Frqy3

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by Frqy3 7y ago
Treat Facebook like both and apply all the telco and content regulations to them. One of the key principles in telco regulation is ensuring any-to-any connectivity. It is now established in most jurisdictions that telcos have a monopoly ove
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by Frqy3 7y ago
Or like a lot of GPs, she just prescribes whatever medication is top of mind after the last visit from the friendly pharma sales rep.
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by Frqy3 7y ago
The author has extrapolated their experience in (at most) a handful of airports to the general case. One of the first projects I was given as a junior engineer was to measure signal strengths of our and competitor mobile networks at the loc
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by Frqy3 7y ago
I went through this fairly early in my career. I think the career impact is more severe than a mother taking maternity leave (and without the legal protections). Apart from explaining the gap in employment, there is a disruption to the care
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by Frqy3 7y ago
I'll stick with a Torrens Title system over a digitised version of the old chain of title approach.
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by Frqy3 7y ago
Joshua Gans (my old economics Prof) did a study of births by day of week, and showed that the fall in weekend births was explainable by the rise in inducement and cesarean section procedures. https://www.academia.edu/2808187
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by Frqy3 7y ago
I feel that what is currently brewing is a form of social cults, or if you prefer softer phrasing, cultural tribes. With a very strong feedback control loop deriving from social networking. Aspects we can see emerging (and mentioned in the
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by Frqy3 7y ago
The telecoms research company I used to work for has decided to get into the business of writing "white papers" for Huawei that are not far removed from this piece of "tech journalism". Good for short term revenues, but
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by Frqy3 7y ago
It's a solved issue, in that the cell company "simply" has to spend enough on infrastructure to cover the desired area. Justifying the business case to cover the low value (i.e. few customers) areas is another story. However,
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by Frqy3 7y ago
From the article, it sounds like the surgeons are already well aware of the risk from improper cleaning, but don't care enough to push for a systemic solution, instead relying on "workarounds" when it is their own family memb
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by Frqy3 7y ago
We are moving towards a state where technology will allow us to punish every infraction every time, automatically and at low marginal processing cost. I expect that rebalancing the punishments to match the new likelihood of getting caught w
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by Frqy3 7y ago
This should be solved using public sector housing. Which you can think of as similar to rent control as discussed in the article, except the subsidy is made visible and direct through the tax payer funding, rather than through being obscure
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by Frqy3 7y ago
This is exactly the problem. Imagine if every single law on the books is enforced 100% of the time. No leeway, no margin for discretion.
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by Frqy3 7y ago
Being a doctor also carries much greater social respect (partially linked to the pay aspect). I expect this social respect gap has eroded in SV, but is still very significant in the remainder of the world. I started in medicine when I went
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by Frqy3 8y ago
Their similarity to Scientology is quite striking. Complete with alien conspiracy theories [0]. [0] http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2053761,00...
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by Frqy3 8y ago
Not testing on women, and particularly avoiding pregnant women, is how to end up with another thalidomide case. Sure, you wouldn't want pregnant women to be amongst your first field test subjects. But you do want them to be included as
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by Frqy3 8y ago
Humanity needs an existential level extraterrestrial threat to unify us.
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by Frqy3 8y ago
Would you like to borrow my grandfather's axe?
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by Frqy3 8y ago
Nobody escapes death, but the wealthy can still escape an inheritance tax using a trust fund.
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by Frqy3 8y ago
Early in my career someone taught me a useful technique for dealing with this situation. After each "new" idea, spend about half an hour working on the idea. Best to do this on paper and target producing some good looking notes. T
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by Frqy3 8y ago
With the offer of rewards I can see a similar scheme becoming popular in Western countries too. I expect it would have a large overlap in users with Facebook. It is possible to argue that we already have an informal social enforcement schem
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by Frqy3 8y ago
Don't underestimate the cost difference between running a fibre down a street versus running it into every house.
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by Frqy3 8y ago
You might be surprised at just how much news is little more than slightly rehashed press releases.
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by Frqy3 8y ago
Nokia Networks has some good 5G whitepapers and other learning resources. https://networks.nokia.com/5g/resources
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by Frqy3 8y ago
Reminds me of being a junior engineer doing radio signal measurements before and after a network optimisation. With slightly worn hi-vis shirts, clipboards and our portable RF spetrum analyser, we got into all sorts of places from airport l
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by Frqy3 8y ago
Would you feel comfortable posting your last 100 searches here? What about on a list next to your front door? Even though you are "not doing anything wrong", perhaps you did a search on that funny looking rash you noticed the othe
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by Frqy3 8y ago
I'm not an expert in media laws, but my understanding from the broadcast days was that TV broadcasters got access to radio spectrum for effectively zero or peppercorn rates and in return were required to broadcast a certain level of lo
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by Frqy3 8y ago
Not just hostile UX changes, but also less attention to getting things right. For example, we sometimes watch a show/movie with subtitles. But netflix frequently gets confused about whether subtitles should be on or off and with which
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by Frqy3 8y ago
I assume product placement in their own produced shows is already occuring. Etheir that, or they are leaving money on the table with what looks to me like unsubtle brand visibility.
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by Frqy3 8y ago
As a pedestrian, I am annoyed that after spending a lot of money to create nice fully separated bike paths near where I live, some of the lycra clad cyclists still insist on racing along the footpath.

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