Boothroid

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by Boothroid 9y ago
If they were sent out of the blue you have no obligation to return them. If they were sent by mistake as part of a remedy of for example a faulty TV, and you decide to use them, the sender is entitled to ask you to pay for them. The correct
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Be interesting to reverse the scenario - what happens when a man enters an all female arena and threatens the hierarchy? In my experience women are just as capable of banding together to ostracise an outsider.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Just checked UK law. If you receive an extra item as part of a replacement for a broken item or similar and use it the sender has the right to demand payment for the extra item. The correct course of action is to contact the sender who can
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Bit dramatic and a false dichotomy. It wasn't like he didn't have other choices.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Agreed. I don't have a sophisticated palate and even I can tell that Starbucks is inferior to competitors.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
The market for single malt is large and growing
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Desktop too - so many frameworks and runtimes and threading and associated overhead that many apps don't feel as tight as they used too.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Oh yeah? Don't know about the US, but certainly here in Europe criticism of Islam is verging on thought crime these days. If you want to know who rules over you find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
And an economy can only be so rapacious of honest hard-working citizens before it collapses.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
I don't see why we couldn't directly provide pure pharmaceutical grade narcotics to addicts for them to consume in safety, as part of a compulsory programme to attempt to cure the addiction. Eventually I hope we will come up with
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Me included - which is why I would provide the bare minimum, and would provide it directly as services rather than dish out benefits for people to spend in the economy. One of the most depressing things on TV here in the UK is a genre of po
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by Boothroid 9y ago
I suppose the opposite is to believe that investors wield no influence over a company.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Perhaps a little inland from the coast, but I was in Palm Springs 10 years ago, and then again this year and was struck by what seemed like a general deterioration in the town, as well as the number of homeless people - I don't remembe
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by Boothroid 9y ago
This concurs with my reading on the subject - the changes required to genuinely make a difference are drastic. Most people don't want to hear this. Personally I think geoengineering offers our best hope.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Sci-hub does seem to have its defenders here on HN.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Now if Norway would stop turning beautiful whales into whale burgers..
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by Boothroid 9y ago
More likely you make yourself a slave to that regime.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Do we not keep on with eugenics individually? Most people, all else being equal, would prefer a healthier, more physically attractive partner.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequence. As this case proves. I feel bad for this woman but it was entirely of her own making.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
It seems like a series of unfortunate or possibly rash choices on her part: the first flipping off, the second when she caught up with the motorcade again, deciding to use the picture as her profile pic, and then going to HR to forewarn the
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by Boothroid 9y ago
You can get this now if you are military or have plenty of spare cash lying around. The problem is that to get this level of resolution your sensor needs to be nearer the earth, and thus your platform has a shorter lifespan because it will
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Plenty of scepticism about this online. Personally I am all for advances in space travel regardless of nationalistic feelings (I don't have much choice really being a Brit, a previous government having given up on space a long time ago
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by Boothroid 9y ago
But so many personal websites are just self promotion of one kind or another, and that's fine, we all have to make a living, but I'd far rather read something where someone just wants to share what they know/love. And everyth
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by Boothroid 9y ago
People don't seem to build personal websites in the same way anymore - back then they weren't doing it to generate clicks, page views, passive income, build their profile etc, and everything wasn't all slickly styled and pres
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Geo as a whole in my observation. There are decades of research effort that have got us to where we are now, well developed study programmes worldwide, advanced proprietary and open software and data available, and geo is effectively mainst
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Presumably you are talking about the vector dataset? I think most of the raster imagery comes from commercial aerial imagery sources (certainly they have no monopoly whatsoever on that). I think there are other global vector datasets that a
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by Boothroid 9y ago
I'm actually starting to find it quite amusing.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Global OSM is 40Gb or so - there are various libraries to translate it but as you can imagine, the sheer size of the dataset causes challenges. You also have to make choices about how you translate the attributes - for example, if you want
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by Boothroid 9y ago
We already force companies and people to take actions that may not be compatible with their beliefs - for example here in the UK it's illegal to refuse to rent to a homosexual couple on the basis of their sexuality a room in a bed and
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Not so sure about that - at least in Europe legislators are taking a pretty good look at the concentration of power in the tech giants. I think it's easy to be relaxed about this when the corporations are apparently aligned with your p

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