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tinomaxgalvin

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tinomaxgalvin··on Britain’s destruction and concealment of colonial records (2017)
It all happened before we were born. Should the Italians face up to what the Romans did?
tinomaxgalvin··on French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’
Don't tell the Belgians.
tinomaxgalvin··on French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’
Why are they worried? English isn't English anymore. In fact it makes sense to chose a language that isn't the native language of any EU nation. (I'm squinting regarding Ireland).
tinomaxgalvin··on French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’
It makes no sense at all.
tinomaxgalvin··on “AI promised to revolutionize radiology but so far its failing”
I don't really know of one.. I don't think automation is ever shunned as long as it is useful and known to be useful. Everyone likes things that save time.

There is an essentially an unrestricted demand for healthcare across the world.. they will use the time to either talk to their patients more (or start to if they don't already).. or they will move into other medical fields.. or increase the volume of screening.. (may be harmful, but that's another matter). They probably don't want to do it as it won't really save them much time. OR it will save them time and they have been burnt before. For example, early voice recognition was very poor and over promised. Stopped me using it for ages after it became fairly good. It's still not actually better than typing, but it is closer now. Let's all focus on voice recognition that works before moving on to grander plans....

tinomaxgalvin··on “AI promised to revolutionize radiology but so far its failing”
I hear this sort of argument a lot in different fields. Usually it's because the IT guy doesn't really understand the business they are trying to automate or where the true pinch points or time savings are.
tinomaxgalvin··on Bitcoin’s reliance on stablecoins harks back to the Wild West of finance
Don't remember anyone saying online shopping was a fad, just that a lot of companies were massively over valued.
tinomaxgalvin··on Bitcoin’s reliance on stablecoins harks back to the Wild West of finance
There is near zero risk of a consumer loosing out with credit card fraud.
tinomaxgalvin··on Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £220bn profit last year
Yes. So you either pay income tax OR corporation tax plus dividend tax, but not both.
tinomaxgalvin··on Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
Must be nice to smoke what you are smoking. The "west" lost entirely in Vietnam. Just look at Afghanistan today... 20 years of war and they have been beaten again.
tinomaxgalvin··on Bitcoin is failing at becoming the future of money
What you are describing is just a PayPal competitor.

(At least in the UK bank to bank transfers are free and instant for consumers anyway)

tinomaxgalvin··on Slack was experiencing an outage
Think this is over the top Worst case put git repo on LAN.
tinomaxgalvin··on Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio]
So I have been using Excel every day for 13 years as an actuary. I'm also involved in the management of software project in c++.

You are correct. It's a combination of REPL like behaviour and being able to see the entire state at once that does it. Excel is the most agile programming environment known to man.

tinomaxgalvin··on Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio]
The approach used by pyxll is higher performance. It uses the Excel C API. Excel add-ons can be written as native DLLs known as XLLs.