NLips

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by NLips 9y ago
This is an oft-mentioned idea in the UK. See here for a list of state EU referenda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendums_related_to_the_Eur... The only repeat referenda seem to be ones where: 1) a motion was deni
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by NLips 9y ago
Come on people! BabyRainbow is not claiming vaccinations don't work. Their point is almost exactly the opposite - we know vaccinations work without requiring a 'twin Earth' that the grandparent posited. Exactly the same app
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by NLips 9y ago
Do you mean you prefer the UK to the US? Otherwise that statement seems out of kilter with the rest of your comment.
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by NLips 9y ago
You probably mean 'ublock' (autocorrect issue?)
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by NLips 9y ago
Please can you explain that? If household debt is 1.7 * household income, and household debt is 2.5 * GDP, then household income is >1.4 * GDP. Surely household income is a subset of GDP?
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by NLips 9y ago
38 are in western Europe, which has a similar population to the US. And many of those universities are much less open to foreign students (due to language barriers, not necessarily selection).
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by NLips 9y ago
Are you suggesting I should have a (fat)cat as an investment manager?
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by NLips 9y ago
The BBC article agrees. The $18,000 a year is based on PPP, so for equality of _effective_ income, that's possibly a better number to use.
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by NLips 10y ago
The normal interpretation is that the party you're paying doesn't have to accept, but has no legal standing to say "You owe me and didn't pay".
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by NLips 10y ago
From reading the responses and thinking further on this: is this a culture-divide issue? Do you pay for meals in advance in US restaurants? If so, I've misspoken.
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by NLips 10y ago
It's completely true. If I finish my meal and don't have a credit card, the restaurant will be annoyed. I offer them cash, and they refuse the payment. I therefore leave without paying. The restaurant takes me to court for non
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by NLips 10y ago
That doesn't contradict what I said. If I pay up front, the restaurant can accept/deny whatever they want. If they want to recover a debt, they have to accept legal tender.
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by NLips 10y ago
Actually, if the restaurant only accepts payment by credit card, you are free to not pay. That's the concept of legal tender - if they want to demand payment of a debt (i.e. after you finish the meal) from you with backing by law, the
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by NLips 10y ago
Slow cooking makes most fat _very_ edible.
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by NLips 10y ago
Are you saying that e.g. Prime Minister's questions is an example of good and useful debate? If so, then I am so very sorry for Aussies...
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by NLips 10y ago
In case it wasn't clear: I don't mean to suggest that no-debugger is superior to debugger. WRT the benefits of interactive debuggers, I definitely see the advantages of faster debug cycles. Luckily, it's not often that I ne
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by NLips 10y ago
Nothing special - just macros (provided by the framework that the components run in), which allow the programmer to filter based on filename and/or log level, and print the filename, function and text to file. There's so much trac
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by NLips 10y ago
"In fact, how people can debug large existing codebases without a debugger is beyond me." I currently work on a product with a 15-20 Mloc codebase (mostly C). The development facets which give the closest parallel to a line-by-li
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by NLips 10y ago
Please can you tell us what forecasts it is running then?
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by NLips 10y ago
Interesting. Perhaps I should clarify that I meant the hoses have a rubberised sheath; not that the hose was necessarily just rubber. I'm not aware that hoses do stretch particularly. I imagine this is mainly a difference in locale.
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by NLips 10y ago
Sounds like your problem isn't with VOIP, it's with softphone VOIP clients and/or OTT carrier. The company phones are probably VOIP (do they just have ethernet connections?), but connected up to a telco which handles traffic
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by NLips 10y ago
I've never used a hose that wasn't rubberised - that's in the UK and a few other western European countries. What material are the hoses you use made of (and in what country)?
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by NLips 10y ago
I think the BBC use is very fair, so long as it is applied consistently. The guidelines for 'terrorist': Terrorist The word ‘terrorist’ is not banned, but its use can be a barrier rather than an aid to understanding. We should co
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by NLips 10y ago
For reference, the 'smell test' that lead to me thinking twice about this is the energy cost. Small animals don't have to live as long to reach full size, so you don't need to spend as much energy (food) keeping the exi
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by NLips 10y ago
The whole chicken / beef thing has been misunderstood by the author - chicken was never the expensive alternative to beef. The author seems to have been masively misled by the (false) quote of Hoover "a chicken in every pot and t
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by NLips 10y ago
This is incorrect. There's a false equivalence between the fans who want to see the gig the most and the fans who are willing to spend the most. The current system means that people with lots of money who aren't super interested
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by NLips 10y ago
This title has had the exclamation mark after 'back' removed, making it hard to parse. Are exclamation marks automatically removed? If so, can someone replace with a full stop?
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by NLips 10y ago
I've never understood the urge people have to dictate what other people do right down to what they must sell. What's wrong with a hospital refusing to sell goods that are detrimental to the health of its visitors?
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by NLips 10y ago
5 blocks left (using 8 lines): https://blockly-games.appspot.com/maze?level=10#9zdu9f But that's code bingo - fewer lines, but less efficient for the mouse.
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by NLips 10y ago
If the films that have been censored hadn't been, I don't think anyone would be directly be suffering other than the politicians who have some of the public screaming at them. However, if there were no censorship, producers would

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