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by takno 10y ago
If you're earning more you will effectively pay the money back in higher taxes, so the transfer will be much the same as for a minimum guaranteed income, but without the costly administration, confusing rules and moral judgement that c
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by takno 10y ago
It costs maybe 81 pounds a month to give you your 80 pounds. If it was means tested it would cost massively more per person you gave it to. In addition plenty of needy people would go without because they didn't know about it, or could
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by takno 10y ago
"Scientific American wants permission to send you notifications". Came on a bit strong there guys, at least let me browse a couple of pages and tell me what the notifications might be...
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by takno 10y ago
What's even better is that I've almost always seen the 3 day old post (and often even liked it) 3 days ago, but it's apparently still the "most relevant" thing for me to see. I do wonder if I'd appreciate the a
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by takno 10y ago
I still browse the homepage, even with the need to switch it back to most recent every other day when they try to sneak you back onto algorithmogeddoen.
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by takno 10y ago
Berlin had an extremely lively tourism sector before Air BnB existed and will doubtless continue to have one afterwards. Tourism is a double-edged sword anyway - it provides jobs, although often not particularly good ones, but it can easily
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by takno 10y ago
I think the question asked of Scott badly mischaracterizes Philosophy as I've seen it taught and studied. Philosophers interested in mind and cognition tend to take a great deal of interest in developments in CS and neuroscience. On th
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by takno 10y ago
To be honest I was thinking 2007 predated Java 5. It's been a busy old decade...
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by takno 10y ago
This article paints a very bleak figure. In particular it ignores that in any given year around 2.5% of the workforce will retire, and retiring a year early isn't a massive hardship if you are getting severance, so 5% cuts can be easil
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by takno 10y ago
I probably Google more for questions about Netty than I do for anything else in Java. I've never seen such a useful library with such terrible documentation
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by takno 10y ago
This really needs 2007 attached. Things have changed a lot in the last 9 years
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by takno 10y ago
In retrospect I'm not sure she placed the exclamation mark at the right degree of whimsy at all. 3 degrees left and Yahoo would be in a very different place right now
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by takno 10y ago
In what sense is it questionable who pays the fees? That is exactly what directors insurance is for
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by takno 10y ago
I'm paying my salary. In my last performance review I rated myself outstanding and gave myself a substantial bonus. Frankly my employer is a little bit irritated by your arrogant comments about his hiring policies You list a lot of thi
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by takno 10y ago
I would read that article positively
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by takno 10y ago
The main contention of the article is that this "simplicity" is illusory. You end up writing just as much code, but now you've added a complex dependency you don't really understand but have to make your customers downlo
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by takno 10y ago
Do Google even really use angular? I know none of their core products use it. As to Facebook, their website is painfully slow, seems like it's not a model of the right way to do stuff
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by takno 10y ago
My total image payload is 30k. Obviously getting there is more challenging for other sites, but at the end of the day if your page is >1mb I'm probably not going to wait for it to load
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by takno 10y ago
Sure, you may well end up writing one, but it's likely to be a fraction of the size. My current entire app is running at half the size of jquery, which is getting me awesomely quick page loads even on poor mobile connections. The dev t
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by takno 10y ago
Generally speaking in the UK this was addressed by adding banking engines (the steepest sustained mainline gradient in the UK is 1:37 and this isn't enough to cause problems for modern trains). This suggests the problem is an economic
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by takno 10y ago
I can see some value to a chat app, not least to hold your presence to online. It's the app for the rest of it and the Instagram app that have me confused
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by takno 10y ago
Most of Amazon's employees are firmly in the race-to-the-bottom category, stock pickers barely making minimum wage on zero hours contracts. It's not something to be especially proud of
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by takno 10y ago
What does a Facebook app offer over just giving the website notification permissions in Chrome or Firefox?
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by takno 10y ago
About half of the article deals with why attempting to use exercise to optimize the process probably won't help much with it and for some people will completely derail it. The title is exactly aligned with the article
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by takno 10y ago
I feel like it's telling that he refers to the candidates as guys throughout
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by takno 10y ago
Why would I go to the trouble of downloading an app and creating an account for this? I can do the whole thing in a couple of clicks and report a range of other problems on fixmystreet. Is there a way to check if my council is signed up to
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by takno 10y ago
If it was a science experiment bottom-placed villa were certainly able to provide the control group, appointing a board largely at random and then letting them ignore the manager and pick players on the basis of, well nobody's sure, bu
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by takno 10y ago
There's no obvious reason why it would be particularly slow to get counts from another table. You're probably going to want to offer full text searches and searches on columns you wouldn't choose to index online as well thoug
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by takno 10y ago
I'm guessing you mostly mean light rail, since there's not a lot of money going into urban heavy rail. There are a couple of reasons why these can be better than buses: - You can invest around them. Because unlike a bus, a tram
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by takno 10y ago
The maximum allowable age for London Taxis is 15 years. The actual breakdown is detailed here https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/spread_of_ages_of_lon...

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