Sniperfish

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by Sniperfish 13y ago
I was worried, then amused.
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
Unfortunately - given the OP article - through misuse of antibiotics the consumer of homeopathic treatments is playing lottery with more than just their health. A lottery where the losers also cause society to lose. "Antimicrobial resi
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
Would that not logically justify reimbursement for anything taken for its placebo effects - which would be literally anything as research[1] showed placebo effect occurs even when the subject knows they are taking a placebo? It feels more l
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
Bloomberg support is excellent but I disagree it is as significant in decision making as some commentators appear to imply. Many shops will have internal support able to handle the majority of first line questions, then Bloomberg support is
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
>It’s quite true that a lot of these problems are “pipeline” problems. Decades of subtle processes can shape the number of qualified applicants and make it hard to hire people across the spectrum. However, it’s not enough to throw up one
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
Oligopoly more than monopoly. But if there is a single dealer lobby group then it's a collusive oligopoly (cartel) which will be able to wield monopolistic power.
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
>when a passage is typographically well structured and design, the readers are more engrossed in the text Design vs designed. Pedantic point but it stuck out in that specific sentence.
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
Investing 101: future values are an individual's estimates
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
This has always been my position, and seems common in the ex pat community. I would pay the equivalent license fee just to get access online via iPlayer in a heartbeat. Some of the issues were touched on by QI creator John Lloyd, when they
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
recent (20m): "I’m sorry to say I’m also now aware of more @HSCIC stories breaking shortly. What a mess. They need to come clean asap, clean stables." "Wait for details on story i’ve been tweeting today: twitter is first draf
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
The Google relevance is server location, if outside of UK and if outside EU various data protection laws at each level would appear to have been breached.
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
You as an individual and your profession as a whole are different. There is a very pertinent and legitimate point made in the article that -teaching- is not a respected industry. It's not exactly a new comment!
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
My wife is a teacher. I am consistently shocked how much work she does in evenings, weekends. I earn more than twice as much as her and more than her maximum salary cap (we are both early in our careers). She blows me away in her dedication
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
Bloomberg's research, news, and opinion columns do not always slavishly toe the mothership's line. When the parent is that large and diverse I imagine just expressing an opinion has a high chance of hypocrisy.
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
The government wishes to spur innovation in certain directions because it feels investment in those areas is lacking - presumably based on analysis of potential benefit of successful development in that area (eg. alternative energy, electri
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
I hate reading something and not knowing the full length upfront - I want a rough gauge of how long I will be spending on an article.
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
Solidly good news for all concerned and not remotely surprising, as others have commented there's never been an apparent appetite by the Supreme to distinguish Institutional vs other speakers in treatment of first amendment rights. Amu
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
pence
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
Education in Canada varies heavily by province (and intra-province which education system you're in) which could explain some differences in your experiences.
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
Confirmed in their section 'Wait, I thought Spotify paid per stream?' as "Every time somebody listens to a song on Spotify it generates payments".
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
I don't have much personal investment in the story, I'm a significant consumer of music but haven't user Spotify (despite being in Canada I was only vaguely aware the service isn't available here). They've taken som
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How we pay royalties: an overview(spotifyartists.com)
123 points by Sniperfish 13y ago|75 comments
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
I think there's a slight distinction between using Rails and entering into a hackathon with the intention to port a recently developed app into a 'mobile' version?
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
I was contemplating some snide response that, regardless of how many apps are considered 'winners', Salesforce comes off as the loser due to bad publicity in the development community. Then I remembered they'd just been given
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
At the risk of being cynical, I think that's the point. If everyone who could contribute considered them (corporate sponsored hackathons) as work for free they'd quickly run out of submissions and fail. Keeping the perception as a
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
Some interesting discussions by KEI http://keionline.org/node/1825 Having not been following the TPP terribly thoroughly I did not realise how wide in scope some of its provisions would appear to be.
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
Assets are matched with liabilities + stockholder equity, not just liabilities. (Balance Sheet equation is Assets = Liabilities + Stockholder Equity)
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
I think the BBC's article from Oct 3rd has some good commentary on this topic: "Red Bull's advantage is believed to come largely from a more effective use of the exhaust gases for aerodynamic effect. This creates more rear do
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
Assuming the article's premise that "the NSA has to assume that all of its operations will become public" is correct I wonder how heavily they would really weight this 'cost'. It seems to have been a fairly common t
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by Sniperfish 13y ago
Feels like an opportunity to link to SMBC: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3123#comic

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