Marazan

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by Marazan 8y ago
You liter ally put it in a preamble. Like, if you say "this tax break is intended solely for people who sell second hand cars" then you don't have to spend 100 pages exactly specifying every nuance to 100% prevent people not
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by Marazan 8y ago
Greater than 150, as in significantly greater than
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by Marazan 8y ago
Located Scots me South of Oxford. So not perfect.
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by Marazan 8y ago
The first 3 I viewed were all incredible except for a weird little flaw around the edge of the hair/background line, first 2 had an unnatural notch out of their hair and the third was a weird discolouration/thinning of hair.
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by Marazan 8y ago
This is not getting enough up votes.
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by Marazan 8y ago
How's the sovereign debt crisis coming along? We're what, 3 years late at this point?
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by Marazan 8y ago
React is not MVC. I mean, for a start, no 2 MVC frameworks actually agree on how to pass data around. React is just the V.
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by Marazan 8y ago
Imagine a country leaving a trading block and then acting suprised it doesn't get any of the benefits of being a member of the block.
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by Marazan 8y ago
Leaving the EU is a problem. It is not in the EU's interest to let the UK have all the benefits of being a member without actually being a member.
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by Marazan 8y ago
Do you get Paul's incredible support and dedication?
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by Marazan 8y ago
Never rule out people cheating. Solving it on one account then doing it again in another account
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by Marazan 8y ago
That's basically everyone's summary of the Penrose argument about consciousness and quantum effects. I don't think you can ascribe it to any one person. The summary his argument against hard question AI is even better. Human
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by Marazan 8y ago
Official sales had the C64 outselling the Spectrum 3 to 1 'worldwide' but that ignores licened clones like the Timex and, basically, the entire Eastern European computer scene based on cloned ZX Spectrums.
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by Marazan 8y ago
The C64 launched at 600 dollars in the USA, the Timex licensed version of the Spectrum was 200 dollars.
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by Marazan 8y ago
True, but for the C64 "anyone" meant anyone middle-class. The Spectrum "anyone" really meant almost anyone.
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by Marazan 8y ago
In Europe you had Clive Sinclair who produced the zx80, zx81 and, critically, the ZX Spectrum. Clive wasn't focused on building the best computer, he was focused on building the cheapest. He made home computers mass market. The C64 was
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by Marazan 8y ago
They are serving people paying more for food.
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by Marazan 8y ago
Productivity has been increasing. Wages have not.
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by Marazan 8y ago
How does it solve the 'access allocation' problem better than a random lottery?
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by Marazan 8y ago
And then poor people couldn't afford to go.
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by Marazan 8y ago
Twitter communities is a similar idea I had a while ago. The ability to create invite only super-hashtag. Only people invited to the hashtag can reply but everyone can read. It seems to solve many of the current Twitter problems (apart from
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by Marazan 8y ago
Not really. The GAAR makes many "technically legal" schemes illegal. But it requires expensive and long litigation by Hmrc to prove it. Passing a new law short circuits the process.
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by Marazan 8y ago
Tax avoidance is not the same as pensions and ISAs. Pensions and ISAs are tax planning. Using government mandated tax reliefs for their intended purpose. Tax avoidance is using government mandated tax reliefs for unintended purposes. Try no
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by Marazan 8y ago
The thing that is threatening to them is having the concept of 'meritocracy' rumbled and exposed as an unclothed emporer for all to see.
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by Marazan 8y ago
That's fine everything is personal taste. ... Starbucks coffee tastes like crap to me and the reason is they chose crappy quality beans and then over roast them.
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by Marazan 8y ago
No, it is a reaction against the terrible technology.
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by Marazan 8y ago
It doesn't have to be be deliberate. Unconscious bias is a thing.
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by Marazan 8y ago
If there was an untapped market of engineers you'd better believe every tech company would be taking advantage of it. That's exactly the same argument used to justify every regressive policy. If x was true then rational y actio
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by Marazan 8y ago
Wow, found the 3 people on the Internet who thought Real Names was a good idea.
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by Marazan 8y ago
Google+ failed because of Real Names. It was a catastrophic misjudgement that killed the platform at birth.

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