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by ploika 6y ago
HIPAA is an American regulation, not a British one.
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by ploika 6y ago
Have you read this post? https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/ It describes some of the various difficulties in building the next Google Search, much better than I could.
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by ploika 6y ago
Surely someone in their thirties is just an adult, not a young adult.
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by ploika 6y ago
Because it is amazing? Intellectually I know all about Moore's law, but having a supercomputer in your pocket still feels like science fiction in reality. There's no reason to push that feeling away.
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by ploika 6y ago
The UK has already left the EU (it's in the transition phase now) and Ireland and Malta both have English as an official language.
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by ploika 6y ago
You probably already suspect as much, but it's not about being useful as such, in much the same way that most art and culture isn't particularly useful in the practical sense. In 1800 more people spoke Irish than spoke Dutch, Swed
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by ploika 6y ago
> Maybe I don't get it b/c I don't speak a language that needs active energy to protect. I do think you're at least partially correct here, with all due respect. I learned Irish (Gaelic) in school and still use the la
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by ploika 6y ago
I think you'd find some fascinating answers on accounting, finance and actuarial forums, that might not turn up on HN. A few years ago I worked on a couple of different financial services projects that involved porting massive Excel-ba
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by ploika 6y ago
Extraordinary rendition wasn't all that different from just kidnapping people.
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by ploika 6y ago
The amount of sugar in them, very often.
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by ploika 6y ago
As an Irish person I don't find it persuasive at all. There's pretty much nothing a monarch can do that a non executive president can't, and the UK's monarch didn't protect anyone in Northern Ireland from gerrymande
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by ploika 6y ago
A moral objection to DRM is hardly on the same level as a moral objection to chemical weapons.
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by ploika 6y ago
You personally are the one who will be hired or not, not a fungible Georgia Tech Graduate (or otherwise). See if you can find out where previous graduates of your current masters ended up, and compare it to the Georgia Tech masters. If drop
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by ploika 6y ago
To my Irish ears, fluent English from Dutch people in particular can often sound slightly American.
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by ploika 6y ago
It just means "lump of turf" where I live.
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by ploika 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if OP had truly mandatory banking apps. I use Revolut, which has no web interface. My main bank does have a web interface, but because they've made a complete mess of implementing PSD2, they also require yo
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by ploika 6y ago
I think economists are still happy to use the current term. The Herfinadahl-Hirschman Index is a widely used measure of market concentration. It's calculated completely independently of how the firms in the market go about getting and
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by ploika 6y ago
You're under absolutely no obligation to like it, but banks do provide essential services for a fee. They're also (belatedly and sometimes decreasingly) heavily regulated in most of the world. What they do isn't always rent-s
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by ploika 6y ago
I can cycle to work in about 20 minutes, or walk to work in about 70 minutes. Cycling is convenient for me, walking is not. Viewing this is as poor people needing a government handout is a very strange interpretation of what's being pr
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by ploika 6y ago
Where I live, cycling is much cheaper than public transport and astronomically cheaper than driving. If you have lost wages and still have to go places, that's important. You're assuming that there's a choice between supporti
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by ploika 6y ago
Absolutely. There are plenty of people who have a bike with a flat tyre and a rusty chain and no lights or whatever. They might go back to taking the bus or metro, but if they were offered a free service (effectively) to make cycling a viab
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by ploika 6y ago
Another not quite direct answer, but at least in my part of the world these kind of companies are more often "spin-outs" from university research departments and institutes rather than "start-ups" from the general econom
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by ploika 6y ago
Different things work for different people. The opposite to your approach worked much better for me. Sitting and thinking would only allow so much to sink in, and then I'd have none of my own notes to work off later. Instead I'd f
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by ploika 7y ago
This is an article about Oliver Cromwell, where the author completely brushes off the atrocities he committed in Ireland. You are correct that as well as all the murder and disenfranchisement and land confiscation, it was only indentured s
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by ploika 7y ago
Investing in education, and women's education in particular, is one of the most effective ways of bringing down birth rates over time. It obviously has all sorts of other advantages too, which I don't need to go into here. You jus
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by ploika 7y ago
You can use Revolut in the EU to create virtual credit cards. I haven't used the service myself (though I do use Revolut), but it seems similar enough to what privacy.com offers.
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by ploika 7y ago
Finance and central banking don't operate according to the laws of thermodynamics. It's hard to argue that finance is a closed system in the physics sense because wealth can absolutely be created and destroyed. You're kind of
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by ploika 7y ago
Bear in mind that as a non American, invoking a right to bear arms actively turns me off whatever you're trying to sell me. Too much damage has been done to my home country by violent groups who took up arms against the state and each
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by ploika 7y ago
No, this is just something. This something is not necessarily better than nothing. It could be an awful lot worse than nothing, especially since it's coming from GitHub and not somewhere like the Red Cross or MSF, with experience of me
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by ploika 7y ago
Mine arrives on Tuesday afternoons in Dublin, posted from Germany in fact. If I renew my subscription I'll go digital only, because my physical paper is only in-date for a couple of days before the new issue is out on the website and a

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