CaptainDecisive

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by CaptainDecisive 8mo ago
Not only for a surprisingly long time, but also in surprisingly good condition. For example at Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall archeologists have found not one or two, or even ten but over 5000 amazingly preserved Roman shoes that were
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by CaptainDecisive 3y ago
I lived on 2nd Ave NYC for a while which matched your observations on interacting with neighbours. However there's an interesting urbanist video [1] that suggests that even in a higher density neighbourhood with appartment buildings, t
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by CaptainDecisive 7y ago
So really we should be asking when a car is going to break the mythical 500 km/h barrier and not some also-ran number ;-) Although apparently that barrier was broken in 1937 by Thunderbolt, so I'm not sure what record we're
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by CaptainDecisive 7y ago
Second this approach. If someone interrupts, just keep talking. Do not back down before the interrupter stops. Think of it as a conversational filibuster :-) If both parties keep talking it will get awkward for everyone in the conversatio
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by CaptainDecisive 7y ago
Your comment is interesting because it hadn't even occurred to me that the parent comment might be being sarcastic. I thought the emphasis on love was being serious. My experience is older folks (maybe 80 and up? Not really sure) start
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by CaptainDecisive 8y ago
Agreed, I've read you get about 4g peak deceleration going down stairs. But people seem to survive that process on a regular basis. So a temporary 10g is not a problem, and the effects of gravity loads on the human body are well studie
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by CaptainDecisive 8y ago
I think you've got a fair point. But democracy is the least worst system of government that we know of. This idea has been around for a long time. I know the Churchill quote 'Democracy is the worst form of government, except for a
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by CaptainDecisive 8y ago
I'm a kiwi and did the reverse and moved to Scotland. I do know a number of people who were offered jobs in NZ while still abroad. Technical sales, developer, psychiatrist. That's just anecdotal, but it's definitely possible.
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by CaptainDecisive 9y ago
One funny thing I've realized is that I like the smell of coal fires. It must have been horrible back when cities were choking on it, but coal is so completely phased out now that when I occasionally do smell coal smoke from a domestic
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by CaptainDecisive 9y ago
I did some work for an electricity utility and they wanted to get the pole IDs described in the article into our database, alongside the GIS data. The client explained that getting the IDs was kinda difficult and there were several differen
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by CaptainDecisive 9y ago
Generally yes, weather is less of an impact on rail, but occasionally you can get <cue ominous music> the Wrong Type of Snow ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_wrong_type_of_snow )
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by CaptainDecisive 9y ago
I live in Edinburgh, and I've personally counted half a dozen of these little, one or two person IBS type shops open up round town in the last couple of years. They have a small retail space at the front, an open workshop at the back,
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by CaptainDecisive 9y ago
I have a Macbook Pro (2015 15") at work and a Dell XPS 15 (9550) at home, and personally feel that I'm a very lucky lad to have the two best laptops in the world. My previous job I had a couple of high-end Dell Precision laptops a
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by CaptainDecisive 9y ago
The SpatiaLite extension ( https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index ) handles spatial data and includes indexing. It's solid and we've been using it in production for years. The only real downsid
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by CaptainDecisive 9y ago
I wonder where those 9 people are though. Locally, for a given job opening, that could perhaps be true. Nationally however, unemployment is at historically low levels in many Western economies; 4.3% in the UK, 4.4% in the US, 3.9% in German
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by CaptainDecisive 10y ago
I don't know what the actual rules were regarding eligibility, but I am a permanent resident of the UK and not a British citizen, and I voted yesterday. So some non British citizens were able to vote.
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by CaptainDecisive 11y ago
I'm also not convinced on the OP's idea, although I found it very interesting how the street cross section diagrams highlighted just how much space is consumed by streets. By it's also very interesting to see how public opi
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by CaptainDecisive 13y ago
He is likely saying that he interviewed 300 people to fill about six engineer positions, given he states a 1-in-50 hire rate from interviews. Still, that means 500 applicants per open position which, I agree, seems high. In tech-ese, his us
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by CaptainDecisive 13y ago
And further to this: which top companies? In TrialPay's case he lists his dozen elite companies. But what happens if you're hiring in a market where none of those companies have an office? For example the city I work in has a lot
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by CaptainDecisive 13y ago
Yup, that's what people usually really mean when they ask "Where are you from?" I went NZ -> New York, NY -> Scotland and if I'm say on holiday somewhere, doesn't really matter whether it's in the UK, Eur
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by CaptainDecisive 14y ago
Yeah, same for me with Chrome. Irritating, isn't it. The site seems poorly designed. I can see a Flashblock icon in the top left so I know what's broken, but I can't click on the Flashblock icon to enable the content, as it won't take focus
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by CaptainDecisive 14y ago
When my wee boys stand on their Lego I see it as a wonderful teachable moment. Lego is a great company to provide me with so many educational opportunities.
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by CaptainDecisive 14y ago
The parable about the elephant and the goldfish was wonderful. I imagined, when the time is right, telling it to my little boys as I tucked them in to bed at night. And then imagined one of them coming in to my bedroom later that night and
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by CaptainDecisive 14y ago
There's a very large Windows developer community. And some of those developers have thought about " working individually, in smaller companies, or in startups, building consumer-facing apps or services ", and then thought about having to le
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by CaptainDecisive 15y ago
In Scotland there's an interesting situation like you mention where children born in Jan and Feb are able to choose which school year they start, either when they're 4.5 or 5.5. Children born from March onwards will start school the followi
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by CaptainDecisive 15y ago
To continue the Star Wars analogy, the great thing about technological advancement is that as sooner or later some unknown farm boy shows up out of nowhere and bulls-eyes the fucking exhaust port and then, sha-boom, everything changes. And
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by CaptainDecisive 15y ago
SPAM - please remove
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by CaptainDecisive 15y ago
Specializing is a very good idea ... for some people. It does however have it's down sides. One of those is that you can end up quite restricted geographically. Ie, you specialize in industry A or technology B and want to live in city
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by CaptainDecisive 15y ago
But for every one of those wealthy Americans who is looking for a way out there is at least one wealthy person, if not ten, from China, Malaysia, South Africa, well, as you say, everywhere - looking for a way in to the US. Their money comes
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by CaptainDecisive 15y ago
Remember we're talking about the top 1% or 0.1% of the population here. The unemployment rate simply doesn't enter their quality of life equation. But quality of life is a big deal for rich people. There are a number of surveys (Mercer, E

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