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by fauldsh 12y ago
My presumption was it came down to money. Machines have a lot higher initial one off costs. The repair costs of some robots might make them more expensive per hour. Humans are tried and tested, they don't break-down and stop your produ
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by fauldsh 12y ago
I might be wrong, UK law is different than the rest of the EU (you can opt out of the working time directive here). That said, isn't it a 40 hour max on contracted hours? Otherwise it is completely un-policeable. The idea is that you c
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by fauldsh 13y ago
Don't offices and residential buildings have different building regulations, not to mention licenses. I don't know much on the subject but it would't surprise me if this was either illegal or only legal in a small set of case
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by fauldsh 13y ago
Recently former BT employee here. The primary affects of stack ranking at BT is on bonus and raises. If you receive a sufficient number of sub-standard rankings then you would go through the usual UK process of being given warnings which ta
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by fauldsh 13y ago
I know for fact BT do not do this however it is my understanding that Amazon (and possibly other big US tech companies operating in the UK) employ their UK workers as contractors to the US subsidiaries to avoid employment law.
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by fauldsh 13y ago
I'm getting increasingly intrigued to how much advertising they're getting for their $30m
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by fauldsh 13y ago
As some-one living in a flat, if there was somewhere with a quality piano I would happily pay gym prices to go play it. Although much like a gym, if I couldn't get at the piano I would soon stop paying. I live nowhere that would have this u
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by fauldsh 14y ago
I used to get put on a lot of 3:30 shifts because if you worked 4:00 you were entitled to a paid 15min break (worked retail part-time in the UK)
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by fauldsh 14y ago
Was coming into this expecting an interesting piece about the distribution of prime numbers. Either a new approach to predicting them or a proof of why they're unpredictable. But no it's a visualisation of their distribution. Interesting bu
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by fauldsh 14y ago
Are you saying no project can consist of multiple languages working together?
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by fauldsh 14y ago
But that's precisely what this article argues is a falacy. He discusses a trial carried out in hospital conditions with regulated liquid meals of exactly the same number calories but differing carbs/ protein ratios. The results showed that
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by fauldsh 14y ago
What this articles says is any diet which says you can eat the same number of calories and lose weight is lying. Some diets may make you want to eat less calories, but you cannot eat the same number of calories and lose more weight without
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by fauldsh 14y ago
They're saying the OP came up with the puzzle in the pursuit of karma. Which would appear to have worked.
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by fauldsh 14y ago
The question is not one of who is worse. Universal does some morally reprehensible things, that does not excuse Grooveshark. Grooveshark aren't for anybody other than themselves, they base their entire business on people uploading sharing s
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by fauldsh 14y ago
I have no real knowledge of the law. But I thought it was more along the lines of, you have to have sufficient evidence. If it transpires you were wrong you're ok as long as you had good reason to think it was true. I'm very intrigued to kn
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by fauldsh 14y ago
They're not legally guilty but morally guilty. It's websites like Grooveshark that weaken the premise for laws like DMCA safe harbour. Their entire business lies in using DMCA in a way in which it was clearly not designed, making it much ea
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by fauldsh 14y ago
28 days is the legal requirement in the UK [1]. I'm getting 35.5 total which is reasonably uncommon but not unheard of. Although paid paid holiday does sound pretty fantastic. [1] - http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/employment/employees/timeoffan
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by fauldsh 14y ago
Because any surplus saved for the bad years is money that could have been invested in further growth.
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by fauldsh 14y ago
This drive for any business to continually grow (and this isn't a Valley specific problem) is a topic I could rant about for hours. From my understanding growth is necessary in public companies so shareholders can make a profit (assuming th
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by fauldsh 14y ago
This is entirely similar to my experience. I played when I was around 18 and created a hacky fix for skirts (they were an object attached to your body and when you sat down they would flow downwards still), this netted me a few hundred £ an
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by fauldsh 14y ago
I used to work in a small supermarket, towards the end of last year we were being directed not to accept credit cards.
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by fauldsh 14y ago
Just wanted to add that I've been craving something akin to this system for a fair few years now, the amount of reasonable little bits and bobs I've come up with that I just can't think of what to do with frustrates me. As for monetisation,
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by fauldsh 15y ago
I can't be the only person who has never used timelines? I assumed other people used facebook like me: To read what friends had posted, maybe occasionally post myself and respond to messages/events, nothing more. The only timeline I have se
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by fauldsh 15y ago
I think this is a good compromise between allowing their business to run for the day and getting the message to as many people as possible. I particularly like this style of black-out because it's so visually powerful.
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by fauldsh 15y ago
I've never seen a news post which exemplifies the idea that the comments can be worth more than the article. Obviously this isn't news to any-one here but it gives a place to discuss the changes.
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by fauldsh 15y ago
Tenuous link (was mentioned in the article) I find it more astonishing that Rupert Murdoch would have the gall to say on twitter: "So Obama has thrown in his lot with. Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy
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by fauldsh 15y ago
HN guidelines: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this
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by fauldsh 15y ago
Construction kits with some pre-made sets is probably a good way to go. I would be interested to see if advertising on western manga or anime sites would provide better value for money.
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by fauldsh 15y ago
Consider that Apple own patents for pinch-to-zoom and the use of a gyroscope to control the rotation of a screen (turn the phone sideways, get landscape view). Given the thousands of patents all of the big companies own it becomes very beli
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by fauldsh 15y ago
I'm interested to know where this certainty that these patents wouldn't hold up in court comes from.

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