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The "funding" problem that I never see discussed is that the NHS costs massively more per-person now than when it was introduced. ex. How many ambulances at a few pounds in 1948, which were vans with a stretcher in the back and a
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It's not very surprising. The computers are relatively basic by desktop standards and the time taken to develop a system securely means that many "obvious" things as seen from the armchair don't exist irl. Also, like mos
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I find a similar pace in the Air Crash Investigations series. Despite the low-budgeet filming and the actors who are clearly not allowed to speak, it goes into enough detail to be interesting without labouring the point.
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I don't think this is true at all > These are the kinds of failures you get when you try to proceduralize everything with foolproof procedures > Had the technicians The report makes it clear that the problem was their lack of acc
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I find it interesting that you have called out "digital nomad influencers". You make it sound like at some point you believed them, which I would say is an alarm bell for a potential business leader, except you have then run some
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People laugh at jargon but my take is that most people learn things without any critical evaluation. If you do your internship at a big corporate, all you will hear is "kicking the wheels", "criteria-based project team"
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Completely agree. This was my first practical kit. I bought one recently from John Lewis in the UK and they are very under-rated. A few $ worth of components but most importantly, a neat paper booklet with a tonne of example circuits includ
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For me, the biggest challenge to all of this is recruitment and review. It's easy to have a set of values and give everyone freedom but then how do you identify at interview if people fit those values? How do you review people's p
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I really enjoy these projects but it is sad that most of this basic stuff isn't already built into all new appliances. How much extra would it cost on $300 to add a small power usage sensor and a basic readout to understand how much en
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I guess it depends what fabs you build but we have seen very large numbers of manufacturers desperate for components. A fab anywhere in Europe could easily supply any factories in Europe so there should be demand. On the other hand, if peop
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My experience is that the higher you go, the less rules and objectivity exists. You get paid more because you have to navigate this. An e.g. Developer just has to work on the backlog, there might be technical challenges but the requirement
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Kind of curious but I think people can get side-tracked by the idea of "scale". The thought that if something doesn't scale in the traditional way to a few very large installations, it won't work. Consider things like ba
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* Lacking the ability to concisely identify what is being asked possibly due to non-typical brain functions. * Social skills lacking due to upbringing and/or medical conditions * Dwelling a lot on information and not enough on nuance o
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He was not given immunity, he has de-facto immunity due to his position. Imagine if that didn't exist? Biden visits Qatar and gets arrested for dis-respecting their leaders? I can see that all working out. The truth is, I doubt there w
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The "correct" way to deal with it is the use of natural predators. Problem is people often don't like or know how to live with proper apex predators so they get killed off and we have to artificially control animal numbers. H
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Are you kidding? 1000s and 1000s of young people are completely enamoured with all types of fashion, make-up, gaming and fitness Influencers.
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This is the hard problem in a nutshell and one thing that no-one who proposes "an alternative Twitter" seems to get. Extreme free speech? Racism? Maybe. Racial hatred? No, I'm a bit uncomfortable now. Someone questioning the
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It would seem obvious that it obviously will help somewhat. However, depending on the variables, it is always a question of how much it will help and at what cost. Small-scale targetted projects have been shown to work probably because of t
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> Elaborate harmonies are just not a thing anymore. I think that's a niaive analysis of a lot of popular music. If I listen to Justin Beiber or Sam Fender or Taylor Swift, their songs often contain very rich harmony, not necessarily
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"..because I haven't logged in for a while". That is a misrepresentation of the ruling. 2.4 million accounts not used in the last 3 years. This isn't "a while" it is a reasonable amount of time for a company to
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For me, there were a few weirdisms in the wording of some commands but they weren't show-stoppers. I think for people like me who came from centralised CVSs, it was that Git was actually more powerful so it seemed a bit overwhelming or
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It might match what others are asking, "what is reliable to the automaker/customer" but they talk about reliability and then start talking about flaking paint and trim that doesn't stick properly? Not really my definitio
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This is so completely normal in these industries that it is a non-headline. Companies that have so much cash they can employ 100K+ developers on top of goodness knows how many designers, PMs, POs etc. of course they hire and fire. They can
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Forgive my ignorance but it seems that one major problem with crypto-exchanges is that they don't necessarily have any assets other than the crypto that has been deposited there, which means all overheads (which I am assuming for some
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It seems different in the US, where everyone is expected to tip as part of the overall price, like the article describes, and there is tipping Europe where the tip is not needed to boost the wage to an acceptable level but is simply to rewa
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One of the big reasons that these garbage-collected type languages were not used on critical code was that the timing couldn't be guaranteed. You can't afford a massive L1 garbage collection just at the point you are trying to lan
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Sad but completely unsurprising. People should realise by now that when a company starts a massive hiring boom, it will inevitably bust. Why? Because as many have said already, if you have tonnes of cash, it is easier to hire loads of peopl
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So many issues which all come back to culture and how you both set and incentivize it in the workers. Not many humans are going to bite the hand that feeds them so if they can pretend they have a full-time job as a "dropped nail collec
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It doesn't have to be corruption, which tends to reward the people in the know far more than those who aren't! There is already the concept of an expedited payment. You want the concrete on the agreed schedule, it's $3000 but

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