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gm3dmo
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gm3dmo
4y ago
Champion of free speech only goes so far eh?
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4y ago
If it’s the pitch then you don’t have a product. Google wave had what might be the greatest pitch of all time. I was certainly all in. It’s 2022 and all we have to save us from email is Slack which is a pale imitation of Wave wearing a spar
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4y ago
> so the easier narrative to believe is that Robinhood was part of a conspiracy theory to screw the little guy. Do Robinhood have big guys as customers? Their name suggests they should serve the little guy. If they cannot do that, then t
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4y ago
Digital Rights Management (DRM) is what sprang to my mind.
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4y ago
Always wondered if these are part of money laundering operations.
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4y ago
Was it the phone provided and secured by the government or the off the books phone they have WhatsApp groups on? If it’s the first then security services have a problem. If it’s the second then those individuals have a problem.
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5y ago
> Sadly, they will happen again and again and again, I think. The principles that the Government Digital Service tried to instill/make departments adopt should prevent that I think that kind of behaviour was endemic among outsourci
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5y ago
Because, when it is used in construction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire
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5y ago
+1 for thorough but: > Titanium is in theory much better, but is incredibly difficult to work with(requiring forgings in most cases, and being almost unmachinable), and very expensive as the bond it forms with oxygen is so strong the nor
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5y ago
+1 for Francis Maude because he definitely grokked it. Martha Lane Fox also deserves mention for: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/directgov-2010-an... They all tore up the rulebook. The rule being: Gove
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> But I like stats ML and data so I'd love to try for that. Building some reputation on an ML/AI/Data site like Kaggle might be helpful to get noticed. https://www.timpson-group.co.uk/timpson-foundation
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5y ago
> Throughout the pandemic, each time a public safety measure arrives on the scene, some experts fret that the masses will simply use the newfound sense of security as license to behave recklessly, canceling out or even reversing any bene
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5y ago
>Cute, but trivially falsifiable. Wearing a Freddy Krueger mask on Halloween doesn't make you Freddy Krueger. That is true enough for most, but not all. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gonzalez_(spree_kil
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5y ago
>There are probably more trolls pretending to be Nazis than there are actual Nazis. "We are what we pretend to be." --- Kurt Vonnegut
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5y ago
If those assembled people are armed and dressed for fighting, must I support them to be considered a supporter of freedom of speech?
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5y ago
Indeed: 2) Bring every container chassis owned by the national guard and the military anywhere in the US to the ports and loan them to the terminals for 180 days. Loan them sounds like they want them for free. What's the plan for the
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5y ago
Wherever there's a geek beating on a book. I'll be there :)
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Failing to turn up to 5 COBRA meetings on the bounce could account for Johnson's failure to grasp the seriousness of the situation he was dealing with. Preferring to be spoonfed reassuring pap armchair experts like like Cummings show a
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5y ago
It's called a citation.
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Yet he is happy to spout lies about single mothers for his followers: https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/general-... He has never taken the high road in his life.
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5y ago
The EU helps to fund the sarcophagus built around Chernobyl: https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/eu-co-finances-... Which might account for why they are reticent about nuclear.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/924574.stm interesting that in 2000 the panic was sparked by an active measure, e.g. a physical blockade of refineries, this time round it only took a leaked document.
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Ensuring there are regular backups of the organizations data is the responsibility of the organization and not the responsibility of GitLab. Disaster recovery did not go away with the advent of cloud providers. It morphed from having a plan
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5y ago
It won't be worse for either Cook or Pichai though.
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His accent is quite common in Scotland. What's really cool is he has a brother "Ralfy" who also has a Youtube channel specializing in reviewing Whisky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWRyIShLRO0 They are the
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5y ago
That would be very cuil.
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5y ago
s/woke/being nicer to people/g
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Master/journeyman/apprentice were the terms in the middle ages when your parents sold you to master as indentured labour for a 7 year term. I'm of the mind that that was a form of slavery. Peter Grimes in the George Crabbe po
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5y ago
I'd be happy with Dave Chappelle defining what's racist.
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5y ago
What if you want to make organisations who need English translations of EU documents foot the bill for translating into a non Official EU language?
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