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by shubb 5y ago
When a company issues shares to the market, investors who buy those shares are investing in the company, and the company can take that investor money and spend it on equipment, wages, or I guess subsidising goods to undercut the competition
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Maybe it is, but it happens in other contexts. Here is a not very good article about it in the US: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/technology/farewell-mille...
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It is difficult to understand the value added by these 'sales' distributors, but I am not sure excessive profits explain the 5-10% price difference, because the article also says these middle men make 2-3% - that's an unexpla
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by shubb 5y ago
CRUD is 'wierdly hard', in that 15 years ago, it was very easy to make a windows CRUD app in Visual Basic 6. An unskilled person could build such functionality at the same or faster speed than a quite skilled web developer. Modern
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I think what people get wrong with FOSS is, they assume that it's free as in beer. If I was a big company or national government planning on moving to FOSS I wouldn't count on a cost saving at all. Instead I'd take all that l
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by shubb 5y ago
Word of caution - my parents strictly controlled screen time until I was a young adult - at which point they just stopped. At the same time I moved to a room they couldn't supervise. I lacked the self discipline tools to control my own
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If you know ahead of time that you are going to use it like this, you can use a purpose built Thermal Store. It's a huge insulated water tank that you heat up, and then you extract heat from it by running mains water through a heat exc
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I guess it depends if they are doing consultancy for churches. Church IT is supprisingly complex these days. Apparently churches use all kinds of demographic and social media data to identify and contact people who are crisis and recruit th
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I may know less about the specifics of these things than you. The reason I added this was to resolve in my head the inconsistency between my belief that what Curtis has to say is Useful, and my belief that Curtis is untrustworthy. I guess m
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by shubb 5y ago
A caution with Curtis - he presents big, challenging, and sometimes useful ideas in a compelling way. However, he never lets truth and facts get in the way of a good story. He knows what he wants to say and presents evidence to fit his thes
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by shubb 5y ago
In the UK, we like to say it's due to Brexit. Not saying it is or it isn't by the way.
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This seems like a technology demonstrator, rather than an operational system. International undersea cables that carry a continents internet are scary fast, but in the tens of terabytes.
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Startup Idea: Shared remote hiring umbrella
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EU working with developer team in India. There are advantages and disadvantage - * EU team (e.g. presales) are not available half the day to answer queries and this creates delays, but also forces people to write good tickets if they want a
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by shubb 5y ago
I definitely recognise risk appetite as a skill because it's something I know I lack. On the other hand, taking big risks - and having the kind of personality that takes them - seems likely give rise to 10 badly spent lives for each go
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by shubb 5y ago
Software as a Service includes software with coding in it such as databases. But more importantly, some SaaS products require a lot of customisation and to achive a certain level of customisation you need to code. Think wordpress themes or
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by shubb 5y ago
I think javascript comes up because cloudflare use some kind of javascript challenge as part of the DDOS protection. There are python libraries that know how to deal with it, or you can use some level of headless browser. https:/&#x2F
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by shubb 5y ago
Growth usually means operating outside the confines of our previous experience to some extent. Tech careers are, hopefully, about growing - yes using new technologies, but also trying out new roles like management, architecture, sales, buil
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by shubb 5y ago
If you think about a big microsoft based corp who are now using azure - they have an on prem AD and are using all kinds of AD magic to administrate their real hardware. Then they have an Azure AD that manages their servers and other resourc
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Although things are re-opening now, I think the shut down in central london was more than you are saying. I live in central london on a main road and traffic has been really low (relatively) for the last year. Normally even at 4am in the mo
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by shubb 5y ago
I saw a pirate site trying to use it as a DMCA resistant CDN for movies. It was a disaster. Their idea, I think, was that if their site got taken down, they could easily pop back up at another address so long as the big heavy movies were sa
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by shubb 5y ago
This may be because content is moving away from conventional websites and onto platforms. Reddit, stack overflow, writing sites like wattpad, and content sites like substack, all make content publicly available. There is also a lot of real
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by shubb 5y ago
What if that engineer fat fingered and reserved a million GPU instances instead though? It would be nice if cloud providers were better at surfacing potentially company killing things via their dashboards and nag emails.
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These are murky waters - I don't believe anyone involved. To correct what you wrote, they were found in a warehouse at a bottling plant, not a harbor, and half of them were COVAX shots that had been produced by the South American suppl
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>> selling the vaccine to whoever pays the highest price It does not appear the AZ are shipping vaccine to customers based on price. We know that Pfizer are, which is why Israel has been able to pay them a premium to get vaccines firs
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by shubb 6y ago
This is probably related to training. Apparently, training is quite expensive - actually flying planes or firing guns and missiles, especially large ones, is expensive. I think in an ideal world they would want to just strap soldiers into &
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by shubb 6y ago
There are some theories in the UK that are close to conspiracy theory. Many leading brexit proponents are rich people who made their money from the collapse of the soviet union and have assets largely outside the UK. One conspiracy theory i
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by shubb 6y ago
This is lovely, big fan of night walking, but walking at night has some additional dangers depending on where you are - people, wildlife, terrain. Funny story - I went for a night walk in the forest with a friend. Was lovely. When we got ba
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That doesn't seem to be a fair description - it seems like he originally ran a software house that were paid to build a lot of the original reddit, was acquihired and given the title founder, and then stuck with the company through acq
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by shubb 6y ago
I think that the surprise here was more about the financials than the morals. Depending on state, after you marry you become liable for your partners debts, and the property you came into the marriage with may become common property that ca

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