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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 l…

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 focuse…

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“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…

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…

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-dia…

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…

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 …

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…

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 bub…

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 lov…

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