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by swombat 12y ago
I hate to be running to the government for this, but... the FCC has regulations that require some level of testing for devices that are going to use certain parts of the spectrum. Some parts have been declared "free zones" and I b
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by swombat 12y ago
You'd have to be one hell of an idiot to air your grievances about being rejected for a job application on a public forum like this. Great way to reduce your job prospects for the future. I suspect this sort of thing would be fairly ra
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by swombat 12y ago
It's a combo of all those things: inflation, improving the cash flow cycle, and even internal rate of return (i.e. for those 60 days the money is hopefully being used in a capital efficient manner).
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by swombat 12y ago
Helpfully, if you have raised the prices by even as little as 20%, you can easily use that extra margin to pay for an invoice factoring company who will pay you the invoice upfront - for a fee, but a fee that's usually much less than 2
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by swombat 12y ago
Some stuff is much better and some stuff is much worse, as people have said in other comments. But what is certainly true is that that's a far better result than the typical government IT project. Give me the gov.uk "debacle"
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by swombat 12y ago
Bah, another example of bad science reporting. Here's the Guardian version of this: http://www.theguardian.com/science/sifting-the-evidence/2015... > The Mail on Sunday has shouted that ‘cannabis TRIPLES
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by swombat 12y ago
Just because he could have started the company 15 years ago doesn't mean he's a good candidate to hire now.
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by swombat 12y ago
This is a major app store problem that a lot of developers, particularly indie developers, have complained about, but Apple has seemingly ignored so far. It'd be quite amusing if the answer turned out to be "just plug Pinterest&#x
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by swombat 12y ago
As I recall, to get prosecuted for tax evasion in the UK, you need to not only commit the tax evasion, but also to lie to the HMRC investigation of the tax evasion, at the point where they ask you to sign a form that explicitly says that if
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by swombat 12y ago
It's not cannibalizing their market, it's exploding it. Currently, I will use uber infrequently because it's fairly cheap, half the price of a typical cab ride (and by contrast, I would say I use cabs rarely, when I have no o
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by swombat 12y ago
There's a fantastic scene in the Count of Monte Christo where the Count and his guests witness a double-execution. In fact, thanks to the wonders of the Internet, here it is, from http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/grol&#x2
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by swombat 12y ago
Sure, we just need decent local power generation. For example, if we can get each village or even block to have its own little nuclear plant, who needs pylons?
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by swombat 12y ago
So, assuming we don't also all die of burns or cancer or natural disasters caused by the sudden influx of energy into the atmosphere immediately... According to http://www.epa.gov/ozonedesignations/faq.htm , groun
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by swombat 12y ago
Here's the completely opposite angle... http://danieltenner.com/2015/01/23/fake-transparency/ Complete salary transparency is what should be pursued, if at all possible.
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Fake transparency: you can't trust what you can't verify(danieltenner.com)
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by swombat 12y ago
I'd add that you don't even need to have the machine actually be compromised. If you think it might be compromised, if you have reason to believe that perhaps something bad happened, you probably should re-image it. There may be s
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by swombat 12y ago
4 out of 5 of the places I've lived in London had DSL but no cable, so for 80% of my experience in London BT was the onyl last mile provider available. And yes, there are some new developments, there is some hope in the horizon. Meanwh
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by swombat 12y ago
That's kind of how it works in the UK, with BT being that last-mile provider for every UK ISP. Let me tell you: BT sucks. They are technically a private company, but operating with all the ills that a large governmental monolith has ac
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by swombat 12y ago
Let me quote from today's article by Cory Doctorow: ( http://boingboing.net/2015/01/13/what-david-cameron-just-pro... ) > If your Whatsapp or Google Hangouts has a deliberately introduced flaw in it,
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by swombat 12y ago
Nope. iPhones tend to charge most of the battery in about an hour with a decent charger, so you sit down for a presentation or two, while still tweeting/etc, and by the time the presentations are done your phone is charged again.
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by swombat 12y ago
In my experience, those days when I need the extra bit of battery life are almost always at events, or while travelling. I can spot those days in advance, they're not surprises. So I found a remarkably simple and obvious solution: I sp
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by swombat 12y ago
Read only the first couple of sections. Seemed like a pretty terrible article. Maybe there's some sort of insight hiding somewhere in there, but it's well disguised. Skip.
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by swombat 12y ago
Whatever you think of the NSA, there's not a high risk its going to start selling data it collects on the black market for use in identity theft. That's a big assumption considering you're talking about an agency which open
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by swombat 12y ago
My guess based on the article would be it is not just looking at a spot change but at an overall curve, and considers the shape of the curve too (e.g. the comment about it getting flatter depending on the amounts of fat and protein). So, I&
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by swombat 12y ago
When do you eat that one meal of the day, and what does it typically consist of? I've been doing something similar over the last few months - a very light breakfast, a solid lunch, and then no dinner - but for me, doing this was with t
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by swombat 12y ago
I've not suggested there should be any abundance of rights - merely that the direction of history points towards being more inclusive of other conscious species in our definition of "who deserves humane treatment". As I say i
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by swombat 12y ago
You already cannot have pets if you treat them cruelly. At least in theory.
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by swombat 12y ago
I applaud this decision. At least some people are recognising the direction of the arrow of history here. My thoughts on this last time this concept emerged on HN: http://swombat.com/2012/11/6/dolphin-history
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by swombat 12y ago
Apparently, according to my dad who's a psychologist, there are four major learning styles, and people can fall into any of those as a "preferred" learning style: - Learn by reading how to do it (books, articles, etc) - Learn
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by swombat 12y ago
The problem with Apple criticism is a lot of it seems full of cheap shots and unfair framing, like this Panorama report. That makes it more difficult to tell when a criticism of Apple is genuine, because every idiot journalist looking for a

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