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by calewis 1y ago
I think its like WW2, loads of amazing tech came from war. Covid was a bit like that for bioTech.
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by calewis 1y ago
I worked for a very old school manufacturing company based in Switzerland. We wanted to roll our own IoT platform for sensors in the factory. We spoke to MS, what they had was a load of garbage, so we decided to carry on as we were. I la
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by calewis 2y ago
It reads like someone’s daddy got them a summer job writing “a few bits for gen z”
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by calewis 2y ago
It doesn’t really work like that in the UK. I doubt you’d get anyone to take it on, let alone for feee. Proving the material impact would be hard. She’s not been named publicly, no lost earnings etc. I would like to think this sort of thin
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by calewis 3y ago
Parkinsons law of triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
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by calewis 3y ago
This is amazing: https://beeline.co/pages/beeline-moto E-ink display so works in very bright light Very small Multiple methods of navigation
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by calewis 3y ago
FYI This is GB news, think fox but more right wing.
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by calewis 3y ago
Thanks for ruining my productivity this afternoon. I love HN for interesting small projects like this.
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by calewis 4y ago
It’s also the heavy manipulation of the free and social press by Murdoch, Paul Darce and state actors.
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by calewis 4y ago
After 4 years of EV ownership this is exactly how it works for me and my friends, in the UK at least.
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by calewis 5y ago
I come to hacker news for this kind of well written content. As a person who works in a non engineering role (although I started out there) this is brilliantly written and explained. Thank-you.
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by calewis 7y ago
Is the answer not because the world was at war and throwing all it's resources into beating the other side? Surely the GDP spend per capita on science and research was far what it has been since.
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by calewis 7y ago
The Saudi fund that has invested in them has also invested in uber.
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by calewis 7y ago
Not everyone works at your pace, and sometimes matching someone else's cadence can be a healthy exercise and an opportunity for growth.
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by calewis 7y ago
This is why big incumbent car companies will lose against people like Tesla. The amount of organisational energy and capital required for a project like this is huge, and it's pay off..? Not so sure.
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by calewis 7y ago
Interesting relationship between another front-page article: https://www.foodandwine.com/news/borden-dairy-bankruptcy
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by calewis 7y ago
I also struggled with books. Despite being an avid WW2 and science fiction fan I avoided lengthy texts and just got my information online. As has been said many times over that information is often, although not always, low quality. For m
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by calewis 7y ago
This is an amazing Show HN. The best bit was “I did this because I'm lazy” I suspect not somehow. I did wonder why those chips were so expensive? I have a super limited knowledge of hardware so I was unable to figure it out exactly.
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by calewis 7y ago
When I worked at GDS the aim was to use PDF’s they were considered to have a long shelf life, where as HTML and the web in general can evolve and leave some people without a way to read it. I wonder whats changed?
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by calewis 7y ago
This is why hacker news, despite all its problems, is such a joy. There are people doing some amazing stuff that I can learn so much from (while trying not to think to hard about how lazy I am). Its not only a cool project, but is really w
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by calewis 7y ago
Because the thing people generally put in a car is a liquid, called petrol, not a gas.
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by calewis 7y ago
I listened to a great pod cast about Amazon recently. On it they talk to the CEO of Birkenstock and he discusses about how they no longer sell on amazon and why. Its a great listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast
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British challenger platform Monzo wants higher staff turnover(uk.finance.yahoo.com)
8 points by calewis 7y ago|3 comments
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by calewis 7y ago
I’d love a link but this argument makes total common sense. Learning where your boundaries are, and pushing them a bit, is such an important developmental step.
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by calewis 7y ago
My mother wrote her master thesis on the correlation between risk in early years children and success later in life (a long time ago now) It turns out if you allow children to take (reasonable) risks, then they go on to be more successful i
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by calewis 7y ago
Sadly it was an internal consultation that, unsurprisingly, wasn’t published. I think there could be good grounds for an FOI request though.
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by calewis 7y ago
This project was doomed from the start, and was yet another vanity project for Boris. Great Gaurdian article which references the design flaws from the get-go: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-desi
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by calewis 7y ago
I left my laptop (£2,000+ MBP) on a train in the UK (South eastern rail). Some amazing human handed it in, yay! The rail company charged me £30 to collect it as an admin fee. Now, when I find things, and this happens relatively often (I&#x2
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by calewis 7y ago
Why is alibaba not in there?
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by calewis 7y ago
I think its both. Insurers are by nature risk averse. I suspect, from your comment you also have no claims years? Still £900 is a lot.

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