spacecowboy_lon

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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
You have to decide when you work for miltech or any dual use tech company if you are cool with it. At my first job (hydrodynamics R&D)I was tasked with analyzing high sped files from one of our test rigs. It was quite obvious what the
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Anny illegal terms in a contract are void.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
So you are of course not taking any advantage of Pension tax reliefs in your 401K and IRA's ?
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
And how long until a TLA says ok Google/Apple for these phones give us all the biometric data on anyone who's used it. For example a phone found at a terrorist safe house the FBI woud love to see who had been using that phone
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Not sure what you meant using punctuation in the middle of a sentence is used for clarity e.g. using commas and dashes. Your not wrong about how documentation is poor - look at a lot of Google's API docs most of it is poor and incomple
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Not the same there are pics of scammers on a crowded tube trains (london) with a hand held contactless device harvesting.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Is that going to be the same when say 15%-20% of the nation plugs in a car every evening - its going to the surge when people go to make a cup of tea when the adverts are on during coronation street look tame.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
But what proportion of houses have off road parking in your own garage. Also think what does this do to the Electricity Grid if a non trivial amount of EV's are put on charge every night.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
So you think filling out a security clearance form online is a good idea
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Yes but we don't kill anyone :-)
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Its all fun and games until some one puts skimmers / malware on the kiosks and appears on Brian Krebs site as the latest hack. I am not putting my CC or DD card anywhere near a conatctless system - I keep a > 3£k balance on my Santa
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Cool - you might want to look at using levenshtein distance algo to improve the search.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Agreed the USA having 52 separate sets of employment laws does not make sense - really employment law should be done at federal level - think of the saving in reduction in red tape. Though I suspect HR and Lawyers might lobby against that
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Depends CA is quite liberal in terms of non competes and I suspect they woudl argue that self driving trucks is sufficiently different from self driving cars.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
I would imagine the first self driving trucks would be for opencast mines and similar sites not on the public highway uses. Milatery supply trucks would be another area and as Google seem to have the vapours over anything milatery or dual u
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Yes but the issues with the UK supermarkets where well known at the time.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Depends if its like BH foray into uk supermarkets which dint end well.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
No thats the US navy /marines when they go for a run ashore in portsmouth :-) The USN being dry - the effect of the UK's stronger beers can have unfortunate consequences.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Try just walking into a telephone company like ATT or BT building unannounced and you will be escorted out even assuming you can get past the turnstiles, Exchanges (Central Offices) have even stricter security.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Yep thats what id call a cooker circuit - in the uk with 240 v we can get 415v on that sort of circuit.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
I suspect that the number of homes in Japan with a garage is very small - also ignores the problems that the grid will have if a non trivial number of people come home and all put their car on charge at around the same time Even worse in t
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Ah this might have been before that i was at a training course for TUPE and some of the senior Union Guys where there on the same course.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Roseane was very much Working Class / Blue Collar
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
They meant in the industrial relations sense of being "dirty" Jobs which traditionally came with a premium - sewer workers dustmen steel workers both because its unplesant work and there s also a risk premium. Its why a pit deput
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
The average payout for unfair dismissal is 6 months pay and constructive dismissal is hard to prove unless the company is particularly dumb - e.g. having recordings of discussing firing some one for being gay.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Well enough if you want a traditional 9-5 job (which is fine if it suits you) - pity Java is such a PITA to work with though and Oracle do charge a lot! for there product. Trouble is if your company pivots and you have been doing Mainfram
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
I think in contrast to the Uk and US - work relationships in a lot of European countries are much more rigid and hierarchical.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
So your always going to be playing catch up - back in 94 when i had been playing with the www I volunteered to go to Edinburgh for a month to work on a cutting edge RAD/DSDM Project. Basically I told my then boss see you after Christm
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Why not? i learnt PL/1G in a week and was productive by the end of the second week. I can easily go thorough 6 books in a month one of the advantages of commuting by train.
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by spacecowboy_lon 11y ago
That depends if you can apply for redundancy you can lose the good people. Most of the UK's mobile industry was staffed by Ex Cellnet/BT who took Redundancy with some massive TAX free payouts - Senior Guys could get 5 figure payo

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