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by nagrom 5y ago
Except for your HN account, unfortunately.
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by nagrom 5y ago
It's not just France - the way that the NYT treats the UK has become a running joke e.g: https://londonist.com/london/food-and-drink/until-recently-l... https://unherd.com/2020/01/wh
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by nagrom 5y ago
Why wouldn't they cut the blade up in situ for transportation at the end of its working life? Seems better than having huge convoys to take them away for recycling.
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by nagrom 6y ago
I built an Alexa skill that sits in front of the local council's website (South Worcestershire, UK) and tells me which set of bins go out this week. Have already probably saved myself more time from looking up the website manually than
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Amazon now taking 4 weeks to review new Alexa skills(twitter.com)
2 points by nagrom 6y ago|0 comments
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by nagrom 7y ago
Well, there are very few projects where someone can make a real difference from day 2 or 3. But given that there are numerous permie developers who want either to be a) Product Owners, b) Software Architects or c)professional Youtube viewer
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by nagrom 7y ago
You have completely misunderstood the UK market - note that the OP talked about London. Perhaps as a way to get past the recruiting problem, UK corporates pay a premium for exerienced programmers on the basis that if they cannot do the job,
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by nagrom 8y ago
In case anyone else is confused, the term "en banc" refers to a case which is heard before all the judges on the bench for that court, rather than just one. En banc hearings are generally made in cases deemed of extreme importan
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by nagrom 10y ago
I suspect that this is a question of energy. At high energies, it's difficult/impossible to stop a particle, so you place a row of scintillators out, bend the charged particle path using a magnetic field and measure its displaceme
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by nagrom 10y ago
If you could find some undiscovered pattern in cosmic rays distributions, you'd be discovering something much more interesting than where to site your datacenter. If you could explain such an undiscovered pattern, you may be discoverin
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by nagrom 10y ago
This won't work because all particle detectors are noisy. Pretty much all tracking detectors need to use multiple coincidences to determine that a muon has indeed passed by. Individual counts by themselves are not reliable. My past lif
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by nagrom 10y ago
Poverty is an extremely loaded term - a child in poverty is defined as a child living in a household with less than 60% of the national average income - it has no connection to specific material deprivation. Foodbank use is up - but there i
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by nagrom 10y ago
> That's been the theory behind decades of such experiments in many countries. Worked out great, we all can see how the money keep s"trickling down". Do you have an example? I don't know of any serious economist that
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by nagrom 10y ago
> Can Britain really afford to cut taxes ? It has already cut services to the bone, while running a large twin deficit. Britain has absolutely not cut services to the bone - that claim in incredibly hyperbolic. More could be done, but in
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by nagrom 10y ago
Books, religion, university research, fashion trends and charities. Wars, lynch mobs, cartoons, traditions, village fetes, school plays, professional plays, business strategies and restaurant reviews. Newspapers, television stations, YCombi
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by nagrom 11y ago
Germany, Denmark and the UK outside of London too, actually.
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by nagrom 11y ago
A reasonable number of my friends did particle physics PhDs in the States. None of them had their housing subsidised and one got very sick and had to sell her car to pay for her medical treatment so I don't think her health plan was gr
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Israel: From Startup to Scale-Up Nation(capx.co)
2 points by nagrom 11y ago|0 comments
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by nagrom 11y ago
There's a certain amount of one-upsmanship, and gotta-catch-'em-all to travel discussions. I also find it very difficult to talk about things without coming across as competitive. I have no idea how to fix that though! If I could,
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by nagrom 11y ago
That's funny because I had the same feeling originally about there being no normal. But, when I traveled more, I came to a completely different conclusion. Maybe you will too? I've travelled extensively over the last decade before
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Small Tube; Big Problem(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by nagrom 11y ago|0 comments
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by nagrom 11y ago
As a Brit who lived in Germany for a while, a lot of Brits and Germans will fill each other's glasses before their own when sharing wine or water. Can't say anything about Americans though.
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by nagrom 11y ago
I believe that CINT started life as a tool for medical device development. I count that tool as one of the main reasons that physicists-by-training find 'proper' C++ so difficult to comprehend.
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by nagrom 12y ago
I'd sign up, but I'm in Edinburgh, Scotland. I guess that you only offer US-based deals?
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by nagrom 12y ago
Note that, at the bottom of that page, it is clearly stated that Earth pro is free for both personal and business use.
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by nagrom 12y ago
>> "Apart from that, not too many wedge issues. Certainly not train ticket costs or anything like that (where are the people who want it to go up?)." In charge, it would appear.
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by nagrom 12y ago
None of this screed justifies a group of men shooting dead (and continuing to shoot, even after death) a man who was not resisting in any way. No-one doubts that police officers have a tough job. But that truth doesn't give the police
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by nagrom 12y ago
Arguably, communism did. I certainly know a lot of ex-soviet scientists who have a much worse life than they did under party rule.
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by nagrom 12y ago
As someone who did a PhD and 6 years of post-doc in nuclear physics at a high status institution, I would disagree that tenure is difficult to get at a high status institution. I would argue that tenure at a high status institution depends
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by nagrom 12y ago
Well, he would claim that he was anti-EU, and not anti-European. But if he has the figures wrong, you should tell him (and me!)

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