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by jack_riminton 2y ago
For those unaware the "City of London" is in fact a small part of London, what you might call downtown, and they have their own police force. fwiw they're regarded as a very competent police force
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
A bit unfair. A neighbourhood orientated social media platform is always going to have a vocal tiny minority of the people you described. I’d like to hear suggestions on how she as a CEO could prevent those issues
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Yes Norway is fortunate to have great transportation, a work culture that respects people's quality of life, clean and safe cities In the UK and the US workers are treated more like serfs who are told to assemble in offices regardless
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Here are some: 1) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... 2) https://www.nber.org/papers/w28731 3) https://scholar.harvard.edu/eharrington/public
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
I'll let you interrogate the data. But the link is pretty clear and obvious to most https://academic.oup.com/epirev/article/42/1/103/5917211
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Are they not extremely correlated?
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Even more bizarre considering that there have been numerous studies showing that remote working is more productive and less costly
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
I like the fact that he doesn’t use email anymore. If I got to his level the first thing I’d do would be to hire an assistant to deal with all phone calls, emails and letters
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
And how do you think NIMBY’s have influenced government policy? Perhaps by not voting for anyone who might allow houses to be built near them
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
That is laughably incorrect. Mortgages were far easier to afford for boomers (typically 4 times income, whereas now they're more likely to be 9 or even 10 times income) https://www.financialreporter.co.uk/income-to-hous
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
This is one of my favourite HN comments, it’s so true. Here in the UK the boomers were able to work one job, get a house on an easy mortgage and now they’re old and have nothing to do they campaign against any development that might slightl
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
This is why the Rails community should be applauded in my book, for their dogged determination that we should keep it a “one person” framework. Yes it may not be as performant, type safe or flashy on the front end but my god it’s productive
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Yep, Conway’s Law: “ Any organization that designs a system will inevitably produce a design that mirrors the organization's communication structure. “ Your point about Resumé Driven Development, together with the dividing wall betwee
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Treating OCD caused by excessive levels of glutamate(theconversation.com)
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
I wonder if some coding languages are more akin to 'normal' languages than others. I found it interesting that the scratchJS activated more of the brain associated with spatial tasks which makes sense as I believe scratch is most
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
What coding language/s do you normally use and what things are you most often coding?
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Interesting! I wonder how this could be applied to a Rails project (since that's what ruby is most used for). For example how would it know to test a wide selection of possible values for different variables if they're not explici
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
This is the correct answer! any early project needs to make big trade-offs and premature optimisation has killed many projects. You'll never please everyone (especially on HN) but you're not making it for everyone
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
How is this enforceable?
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
I think the discovery of the power of the LLM was almost stumbled upon at OpenAI, they certainly didn't set out initially with the goal of creating them. Afaik they had one guy who was doing a project of creating an LLM with amazon rev
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
I think so too, GTP-4o but replacing Siri would be world-changing for mobile
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Crazy how Disney's R&D looks almost indistinguishable from Darpa sometimes
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Such is the nature of bureaucracies, whatever is easy to measure will become the measure
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
This looks really neat
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Ok then?
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Another boon for the porn industry
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Yes well unfortunately Mondrian only really used the primary colours so that would be rather limiting
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
It certainly makes it easier to fire people, which may be the whole point here
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
maybe it's just not that important
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Exactly. We don't need robots that replace humans 1-for-1. If there's a building site that currently needs humans to scale ladders etc then a combination of lifts, loading bays, cranes, drones and tracked robots can do it, not leg

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