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by joshuahughes 5y ago
So am I reading this right, that the Economist is suggesting “mortgage bad, rental good”?? Seems I’ve seen something similar referenced quite a lot recently... https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/how-life-c
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
I preferred it so much that I found myself a new role with a fully remote company. I’ll happily visit the office once lockdown eases, but the ‘forced experiment’ has proved to me that the upsides (live anywhere, zero commute saving time and
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
Interesting that you should mention device support as a cause of more complex code, as the best way to support the devices you list is generally to use LESS code. Bare HTML is supported by pretty much everything...
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
The Guardian doesn't have a slant? You might want to reconsider that... “the Guardian is seen as Britain’s most left-wing newspaper” https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2017/0...
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
Sorry but you're wrong. Take a look at the UK lockdown rules ( https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-lockdown-stay-at-home#w... ) and you'll find that... "You cannot leave home for recreational or leisure p
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
I really don’t understand how anyone can have such a profound level of trust in organisations that have proved themselves utterly unworthy of that trust. Have the lessons of Snowden really been forgotten this quickly??
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
There are positives, and there are also negatives. Both have been well-documented. My point was a more general one, that we are being sucked into a strangely anti-human world where those in power would like nothing more than to reduce us to
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
I wish it wasn't true, but the path we're headed down is pretty much set now. I can't help feeling that the habit of removing identifying markers (names, ages, etc) from resumes to try to ensure equality in hiring is also par
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The myth and reality of the super soldier(bbc.co.uk)
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
Before today, I’d only ever heard ‘putter’ used to refer to the golf club you use for ‘putting’...
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
From the UK 2 days ago: “People with a history of significant allergic reactions should not have the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid jab, regulators say.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55244122
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
Ummm, latest daily UK deaths "with Covid" is 414, not 5000. Ref: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
> 1.5 million people have died But did they die FROM or WITH covid? That's the million dollar question. Here's CDC data that says 94% of Covid-19 deaths involved one or more comorbid conditions... i.e. these are not healthy peo
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'Immunisation cards' will be part of Covid-19 vaccine deployment in Wales(gov.wales)
2 points by joshuahughes 6y ago|0 comments
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
Worth pointing out that there was an important caveat that the GP included... "Science... BASED ON TRUST AND WITHOUT PERSONAL VERIFICATION is absolutely equivalent to religion."
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
Yes, clearly “lots of people are arguing against the lockdowns on HN“. My point is that if you do that, you will usually get downvoted to death. Just like everything else these days, too many people are adopting a black or white stance on a
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
The measures that the UK government put in place are impressive, but they’ve pushed the nation’s debt to more than £2trillion. There’s no escaping the fact that we’ll be paying for these measures for generations. This is the problem with a
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
Why the extreme response? Thousands and thousands of folks here in the UK are losing their jobs and therefore their homes. I assume the same thing is happening elsewhere. We have safety nets, but payouts are often nowhere near enough to mat
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
“but both now and yesterday people with a wide view of the issue were basically ostracized and chased away as if they were flat earther or antivaxxer” Agreed. I’ve been quite taken aback, seeing HN’s response to Covid threads. I’ve always a
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
Honestly curious... what is there to gain from pessimistic fear-mongering if the data is stubbornly telling a different story?
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
Where I am (Scotland) it WAS pretty much everything. Only shops selling food, medicine, or maintenance products are allowed to open. All others have been shut for ~2 months now. Driving is strictly forbidden unless you’re travelling to one
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
> without any sort of nuance I think this accusation is equally applicable for politicians though. There has been precious little nuance in blanket lockdowns that don’t acknowledge how vastly different in risk different activities are (e
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I was only aware of government-level announcements over here in Europe. From what I've seen here any conditions are more along the lines of "x, y, and z must all be improving" and those values have been
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
> Get the active cases down to a manageable number Isn't this the problem, the world over? That no government has actually baked into their stay-at-home orders what the specific metric is that unlocks the lockdown. People with mouth
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by joshuahughes 6y ago
> British citizens are still EU citizens The UK actually left the EU on January 31st, 2020. We're still 'Europeans' (inhabitants of the continent of Europe) but no longer EU citizens.
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by joshuahughes 7y ago
Actually, we've never NOT been Europeans, and we've never NOT been in Europe. Europe's just a continent ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe ). However, we did recently leave the European Union. (See ht
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Barclays scraps 'Big Brother' staff tracking system within one week(bbc.co.uk)
198 points by joshuahughes 7y ago|160 comments
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by joshuahughes 7y ago
Slightly related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolith_(film)
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by joshuahughes 7y ago
May I refer you to item 'c' in jonas21's list? ;-)
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by joshuahughes 7y ago
I’m one of those sad product designers who finds documentation tools fascinating :) Ping me if you need a hand on the design side (mrjoshuahughes at gmail)

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