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by kmlx 4y ago
> That is absolutely wild.. 12m to a bank surely is pocket change. What possible justification did they give for that? “Our decision to make the Digital Growth Grant competitive brings the funding into line with the majority of governmen
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by kmlx 4y ago
> when the US exists. I don't think you realise how hard it is to move to the US for work.
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by kmlx 4y ago
> I knew that was all gone, and now here we are. well then i bring some good news: nothing has changed. the UK tech scene is by far the biggest in Europe (it's bigger than Germany and France combined). salaries are the highest in Eu
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by kmlx 4y ago
> Ordering from the UK is the same as ordering from the US or China is it hard to order from the US or China where you're from? i'm asking because i usually order from those places along with australia, and haven't noticed
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by kmlx 4y ago
yeah, doesn't seem so: https://dealroom.co/blog/uk-tech-health-check-london-tech-we... it actually looks like it's growing.
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by kmlx 4y ago
i think people are reading way too much into this. since the UK had one of the strongest numbers in 2022 it’s quite normal to see some backlash now due to inflation, taxes and gas prices. the lack of low wage labour and extra paperwork when
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by kmlx 4y ago
is tech really declining in the UK?
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by kmlx 4y ago
> The veins of treasure to be mined from within the user's emails are vast and endless. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en-GB > We will not scan or read your Gmail messages to show you ad
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by kmlx 4y ago
https://www.ocadogroup.com/about-us/ocado-technology/
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by kmlx 4y ago
sure, but the problems back then were immediate for google et al: "we need more people to deal with the increased flow". they hoped those covid patterns will remain after covid. they didn't.
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by kmlx 4y ago
> but the TV was absolutely packed with ads via the home screen and pop-up toasts i also have an oled tv from lg and haven’t seen any ads on the home screen but did get 1-2 pop-ups about a year ago. but that’s about it. it’s a 4 year old
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by kmlx 4y ago
i know what you mean. australia has an UV index in summer between 10 and 14. sun protection is usually recommended between 9am and 6pm. thus skin cancer is australia’s most common cancer. i found this paper to be pretty interesting: https:
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by kmlx 4y ago
> It wouldn't need any more tax. i don’t think you realise how much the health service costs. you can tax all of the richest and it will represent a few days of the health budget. a new funding model is needed. otherwise there will
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by kmlx 4y ago
because it filters the air, it doesn’t just simply put the air back into the room.
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by kmlx 4y ago
that’s just for one country…
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by kmlx 4y ago
> There's no culture clash between Slack and Salesforce. There's a Slack culture that once existed, and now there's Salesforce culture the company those workers now work at. You can embrace it, you can be unhappy, and you
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by kmlx 4y ago
yup, true. i can’t wear them on long flights for example.
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by kmlx 4y ago
> Because expanding populations using up all their resources and dying is simply a fact regardless the universe is infinite, the resources are infinite. before long we will mine that asteroid. and continue genetically modifying those cro
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by kmlx 4y ago
for me the series x is the ugliest console in decades. the button placement, the connections placement, the weird dimensions, the colors. it looks like it has no taste, no finesse, truly a microsoft product. for this reason it stays out of
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by kmlx 4y ago
don’t you achieve basically the same thing with airpods’ transparency mode?
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by kmlx 4y ago
yup, you are correct
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by kmlx 4y ago
dvd is 1080p
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by kmlx 4y ago
damn, you’re right. thanks for the thorough comment! i do pay more for 4k for netflix and co. my mistake was thinking about renting titles on prime and rakuten, where i get 4k(uhd) and 1080p at the same price.
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by kmlx 4y ago
> - Made a mod removing all non-white characters in a video game. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=15187... “Edit 26-mar-2020: finally, the injustice has been corrected: all races are welc
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by kmlx 4y ago
> 4K feed (which is not that common or costs a lot more) from my experience 4K and 1080p costs the same. not only that, but i haven't really seen popular youtube uploads or movie streams in 1080p for a good chunk of years now.
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by kmlx 4y ago
> It looks just as sharp, and has more presence on an lg oled display i instantly notice when something is 1080p vs 4k. i suggest watching an old movie in 4k. for example die hard in 4k is absolutely incredible compared with the DVD rele
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by kmlx 4y ago
yes, you are right, but startups are a niche in the grand scheme of things.
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by kmlx 4y ago
the opinion i read was from a croatian minister warning retailers about this phenomenon especially in a high inflation environment where products will increase in prices no matter what.
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by kmlx 4y ago
i don’t agree with this. it’s essentially up to the people to decide what’s best for them. and i’m sure the lesson has been learned now re. CHF. of course the lesson should have been taught at some point during formal education, but alas. p
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by kmlx 4y ago
> You can’t compensate me enough to put in more than 40-45 hours a week. some IT companies I worked for in a past life paid for overtime. it was a lot more than what you would get regularly and lots of coworkers did it. is this not a gen

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