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by treerock 9y ago
Thule is marked on the map away past Ireland, and is apparently identified as Norway nowadays. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule
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by treerock 9y ago
Pensioners are also "people without a job".
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by treerock 9y ago
Not an expert, but in the UK the benefits system isn't 'universal', you have to meet certain qualification criteria. So if you quit your job because your boss is an arsehole or to start up your own business, you don't re
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by treerock 9y ago
Can I ask, how did the employees fit in with the payment structure? My feeling has been that the NHS simply can't hire talented staff on the wages they expect because the pay grades don't go up that high. Hence hiring contractors.
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by treerock 9y ago
The Forth crossing (north of Edinburgh) seems to show this progression quite nicely. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forth_Replacement_Cr... Three bridges built in 1890, 1964 and 2017 respectively (from right t
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by treerock 10y ago
Accelerando is an independent novel (in fact a series of nine short stories).
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by treerock 10y ago
I think it's the "don't get any big ideas" bit that is depressing.
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by treerock 10y ago
I was pleasantly surprised to find a clean, functional and good looking website. Can't speak for recruiters, but I like the style.
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by treerock 10y ago
Yeah I was curious about what level of detail will be recorded. According to the article: "The law forces internet service providers to keep a record of all the websites – not the actual pages – you visit for up to a year." If the
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by treerock 10y ago
I always liked this article on toxic employees (in part because I recognise myself in the description). http://randsinrepose.com/archives/a-toxic-paradox/ However the end advice might not be very comforting.
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by treerock 10y ago
Seems it was a joke. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/science/explorers-club-mam...
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by treerock 10y ago
'roostie'? dinna ken fit yer spiken aboot.
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by treerock 10y ago
According to the article "Nationwide, the annual salary for a garbage truck driver is $40,000"
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by treerock 11y ago
Couldn't believe that but it absurdly true. Checked British sites and it's splashed all across The Guardian, BBC, Telegraph, even Sky New and the Daily Mail. Each reporting it from multiple angles. But the Washington Post has just
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by treerock 11y ago
There aren't that many people using i.e. 9 (for example) but still, a lot of companies make effort to support it. Meanwhile there are huge numbers of people with poor eyesight or other disabilities. You'd think a business would be
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by treerock 11y ago
> Find some more sources with vetinary backgrounds. What like the sources he links to in the article? http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-1795.2010.... http://www.independent.co.uk&#x2F
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by treerock 11y ago
I think there might be a deeper problem. One reason to use DuckDuckGo is to avoid the tracking and data collection that google does. But if that data collection allows Google to provide better search results, e.g. localised results tailored
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by treerock 11y ago
In Chrome, probably [1]. Other browsers don't seem to be as strict. [1] https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/idn-in-...
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by treerock 11y ago
I'm curious. How do you know this?
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by treerock 11y ago
I'd love to see the prototype he mentions. I struggle to even conceive how something like this could work.
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by treerock 11y ago
That's a false dichotomy. There are plenty of groups that can take on the responsibilities that government now assume.
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by treerock 11y ago
No. The assumption that government should fix everything is selfish and lazy. It absolves us of personal responsibility, and gives us someone to blame when things go wrong. I'd feel sorry for the politicians, except they do more than a
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by treerock 11y ago
Did you really? She isn't quitting her passion, she's quitting doing it for someone else, i.e. her job. >"It’s not to say that I have no interest in software. Of course I do...What I mean is that I can’t do it for someon
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by treerock 11y ago
> Changes in laws cannot provide access to data that was never gathered and stored in the first place. Laws can and have been written that require companies to gather data. > Similarly, laws cannot force a company to divulge encrypted
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by treerock 11y ago
Yeah, that was my first thought. I'm thinking there are two things at play. I'm from Scotland where nobody has AC, so when you are cold, you turn on the 'heating'. And generally we have a separate control panel and the
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by treerock 11y ago
It's been years since I read Design of Everyday Things, but the lingering idea I've taken away is that beautiful products also work well. i.e. beauty and functionality are linked. Doesn't seem to match up with his statement &
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What to Do When Your App Is Racist(newyorker.com)
6 points by treerock 11y ago|1 comments
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by treerock 11y ago
I get the impression, reading certain writers, that they live in some parallel universe very different from my own. Just about every paragraph here had me saying 'what?'.
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by treerock 11y ago
This makes no sense. The evidence (we still survive and population keeps growing) suggests that we a living well within the carrying capacity of the earth. Technology, invention, social adaptation all help to increase that carrying capacity
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Was the Nepal earthquake twice as big as we thought?(qz.com)
2 points by treerock 11y ago|0 comments

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