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Comment Not just the USA (Score 2) 238

I work in a UK university and the number of applicants that have issues is increasing all the time, it may be just a reflection of a general societal problem of over diagnosis, but I suspect it is an attempt to game the system.

Also since COVID when students were able to claim consideration be taken for getting Covid, or related disruption to exams, the number of claims has gone through the roof.

Comment Reduces fragmentation. (Score 2) 73

This will hopefully mean that the Warner streaming services are shut down and rolled into Netflix. The potential downsides are that Netflix may decline to license content to other streaming services, and other content providers may be reluctant to license their content to Netflix, seeing them as more of a direct competitor.

Comment Hardly Surprising (Score 5, Interesting) 59

Countries like the USA, unnecessarily feeding cattle with antibiotics for profit.
Adulterated medication being sold in corrupt countries with lower dose
Overprescribing and ineffective water treatment, meaning waterways contain low dose antibiotics
Patients not completing their medication

It is no wonder that resistance is developing quickly

Comment That seems correct to me (Score 4, Informative) 29

We have loads of PHP applications in use where I am that will need to remain in service for the forceable future, we have the developers on the team and that is what they know best. We would like to build new projects in something more modern like Go, but changing is hard. Some new small projects are done in Go, and we see PHP as something that we will gradually move away from, but these things don't happen overnight.

Comment Re:In the USA, yes (Score 3, Insightful) 191

You seem to be making two incorrect assumptions

1. It costs the same to educate a student in China as it does in the USA, not the case, the profit driven school system in the USA results in significantly higher costs than those in China.

That I am blaming Trump. Also incorrect, the US education system has created a population where the majority are incapable of critical thinking and rational decision making, hence why someone like Trump could ever get elected. This would not happen in most other developed democracies.

Comment In the USA, yes (Score 4, Insightful) 191

In the USA, there has been under investment in education and things that benefit society as a whole. Meanwhile China has invested heavily in education, sending their brightest students to the best universities all around the world.

One of these nations is growing and gaining influence globally, the other elected an orange clown as it’s president and is the butt of jokes the world over.

Comment Worst Drivers & Riders (Score 1) 56

Uber, JustEat etc are among the worst drivers and riders there are, every day I witness them committing traffic violations. Running red lights, driving in bus lanes, on sidewalks, making illegal turns, all daily occurrences. So we'll soon see these autonomous vehicles driving like a deranged uber driver.

Comment Time to take IT seriously (Score 4, Interesting) 92

Companies like this will never learn, they bring in highly paid IT managers with their MBAs, whose job it is to micro optimise at the expense of the macro function. They listen to the BS being spouted by the sales drones from companies selling IT services, drop all their skilled IT staff and outsource to the cheapest providers. They need to stop treating IT as an expense like their energy bills and start treating IT as a strategic advantage to the company. Having a skilled IT workforce has a cost, but it results in a coherent IT environment and that is reflected in the results of the company.

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