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Big bang theory: how blowing up a Transit van wiped out £1m of debt(theguardian.com)
3 points by Turukawa 6y ago|0 comments
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To survive, shops in Britain will have to move to where the commuters are now(theguardian.com)
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Why your organs might reach 100 even if you don't(bbc.com)
2 points by Turukawa 6y ago|0 comments
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by Turukawa 6y ago
Both metadata in the uploaded book, and seeing the transaction reversed a few weeks later. Publishers announce the books they'll be releasing a year in advance,and - seriously, this is a rabbit hole I knew nothing about when I started
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by Turukawa 6y ago
The economics of mid-list writing don't really make this feasible ... very few writers get to do more than buy coffee off their work. Creating a whole dummy book just to mess with pirates isn't worth it. Not when I'm going to
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by Turukawa 6y ago
Sure :) The biggest barrier is micro-payments. If I could charge as a streaming service, but without having to go through a major platform (I don't want Spotify-for-books), then that would be perfect. I actually pitched this to GrantFo
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by Turukawa 6y ago
I'm a mid-list author formally published by one of the world's largest publishing houses. Deliberately seeding pirate sites with my novel would place me in breach of contract. It's an interesting idea if I were entirely self-
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by Turukawa 6y ago
I've written two novels, formally published in the UK, self-published in the US. Books available on Amazon, and DRM-free on my website https://gavinchait.com . Both novels were stolen and uploaded to ZLib within the first we
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by Turukawa 7y ago
Why advertise before you've got FDA approval?
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Gilead criticised over ‘orphan status’ for potential virus treatment(ft.com)
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Evolution selects for 'loners' in slime molds(phys.org)
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Empire of Seeds(medium.com)
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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) donors and partners(who.int)
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Seafarer abandoned for three years off UAE will be home in time for Christmas(theguardian.com)
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Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia(journals.plos.org)
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Chinese tech groups shaping UN facial recognition standards(ft.com)
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Gaming’s Missing Ingredient: Laughter(ft.com)
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by Turukawa 7y ago
OP here. If anyone wants to see a more detailed user guide to our system, this is it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OY_IoV81zmdNLXJteLIn4MeU...
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Show HN: Data wrangling – importing 300 datasets a quarter(m.youtube.com)
1 points by Turukawa 7y ago|1 comments
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Lunch with the FT: Richard Desmond (2015)(ft.com)
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New Zealand: Man brings clown to redundancy meeting(bbc.com)
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SoftBank Urges WeWork to Shelve IPO(ft.com)
17 points by Turukawa 7y ago|2 comments
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Third of foreign investment is multinationals dodging tax(ft.com)
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Robert Mugabe, longtime Zimbabwe leader, dies at 95(apnews.com)
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by Turukawa 7y ago
Yep. If I were a WeWork tenant and would ordinarily qualify for the Small Business Rates Relief, I'd be asking them about that...
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by Turukawa 7y ago
They also have to check what's happening in other authorities. From experience, there is no standardisation of anything, not of definitions, data structure, methods of data management. Government data systems are archaic, so doing thos
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by Turukawa 7y ago
Would be nice ;) although government IT modernisation programs don't always go so well...
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by Turukawa 7y ago
I've been assembling commercial ratepayer data across the UK quarterly for the last three years. While WeWork is certainly not alone, what is remarkable is the explosion in micro-hereditaments over the past year. We're talking med
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by Turukawa 7y ago
It's not heavily discounted. But the offices are very, very small.
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by Turukawa 7y ago
I provided some of the data used in this article (via FOI-request, used at sqwyre.com). The scale of the number of the hereditaments (taxable units) is remarkable and overloads local tax authorities. We're talking thousands, with regul

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