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Comment Re: Interesting (Score 2) 17

At least make it sound as if you're not being paid to write this, for crying out loud.

Back to the article: basing any insight on the number of job adverts is bogus. Everybody knows that most adverts are for jobs that don't exist (ask any recruitment agent that you know socially).

And the skills available come from self-reporting. Guess what? In a boom, everybody says they have the skills. A friend of mine is selling herself as an AI expert when she graduated in fashion and has worked in retail for decades. Don't get me wrong. She's a smart cookie in her domain. But AI expert? WTF?

Comment Re:RTFA (Score 2, Insightful) 69

And who voted for Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen? Nobody!

This is now becoming the script to suppress democracy, namely:

  1. 1. Get the intelligence services to make a claim about Russians and TikTok supporing your opponent.
  2. 2. Refuse to release the full evidence for reasons of "nationaly security".
  3. 3. Get a friendly judge to overrule the peoples' vote
  4. 4. Watch useful idiots claim that we're safer with unelected officials who can't be ousted when the people watch the wrong TikTok memes.

Comment Yes, please (Score 2) 140

Can recommend. Didn't actually use a sleeper but just spent 2 weeks travelling as a family of 4 (two kids nearly 10 years old) on trains around Europe.

When you factor in flight delays, security and the fact trains terminate in the city centre, trains are (generally) faster door-to-door than planes. And when they weren't, we spent a night in another city.

"Who wants a day in Paris, kids?"

Comment Re: Sad, most of this worked on Dell's in 1990s (Score 3, Interesting) 48

Agreed. I've bought 2 Dell laptops with Linux pre-installed and have been very happy. Now, I want a third but where the hell are they on the (UK) website?

Dell, take my money for crying out loud!

I suspect Dell don't want to offend Microsoft and you really have to search hard for Linux laptops.

Comment Re:263 deaths on Tuesday (Score 2, Interesting) 403

This is roughly the same as the number of people who died on Tuesday from smoking. From the NHS's own website:

"Every year around 78,000 people in the UK die from smoking".

That's 213 people per day.

You have to keep perspective here. On Tuesday, 263 people died of a horrible virus that has crippled the country. On the same day, a similar number of people suffered a totally avoidable death but nobody mentions it and we certainly don't let it lock down the economy.

Comment Re: How does anyone take Pao seriously? (Score 2) 177

Read the tweet. Pao is not talking about Epstein. She is talking about Maxwell who was indicted only last year.

Nobody said she witnessed a crime. She explicitly admits she knew about the crime. In most jurisdictions, knowing a crime took place but failing to report it is an offence.

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