mjwalshe

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by mjwalshe 15y ago
at one of BT's Datacetres one hot summer we played water hoses on the roof to increase cooling via evaporation
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
DV security clearance requires drug tests in the UK
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
and $50Mill is probably not going to pay for building a test reactor and all the research that will need to be done before that plus you will need some decent HPC grunt to do you CFD modeling then real world physical models (1:1 and over s
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
depends on sector when I used to work in hydrodynamics (in teh nuclear engineering section) it was mostly lab coats jeans and wellies.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Yes some companies do seem to have a vastly inflated sense of their own importance. Id be tempted to say the HR person "just who the fuck do you think you are" and does the CEO dress up and run round the woods with airsoift guns pretending
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Do they not have to pass a motion at the AGM to disallow premetion rights to issue new shares?
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
No if the insurance companys get hold of your you will be "Fucked" If they can find loop holes to increase your premiums they will.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
I doubt that Apple would want to be a phone company - you have to start playing nice with the regulators and the Govenments who licence you.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Yes your right apart from the endge cases of Investment trusts where you can use buy backs and issusing shares to manage the discount/premium.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Do you think that will stop the insurance industry finding ways around this. And if you have some marker that means that your children cannot get good jobs with health insurance - congratulations you have just condemned your kids to live on
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Acualy in that period a lot of people owed their living to their feudal overlord and some where efectivly owned by the landowners.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
It's a reference to the way in the UK "hardworking families" as complaining about losing some tax benefit when they have 3x4 times the median income. Of course this is paid for by taxing single people (and potentialy pensioners with large h
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Probably a hold over from the technocratic centrally planed socialist economy of the 70's. Taxing capital investment is an insane idea I expect the Lib Dem part of the ConDem coalition to be lobbying for it (in order to bribe the mums net m
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
they are quite reliable if you don't turn them off which is what colossus did
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
So how is Mass effect 3 going to do this :-) does sound like the guardians found some one who's obsessed with a single issue and is trying to write some link bait.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
writing code is the easy part solving the solution you have been asked to solve
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
At my medium sized local station around 2k people catch trains within 45 mins every morning so cash is much much faster and allows a greater through put of transactions.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
not these days chip and pin pushes it more towards the end consumer and who do you think pays the bill for fraud the banks customers do
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
My Uncle who was in the Merchant Marine always used to keep a decoy wallet with expired cards and a tiny amount of cash so that if he got mugged/pick pocketed he would not lose much,
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
MM so your the annoying person who isn't organized enough to bring cash and causes long queues at the bar or coffee shop when I am buying my morning coffee and paper at the train station. The more you use your card the more chance of gettin
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Indeed I (SEO engineer for a large publisher) spend 70% of my time giving feed back to our developers on how to build a site correctly - whats the best way to handle pagination or faceting on a 10M page site for example.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
True but some times you do get a big slap BMW is probably the best known. And getting back can be a problem for sites with out a high profile and for ever after your on Googles watch list :-)
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
you know how much the US embassy owes Boris Johnson in C Charge and Parking tickets - its millions of pounds.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
And if you get caught you get banned I know more than one major publication has been caught this way.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
I was more implying that if you want to work at the top Organization in the field places like CERN and Bell labs are going to attract the brightest and not a small me to start-up. I would consider an attempt by a senior Intel guys to split
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Joel I take it you mean the 1% that apply to you? Small companies (dont take this persoanly) are neaver going to be the first point of call for the true top 1%.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Nope its civil service (you dont get big pay rises) this is for entry level grads and 25k is low discounting the fact that ML and Crypto is worth more as a specialisation than bog standard Java by the numbers graduates.(and GCHQ you would h
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
And I think the lack of foriegn travel by a lot of US citizens has somthing to do with it. If you have gone on forign holidays and gone through customs your self you might be more understanding when your doing that job.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
And your point is? anyone working in ML and AI knows where large amounts of funding comes from - this was true 30 years ago just as much so today.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
The history of NYC is not my strong point I surgest a trip to a library. You could look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_bombing

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