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by shubb 8y ago
Can happen. I once worked for a large engineering company and a startup competitor emerged with a cool new innovation. We very explicitly discussed that we would either aquire them or use the patents portfolio to shut them down.
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by shubb 9y ago
You still get phonecalls? Most of the time people contact me by instant message or comments for social stuff, and emails for work stuff. It's rare that I get a call that wasn't pre-arranged. Actually I'd feel rude phoning som
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by shubb 9y ago
Example company. I think they are a data agregator for smaller local private sector networks. https://www.tlo.com/
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by shubb 9y ago
I think the US already has big private networks of number plate recognition cameras that sell feeds to cops, bounty hunters, advertisers, and traffic alert companies. It wouldn't be much of a hop.
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by shubb 9y ago
We carry phones that track our every move, and could probably stop them with little faraday bags. Credit card bags are popular, phone bags are not, so I think most people don't care sadly.
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by shubb 9y ago
Genes can be selfish without the individuals who carry them being selfish. Because genes are carried by a group, and the survival of the group means that the gene will survive, so self sacrificing behaviur can be selected for. That isn&#x27
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by shubb 9y ago
We are not our children. Though they might carry our genes, our ideas, and our appearance, we will absolutely still be dead one day. Other peoples children are almost genetically identical to us, and to ours. Depending on how you live your
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by shubb 9y ago
You can actually fire without cause in the UK within the first 2 years of employment. Until that period elapses they have no recourse unless they can show discrimination on a protected ground (e.g race, pregnancy). However, most UK employ
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by shubb 9y ago
Definitely too many phds for stable academic vacancies. Employable lifescience specialists are still very employable in industry though.
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by shubb 9y ago
Isn't this a risk descision based on 'could I defend this against a likely prosecution'? In that kind of situation, you'll probably end up getting measured against something between 'industry normal practice',
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by shubb 9y ago
I think that the change mentioned in the post is about 'use cloudflare for DNS rather than whatever your local DNS is'. That has advantages and disadvantages - most people use a DNS automatically configured by the ISP they are usi
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by shubb 9y ago
As a student I was hired as a temp for a 1 day contract. When I arrived they were just setting up the open plan office. We were asked to bring laptops and given stacks of paper and a phone, and told to work though the files, calling the
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How not to handle mass SSL certificate revocation requests(groups.google.com)
1 points by shubb 9y ago|1 comments
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by shubb 9y ago
If this were the case, it would be harder to find a romantic relationship as we age. Adjusting for life circumtance and type of relationship sought, I don't see evidence of this. What do you think?
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by shubb 9y ago
The statement that signing off the transfers wasn't the work of one man is probably accurate. So, what was this? Was Sissoko acting as a mule for getting money out of the bank and transferring it to other places? One way to launder mon
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by shubb 9y ago
Thanks for the tip - I'll try out a connection with AES-NI CPUs at both ends and see if that helps...
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by shubb 9y ago
In order to pay 10k a year from interested the funds would need lets say 1'000'000 under management per person. It is hard to say where that money would come from - will it be printed? Taxed? Borrowed (interest?)? To do any of the
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by shubb 9y ago
Personally I very much agree that using a vpn service for all your traffic is probably not a good idea. As well as other objections, some have been confirmed to sell fine grain traffic information, and may have an easier time justifying th
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by shubb 9y ago
As I understand it, many diseases that wild mice almost all carry have been eliminated in lab mice, using some fairly crazy measures. They also have very little genetic variation due to the way they have been bred. I think there is a very i
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by shubb 9y ago
>> If authorities want to check my private and work data, they can ask nicely through a judge. I am confused,surely non-citizens have no rights or recourse to the law at an airport? In any case, I am concerned that your approach would
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by shubb 9y ago
The secret sauce aspect here is a bit of a worry. I wonder how many other products are secretly hand cranked. When you talk to Alexa, and the algorithm can't tell what you are saying, is there a guy in a call centre somewhere typing up
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by shubb 9y ago
Looks like he's about 45, which is extremely young to be a professor, but still leaves a 10 year gap between phd and tenure. I think he just looks very young.
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by shubb 9y ago
I dunno. Sounds like the Amazon review was factually correct. The difference was whether what it identified was good or bad. The answer to that surely depends on what you need. My friend is a car expert. I might read a positive review of a
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by shubb 9y ago
The was a bankers strike once, in Ireland. For months. The way people busy worked around it is really amazing, because those workarounds are what the system actually needs to do, minus all the abstraction. http://uk.businessin
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by shubb 9y ago
One of the big value propositions of the cloud was to automatically provision extra servers in response to load - either like you are doing, or by detecting load spikes and spinning up instances. Trouble is, people don't seem to do t
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by shubb 9y ago
Is anyone using javascript to write excel macros? That functionality has been out but a while right? Do people use it? What do they use it for? What makes them step back and reach for pandas or salesforce instead? For me, working across
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by shubb 9y ago
Public sector jobs pay maybe better than market in rural and economically dead areas of the UK. In the South East, they generally pay worse. If you don't believe me, go find your job in the civil service website and remember there is
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by shubb 9y ago
It's not a tech job. When they say war games, they mean guys running around a field. The ideal candidate is probably a retired soldier. In the UK, regular soldiers are paid much less than in the US, and have far fewer benifits and prot
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by shubb 9y ago
Surely this is what trade secrets laws are for. Probably if you get then to sign some kind of non-compete non-copy contract and hand over the source then if they do decide to cut you out, you can just sue them and make more money than you w
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by shubb 9y ago
Amazon may have a monopoly position in some markets though. They have 80% of the ebook market (90% in uk) and 75% of the ereader market (apparently). In some countries much higher. I suspect they are gaining monopoly positions in smart but

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