uncle_d

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by uncle_d 8y ago
Find a local Meetup? Skype with native online teachers?
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by uncle_d 8y ago
Perhaps they do in old-style Received Pronunciation, like wot the Queen speaks. But yep if you go oop North then A's become short and giraffe will rhyme with gaffe (like bath and laugh will).
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by uncle_d 8y ago
Ha. Perfect blogpost as I’m leaving a large corp soon...
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by uncle_d 8y ago
That's how it seems to be used in the USA - someone left-leaning that may well support more government intervention in the name of fairness. Classical liberalism in contrast focuses on the liberty of the individual through limiting gov
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by uncle_d 8y ago
You can cache that result and update it with each new event.
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by uncle_d 8y ago
“One study says the close relationship between the government and banking insiders during the financial crisis affected trades.”
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by uncle_d 8y ago
Wall Street, not the City of London, and probably insiders leaking info instead of spooks at work, but I’ll just leave this here: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/14/insider-trading-is-still-ram...
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by uncle_d 8y ago
Perhaps you forgot about this? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/20/austria.thefar...
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by uncle_d 8y ago
Negative interest rates and sound monetary policy - allow me to invoke the Chinese ambassador talking to Nixon on that one..
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by uncle_d 8y ago
No, we’ll have to wait for some definitive proof.
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by uncle_d 8y ago
The discoverability of a hardware hack as reported makes the whole thing fail to ring true for me. As Joe alludes to, why do something so discoverable when there are numerous other attack vectors that would preserve plausible deniability? I
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by uncle_d 8y ago
A Swedish study found that just a diagnosis of cancer greatly increased a person’s chances of dying in the following weeks http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/research-some-cancer-diagno...
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by uncle_d 8y ago
Or... what endures when you die.
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by uncle_d 8y ago
OTOH, the pizza shop owner sure struck lucky, if he kept them
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by uncle_d 8y ago
Sure - I’m not claiming that as a database issue at all. It’s just a side addendum to note that sometimes technical decisions can have a political aspect.
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by uncle_d 8y ago
My own experience chimes with this somewhat, having used MongoDB on my last project - quite often application data storage requirements are relatively trivial - and it is a boon to do away with the ORM layer and be able to vary any given ob
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by uncle_d 8y ago
Regarding telepathy... https://www.sheldrake.org/research/animal-powers/a-dog-that-...
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by uncle_d 8y ago
Seconded - I am also very happy with ProtonMail.
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by uncle_d 9y ago
He sold all but the bare minimum he is required to hold as CEO. Whatever else, the optics are terrible. But he must have known they would be, so it's a little hard to see what his thinking was here. And it's early days on the stoc
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by uncle_d 9y ago
Always been a mystery to me, why they have never added .NET language support. 16 years and counting...
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by uncle_d 9y ago
There are a number of questions here. Is CO2 rising? Fairly unequivocally, yes. Has the planet warmed? Again, faily clearly yes, since pre-industrial times. Is it still warming? Ok, here we get more contentious. How much of the warming is d
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by uncle_d 9y ago
I think you just demonstrated the fat-tail balkanisation of the web - Brit here, never heard of this dude. For many still, the first time they hear of someone outside their own bubble will be when e.g. old media invites them on as a guest,
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by uncle_d 9y ago
Nicholas Nassim Taleb on the logic of the imperial system: https://www.facebook.com/nntaleb/posts/10153932393103375
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by uncle_d 9y ago
Perhaps look at something B2B rather than consumer-facing, is the advice I have seen - along the lines of that advice in the YC piece that it's better to have 10 customers that love you (and are spending much more) than 1000 that are l
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by uncle_d 9y ago
Any advice for people who would like to found their own company, but aren't sure what it should do?
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by uncle_d 9y ago
Sounds like standard .gov operating procedure: «When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committee as large as possible — never less than five.»
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by uncle_d 9y ago
This strain is in milk kefir, no? Easy to cultivate at home. See also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38800977 Water kefir is also available :)
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by uncle_d 9y ago
Now that would be hilarious.
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by uncle_d 9y ago
Random dinner location is certainly worth a try, for dipping a toe in the shallow end, so to speak: http://www.restaurantgenerator.com
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by uncle_d 9y ago
ETH did not participate in the big spike of BTC back-end of last week and is now tracking down today.

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