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Concerns that £360m data platform for NHS England is being set up to fail(theregister.com)
16 points by spzb 4y ago|4 comments
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Palantir gears up to expand its reach into UK’s National Health Service(12ft.io)
4 points by spzb 4y ago|0 comments
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by spzb 4y ago
Maybe it's because I grew up in the 1980s and so they seem more recent, but the idea that government communications security depended on a piece of paper tape sounds positively antique.
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Women almost twice as likely to be trapped in crashed vehicle, study finds(theguardian.com)
2 points by spzb 4y ago|1 comments
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by spzb 4y ago
Can’t help but read the title as “Lisp in spaaaace”. Too much muppets show in my youth obviously.
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by spzb 4y ago
That's not the way it works on my iPhone (2020 SE). Move the phone over the payment terminal, it senses the NFC terminal, wakes up with my default payment card shown, I put my thumb on the sensor and payment is made.
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by spzb 4y ago
Any time I see encryption described as "military grade" it usually sets of my bullshit detector.
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Crypto-crimewave forces police online to pursue ill-gotten assets(theguardian.com)
2 points by spzb 4y ago|0 comments
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by spzb 4y ago
Which is my point. Environment shapes the individual.
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by spzb 4y ago
There are morons in a lot of jobs. It sounds like you had one making the decisions. It's only an anecdote though.
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by spzb 4y ago
Not really. Not the degree you seem to think. Otherwise identical twins would have the same personality. You’ve edited your post while I wrote this response. Your final point is a straw man. I didn’t say anything like that. Good day to you
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by spzb 4y ago
We’re talking about men and women. Approximately 50% each of humankind. Hardly “very specific sub populations”
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by spzb 4y ago
Intelligence is not purely genetic.
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by spzb 4y ago
No I didn't edit it. You overlooked it.
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by spzb 4y ago
You're ignoring the part of my reply where I respond to your point about test scores. Why is that?
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by spzb 4y ago
Intelligence, as measured by IQ tests, exam results etc, is not just a product of genetics.
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by spzb 4y ago
Sorry but that's pseudo-scientific bollocks. Far from being "well-established fact" it is actually contentious and poorly supported by the evidence. Intelligence testing is a human created concept. There are all manner of cul
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by spzb 4y ago
Exactly equal down to the single individual, yes that would be unlikely. Broadly the same, seems perfectly logical to me.
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by spzb 4y ago
> intelligence distribution skews more male at the higher end Really? You think there are inherently more intelligent men than women?
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by spzb 4y ago
The thing that makes me laugh is that these managers insist on people coming into the office because "that's where they're more collaborative and creative". Before the pandemic they wanted to take us all off-site for an
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The $1m challenge: ‘If the Turin Shroud is a forgery, show how it was done’(theguardian.com)
9 points by spzb 4y ago|4 comments
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by spzb 4y ago
Life imitating Jules Vernes http://www.astronautix.com/j/julesvernemoongun.html
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by spzb 4y ago
Unrolled version : https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1514810917908717577.html
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by spzb 4y ago
Same here. 25 years. Bored to death of the whole thing but not having the talents or inclination to build a career in a different field at this point in life. I've never worked in the VC culture (public sector and SMEs instead) but the
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by spzb 5y ago
How does a credit card company know what I'm buying? They only see the vendor and the value
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by spzb 5y ago
Works for me, FWIW
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by spzb 5y ago
Good job it's a white car
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by spzb 5y ago
Depends on whether they've seen S12E04 of Doctor Who https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9354212/
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by spzb 5y ago
Vaguely related. I wrote a script years ago that grabs the cheapest region for each Spot Instance on AWS. Haven't checked it in years but it still seems to work : https://simonpbriggs.co.uk/amazonec2/
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by spzb 5y ago
You mean, it's discriminatory against people who aren't breathing any more?

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