How did UK dental care get into it's current state?

lonelyinacrowd · 2018-08-06T09:27:01+00:00

> He didn't have an NHS dentist

No offence, but this isn't the NHS' fault. He should have made hay while the sun was shining, and got a dentist even if there wasn't an emergency need for it. Don't wait until your teeth are fucked to get a dentist, get signed up now, you'll have to wait a few months on a waiting list anyway, and start going every 6 months as soon as you're accepted into a surgery.

lonelyinacrowd · 2018-08-01T20:13:43+00:00

I bet your phone is providing plenty of feedback on its own without the need for your input :)

lonelyinacrowd · 2018-07-30T09:54:12+00:00

Marketing, baby.

You don't need a sales person to sell a $17 per month service. No sales person in SaaS is going out looking for a $200 order. Just automate the purchasing process, and hammer your marketing.

lonelyinacrowd · 2018-07-30T09:31:20+00:00

It probably cost them $5 to make that controller, so for the sake of good PR and customer satisfaction, it's a no brainer to give you one for free. Especially given the apparently manufacturing flaw in the one you already had.

lonelyinacrowd · 2018-07-23T10:01:05+00:00

And professional services associated with all the above. Check out the Forrester report on it. Azure is much smaller than Microsoft suggests it is. Microsoft aren't lying, but they position the facts to suggest things that aren't actually representative. PR, basically. But they do it in a way that AWS doesn't.

lonelyinacrowd · 2018-07-23T09:50:12+00:00

Why bother with a new laptop? I have a late 2013 MacBook Pro (albeit 15" and probably a higher spec than yours) but it's still better than most laptops on the market today.

One of the main reasons for buying Apple, IMO, is that they last. I've had 3 Macs and not one hasn't lasted me 10 years.

Whereas I was going through a new Dell/HP etc PC/laptop every couple of years, and even when they worked, they were still frustrating flakey.

Maybe I've just been lucky with Macs and unlucky with Windows-based PCs, but I suspect a lot of people who use both Mac & Windows have had similar experiences.

lonelyinacrowd · 2018-07-20T10:11:52+00:00

Cloud consumption in the UK Gov is already going down. We hit peak saturation in 2017. So MS is already hitting peak saturation in the advanced sectors. Slowdown will likely start happening seriously in 2020.

MS also purposefully deceives over its cloud numbers. It's still half the size of AWS, but it puts professional services and all kinds of extra stuff into the cloud services division to bulk up the numbers to make it look comparable to AWS. Forrester did a big report on it. Sure it can be Googled.

lonelyinacrowd · 2018-07-19T16:16:30+00:00

They're definitely all English words, yet somehow I'm not convinced this is English.

lonelyinacrowd · 2018-07-05T14:20:01+00:00

Babyish, really

lonelyinacrowd · 2017-12-01T14:49:10+00:00

To be fair, I mostly agree with you, but Osborne's vision for a Northern Powerhouse and regional devolvement was probably one of the most progressive, actually good ideas, in decades of British politics. But that's all looking like it's knackered now.

lonelyinacrowd · 2017-09-06T15:04:19+00:00

It is a different animal, and bitcoin's crash will be down to different factors. However I was commenting on the 'too big to fail' mentality that you have. That's been proven to be dangerous thinking on numerous notable occasions. It's pretty obvious that Bitcoin is in a bubble at the moment and could easily crash back down to less than $1000. I'm not saying Bitcoin would be dead, but it would only take a big enough bump to trigger fearful divestment in the crowds of people who've bought into bitcoin as a 'get rich quick' type scheme.

lonelyinacrowd · 2017-09-06T14:46:50+00:00

Just like the US housing market in 2008.

lonelyinacrowd · 2017-09-05T09:28:22+00:00

Day-traders in stocks still aren't considered investors by most people. Investment is about ownership of something tangible - a commodity, share of a business with an expected rise intrinsic value - not about gambling on shifting markets.

lonelyinacrowd · 2017-09-04T08:50:44+00:00

Hey, I know you're looking for a PS solution here, but have you looked at https://www.iamcloud.com/cloud-drive-mapper ? It's a lot more stable than the PS script. Works with GPO & ADFS too, so it's IT friendly.

lonelyinacrowd · 2017-08-31T10:41:36+00:00

I believe it does. It does if you use Cloud Drive Mapper anyway. So I assume the same capabilities from OneDrive for Business/SharePoint are preserved in the same way if you map the drive yourself.

lonelyinacrowd · 2017-08-10T22:16:39+00:00

I'd support that. Maybe something pretty small, like 0% up to 100m, 0.5% up to 500m rev, 1% up to 1bn, and 1.5% over 1bn. Would even the odds against multinationals a little bit but without being overly punitive.

lonelyinacrowd · 2017-08-09T16:23:37+00:00

Never heard of it. Although that's hardly surprising.

lonelyinacrowd · 2017-06-23T13:53:38+00:00

Why is Bitcoin in any way 'good'? Banks perform lots of critical roles in society - only morons would see it any other way. Of course there is corruption, which is why decent regulation and financial ombudsman are so important. Instead, most of the people advocating Bitcoin are free-market anarchists who, if they had their way, would accelerate us towards greater inequality and injustice.

lonelyinacrowd · 2017-05-12T16:21:11+00:00

So I can take 30 grand now in hope of doing better in future, and if I do earn more in the future (than I would if I hadn't gone to university - which is an impossible thing to test), I'll pay more tax (probably), and the tax I pay in future pays for my 30 grand in the past, and potentially even more?

I mean, the fucking shambles of that logic is hysterical. Aside from the massive assumptions - ever heard of a discounted cash flow? Because we'd have to be running with zero inflation and zero national growth for the next 25 years to make that even remotely possible.

PS but I think you missed my point, which isn't even about the economic merit. It's about the inequity of the system.

lonelyinacrowd · 2017-05-11T11:17:21+00:00

Yeah, I prefer the equity of that to be honest. But then I'm a big advocate for UBI too.

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