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by ilikerashers 3y ago
I don't think they can be defended. In the UK last winter, generators artificially "shut down" to drive up prices. It's a rigged game that hurts consumers: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023&#
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
I wouldn’t say it’s that bad. More like mid level accounting or experienced fork lift operator.
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
Posthog isn't truly open source as the author claims. It's "too complex" to run natively and is only recommended for "hobby" projects. They basically say, yeah our source code is there but if you want to run it
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
I tried that, didn't work. They said, "Our engineers have told us you damaged the port, maybe an electricity charge or water got in there". Brand new product, never took a charge. I resolved it by taking it to a genius bar an
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
Not if they say you "intentionally damaged" the port. Given I only tried the charger once, this was pretty annoying.
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
The USB-C port on my iPad was faulty when the product arrived and they wanted £600 to repair it.
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Ask HN: What does the db business model look like?
4 points by ilikerashers 3y ago|2 comments
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
Sounds like we needed a streaming database.
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
Site's down...
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
I remember reading that the founder was working in low-latency Java development with London investment banks for years. I guess it's what he knew. Also, Rust is a hard language to start a company with so I wouldn't be surprised if
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
I just hate the form factor for now. Putting on a VR headset is still like sticking a console onto your head as opposed to a pair of glasses. I'm very pro-VR, love "thrill of the fight" and "alyx" but sweating it ou
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
Poor funding, demographics, crime, academic underperformance. There isn’t a consistent factor, just a combination of the above. Teacher pay and conditions are also worse in state schools.
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/aug/20/private-sc... Your kids likely to do better in a private school. Hard to say all public schools are bad, there are just fewer good ones and it depends wh
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
Not generally bought by salaries. Family money, investments…
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
London is still the best in the EU for tech salaries. They’re just flat and have been so for the last year. 33k is pretty low for cyber security but there is this: https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/30/hm-treasury-li
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
"this data gets used for digital identity" I'm interested in this point. While I get that an overreaching state could enable the other parts, is a digital identity really such a bad thing? In the UK there is a Tax login, NHS
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
Expectation is that across the world, sustained med-high interest rates will cause deflating of multiple bubbles, Private Equity, zombie multinationals, residential+commercial RE. It doesn't feel like a "black swan" but some
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Ask HN: Are UK Contract rates going down?
1 points by ilikerashers 3y ago|1 comments
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
Not sure that is a reasonable answer. War time measures, financial crises and earthquakes are exceptional circumstances. Where has a government gone, woops, that privatisation was a bad idea, let’s buy back our national infra and burn the s
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
Are there any examples in modern economies? I know banks were temporarily nationalised but that wasn't a long-term plan.
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
Would love to see that happen but no government can stop that train now. Too much money is required and they can't just seize the assets.
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
"Hi there, it seems that you are using a computer. You owe us money" Oracle must really be desperate.
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
The counter to this is "analysis paralysis". Better to get good at building stuff than spend all your time trying to come up with the perfect product. I've seen people invest 100k+ and years in products that never had a marke
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
Tea is really ingrained in Irish culture. I used to get tea in my flask for school from 7 upwards. Jam sandwiches and tea.
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
I know a London-based VC who calls them the Daily Mail of Venture Capital. Loud, noisy, full of half truths, sensationalist.
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
Don't know where you live but $200k as a consultant should be achievable with the right skill set.
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
This is the job path that the market forces people down (in UK IT at least). Bad permanent salaries push people to contracts/consulting. That just doesn't go many places. My version of "manual labour" is thinking about g
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
Where is this nursery? Even my brother in Newcastle is paying £75 per day. Or is this for over 3's with both parents on <100k.
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
That’s crap. Means a parent can’t work really.
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by ilikerashers 3y ago
Can we have your childcare, your healthcare and your housing market please in exchange? Childcare alone in Zone 4 London is £2000 per month.

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