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by Robin_Message 6y ago
Wow, I don't think I've ever been accused of Marxist propaganda before. Certainly not before lunchtime. Okay, I'm going to try and be charitable. I agree that high IQ people create "real progress" and they come from
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The point of the satire, and the point of TFA, is that measuring 'merit' is difficult, if not impossible, and a focus on 'meritocracy' will lead to promoting those that perform best at the measurable proxies to merit, no
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
You know meritocracy† was coined as term to satirise the problem of promoting "greatness", which is hard to measure and results in promoting conformity and class, as opposed to finding the creative minority who bring real progress
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UK schools don't seem to have textbook standardisation in the way the US does, but the schools seem to function fine.
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I had a colleague who insisted on quality in every bit of our software and the results were similar perhaps: locally, each thing might take more time and more care, but the global result was everything working better and being done more eas
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Simon Singh was successfully sued by the British Chiropractic association for pointing out they are quacks. (Edit to add: I just checked and he appealed a point of law successfully and then they withdrew — https://en.wikipedia.or
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
> Interacting with a bookie is a whole different context than interacting with reality. I think the point of the article was that interacting with the stock market (and potentially other areas of many businesses) is more like interacti
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A user story about user stories(esr.ibiblio.org)
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Manager Tools has a great bit of advice from this vein, where they tell new managers to imagine that, when interacting with former peers, they have a post-it note on their foreheads with the words "I can fire you". Gimmicky, but m
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
SEEKING WORK | Cambridge/London UK or Remote I'm a software engineer with 10+ years of programming experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going. I've organised a couple of jobs through HN now
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I wonder if they worry about other areas of China asking for or demanding the same freedoms and democracy as Hong Kong. "Because it used to be a British colony" doesn't feel like a good justification for massive variations in
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/security-behind-nhs-contac... is the closest link I can provide. In the section subtitled Here comes the crypto , second paragraph, it says "it records the model of your phone (f
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If it's the kind of things people say, you want it in screenplays, otherwise Brooklyn 99 would sound like Shakespeare.
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Affairs. Iron-clad proof a minister violated some lockdown restrictions. The location of someone hiding from an abusive partner. The new name of someone in a witness protection programme. The identity of a defendant in an important but secr
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
Don't forget anti-terror laws were used to ensure people were putting the right things in the right bins... ( https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3333366/Half-of-coun... ) So, given the existence of a
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The US also has a weird dichotomy between rights against the state, which are plentiful (i.e. Bill of Rights) and broadly stronger than anywhere else in the world, and a lack of rights against other citizens or corporations, where they are
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by Robin_Message 6y ago
> my advice for anyone who thinks a call is suspect, is to call the talking clock (123 in the UK). [...] But if you call 123, and reach your bank, you know summat's up. No no no no no. Hang up and use another phone. End of. Any adv
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For a once every hundred years event? Probably not.
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
It seems like 8% is an overestimate because logged in users are more likely to be engaged and so to have more page views than a casual user. Any way to divide logged in weekly sessions by all weekly sessions, or something like that?
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
That is certainly true, but the economy is connected to human life, in obvious (food to eat, medical insurance) and non-obvious ways (e.g. job loss linked to suicide https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb&#x2
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
That's a really unfair comment on the OP, especially as the blog literally details why things were fucked and all their efforts on different teams to try and improve things.
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Colorado might suit you. Although, looking at timezones, you probably want a place that is more West-skewed for the timezone in order to get more daylight in the evenings.
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
I am not a lawyer, but as I understand copyright law there seem to be to be two problems with this: - a copyrightable work must include some human creativity. It seems to me that an enumeration of possibilities might be creative, but there
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The Prime Minister was against it 5 years ago, when he was a constituency MP, on the back benches, in a constituency that would suffer more nosie and air pollution from another runway. And who also supported an alternative of another runway
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
Is the ambiguity of 1Ii a problem though? Can't your input routine just normalise those to I say? It is slightly confusing to enter though. Also, any string like this should have at least a check digit and ideally some ECC digits.
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There is some law that changing environmenteal conditions increases productivity, which then reverts to the mean, regardless of what the change is. I wonder if that's what's happening here. I also vary my work space, but I don&#x2
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
I think the Protestants focused on that last sentence, taking it to mean that you are saved by faith, but you can assess if someone does truly have faith by their works. So you are not saved by the works, but if you don't have works, y
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
IANATheologian but I think many if not most Christian denominations teach that people are saved exclusively by faith. Works are interpreted as a sign of faith in some Protestant denominations, which lead to the concept of the Protestant wor
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SEEKING WORK | Cambridge/London UK or Remote I'm a software engineer with 10+ years of programming experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going. I've organised a couple of jobs through HN now
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- Your friend says it was a cat video that they liked and they've no idea how that happened - Everyone shrugs, says "computers eh?" and moves on with their lives This attack would only work for gaslighting or repeated targeti

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