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by mjohn 8y ago
It's possible to bypass the paywall by going through Google via the web link above.
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Police launch fraud investigation into Revolut(ft.com)
1 points by mjohn 8y ago|1 comments
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by mjohn 8y ago
Or perhaps she found the experience traumatic and wanted to disassociate herself when describing the events? It's dangerous to read too much into how people describe traumatic experiences.
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The Zen of Chatbot State(hipmunk.github.io)
2 points by mjohn 8y ago|0 comments
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by mjohn 10y ago
Sure, but condoms fail too. There is no reason not to use both.
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Uber employees lose faith and explore exit(ft.com)
31 points by mjohn 10y ago|19 comments
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by mjohn 10y ago
> Wool In The Gang, a supplier of knitting kits, was acquired for about the same price that investors put in; Crowdcube backers got a gift certificate in lieu of payment This really surprised me, but it appears that investors had a choic
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by mjohn 10y ago
Ah, right I understand now.
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by mjohn 10y ago
Saying it's trivial that the developing world is improving could be interpreted as the developing world lacking importance in comparison to the developed world. Did you mean it was easy to achieve (not that I would agree with that eith
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by mjohn 10y ago
Even within cities employers face competition that they need to respond to if they want to compete. There are plenty of employers in London trying to hire experienced software developers or PhD machine learning experts for less than I made
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by mjohn 10y ago
The point of the article is that objectively the world, as a whole, is getting better, and in some cases improving quite dramatically. Personally, I don't think the survey quoted in the opening paragraph is really that interesting - it
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by mjohn 10y ago
Without knowing the future, I think the best we can do is look at historic trends to give us an idea of what is going to happen in the future. I agree 1800 is an interesting datapoint but probably not that relevant for the present day. None
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by mjohn 10y ago
Most of the recent improvements have been in developing countries, because for a long time there have been a minuscule number of people in the US living on less that $1.9 a day. For some sub-populations of the US things have gotten signific
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by mjohn 10y ago
It's sad how many comments dismiss the remarkable data, e.g. by commenting that the article "only" shows that average living conditions have improved, as if that is an argument against the conclusion that global living condit
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by mjohn 10y ago
So you don't think the humans are better off if there is declining child mortality? And you don't think people now earning $2 a day are happier than when they were earning $1?
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by mjohn 10y ago
The author is Max Roser, the economist behind the Our World in Data website ( https://ourworldindata.org/ ). The data is all sourced from that site and seems to be well researched when I have casually browsed the datasets. I
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Things I’ve wasted money on in my startup this year and what I learned from it(medium.com)
2 points by mjohn 10y ago|0 comments
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Three Mobile cyber hack: six million customers' private information at risk(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by mjohn 10y ago|0 comments
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by mjohn 10y ago
> What does happen is that the profits of such movement are globalized, so even though at world-level its more efficient, there could be locals that dont profit from it. It's not just globally more efficient, usually each country be
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My Second Thoughts About Universal Basic Income(bloomberg.com)
3 points by mjohn 10y ago|0 comments
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by mjohn 10y ago
There are several reasons why inflation might be lower than the rate of depreciation. For example not everything is imported, not all cost increases will be passed onto consumers and some retailers will try to recoup costs by having less sa
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Renewables overtake coal as world’s largest source of power capacity(ft.com)
2 points by mjohn 10y ago|0 comments
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by mjohn 10y ago
Yes, in the UK high school starts in year 7 (age 11-12)
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SoftBank and Saudi Arabia Partner to Form Giant Investment Fund(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by mjohn 10y ago|0 comments
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Relaxing Privacy Vow, WhatsApp to Share Some Data with Facebook(nytimes.com)
1 points by mjohn 10y ago|0 comments
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So What If New York Is Unaffordable? That Helps the U.S(bloomberg.com)
2 points by mjohn 10y ago|0 comments
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All of a Sudden, Economists Are Getting Real Jobs(bloomberg.com)
1 points by mjohn 10y ago|0 comments
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Why Europe’s largest economy resists new industrial revolution(politico.eu)
5 points by mjohn 10y ago|0 comments
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A viable shot at a better NHS has been killed off by privacy paranoia(theguardian.com)
2 points by mjohn 10y ago|2 comments
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by mjohn 10y ago
Python 3 has async coroutines built-in, and there are a number of libraries for Python 2 (e.g. twisted, tornado). Python 2 & 3 also have threading and multiprocessing for concurrency. Java, Rust & Ruby have built-in support for conc

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