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by hardlianotion 2y ago
In the UK, it’s not at all cut and dried - depends more on the personality of the person saying it. Could be lazy assertion of control, an attempt to help or an implied challenge. I also think the interview setup and management were poor.
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
In the UK it more or less is a risk free way to make money. The government's hand is always seen when a danger to the property market prices hoves into sight.
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
Best Disney villain song IMO is Kaa's "Trust in Me". He's not the main baddy of the Jungle Book, but he is every bit as compelling as Shere Khan.
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
Who doesn’t love corporate bullshit?
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
Sounds great technically, but I don't want my phone paying attention to me when I am not paying attention to it.
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
Beautiful and so very sad.
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
I’m quite sure that Babbage is the wrong person to use to illustrate the point I think you are trying to make.
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
I was mainly thinking of care when I wrote this, but I think there is generally a trade off between centralisation and increases in efficiency, in some part given by standardisation, and increased fragility as more comes to depend on fewer
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
The article noted that, when you care for someone, you give of yourself and your attention and you cannot spread this to a significant number of people. If you outsource the activity, then whoever you outsource it to has to pay attention i
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
The comment comes from reading the article, then wondering how can societies make things scale? We make things scale by delegating our concerns to people who know and care more about specific outcomes, and helping them to make the differen
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
Care does scale and the human race is evidence of that. It is centralisation that doesn't scale well.
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
I haven't lost an eye to a conker, but I did laugh. EDIT: And now I feel guilty for doing so.
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
In the function signature, value is a reference. You can think of reference as being a pointer that points to a fixed location but with value semantics. So you can dip value into the function call and the function can assign to it, as it c
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
What happens in 3d?
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
Very cool. Could do with training on some decent handwriting
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
Ground source heat pump is often used in UK.
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
If people are like me, there is a lot of interesting information about Douglas's life and character that they were previously only dimly aware of. And I disagree about the badly written bit, that seems a little much.
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
That's hard to scale and they got too big.
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
Advice I'd give myself: Finish what you're doing.
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
I am always very curious of hugely enthusiastic New Labour supporters. Happy to share my own opinion, but what are the achievements you laude them for, and what failures are they to be weighed against?
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
“Namely it paves way for Farage to be PM.” This is very much a minority opinion.
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That’s metaphysics.
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
That's ... er ... cryptic.
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
I thought it was a Banana Splits theme tune reference.
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Brings to mind Douglas Adams Krikkit robots.
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
I like that it is ambiguous. Something for everybody.
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
For what it's worth, I think that the problem lies in the solution feeling "obvious" and people being a little lazy - I don't think the problem lies with inability. I also think that if A then B is unambiguous, the count
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
It’s a good question. But I think that it is valid for a democracy to decide to tackle it.
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
Your analogy was bad in that it represented a case that I had not made, that the ban was a convenient lever to be reached for out of convenience. I have not seen an operating system of civil governance that has not reserved to itself the ri
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by hardlianotion 2y ago
I guess this is what deliberation and debate is all about. I mean, a lot of people thought Trump shouldn't be President at all, but he was.

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