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by pacaro 8y ago
While it’s not perfect, it’s a reasonable assumption in the U.K. that everyone has access to healthcare. TBH it’s a reasonable assumption in every developed country except one.
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by pacaro 8y ago
This is a little like backups. If you don’t test restore, then the value of your backups is low. If the project has bandwidth you should consider doing fire drills for your important scenarios. Push a major version, upgrade infrastructure,
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by pacaro 8y ago
We know a lot more now than we did. There’s a generation or two of chemists, pharmacists, etc who habitually mouth pipetted common lab solvents that we now know to be carcinogenic. As early as 1969 chemists were identified as having increas
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by pacaro 8y ago
Ireland also provides a counterpoint if you look a little further back in history. The Irish civil war didn’t end particularly cleanly and had very long lasting repercussions in modern Irish politics
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by pacaro 9y ago
Version 4 UUIDs are preferred not because random is as good, indeed for some usecases it is worse, but typically because leaking information about time of creation and MAC address of the creator is undesirable
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by pacaro 9y ago
Yeah, it’s definitely a toss up, but because I can’t/won’t read a patent, but might read a discussion about it, in this case the techjunk article is counterintuitively preferable
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by pacaro 9y ago
Yeah, as osteele points out, it moves the needle from unknowing infringement to willful infringement. And willful infringement carries triple damages. When people have asked “how would they even know?”, there are usually two answers: 1) don
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by pacaro 9y ago
I wish people wouldn’t post direct links to patents. The advice from the IP lawyers at every company I’ve worked for (Microsoft, Dropbox, Amazon, Google) has been to never read patents or patent applications.
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by pacaro 9y ago
:lightbulb: thank you
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by pacaro 9y ago
It’s worth recognizing also that the fulfillment part of the business has only one way to impact bottom line, by always cutting costs. We often talk about the importance of working for a profit center not a cost center within a business. Am
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by pacaro 9y ago
Harry Harrison covered this idea in “A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!” [1], which only had to compete with coal powered flying boats and nuclear trains. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_Through_the_Deeps
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by pacaro 9y ago
The comment about 19th century patterns resonated. I don’t knit well, but I do tatting, and original vintage patterns are often woefully incomplete, there seemed to be this expectation that you knew the basics and could work out what was mi
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by pacaro 9y ago
I’m working on a solar system chart for my daughter, to my eye it’s more aesthetically pleasing to scale both distance from the sun and radius by square root. Regardless of your approach the sun is too big to usefully represent on the same
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by pacaro 9y ago
Somewhat ironically given today’s political climate there was a minor scandal in the mid 90s when a prominent Guardian journalist was found to have accepted money from the KGB [1] To a Telegraph reader the Guardian looks very left wing (in
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by pacaro 9y ago
Also feeding it text from the Anguish Languish[1] corpus is pretty good. [1] https://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/anguish.html
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by pacaro 9y ago
It’s a good book. The story is more nuanced than people often realize. Most definitely Harrison was treated poorly, however, while he created chronometers that met the latter of the challenge, he didn’t really help with this spirit of the p
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Microsoft publishes open source TPM 2.0 implementation(github.com)
2 points by pacaro 9y ago|0 comments
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by pacaro 9y ago
This is part of why potential employers in California aren’t permitted to ask you your current salary. My starting salary in 1994 was (converting to USD), $18,000 by 2001 I was earning $84,000 (my last salary in the UK) Starting salary does
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by pacaro 9y ago
Math tip: seek to understand wherever possible, not just learn a series of rules. Things that you can construct from first principles are almost by definition understood and learned at a deeper level. It may take longer that way at first, b
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by pacaro 9y ago
Yes. It’s randomly searching the state space for interesting parameters.
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by pacaro 9y ago
Notes: This finds and displays a quadratic strange attractor in three dimensions. The Z dimension is used to choose a color by mapping to hue. The search button will find different attractors, the code makes some effort to ensure that it fi
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Strange Attractors(pollrobots.github.io)
2 points by pacaro 9y ago|3 comments
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Prevalence trends tell us what did not precipitate the US obesity epidemic(thelancet.com)
1 points by pacaro 9y ago|0 comments
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by pacaro 9y ago
Agreed, it’s definitely context dependent. There’s a world of difference between holding up a line in a store and having a conversation, however limited, with a taxi driver.
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by pacaro 9y ago
I’ve often heard this, it’s never been my practical experience. If after the other party switches to English you either persist in their language, or ask politely if you can continue in their language, everyone I’ve ever encountered has bee
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by pacaro 9y ago
More interesting than the list of individual countries, is which dual citizenship’s give the “best” value. I’m eligible for citizenship of at least 4 countries, typically it’s hard to maintain more than dual citizenship, so if this was the
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by pacaro 9y ago
To be honest, I’m not that impressed with this instantiation of the idea, but in principal I could certainly see IKEA running a custom furniture line in the relatively near future.
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Robot carpenter makes custom furniture(bbc.com)
2 points by pacaro 9y ago|1 comments
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by pacaro 9y ago
I remember being surprised when I first regularly visited in 99 that red bull wasn’t well known in the US; it was readily available in the UK at that time.
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by pacaro 9y ago
Even just the English names for the letters helps “thorn” and “eth” IIRC welsh uses a doubled d for the eth sound, hence I once had a coworker whose name was Dydd (pronounced deathe to rhyme with breathe) shortened from Meredydd (usually re

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