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How often is it the case that some official in government has an interest in Accenture, or whatever company, and it is in their interest for that company to win contracts, and then simply stretch those contracts out as long as possible, while the interested official continues their influence in retaining the contract? Or perhaps I'm overly cynical.
Re:Why you’re not doing creative work on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @06:52AM (#30513021)
If the article was titled "Why you don't catch many fish", do you think the article would need extra clarification that it shouldn't apply to people who don't like fishing?
Ha, I wish I found discarded Buchla Model 100's in cupboards!
Re:No alcohol safe to drink, global study confirms (2018) on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:52AM (#26871856)
I think the intention was just to establish a baseline number of cases in non drinkers.
Me too :( Seems to be broken now!
Re:How bad is your Spotify? on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @11:46AM (#25519453)
I've also noticed songs disappearing from my library, & crappy recommendations in Spotify. What service did you end up going with?
I do think it's worth adding, though, that from what I've heard (and given my own experiences), the culture in Oxford/Cambridge is not at all representative of University culture generally in British Universities.
Something weird going on with that page! The article number in the URL changes back and forward between 2 numbers as you scroll! Makes coming back to HN a bit tricky!

Interesting read though

Re:Does the UK Think It Can Police the Internet? on Friday April 26, 2019 @10:14AM (#19757701)
> They now do a man in the middle attack to decrypt ssl, and store all of it, if you use openvpn as a proxy without accounting for this they own you.

Is there any evidence of this?

Re:Tesla Model 3 becomes best-selling car in Switzerland on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @11:54AM (#19625917)
Why would a Tesla?
Re:Putin Signs “Digital Iron Curtain” into Law on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:04PM (#19444227)
When a state enforces a law like this, forcing all traffic through routers they control, presumably it makes it easier to detect traffic using VPNs/Tor? I'm guessing this would have to be done through some kind of heuristics based mechanism?
> The term was coined as a metaphor to illuminate Parkinson’s Law of Triviality. Parkinson observed that a committee whose job is to approve plans for a nuclear power plant may spend the majority of its time on relatively unimportant but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bikeshed.

-- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding

Was that the final resolution then; that Boeing were ordered to replace the part, and the crashes stopped happening? Was there ever a formal investigation into whether Boeing knew the true cause of the rudder hardover, and chose to ignore it and blame other stuff?
Re:Too Clever by Half (2018) on Thursday March 07, 2019 @06:57PM (#19333892)
I've seen this pop up a couple of times now as well - are there any other similarly thought provoking articles anyone recommends?
Re:Voltaire's Luck: The French Philosopher Outsmarts the Lottery on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @04:44AM (#18863553)
I read it as meaning the English Parliament were an influencer of their European counterparts.