details. If you listened to OBL’s speech after 9/11 what he was most upset about was the downfall of the C
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by gaius 8y ago
The reason is simple. They don't 'care'. They don't get rewarded for writing great code. No, it's that an outsourcing company makes money on billable hours. If you can bill the client for fixing bugs, then why wou
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by gaius 8y ago
Which means you find programmers with no passion or love of their craft. The vast, vast majority of programmers in the entire world work 9-5 then go home and don't think about work, same as the vast majority of accountants, lawyers,
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by gaius 8y ago
Merry Christmas!
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A bank will KYC/AML other banks too. But two people with accounts at high street banks in economically developed countries should never normally encounter an issue, once they had both passed the initial gatekeeping. Which isn't fl

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