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by mprev 7y ago
Regardless of whether the emergency handle is connected to a physical brake or if it sounds a alarm, there is an emergency brake. If the driver removes their hand from the dead man's switch, the emergency brake engages. But that&#x27
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by mprev 7y ago
I can see that it could be wise to pull the emergency handle at the station to prevent the train moving if, say, someone were having a heart attack and couldn't easily be moved to the platform. But pulling it between stations would onl
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by mprev 7y ago
As for pulling the emergency brake for someone who is unwell, there are frequent announcements on the tube telling you not to do that. The advice from TfL is to wait until the next station and help the person get off.
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by mprev 7y ago
My anecdote is that people I come across who quote him tend to have a lot of anxiety and pent-up energy around the idea of wanting to be in business but they don't have an idea, skill, or plan. So, the business proverbs they live by bo
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by mprev 7y ago
Ring Sky, tell them you're leaving. They'll give you an offer. If you don't like it, go through with leaving. They'll make you serve a 30 day notice period. Before that ends you'll get a better offer. If you don&#x2
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by mprev 7y ago
That sounds a bit like a "why does company X need 4,000 staff, I could build it in a weekend" type of question. Netflix has produced some really great TV (and quite a bit that's not so great), so they have track record here.
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by mprev 7y ago
If you spend $10 million making things that you sell for $9 million dollars then it doesn’t matter how wildly popular your product is, unless you have another source of income to cover that $1 million then you will be out of business when y
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by mprev 7y ago
And this attitude is why we are in the mess we are today. Presumably your interest is financial. Even if you can’t see beyond your own wealth, then perhaps you can recognise that our reliance on nature — including olives — is a balance. Cra
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by mprev 7y ago
More likely a human sub-editor on a paper like the Sydney Morning Herald, surely.
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by mprev 7y ago
I'm not suggesting that they're the same. Instead, I'm offering an example of another thing you could do in your child's education that might seem good at the time but would actually give them a disadvantage. I get that
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by mprev 7y ago
I see what you're saying but I think you're taking my point too literally. QWERTY is the default layout (in English speaking countries and as QWERTY was mentioned, I assume OP is in an English speaking country). QWERTY is on the c
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by mprev 7y ago
Think of it this way: would you teach your kids Esperanto instead of the native tongue in your country? Perhaps without realising it, the question you're asking is, "Should I teach my kids the thing that will help them in society
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by mprev 7y ago
Yep. I’ve got something to show for the time that has passed other than just a pay cheque.
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by mprev 7y ago
Ugh, but who wants to do nothing all day? You get one life; why waste your days?
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by mprev 7y ago
Not everyone wants the overhead of running a company. Some countries, including the Netherlands and Germany, specifically prevent this in either law or regulation.
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by mprev 7y ago
Caveat: I haven’t read the doc as I can’t get it to open. There is no one size fits all blueprint. There’s a long tradition of people promoting their one true way to create sales copy. In the recent past, much of this has been a rehash of t
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by mprev 7y ago
I’ve worked remotely for the past 13 years and now run a small company that is remote, despite having an office available. Offering remote positions is not just a case of throwing a switch. It requires significant cultural and process chang
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by mprev 7y ago
I run a small consultancy in the UK (not web dev) and hiring people outside the country is a pain. You have to really want that person because it is a trade off in terms of admin overhead and cost. Today, we have one full time team member i
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by mprev 7y ago
If my kids and their friends are anything to go by then Fortnite is no longer cool. They complain that, despite the seasons, the game is too samey and has got boring. My kids did experience peer pressure to buy season passes a year or so ag
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by mprev 7y ago
Wow, that's a big difference. But what has changed? Was your family member doing the same amount of work (rough calc suggests around 4 hours per week) back then but in the context of a full-time job or is it just that there's les
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by mprev 7y ago
Your example is irrelevant as that’s a civil rights issue. Either way, I gave the example of organised crime not in an attempt for people to take it as a literal suggestion of equivalence but to argue against the idea that a financial insti
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by mprev 7y ago
You wrote "no state or country".
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by mprev 7y ago
This is demonstrably not true: https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/16927/paypal-gets-banki...
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by mprev 7y ago
This is BS. It matters very much to me as a customer of a financial services provider what sort of company I am keeping. For example, I don't want my bank to provide services to organised crime because I both feel that would be morally
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by mprev 7y ago
Spam company tries to create a content marketing moment with a dog whistle headline but buries the lede that they're a spam company.
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by mprev 7y ago
But you do enable spam.
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by mprev 7y ago
Ooof, PBNs are literal spam. They're designed to game Google by producing a deluge of low quality content with backlinks on whatever search terms you're hoping to squat on. I'm utterly sick of this kind of junk.
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by mprev 7y ago
Let me guess, run on a blockchain too, right?
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by mprev 7y ago
Thanks. You describe pretty much one of the points I want the book to make: the code is the description of the solution and often you have to address problems in code that no one else has considered. I think that’s a hard concept for non-
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by mprev 7y ago
So, if you just have enough pluck and funding then you can do anything? Years, if not centuries, of learning and specialism be damned, right?

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