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I'm a native English speaker with the world's most broadcast accent (the main Hollywood movie accent) and I'm a fan of Sherlock and Doctor Who. Those programs are produced with the most well known UK accents. And yet I still
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tokyo has way better access to public transport than Paris. And at half the density. The median neighborhood of the Toyko metro area is 150 while central Paris is 300 and outlying neighborhoods—not as well served by transit as Tokyo'
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For a UK contract (and probably USA), there is a clause that says 'if any party decides to end the contract, so be it, and there will be X weeks/months of notice". I don't know what anyone's contract says, but the
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Alphabet's Google's Youtube already pays the maximum annual license fees to MPEG-LA. They're not concerned about saving money by switching.
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I guarantee that if the collective influence of some of the world's most powerful companies wanted there to be more affordable housing, either out of some noblesse oblige like you see in NYC, or because their employees really turned t
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Property owners do not get to vote in the USA, not even in the Bay Area. Citizens get to vote. Citizens that own property are very motivated to vote against construction and so far have shown extreme solidarity against allowing dense constr
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The staff photo versus America: 100% under forty. (USA is 50% over 40) 95% white and Asian. <5% Latino and black. (USA and Bay Area are >33%) <5% overweight and obese (USA is 40% overweight and obese) 21% duck
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1. "Ashkenazi are…"? 'Ashkenazim' is the plural; 'Ashkenazi' is singular. 2. Everyone except Christian Identity white nationalists considers Ashkenazim white. DNA lineage studies strongly agree. The majority of
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If a company can pay employees less and get equal productivity by hiring women and men that aren't good at negotiating, then that company would be foolish not to hire them.
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My ISP's DNS inserts advertising into query results. Google's doesn't.
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Any association with the SharePoint people could and should doom a social network product. Or any product.
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Americans don't need to travel so far to see an ocean being born. The block-fault zone from the Sea of Cortez up through most of Nevada is pulling apart rapidly and has already created 500 miles of inlet between Baja California and mai
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There's a famous National Geographic photo of a cookie-cutter suburb an hour east of Mexico City. [0] Identical brand new tiny homes in cheerful monotone colors extend into the distance. If you visit that neighborhood today, you can se
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Also, a substantial number of children know the truth about marshmallows: they're disgusting. The study might get very different results with bittersweet chocolates with buttercream filling.
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Most restaurants in most countries charge extra for a glass of plain water. The USA impresses foreigners with its free universal iced water.
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Giving up cases only if a competent public defender wants proof of guilt, including technology used, is a longstanding practice. [0] Then you underfund the PDs and live content that criminals rich enough to have a lawyer will often go free.
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They can still prosecute anyone they caught by independent means. It's just a matter of having some other way to search their computers, which is just a formality in most prosecutions. It's exceedingly easy to get a warrant agains
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Health care is affordable and sustainable in most of the high HDI countries and, in any case, has little to do with life expectancies.
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some forms of regulation actually do make things better for everyone Best example is that property rights are such a form of regulation. When it comes to fisheries, wildlife, open public lands, air pollution, and intellectual 'proper
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As computing gets faster in general, the practical considerations should shift more towards the performance you can get out of an entire system than unit-for-unit performance. Those days are over, unfortunately. Computing stopped getting
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It's fairly easy to get C performance (and even beat it in concurrent code) for the same amount of effort on the JVM. Ha. That's what we were promised back in the mid-1990s. It's no more true today than it was then. Well wr
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The qualification round is easy and any programmer should be able to solve one of the first two problems. There is no time limit except for the three day running time of the round. Any correct solution for any of the three problems qualifie
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Facebook Hacker Cup (Qualification Round 6-9 January)(facebook.com)
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The internet started in 1969 and the Chinese Communist Party forced the legitimate government to retreat to Taipei in 1949. So China has been fact checking for twenty years longer than the internet has existed.
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Remember all the people that made fun of "don't be evil" as a motto? This is what happens when you're motto is just, "how much is evil and its cheap evil sweatshop labor contributing to the bottom line today?"
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1080p? Why not just go back to individual blinking LEDs? A non-retina screen is a throwback to previous centuries and should be tolerated only by the visually impaired.
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I sell people vegetables professionally. It's not difficult at all. People will pay a fair price for quality organically grown tomatoes, cucumbers, kale, chiles, peas and snow peas, and various Southern and Asian vegetables. There&#x27
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Even in the USA, grave robbing is tolerated with only minor penalties even in serious cases. [0] There is no protection for most kinds of archaeological treasures anywhere in the world and the limited non-renewable resource of our past as a
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Jony Ive considers standard strain relief cones to be unattractive and prohibits Apple from shipping them.
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US inflation adjusted short term bonds and notes have occasionally carried zero and even negative interest rates over the past decade.

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