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by gm3dmo 5y ago
It seems Ireland's official language of the EU is Irish: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-8-2018-00402...
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by gm3dmo 5y ago
TomTom and BlackBerry had great brands, marketing and great software stacks. I still correct the google maps voice when it tells me to take the third exit on the roundabout. It’s “roundabound”. The people who ran those companies didn’t see
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by gm3dmo 5y ago
Forcing suppliers to hold 3-6 months inventory is also a clever trick to make one look "lean".
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by gm3dmo 5y ago
Never gonna give you up.
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by gm3dmo 5y ago
I don't think the state of broadband can be the cause here. Banks, supermarkets and even GP surgeries were able to support complex accounting systems or patient records for decades. Seems like the Futisu team running Horizon decided to
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by gm3dmo 5y ago
We've seen this kind of technology in search of a problem before in the UK and specifically with cryptocurrency: http://www.open.ac.uk/research/news/blockchain-startup-calle... This was sold as: our bitcoin&#
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by gm3dmo 5y ago
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-556... Burying bitcoin in a garbage pit hasn't paid off yet but given time and patience. Who knows?
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by gm3dmo 5y ago
“I don’t trust these people,” Weinstein said, referring to physicists at universities. “It’s an entire system that believes in peer review, it believes in forced citations, you have to be at a university, you have to get an endorsement to u
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
I believe Moxie to be a person of integrity, therefore I'm happy to wait and see how this pans out.
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
Free? I pay the Signal Foundation $3 per month.
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
Smit are like the Winston Wolf of the shipping business. No problem too big to solve.
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
Typically an empty 20 foot shipping container weighs between 1.8-2.2 metric tonnes (about 3,970 - 4,850 lb) and an empty 40 foot shipping container weighs 3.8 - 4.2 tonne (8,340 - 9,260 lb) depending on what kind of container it is. For exa
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
This is Hacker News.
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
Just get people who know what they are doing to sort it out.
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
Suez canal is 24 meters deep. i count 9 iso containers stacked high on the deck (an iso container is 2.59m high). Smit will be making bank on this.
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
Smit salvage have got this. I just hope they had enough notice to to take their film crew with them: https://www.youtube.com/c/SmitSalvageTowage/videos
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
Crazy web scale folks flip from Mongo (NoSQL) to Postgres: https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-h...
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
>Once you have multiple clients being developed and running concurrently, and you have production data (customer accounts that are effectively legal documents that must be preserved at all times) you want that DBMS to be an independent c
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
Many of the people who built GDS now work for public.digital who help governments around the world to build these services.
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
You are spot on there. Here is Tom Loosemore (one of the originators of the Government Digital Service) explaining how it came to be: https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/abfe49d3-f24c-4b93-b8e... Unfortunately t
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
> UK only excels in static .gov.uk serving I'd put forward Gov.uk/pay and Gov.uk/notify as very successful transactional services that operate on a massive scale. They have been particularly good for local councils who jus
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressi... When a team builds a service using the service manual as a guide so many things become so much easier. Need to explain something to a non technical m
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
https://www.notifications.service.gov.uk/ and https://www.payments.service.gov.uk/ are both open source: https://github.com/alphagov?q=pay&type=&language= https://github.
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
https://www.gov.uk/service-manual The service manual is an awesome piece of work.
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
Perhaps demand for mink collapsed and now mink farmers feel they need to be compensated before exiting the market altogether.
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
Goretex for all.
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-m... .
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
He that depends Upon frequent flyer programs swims with fins of lead, And hews down oaks with rushes. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
https://blogs.dcvelocity.com/dispatches/2018/09/oracle-troll... Oracle have been doing the trick of having all the taxis outside a competitor event decked out in the Oracle logo. They used to do it to Sybase
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by gm3dmo 6y ago
William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw), an American citizen was hanged by Britain for his "treason". Ezra Pound, poet and fascist sympathizer was interned briefly by the Americans. Wodehouse was probably had good reason to be anxious while

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