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Find a local Meetup? Skype with native online teachers?

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).

Ha. Perfect blogpost as I’m leaving a large corp soon...

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 government.

You can cache that result and update it with each new event.

“One study says the close relationship between the government and banking insiders during the financial crisis affected trades.”

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...

Perhaps you forgot about this?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/20/austria.thefar...

Negative interest rates and sound monetary policy - allow me to invoke the Chinese ambassador talking to Nixon on that one..

No, we’ll have to wait for some definitive proof.

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?

It appears close to a one-time trick, if you’re China. Once the trust is gone, it’s not coming back. Supply chains are already coming back home due to automation and consequently less reliance on cheap manual labour.

The case would have to be compelling - something that could not be achieved otherwise. That case is yet to be made.

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...

Or... what endures when you die.

OTOH, the pizza shop owner sure struck lucky, if he kept them

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.

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 object schema without touching the database (although in practice a .js data migration script may be involved, so this is moot). As a sidenote local cultural issue, the fact that we can operate the MongoDB servers ourselves, whereas RDBMS instances are with a central team and buried under a layer of bureaucracy was also probably an operational consideration.

When it comes to joins, these have lately been added to MongoDB, as has SQL - although the functionality is still rudimentary compared to a mature RDBMS.

But where we experienced pain was when the business decided they wanted to do live reporting. We ended up piping the data into a SQL Server instance and using SSRS.

Regarding telepathy...

https://www.sheldrake.org/research/animal-powers/a-dog-that-...

Seconded - I am also very happy with ProtonMail.

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 stock price - let's see where it is in 3-6 months.

Always been a mystery to me, why they have never added .NET language support. 16 years and counting...

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 down to CO2? Contentious, again - e.g. see this book for an argument of how we could explain much if not all of the warming down to various natural cycles: https://www.amazon.com/Neglected-Sun-Precludes-Catastrophe-I...

Is a warming planet a problem? Again, debatable. Rising sea level and ocean acidification scares aside, history suggests that we tend to do better with a warmer climate.

This is actually one of the scarier articles I read recently about why rising CO2 is bad - and it's nothing to do with climate: https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/13/food-nutrie...

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, due to their Internet fame.

Nicholas Nassim Taleb on the logic of the imperial system: https://www.facebook.com/nntaleb/posts/10153932393103375

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 lukewarm and/or not spending much.

Any advice for people who would like to found their own company, but aren't sure what it should do?

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.»

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 :)

Now that would be hilarious.

Random dinner location is certainly worth a try, for dipping a toe in the shallow end, so to speak: http://www.restaurantgenerator.com

ETH did not participate in the big spike of BTC back-end of last week and is now tracking down today.