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by goldcd 7y ago
I'd disagree. The cost of delivering an arts and history course should be cheaper than say a course requiring a medical-teaching-hospital, a super-computer, wind-tunnel - whatever. If all you need are some great lecturers, you can poac
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by goldcd 7y ago
My favourite idea for fixing the cost of tertiary education, is for universities to "buy a stake in you". i.e. You apply for Course X and the university quotes you Y% of your income for the next Z many years. Say 15% for 15 years
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by goldcd 7y ago
I realize I missed the explanation (piracy stack over the legit options I have). I log and just say "I want to watch this". Similar to how you'd have previously used a Tivo that sat over all your potential TV channels. I turn
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by goldcd 7y ago
TV is dead in the same way CD sales were dead. Anecdotally (yes, just me) - I've built a "whole piracy stack on my NAS" - Sonarr, Radarr, Deluge, NZBGet, Plex, Pushbullet, with paid services for omgwtfnzbs, usenet and oznzb
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by goldcd 7y ago
I miss why this considered bad news. Facebook spent billions pickup up Whats-app and Instagram (and probably a fair chunk developing and maintaining messenger). This wasn't solely to pick up untold millions of new users who'd ne
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by goldcd 7y ago
Yeees - but whilst this might cause most of the world to "tut-tut", in the US this obfuscation between wage and tipping already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage I was shocked when I realized
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by goldcd 7y ago
Thanks, you're right, I was being dense. My feeble mind can accept that it's just a replacement board, you can host all your existing chips on.
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by goldcd 7y ago
I don't think I was specifically seeking to contradict anything you said. If it's cost-effective to replace you with a machine, then it's probably going to happen. You can present your shareholders with the nitty-gritty numbe
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by goldcd 7y ago
I'm feeling a little dense - but what's the point of this? I get it's a new board, you can take your chips off your old board and now put them on your new board (which is broken down into component boards). i.e. My understand
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by goldcd 7y ago
I think I disagree. If job roles are arranged like a pyramid (wide base of lower paid jobs, with lower number of higher paid jobs above) - the largest benefit is always going to be automating away the high number of low paid jobs. Amazon mi
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by goldcd 7y ago
Indeed. As I can't find a reference, you can treat this as anecdotal - but there was a radio story about 2 fifteen year old siblings who'd both 'taken up sweatshop work'. One was stitching trainers, one was doing embroid
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by goldcd 7y ago
PTO is a very strange concept for much of the world. I'm in the UK and get work full time and get 25 days holiday to take, plus the national/bank holidays. If I'm sick I take a sick day. If I take a significant number of sick
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by goldcd 7y ago
I agree with every single one of those points. Other thing I'd meant to mention, was that the territory of "wheeled luggage" has expanded. Previously maybe at an airport you'd haul your luggage to a car at the kerb that
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by goldcd 7y ago
So: 1) You allowed your son with the cognitive ability of a 7 year old, access to £3 grand.. I'm going out on a limb here, but I don't think that was wise. I'm unable to even imagine "the correct" way you were wanti
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by goldcd 7y ago
Check again.. ..You were right last year. Right now it's "it depends" (I'd call it a draw).
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by goldcd 7y ago
I got fascinated by this when I saw mention of this elsewhere. I'll agree that getting sturdy casters at a reasonable price was definitely part of the problem. As the linked wikipedia article reminded me, 20-odd years ago you'd st
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by goldcd 7y ago
I think the article misses: 1) Those 'hypotheses' seem like a perfectly good starting point for a very long list of cumulative reasons as to "Why not to get a bike". 2) It doesn't separate bicycle 'the tool&#x2
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by goldcd 7y ago
I learnt what floating point was, when I bought a Cyrix - and my last non-Intel CPU was the one before I got a Celeron 300A. There is nothing wrong with non-Intel CPU, but historically maybe some "considerations you might wish to mak
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by goldcd 7y ago
Interesting to note how AMD "coming back strong" has been received between their CPU and GPU lines. On the GPU side Navi looked good, nVidia introduced their Super-RTX cards to compete, AMD dropped their prices before they were ev
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by goldcd 7y ago
It's not over-rated - but it's complicated. Even that short article covered a number of items that could all happily be spun out into full-blown essays. "Over-medication" - just as a term. Could be people taking medicine
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by goldcd 7y ago
I'm actually OK with the cancellations. Maybe I'd have liked more Santa Clarita Diet - but had given up watching Orange is the New Black and the Marvel stuff. I'd loved them, liked them, then maybe was watching out of a &quot
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by goldcd 7y ago
maybe not 'porn' - but I would pay good money to see say Citizen Kane performed by a bunch of deep-nudists. First person who creates the Chrome plugin that will nudify all photos will be a millionaire.
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by goldcd 7y ago
If you want to come at this from the anti-porn side - "No longer will broken people be forced to perform pornographic acts" or "Previously people lived in fear of previous pornographic acts living on online after they'd
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by goldcd 7y ago
I'm not getting involved in the FUD - just grateful that AMD now seemingly has some chips that make life unpleasant for Intel. Which one's better for blah blah is clearly still open - but I know my next upgrade will be cheaper, th
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by goldcd 7y ago
What's always struck me about Apple, is that despite their espoused "form follows function/Rams philosophy" - it's clearly not their pattern. They normally seem to start with a great idea (iMacs, ipods, iphones, wha
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by goldcd 7y ago
Saw a video recently that touched on this topic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKXf89yNDP4 Only short and worth the watch.
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by goldcd 7y ago
It was touched on - there's the "official list price" (which has gone up) and the "price actually paid by large providers" (which has gone down). My best guess is that the price rises were to bring in some immediate
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by goldcd 7y ago
Google is 'famously bottom up' as you mention. Problem I see here is that they tried to combine bottom-up, with the top-down edict of "We want to kill Facebook" From Google Search onwards, I find/try the product, I
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by goldcd 7y ago
The non-organic growth was more than 'just creating me an account' - there seemed to be a fair amount of "stick" to help me move. My beloved Google Reader got killed and the latitude feature in my Google Maps was pulled
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by goldcd 7y ago
To be fair we've all been using foreign aid, armament sales and all the rest for exactly the same reasons.

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