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[willendure]

Once you have enough bitcoin you can just buy a yacht with a heated pool on it and sail around the med....

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Stranded energy ? Most bitcoin is mined with stranded energy - contrary to what most people think. You could switch over to mining BTC in the winter when its too cold to get your kit off and take a swim....

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Good move!...

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If you are dumping 34.5 KWh into the pool every day, it might be more efficient to skip the part where you turn sunlight into electricity and then electricity into heat. Just solar direct heating panels....

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Czechia and France, assuming the flights don't get cancelled, or they start asking for £400 fuel suppliments or something. I have at least one Ryan Air booking in my summer plans, and I hate those sons of bitches, but was the only reasonable route to a pre-planned holiday house.

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Don't worry - its not like they are going to run out !...

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Interesting. The write up is pretty long so I made a little summary. Most of it does not translate into the typical IT contractor situation very well though ?

Independent professional judgment
Referees controlled how they performed the core task on match day and exercised their own...

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To some extent. I document invariants expicitly and derived test logic from those. The invariants themselves are very carefully hand curated but it is entirely possible that AI can write a bad test for them - I know in fact that it has sometimes done so. But you tend to find out when you see a bug and...

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Reckon we are heading back to a similar financial situation as the 70s. With the Iran oil shocks, I mean. This has barely gotten started, unless Trump manages to pull off a deal or a wildly succesful military option to take back control of Hormuz, and I don't assign a high probability to either outcome....

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We have no idea what is going to happen next - so just stick with the same number as before.

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Lol. The pace it is advancing at, give it a decade and it will be rewriting itself, at the double exponential improvement rate described by Ray Kurzweil in The Singularity is Near.

I don't know if you know about the new analog AI chip made by a start up called Extropic ? It is thought that...

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Yes, basically you have the dynamics outlined correctly. And its not just the UK, all western countries are facing the same dilema to varying degrees. Its worse in Germany than the UK for example. Its not nearly so bad in the USA because they have a large millenial generation - only country where millenials...

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You're still not getting the point - Sunak let in nearly 1 million immigrants. I am not against immigration entirely, but that was too many. One of the largest groups was IT workers, which is partly why the contract market is so dead. Offshore agencies are rotating people in for 2, now 3, years and...

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I think I have given a few Gen Zs a shock by tracking them down and phoning them up to check they got my CV. The ones that actually answer their phones that is....

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Very interesting. Friend of mine came back from overseas this year (dunno why!!), and he told me he applied for something like 300 jobs, got to about 4 final rounds, and managed to land 1. We were talking about CVs and the amount of work to tailor your CV for a role, and he was of the opinion that his...

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Yeah. Greens are doing well in the polls but their policies make them out to be the biggest opium addicts of all (OPM addict = Other Peoples Money addict). We all know that we need green policies, its just that the party that used to campaign for that are now hard socialist, and seem to talk more about...

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Well ok, I agree that security is one reason to something a little harder.

But to give an example, I was the architect on a government service, following this service manual but the Scottish version of it (pretty much the same). This service required 3 digital signings in its original form,...

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Just to be clear, most immigrants to the UK do not get here via "people smugglers". They get a Visa. Illegal immigration is but a tiny fraction of the total number. Just sayin, because a lot of people do not seem to know that and conflate "immigrant" with "arrived on a small...

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If they keep the triple lock, by the time I retire it will be £200K/year. But a loaf of bread will cost £50.

No. Don't be daft.

But whatever it is, it will be a nice top up. If we ever qualify that is, with the age threshold being bumped up over and again....

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I agree. The level of fraud committed on Covid loans was unreal. I never got one myself (for my company, I mean), but I don't know why I didn't I think the money was even interest free ? But the fruadulent loans add up in the billions that will never be recovered and is a real liability on the tax payer....