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by reallydontask 5y ago
> On a side note the performance thing seems to be a myth to me. I've always thought about the performance advantages as more related to how (FP) allows for easy parallelisation as your functions are pure, no mutability, etc .
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by reallydontask 5y ago
>Everyone I know, me included, just uses debit cards for purchases everywhere including Amazon. This is just as anecdotal as GP or indeed myself. I never use a debit card and don't know anybody that uses them other than for getting
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by reallydontask 5y ago
I would be very surprised if the data was hosted overseas.
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by reallydontask 5y ago
The UK government could create such a company, given the size of IT operations that the government has. This could be a commercial entity that is owned by the government.
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Ask HN: Ethical Hosting
4 points by reallydontask 5y ago|2 comments
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Tesco say website and app down after hack attempt(bbc.com)
33 points by reallydontask 5y ago|16 comments
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Something special is happening in Barcelona(twitter.com)
313 points by reallydontask 5y ago|149 comments
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Oil System Collapsing So Fast It May Derail Renewables(bylinetimes.com)
46 points by reallydontask 5y ago|95 comments
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by reallydontask 5y ago
>UK Mobile Data for most is unlimited I very much doubt this is the case given the number of tariffs with data caps
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by reallydontask 5y ago
> In Europe most PhD students earn pretty close to what their starting salary fresh out of school would be. I'd be surprised if this were the case. In the UK, stipend is ~£16k. You do get to keep student benefits, e.g. no council ta
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by reallydontask 5y ago
Interesting, I did a PhD in experimental physics in the UK and we only had two dropouts during my time. The group increased size from 8 students when I joined to about 25 when I officially finished (about 5.5 years later, long story) What&#
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by reallydontask 5y ago
>It's strictly better to rent an apartment out because otherwise you're getting nothing from paying management and taxes. Renters can choose not to pay rent, can cause untold damage to the property and can use it for illegal pu
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by reallydontask 5y ago
If it's a pain to unsubscribe you'd think about it before subscribing again. There is also people that might be put off if the process is notorious for being unfriendly or cumbersome How much this affects subscriber numbers is a d
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by reallydontask 5y ago
I'd guess that the azure us gov cloud defaults to stuff not being open to the web, so if you spin up an azure function this is only available internally, but this is a guess
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Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Euroscepticism in England(cambridge.org)
2 points by reallydontask 5y ago|0 comments
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by reallydontask 5y ago
My old boss had multiple profiles sort of curated around topics said that it was a bit of hassle to set up but worked really well for him.
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by reallydontask 5y ago
Popular or not, there is a lot of merit to that view. After all a lot of the emissions are driven by manufacturing of goods for export to the West, thus it makes sense for us to take some responsability for them
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by reallydontask 5y ago
I think you need 500 karma before you can downvote
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by reallydontask 5y ago
The British civil service has London and National salaries. I think based on your home address but not sure.
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Is your boss ending remote work? As a CEO, let me tell you why they are wrong(theguardian.com)
11 points by reallydontask 5y ago|3 comments
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by reallydontask 5y ago
Not sure this is a good explanation as, for instance, the concept of a dry county/municipality is alien to most europeans. Similar with healthcare where it's by and large provided by the state. Obviously speaking from my experienc
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by reallydontask 5y ago
man free for me shows the BSD library functions manual, maybe it's different in Linux
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by reallydontask 5y ago
>Minimum of 3 parking spaces for a 4 bed in the UK? This is certainly not my experience, unless you are counting on street parking and even then, that's a stretch I'm only thinking of new developments
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by reallydontask 5y ago
I can't answer that but i can say that i'm probably 100+ miles from the nearest google dc. Not sure if any of the network checkers run on gcp
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by reallydontask 5y ago
In my experience, it's indistinguishible from local play. On average I get a single noticeable slowdown event every 3 sessions, so for me it's worth it I'm on cable, 200/20 with a ping in the mid ten ms range.
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by reallydontask 6y ago
I've seen this in NYC too
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by reallydontask 6y ago
Can't speak for Brazil, but in the UK this trend has been greatly exacerbated by Brexit. Spain is indeed closer to the US in some ways as the legacy of Franco is very hard to forget by both sides, which causes all manner of weird thing
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by reallydontask 6y ago
Sometimes, other times only if you ignore externalities
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by reallydontask 6y ago
> Advertising free children’s TV (and radio) may have delayed the onset or rampant consumerism fuelled by commercial TV elsewhere. I find this statement hard to square with the make up of the economy of this country and the rampant consu
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by reallydontask 6y ago
Oh man, this hits home so much. I used to lead a software department in a small company that sold software to, mainly, the construction industry, so the go to comparison was building houses, which according to my boss, were always on time a

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