Chestofdraw

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by Chestofdraw 10y ago
I've seen this said a bunch of times but never anything to actually back it up. The fact that big pharma companies tend to have fantastic margins and spend similar amounts on R&D as they do on marketing makes me think that it'
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by Chestofdraw 10y ago
It would be good if you could filter this data by sector. It doesn't really matter how many jobs have been posted if none of them match up to the field you work in and that's without even getting into the level of experience or sp
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by Chestofdraw 10y ago
The American's case was that HSBC frequently circumvented the rules designed to prevent dealings with Burma, North Korea and Iran. That they did not disclose tens of thousands of sensitive transactions when they should have. That w
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by Chestofdraw 10y ago
How do you feel about HSBC being convicted of money laundering? Do you feel that they were wrongly convicted based on the original definition of the term?
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by Chestofdraw 10y ago
> The premise is that because corruption involves money and money involves banks and London has lots of banks, transitively, London is very corrupt. The premise was that the banks of London launder huge amounts of drug money... I don&#x2
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by Chestofdraw 11y ago
One of the most worrying things is how the Tories are changing the game to try and make sure they remain in power. Changing boundaries in a way that disproportionately benefits themselves. Changing voter registration / deregistration t
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by Chestofdraw 11y ago
Sounds like a line from Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
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by Chestofdraw 12y ago
71.2% can be ignored since android wear doesn't support them. My own experience in wearable tech is that 68.7% of our android users are running 4.4 and the nexus 5 is twice as popular as the next most popular phone.
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by Chestofdraw 13y ago
Zooming in on London, Piccadilly Circus (the no. 1 photo location in London according to this site) and found that the no.7 location here is 'Alex's Amazing Test Location of Greatness' I wonder what this is and if anyone else
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by Chestofdraw 13y ago
Orwell was fighting for the POUM (Workers' Party of Marxist Unification) not against them, this faction had the support of Stalin. He was shot by members of Francos army, they were a Fascist / Nationalist party that had the suppor
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by Chestofdraw 13y ago
Steam today shows their software nous, hardware is a very different thing.
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by Chestofdraw 13y ago
Exactly how I see it, Google sheets is adequate for my useage and if I need more then I can download a .xlsx or .csv and do more but so far, for my use case, that's unnecessary.
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by Chestofdraw 13y ago
Such a system seems so open to abuse. Render people unemployed and then force them to work jobs that you no longer recruit for.
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by Chestofdraw 13y ago
Possibly the beef subsidies? According to the site linked below the price for a big mac meal is cheaper in the US, so they have a more expensive burger but cheaper sides. http://www.humuch.com/prices/McDonalds-Big-Mac
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by Chestofdraw 13y ago
> and now the OP wants to dismantle that and go back to - what? Destitute elderly? Uncertain retirement? Op wants the system to change so only the elderly that actually need support get it. How is that creating destitute elderly? >Ess
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by Chestofdraw 13y ago
Also, flies are tiny and move pretty slowly. A bird doesn't recover from flying into a wall very well.
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by Chestofdraw 13y ago
Running four cameras just for a 3d UI? Isn't that going to be a huge battery drain with little benefit?
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by Chestofdraw 13y ago
Had two today, have had a couple in the past but not for at least a year.