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by gutnor 10y ago
The problem for the UK getting quick trade deal is to get good deals. If it´s only trade deals that the UK wants they just have to accept the first draft of all the deals other government put on the table. Many countries will queue to sign
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by gutnor 10y ago
Well the article did not seem critical of the irradiation process at all. Maybe the title is a bit click baity ? It is all about shipping mangoes by sea rather than by air. I'm a bit worried about that though. My local Pakistani mango
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Seems like the "Ex-Apple Engineers" is prominently used as a marketing. Some review online goes on saying "Made by Ex-Apple engineers and it shows" But who were they at Apple and what did they do there ? Does Apple endor
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by gutnor 10y ago
The article has a much more realistic analysis: there is no public will and money in the US to push for that kind of project. > "The uncomfortable reality is that we can't agree on what to build -- transit or highways, dams or
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That is harder to achieve that state of mind in the larger more expensive cities. Everything around you always remind you how poor you are. I'm not talking about the luxury thing, but stuff like renting/buying a flat were you have
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You assume a specific implementation. In the movie, we only see the display moving from one screen to the other. That is a problem solved since the 80s with X-Window. More recently, all enterprise application UI are actually web UI. So that
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I'm very picky with my toothpaste. The marketing hype convinced me that a specific brand had "the best" toothpaste in the world just at the time I had serious teeth issues that cost me thousands. I currently live that proper
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Technology is one thing, and the article has basically assume 2 order of magnitude better than anything that is currently somewhat achievable. But really, Earth has still millions of years of habitability, so really the limitation is not sp
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When you say "you want", generally that's because you have a full time job, and don't want to spend your free time doing the same as work. Either you do quick hack because you want to play. Or you design nice stuff becau
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None, I have colleagues that received that and that led me to believe companies needed to do that. Not quite sure why they would request a guy to go mindlessly to an office where there is nobody of his management line and no colleague. To b
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> Even though I had to go into an office, many people I worked with were somewhere else in the US. That's the thing. Over the last 10 years the vast majority of my colleague, client and bosses were in remote countries. I worked with
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by gutnor 10y ago
Is it in the US ? In the UK to be a nanny, childminder or work in a nursery you have specific regulation and qualification required. A babysitter requires nothing, it can and generally is some teenage kid. The difference with all 3 is where
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by gutnor 10y ago
There is a lot of places where you can get away with it even in dense area of the US and Germany. There is some social engineering going on there. If you live in an area where everybody locks his door and don't have a huge problem (lik
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by gutnor 10y ago
Yes and No. Scrum estimating is done with 2 independent metrics: Velocity and Task Hourly Estimate. Obviously adding something to the Spring is going to hide the fact that you fucked up at Spring Planning. However, as the author said, very
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by gutnor 10y ago
You have guys working for weeks/months on a project, getting expert knowledge, analysing new requirement continuously. The number of times I have had, over the course of months, to explain again and again why you can't "just&
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by gutnor 10y ago
> start with silly zoning laws perhaps Why not keep them and invest in remote working instead of packing even more people in major cities. You probably work most of your time with remote people anyway and tech is definitively there. Also
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> For example, serious white collar crime, political corruption If you look at the actual legal outcome of the financial crisis, Goldman Sachs cooking of Greece books, Euribor Fraud, revolving doors between government a sweet consulting
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> Years of education have been horribly ineffective It should be obvious by just looking how social engineering is working and have been using the same tricks for literally thousands of years. Classic children literature, before modernis
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by gutnor 10y ago
> This idea that paying less tax is a good thing boggles the mind. Do you think tax payer money is just burnt or something? Let me rephrase that. With everything I listed that you don't receive in the UK, this idea that paying less
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by gutnor 10y ago
Is that true though ? It seems to be a recurrent theme, both in the press talking about benefit tourism in the UK and from apparently the believes of the immigrant like those desperately trying to cross the Channel tunnel at Calais. However
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> But must the standard for safety be higher than existing human drivers? Well, if you want people to use the tech you need to be able to tell them that the car is at least as good as they are and in reality better than they think they a
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by gutnor 10y ago
It really fits well with their image of an agile tech company producing car from the future. Also they need those software upgrade as it buys them some time to focus on new car model rather than replacing existing one. Tesla is still a tiny
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by gutnor 10y ago
Is it just me or the author is just building a narrative and not bringing any fact ? Of course, it is fashionable to bash Leave voters as primarily racists. But HN has recently published several articles that have much more nuanced analysis
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Yes, but more importantly, olive oil is staple food and Spanish people know the real taste of olive oil. Part of the problem in the US and other countries is that marketing successfully managed to convince people that the taste of cheap gen
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> for anyone who doesn't have the paper handy You are supposed to have the paper handy. Either you know the paper by heart, or you are actually learning the paper and look at the implementation. Otherwise you really have nothing to
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> How the homelessness of all the homeless people can be blamed on the societal shortcomings? It is because society (i.e. the legal bodies, but also the culture and the people on average ) in the Western world aim for higher standard to
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> So given that you say both campaigns lied a lot, that would imply that Leave voters were less misled by propaganda and MORE likely to know what it was they were doing. Believing that politician are lying to you does not make you inform
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It seems that the first quote is still in the middle of the industrial revolution. That is a period were human activity has been dramatically changed in a way that has not happened before. I remember reading that the 40 hours is only good c
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That's the 90's calling back with the 4th gen language that were supposed to drive the developer out of work. Before that it was COBOL, a simple enough language that does not require programmer. Automation happens a lot in the Sof
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OK, maybe they know better and that's a fair point. Except that the reason they voted was wrapped into propaganda level of lies and misrepresentations. The campaign on both side was so thin on facts and so big on lies that neither side

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