> Removing nodes by adding a concept of implicit branches via "unless" clauses within a node doesn't necessarily make the system any easier to understand at a glance.
The original diagram does this too - it has an "A && B" node.
> "You are formally invited to A WAKE for THE RESEARCH SCIENCE CAREER of FRANCES HOCUTT FRIDAY from 7 PM to MIDNIGHT"
When I quit my PhD I had an Ungraduation Party! My wife made a cake and everyone sang Happy Ungraduation To You! It was sad and happy but overwhelmingly such a relief to get out
Good on you too not wrap your identity too much in a credential to allow yourself that decision and also having unconditional support from those close to you.
Thanks... I haven't thought about it in a long time, as it was difficult, but looking back it seems quite positive.
Three things:
1. Full disclosure at that time in my life I was rather bad at motivating myself to work independently for long periods. In hindsight starting a PhD was a bad idea for this reason alone.
2. The university closed the department I was in. I was transferred to another supervisor in another department, who was nice but saw his role as more administrative. After a while he then announced he was retiring so I was looking at moving to another supervisor again.
3. I turned out to be far, far more interested in writing software than doing research. E.g I wrote an open source unit testing library in Prolog to support my research tooling. I was learning Rails on the side. I went to the Hacker News meet-up in London, and the startup that was running them offered me a job, and the rest is history!
I had sunk multiple years into it so it wasn't easy. But in hindsight it was not even a close decision.
In 2009 I wrote a lib to auto-generate Ruby bindings for Vala code. It gave a very pleasant API to create native extensions for Ruby, if you were happy using glib.
One reason was to increase investment. In water's case the infrastructure had been under-invested in under public ownership for decades, due to it always being a low priority from a political point of view.
The regulatory structure of the privatized industry says the water companies can only make profits if they make capital investments, and so the amount invested in water infrastructure in the UK (particularly England) has duly gone up a lot since privatization and has been comparable or higher to other nations since.
From this point of view, it's less about choice and markets as a way to structure the regulation and ownership so that capital investment actually happens.
Privatisation increasing investment means one of two things, either the investors are getting ripped off or they're going to get a profitable return on their investment. Assuming no government would admit to the first and no investor would intentionally invest in the first, let's assume the second is the plan. In which case, if the investment will yield profits, there's no reason the government shouldn't make the investment themselves so that the public get the profits (as well as the benefits from increased investment at the start).
I've been an Evernote user since 2008 and a paying one for most of that. The other week I tried to go through some old notes. Half of them wouldn't load. Looking to leave now.
This is so stupid. I just checked and yeah, that's why Browsing wasn't available for me! I wish their UI wasn't such a mess and it would have told me. I disabled history because I find it annoying that it sticks around and I don't care to use it. I didn't expect this would prevent me from seeing the Browsing plugin. Had I known I wouldn't have disabled it in the first place. Definitely a facepalm moment.
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