r_hoods_ghost

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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Not the parent but the answer is don't use the date picker at all for date of birth. The gov.uk site, which is generally held up as an example of best practice design and accessibility because they do over the shoulder testing on real
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
An alternative to globalization is not necessarily isolationism, which I agree is unlikely, but instead the re establishment of distinct blocs that operate largely independently of each other, according to distinct sets of rules, as during
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
There are a few other cities that have done and are continuing to do well such as Manchester, but the North East continues to decline, Liverpool is betting that being a Freeport (again) will save it (it won't), Birmingham is just a bit
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Globalization is a bit more than just companies setting up shop where labour is cheapest. It is a rules based order that relies on institutions like the World Bank, IMF, a bunch of treaties and other institutions and a set of norms about ho
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Yeah I think I over egged this slightly. But I imagine if you're in a team of half a dozen copywriters like a friend if mine that by the end of 2023 there's only going to be one left.
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
While the city may be resilient ( and I'm a bit dubious about that) I think the economy outside of London is increasingly fragile as the past decade of under investment in infrastructure is really starting to bite. The levels of politi
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
It's not a very optimistic picture is it? Definitely feels like we're heading in to one of those "things are going to get worse before they get better" periods
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
1. Deglobalization accelerates as the Bretton woods organisations become increasingly irrelevant and trade moves to being bloc and region based. 2. The web continues to fracture into separate Euro, Sino, Russo and Americano nets due to incr
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
I agree, this is an ambiguous statement and I think the "any four year old would give answer x" claim requires verification. Does anyone have a four year old, or preferably multiple four year olds to hand?
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
As you're in Madagascar you might want to get in touch with CRS[1] who have a training program for coffee growers. A relative worked with them on another project in Tana a few years ago and found them good to work with. [1] https:&#x2
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
MLM scheme aimed at the recently retired that encourages them to sign up to an incremental equity release and to invest the funds in a "care coin" that "guarantees" a place in a luxury care home should they need it. The
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Comments like this are bizarre. If the claim is that a) is objectively true then you'd better have data to back up that claim otherwise your claim is not objective.
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Really??? That sounds insanely insecure by design. If I tried to log in to a secure site and was redirected to a random site I'd assume I was the victim of a link backing attack and back out. Normalising this kind of behavior by a bank
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Because we're not installing solar farms and are installing rooftop solar in many locations because land is limited and expensive and roofs aren't? Not everywhere has large amounts of empty land waiting to be built on
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
You could run cables down the roof and the outside outside of the wall which not particularly rare. Actually that's the case for one of the aerials on my roof. And piercing roofs isn't exactly uncommon. Aircon vents, chimneys, mou
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Since it is fabric presumably you could just stick them down the same way you do with a felted roof. I guess you could even incorporate it into a felt roll.
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
For me it isn't about maintaining my own schedule it is about managing the expectations of others, be they managers or colleagues. I have "office hours" on my calendar where people can book in with me and then the last couple
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Fully electric buses are pretty common in the UK now and a lot of the rest are hybrid, at least in cities. It makes a huge difference to the air quality when you're on a narrow street that has a bus every couple of minutes like in part
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Some of them are, but even at Twitter not everyone is a highly paid dev and those people have been fired as well. Let's not even go I to the ridiculousness of expecting people to sacrifice their health and wellbeing by being a hardcore
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
In which country? Different countries have different legal regimes, and, I realise this is shocking for many, the USA is not the world and Twitter has a presence in multiple countries and is bound by the laws of those countries.
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Not a villain? Well he's utterly screwed his employees and broken employment law in multiple countries by not giving proper notice or consulting on redundancies, but hey who gives a shit about workers rights? Not you obviously.
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
No, but it would likely be more proportional than the current system in the UK where the last time a single party won a majority of the popular vote was 1931 and yet parties usually have a majority in parliament. Proportionality is not a bi
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Yes but, and this is the point that people seem to miss, that means you don't have to have them burning the rest of the time. This is still better than the actual situation that "we shouldn't do anything unless its big nuclea
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
What proponents of the "Well if we just removed all the regulatory requirements we could build loads of nuclear much faster than renewables" argument fail to take into account is that the building of renewables is also massively c
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
I suspect that a lot of AI researchers will end up holding the exact opposite position to a lot of philosophers of mind and treat AGIs as philosophical zombies, even if they behave as if they are conscious. The more thoughtful ones will hop
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
The recent electricity issues are because Putin invaded Ukraine and reduced the gas supply. Which is nothing to do with sustainable energy.
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Why do people keep spouting this nonsense? Yes there is a place for nuclear in the mix, but renewables have already moved the dial in a lot if countries. I the uk about 40% of our energy is from renewables, mostly wind at 25% and biomass f
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
That's interesting. Pure speculation but I can imagine they have a higher material and labour cost per sq meter. The Installation of curbs and curb cuts must make a difference. Also, in the UK at least, while low traffic pavements (sid
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Directors have specific, well defined legal duties to their company which includes a duty of fiduciary responsibility. That is why they're directors rather than "head of product" or "VP of marketing" or whatever oth
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
I think a lot of HN adjacent engineers are going to have a rude shock over the next few years as there are several pressures working against them. The first is that companies that have been trading debt for growth are not sustainable in a h

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