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Comment Re:Overpriced dev divas in shambles (Score 1) 39

Owned by you, doing exactly what you want it to do without reporting PII back to some mothership. This is the end game here and I for one cannot wait.

I doubt the above, I believe it is far more likely than you will be granted a licence to use the app, but the ownership of it will stay with the startup.

Comment Re:Side effects (Score 1) 83

And then even with the blood clotting, your chances were good to survive unless you had a rare blood clotting disorder, which was checked 3 separate times before you got jabbed with the needle.

I agree with most of your point, but the checks would depend on when you got the vaccine.I had my first Astra Zeneca vaccine at the end of February 2021 which was before the issues with blood clotting were discovered / published.

Comment Re:200 x faster (Score 1) 206

"No code" is how we ended up with the abomination that was dBase IV/FoxPro programming.

Fuck this guy and fuck his claims

Hmmm

I wrote a huge amount of FoxPro code in the 90's, I never once considered it to be any form of a no code platform, nor do I remember Fox software, or even MS after they bought the company, ever describing it as such, From that era I do remember such things as DataEase, which certainly seemed to be marketed as a form of no or minimal code platform.

Comment Re:The U.S. prefers action to empty words (Score 1) 180

>And that is why the U.S. has the lowest per-capita death rate from Covid19 of any European country except for Germany.

Citation? According to this site a number of European countries have a lower per capita mortality rate than the USA.

Obviously I have no way to determine how accurate and up to date those reports are, though that is the same for all countries.

Comment Re:There is real evidence (Score 1) 142

those predictions are grounded in computer models rather than experimental evidence.

Yes, but those models have real life cases to back them up - for instance the vastly lower number of Covid-19 cases in Mexico, or South America, and the lack of spread there. It's not like Mexico is massively better at healthcare than Italy.

The issue there is that it raises the question as to how accurate those low figures are due to the number of tests performed. According to a Bloomberg report, only 278 people had been tested as of Tuesday the 10th of March in Mexico.

Comment Re:Maybe investigate his murder of a journalist fi (Score 1) 33

What on Earth is making Slashdotters think the two things are unconnected? Are you all seriously unaware (1) who owned the company that employed Khashoggi and (2) how the two events occurred in roughly the same time period, the hacking just before the murder?

This is entirely about Jamal Khashoggi. It's not about Bezos being a billionaire. Do you all think he's the only billionaire in recent history to have his phone hacked by a nation state?

We are not unaware of the connection, but some of us are cynical enough to question why they are getting involved in this specific incident when they have been more than willing to turn a blind eye to similar events in the past. I honestly do not believe that the UN would have got involved if the owner of the newspaper that employed the journalist was not Bezos.

Comment I doubt it. (Score 2) 318

I have seen similar sentiments expressed by other politicians in regards to out-dated / low demand industry roles/skill sets being retrained in to the technology sector, thereby revealing the politicians total ignorance of the subject area. Whilst I am sure that some of them could learn to code for fun / personal tasks, that is a far cry from them being able to achieve the standards required to be paid as a programmer.

The vast majority of career politicians, from all sides of the political spectrum, are out of touch with the real world.

Comment Re:Logistics (Score 1) 160

We have a much simpler solution. We have one grill, we put whatever you want on it, if you have a problem with it, you're free to not put your stuff on the grill.

I remember going to a juggling convention in the early 1990's at a University in the North of England. It had been advertised as having veggie and vegan options. Sadly no one had told the poorly paid staff that mixing veggie/vegan food and meat on the same hot plates would not be popular. The staff looked so surprised at all the howls of protest when that happened and seemingly could not understand why people complained.

Comment Re: One word. (Score 1) 379

Even the BNP states that England should be composed of "the English, Scots, Irish and Welsh

The only problem is the Scots, Irish and Welsh would like the English to fuck right off, the wee ballbags.

I think that is over-generalising, but certainly there a substantial amount of people in the those countries that would like to be independent and have as little to do with the little Englanders as possible. Despite being English, I have similar feelings about the little Englanders.

Me, I think it's funny that the English want to be all sovereign and independent now, considering they're the fucking country that tried to colonize the whole fucking world.

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Again you are over generalising, not everyone in England voted to leave. though sadly a majority did. A substantial number of those that support Brexit seem to believe that the sun has not set on the British Empire...

There will never be a Brexit. It's bullshit, and except for the BNP and a handful of goddamn neo-nazi types, everyone who voted in favor of Brexit has now sobered up and wished they had never heard of the thing. My guess is that there will be another referendum and the vote will flip.

I really wish it was true that there will never be a Brexit, I have always considered it to be political and economic suicide, but given that the majority of Conservative party members want Brexit, even a hard Brexit, and they are the party in power, it is most likely that we will have a Brexit, for that reason I find it hard to believe that there will now be a second referendum, Theresa May's own party will prevent that. Whilst it is true that a significant number of people now regret their choice, their are still plenty of people that believe it is worth pursuing regardless of the economic costs.

I am not sure why the BNP have been mentioned several times in this discussion, they have been an irrelevant political force in the UK for close to 15 years.

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