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by nickdothutton 7mo ago
"As under a green sea, I saw him drowning." Fortunately, at least in my time, this was part of the curriculum in UK schools, and we had an exceptional English teacher. Like one of the other commenters here, I'm a science and
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I'll try not to be too flippant but... he thought the US ever _wasn't_ an oligarchy?
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Worked on a de-anonymiser in the 90s for identifying banned users and banning their newly created ban-avoidance accounts. Worked based on triplets of words. Worked surprisingly well, so this does not surprise me.
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In large companies, especially those which do not depend on especially talented or specialised workers, HR is very much just a "people risk" department. People are an input, with them comes some risk, like tonnes of coal which mig
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Certainly. Indeed the trick is to wrangle London wages while based somewhere with less crime, more trees, a pollution-free waterway, and less traffic! Edited for typo.
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Non-compete or any kind of limitation on who a zero hours contract person can work for, has been specifically and explicitly illegal since 2016 in the UK. In practice it has been unenforceable since more or less forever. [1] [1] https:&#x2
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by nickdothutton 7mo ago
For largely unskilled service sector jobs, where one might consider the worker relatively interchangeable, it is particularly bad if your government also has an "infinite immigration" policy in practice.[1] [1] Inward migration to
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by nickdothutton 7mo ago
Non-compete agreements (or any clause restricting working elsewhere) are generally not enforceable in UK zero-hours contracts. Explicitly since January 2016, and in practice before then.[1] [1] https://www.gov.uk/government&
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Unfortunately the UK now has an economy which is 83% services vs around 50% in 1970. Services are much more volatile with less certainty than say manufacturing or primary industry. So employment in services is going to be volatile and hard
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One of the most interesting government charts (to me at least) is the "Net fiscal balance by geographic region" one from the ONS[1] (Figure 8). Spoiler: London and to a much lesser extent, the SE, are the only regions with positiv
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The amount of regulation a company has to comply with to hire and retain a "real" (non-uberised) worker in the UK has been increased to a great degree since the mid 90s. Gig work allows these companies to offer work without commit
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1901 Oldsmobile curved dashboard was the first mass produced car. Lead was introduced to gasoline around 1920. You want the "Lost Generation", born 1883-1900.
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Enjoyable article, thanks. I'd like to see a section on "layer 8" (or 9? whatever we are calling it). The regulatory layer. There seem to be so many uncertainties in Europe (and to a slightly lesser extent, the UK) now. I thi
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by nickdothutton 8mo ago
I’ve been around long enough to see at least 1 previous false dawn, arguably 2. Vast sums of money and a whole value chain are required to bring a new media into being. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Data_Sto
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"...including messages that carry confidentiality labels." Trusted operating system Mandatory Access Control where art thou?
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>79% of all child sex trafficking in 2020 occurred on Meta’s platforms. This sounded very high, and I was interested to know how they understood what the total (100%) figure was, given the presumed underground nature of the activity. Cli
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Reminds me of a back burner project I have. "The Technical In War".
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RAVEN?
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Although Brutalism is not my favourite architectural style, I still appreciate it done well. This particular building is <20 minutes from where I sit. "Decaying" as it is sometimes described, can be attributed to lack or comple
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It is now easier than ever to locate, contact, and spotlight for questioning individuals of any given movement, no matter how fringe. Yet the public still hears from the same journos, commentators, talking heads, and explainers, year after
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I wrote a little on this same topic, automating away compliance with evidence, back in 2018 [1]. Some might find it interesting. [1] "A Universal Lemma For Compliance" https://blog.eutopian.io/a-universal-lemma-for
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I guessed Claude Code was used. I think there will be an explosion in this kind of whimsy, I say so because I've indulged in it myself lately. Can't wait for something of this kind to find its way into, say, Golden Dome[1], becaus
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Anyone other than me remember the Cisco Micro Web Server?[1]. [1] https://www.employees.org/univercd/Feb-1998/cc/td/doc/prod_c...
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Greater chance of survival, greater chance of being a winner in any consolidation in the industry, generally revenue translates to higher share price which means ability to acquire useful and interesting companies, likely lower cost of capi
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I'm a happy customer of Hetzner, but AWS revenues are 440x theirs. Not much of a castle.
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Let me know when someone spots a "Rival Castle" to GCP, AWS, Azure, Alibaba, Oracle. These are Hamlets.
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Regulations. I have some small experience with this, although I'm not a professional developer. The regulations for residential properties, whether built for purpose or converted, make this very difficult (and therefore costly) in the
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The British do have a difficult or perhaps just different relationship with heroes vs the US IMO. Some study has been made of this in the past. Even in comic books, where writers have traditionally been afforded more freedom (morally, philo
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I have copper light switches and other fittings and was interested to learn they have the same useful property.
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You know, over several decades I've come to the conclusion that you will never be able to explain radioactivity, radioactive contamination, background, isotopes, decay, and the relative probabilities, cumulative effects, etc to the gen

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