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by lucozade 10y ago
> "in the past everything was better". If we are honest, it wasn't. According to Socrates it was [0] [0] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/63219-the-children-now-love-...
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by lucozade 10y ago
Currently in the UK there is some controversy about human rights legislation and it being used inappropriately. I think human rights legislation is fundamental. As such I really, really hope no-one ever uses it for something like this, even
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by lucozade 10y ago
From the press release, I'm not sure anyone is stopping them from developing on iOS. What they don't like is that they have to write some different code on iOS and that costs them money. IANAL but I'd be a bit surprised if &q
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by lucozade 10y ago
19.3% market share in France according to this [0]. Not what would normally pass as a monopoly. [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/274123/market-share-held...
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by lucozade 10y ago
Another way to look at it is that, even after 20 years and huge investment from serious companies, we can still only build poor substitutes for desktop applications. Don't get me wrong, it is amazing progress given the technology you h
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by lucozade 10y ago
All these reasons were used in the UK too when pedestrian zones and congestion zones were first touted. For the most part, the envisioned Armageddon didn't occur. In NYC I would expect the biggest problem would be the grid system. Clos
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by lucozade 10y ago
In my experience of running groups upto around 100 people, very few people are effective at directly managing more than about 10 others (preferably <7-8). I tend to struggle at more than about 6. As such, for a team in the 20ish size I w
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by lucozade 10y ago
> They asked you to prove a negative? At least in principle you might be able to get a court to write a letter saying you haven't been charged. I was once asked by a Cypriot border guard to prove I couldn't speak Greek. I still
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by lucozade 10y ago
You're conflating the market as a whole and an individual participant in the market. Derivatives aren't intended to prevent volatility in the market as a whole (arguably they can have the opposite effect). What they allow is for a
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by lucozade 10y ago
This is related to an opportunity cost problem that Netflix doesn't have (so much). The networks have a limited set of time slots so if one show is deemed relatively better than another for a particular slot then it makes sense to cons
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by lucozade 10y ago
It's quite handy. I can't think of another adjective that means both Orwellian and Kafka-esque.
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by lucozade 10y ago
I don't believe anyone is requiring you to find it interesting. However, enough readers of HN did find it interesting for it to make it to the front page. Maybe widespread understanding of the issues amongst non-experts isn't cons
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by lucozade 10y ago
I think your first statement answers your question.
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by lucozade 10y ago
> Feudalism 2.0 Well possibly. I'm British so my experience may differ but I happen to have read my great grandfather's diary, he was a carpenter during the Great War, spent a lot of time with my grandfather, he was in the RAF.
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by lucozade 10y ago
Finance. Strong knowledge of derivatives trading and trading system. Usually one or more of Java, C++, Python, C#, VBA but generally less important unless they're coding quant models in which case usually need C++. Yes, fulltime. Only
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by lucozade 10y ago
4. You can buy/hire expertise in their products in pretty much any location you want to do business.
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by lucozade 10y ago
> Please give an example of a finance guy adding value to the system Finance guys lend money to relatively impoverished inventors to bring their inventions to fruition. Finance guys make deals with corporations to remove financial risks
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by lucozade 10y ago
I have had and have devs making more than 300K working for me in: + London + Singapore + Hong Kong + Tokyo Edit: and NY, Chicago and Houston but that doesn't really make my point. I have very good reason to believe (I've seen thei
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by lucozade 10y ago
Unless it's being used an an adjective, in which case it's an adjective.
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by lucozade 10y ago
> I don't think history can guide us here Of course it can. What has been consistent over centuries is that, as we've automated physical and intellectual labour, we've replaced it with other forms of physical and intellect
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by lucozade 10y ago
> How do you know? We don't know . But it has been true for every technology change since the discovery of agriculture so it is a high probability assertion. It might be different next time, of course, but the implication is that h
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by lucozade 10y ago
The full name is "Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights". Doesn't cover the US or Australia unfortunately.
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by lucozade 10y ago
> those of us born in other countries have the same rights too Not in US law we don't. To my knowledge there is no internationally agreed and enforceable privacy law. Now, as a UK citizen, I'm not exactly jumping with joy for e
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by lucozade 10y ago
For us, it's not production volumes that are the main issue but production dynamics i.e. how the volumes change over time. It's such a big issue that standard practice is to run QA against live production data by default and manag
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by lucozade 10y ago
> Is this satire? Yes. What I can't tell is whether it is intentional or not.
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by lucozade 10y ago
Clinton pardoned Marc Rich [0] who was, at the time of the pardon, a fugitive in Switzerland. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich
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by lucozade 10y ago
Not sure. Let me Google it.
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by lucozade 10y ago
> Is the number of people who only buy music from iTunes really enough to keep iPhone where it is in the market? I'm going to take a punt and suggest that the answer is no. Why do I think that? Because Apple haven't restricted
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by lucozade 10y ago
iOS can refuse to play anything it fancies. If Apple wanted to add DRM it could have done it already (I thought it did once but took it off but I may be recalling incorrectly). I can't for the life of me see how this makes any differen
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by lucozade 10y ago
You may be right but I think it's very unlikely. Firstly, they already fit a jack into the same form factor and this wouldn't have been the first water resistant device with an audio jack i.e. these were solved problems. I don&#x2

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