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by scarby2 3y ago
interestingly health data is a huge problem in the UK. In that the NHS trusts have extremely valuable information on a population wide basis and do next to nothing with it. Does google/a private company have to do it? No, but at a mini
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by scarby2 3y ago
the amount of people who think that social stigma cant be changed is beyond me. This is one of those cases where when we open things up we realize that just about everyone has or does things that are stigmatized and we have no choice but to
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by scarby2 3y ago
i cant give you that guarantee today. I can't guarantee the government or your healthcare provider isn't misusing your data. In fact a surefire guarantee essentially doesn't exist. But what exactly are you afraid of? How does
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by scarby2 3y ago
>"we have layoffs because revenues are worse than we expected" These days a lot of companies seem to be we have layoffs because everyone else is doing it and shareholders want short term gain.
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by scarby2 4y ago
They're also doing the same with the green belt, housing and businesses in general. Farmers are being told they need to diversity but they can't have wind turbines, they can't have businesses that need any kind of premises, t
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by scarby2 4y ago
This would be a useful feature. Though how will it know when you die?
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by scarby2 4y ago
Sadly the amount of bots is a stain on the internet to the point that actually processing all requests from them can take down a web app.
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by scarby2 4y ago
The only reason it might be behind azure is how aggressively Microsoft market azure to existing customers and bundle it with other products. As a standalone product I'm not sure anyone would use it.
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by scarby2 4y ago
A person I'm vaguely acquainted with runs a web store as a solo venture. She was in a traffic accident and injured badly enough to be unconscious for an extended period of time and unable to do anything with the website, it kept sellin
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by scarby2 4y ago
> he can now routinely drive home drunk > So, relative to the confidence most non-technical people seem to have had, this percentage is still not high enough. My confidence in self driving cars is boosted by my extremely low confidenc
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by scarby2 4y ago
most engineers blindly trust things when another engineer or vendor has signed off/certified on it. There's simply not enough time in the world to go through the certification date for every single part you use in a project. We tr
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by scarby2 4y ago
their costs are almost certainly not higher in proportion to their costs. There is almost without a doubt a premium because the people that they are selling to are not price sensitive.
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by scarby2 4y ago
In my country they just have a secure maternity ward with access to specialist care. After birth the child is allowed to live with it's mother inside a specially equipped prison. The child is in no legal sense detained as it is free to
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by scarby2 4y ago
the cost of living isn't lower though.
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by scarby2 4y ago
I was unemployed in the UK once (early in my career) it was not fun, luckily i was able to move in with my mother and scrape by for a few months. When my partner became unemployed in the USA i was amazed that she was getting $750 a week and
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by scarby2 4y ago
The only EEU country in Europe proper is Belarus.
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by scarby2 4y ago
this has nothing to do with the EU. EEU and EU are unrelated. the EU could blacklist grain imports from the EEU.
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by scarby2 4y ago
Does home insurance cover act of children while they are in they are in their probably possessed by demon stage?
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by scarby2 4y ago
> It's pretty insane what Amazon gets away with. In this case amazon are essentially being eBay and like eBay they will refund you if anything goes wrong. They will then deduct that refund from the seller (while still charging the s
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by scarby2 4y ago
there have been desalination trials with spreading the brine over a much larger area releasing much smaller quantities at each outlet. AFAIK these have been quite successful I'm unsure on the impact of costs. Maybe we just pump it into
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by scarby2 4y ago
> If the government wants sidewalks, they should be maintained by the city and contiguous with the street. I'm not sure why this isn't the case everywhere. We all want sidewalks, they are a public space and a public good, they
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by scarby2 4y ago
compensation requirement in europe (and other international flights)is 1300 euros per passenger. Most of us don't have more than 1300 euros worth of stuff in a checked bag. Insurance is a good idea however as dealing with them is usua
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by scarby2 4y ago
they often only attach one barcode to the bag. (the one around the handle) These can get caught on things and detach occasionally. It's rare enough that it will probably never happen to you in your lifetime but common enough that it ha
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by scarby2 4y ago
It's also entirely possible that the tag became detached or damaged which lead to them being unable to identify the owner of the bag.
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by scarby2 4y ago
almost certainly. Net metering is ultimately unsustainable. Realistically we should be paying homeowners wholesale electricity rates + an amount to cover transmission savings + whatever incentive we decide on for the energy they produce (al
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by scarby2 4y ago
VR for communication may not be. VR for training will almost certainly be in use by millions of people on a daily basis in the very near future. Anything that requires operation of a machine or performance of a physical procedure and some
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by scarby2 4y ago
any death toll is acceptable if we're accustomed to it. It's seen as inevitable and people stop caring. The only reason we actually (as a society) care about people dying is when they're dying from something novel.
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by scarby2 4y ago
I want a self driving camper van not for the office commute but for travel. Imagine being able to leave after work on a Friday night, chill on the sofa with a few drinks, sleep and wake up parked anywhere within 14 hours range. Then on sund
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by scarby2 4y ago
most of the time it takes significantly more time to faff around taking off shoes/belts, taking laptops/liquids out of bags than it does to get through the ID check section. Though as more advanced scanners come in this might lose
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by scarby2 4y ago
> including anyone flying private Why? The point of TSA in theory is to prevent you from taking a weapon onto a plane. If you are flying on your own plane or one you lease what benefit is there in going through TSA? The whole point was t

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