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by mjohn 10y ago
Why? If corporations are taxed to the point where there are negligible profits they will cease to do business in Britain. As corporations leave for other markets (or simply go out of business) so will the jobs. That's not to say corpor
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Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit(bloomberg.com)
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by mjohn 10y ago
That is a big if. Nobody has data for all transactions occurring in real time and nobody knows all the socioeconomic factors for all the actors. Even if you did have all of that data, you would still be missing a lot of data. For example, a
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by mjohn 10y ago
Economic models that don't claim to predict real world behaviour are like thought experiments (with more maths). Their purpose is to help people understand that small isolated part of the whole, because a model that includes all the co
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by mjohn 10y ago
Where do these rights come from?
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by mjohn 10y ago
Another possibility is that they already have one of the better jobs, and most jobs do not offer a competitive salary.
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by mjohn 10y ago
There are plenty of professionals who would be able to contribute, but are not academics affiliated with a university.
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Decentralised courts and blockchains(ftalphaville.ft.com)
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by mjohn 11y ago
It's not that economists ignore human psychology / behaviour, rather economists are interested in finding simplified models that provide some kind of generalizable insight. The models will include varying levels of complexity depe
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Integrated Tests Are a Scam (2010)(blog.thecodewhisperer.com)
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Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL(multithreaded.stitchfix.com)
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How much should we fear the rise of artificial intelligence?(theguardian.com)
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RBS cuts face-to-face service and brings in ‘robo-advisers’(ft.com)
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by mjohn 11y ago
I've recently been thinking of using some kind of reading comprehension test during interviews. Other than poor craftsmanship, the biggest disappointments among developers I have hired are the ones who seem to struggle to quickly read
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UK tech startups set for £500m Chinese fund boost(ft.com)
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by mjohn 11y ago
Also if the company ends up being a bad fit, then it looks less bad on the person's CV than if they join as a perm and then leave after a few months.
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by mjohn 11y ago
Fantastic! Do you have any tips for getting children into programming? Or did he pick it up by himself?
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“Thank You For Playing” film review(arstechnica.com)
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Microservice Trade-Offs(martinfowler.com)
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Airbnb and Uber’s sharing economy is one route to dotcommunism(theguardian.com)
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The Rails Value Proposition No Longer Adds Up (2014)(mattbriggs.net)
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by mjohn 11y ago
Plentific | London, UK | Backend & DevOps We are a small startup, based near Old Street in London, aiming to bring innovation to the home buying process. Beyond property listings we offer tools for financial decision-making and list
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End of the car age: how cities are outgrowing the automobile(theguardian.com)
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The Believers: The story behind deep learning(chronicle.com)
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The Internet Shaming of Lindsey Stone(theguardian.com)
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by mjohn 12y ago
Awesome thanks! Look forward to seeing your project when it's online.
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by mjohn 12y ago
Is there a link to your project? I've recently been thinking of trying something similar for UK law.
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The Internet of things: expect the spectacular – but just not yet(ft.com)
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Lego – Silicon Valley entrepreneur's building block to technical innovation(theguardian.com)
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by mjohn 12y ago
There is nothing stopping you using a flux-like architecture with RxJS or BaconJS. For example, instead of action creators you can push to a Bacon.Bus that is listened to by your store, which can be a Bacon.Property. I found using BaconJS m

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