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by alva 11y ago
Slightly modified cross post from another thread. If you really want to understand the Guardians motivation, look at when they realised that the vast majority of their left-leaning readers strongly disagreed with them regarding Islamic te
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by alva 11y ago
NYSE: GS up 2.5% at time of this comment, which is unintuitive to me. Is this because a significant fine was expected so "baked" into the price? Presumably if the fine was smaller than expected by the market then it could cause an
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by alva 11y ago
Absolutely agree. I am not saying they are either wrong, or wrong because of this hypocrisy, in fact I agree with them regarding this issue. I do think it is important that those who read the Guardians moralising stance on tax are fully awa
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by alva 11y ago
ad hominem "directed against a person rather than the position" The Guardian position is that avoiding tax using offshore companies is morally wrong. The Guardian avoids tax using offshore companies hypocrisy "the practice of
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by alva 11y ago
Even more tax hypocrisy being spouted by the Guardian. http://order-order.com/2012/11/26/the-guardians-offshore-sec... http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/06/28&#x
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by alva 11y ago
My favourite line from the Guardian came when they realised that the vast majority of their left-leaning readers strongly disagreed with them regarding Islamic terrorism and the refugee crisis. Closed comments on certain articles due to “a
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by alva 11y ago
Which UK papers, except perhaps The Spectator or Private Eye, do not make their money through fear and outrage on either the left or right?
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by alva 11y ago
I wonder how this would have affected the UK TVShack.net case [0]. Richard O'Dwyer was subjected to the absolutely awful UK-US extradition agreements over linking to copyrighted content. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by alva 11y ago
Yes, they do tweet you the results
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by alva 11y ago
Because if Alice fails to get H->T, then she has to be back at the first step, H, ready to flip again for H->T If Bob starts on H and gets T, he needs to continue flipping until he gets back to H.
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by alva 11y ago
It is an incredible thing to think about!
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by alva 11y ago
Tipping is always an interesting topic that often gets discussed on HN. The best arguments against it that I have come across, are that amount of tips received are heavily dependant on sex, race and age [0][1]. These studies are however bas
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by alva 11y ago
I would not be surprised if this was to get more of a grip on the VR market in the future. Consider that Oculus have stated the current Mac family cannot be supported due to their built in GPUs being insufficiently powerful and non replacea
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by alva 11y ago
My bad, misunderstood the nature of these type of options. I was making the assumption that the options could be exercised and then sold straight away. Eg, employee has option to buy during this window at a strike of 1.1, current value 1.3.
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by alva 11y ago
"Many employees don’t have the money to exercise their options within such a short window and lose them." Sounds like an excellent opportunity for a business. Providing short term loans, taking x% or the exercised options. Althoug
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by alva 11y ago
s/crazy chick/crazy dude/ Having a partner of either sex that also suffers mental illness (perhaps more severely than you do) can exacerbate un-healthy or unhelpful ways of thinking. I don't think the writer was placing
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by alva 11y ago
Now have two events booked for tonight :). Thanks, hope you keep it up.
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by alva 11y ago
While we are at it, the following is a selection of musicians whose work for me is both sedative and promotes focus (an oxymoron?). Ambient music usually garners a few sniggers, "this is what they play in spas" "whale music&q
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by alva 11y ago
Does anyone have an answer to why so many of the homeless in SF behave in such a way? I have lived in major cities all my life that had varying degrees of homelessness. From my trips to SF I have been shocked to see the consistent and preva
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by alva 11y ago
"Have you gotten one of those ads when you don't have good network connectivity? Fails to load, fails to respond even if you go into airplane mode" Had this happen twice today on my long commute. After 15 minutes, gave up try
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by alva 11y ago
Boredom is extremely important to me, although potentially there is something else at play. Some of the biggest life decisions I make come at the end of a spell of boredom. Either as a result of too long doing monotonous work, or purposely
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by alva 11y ago
It is quite incredible that the black cabbies spend all their time complaining and protesting rather than doing some obvious things to improve their service. 1. Accept card. Majority of cabs have card but 80%+ are 'out of service'
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Happy New Year HN
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by alva 11y ago
Thank you Scott. You were a great help whilst I was starting to learn C++
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by alva 11y ago
Can read original source [0] from Eric Raymond once you are done sniffing your finger [0] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907
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by alva 12y ago
4d 65 72 72 79 20 43 68 72 69 73 74 6d 61 73 21
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by alva 12y ago
I think Processing ( https://processing.org/ ) is a great choice for first time programmers.
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by alva 12y ago
An excellent use of their data, thank you! You have saved me an average 6 minutes a day
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by alva 12y ago
ridiculously cheap compared to London!
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by alva 12y ago
I worked out the other day that if for some (very unlikely) reason I do not receive a bonus this year, I will have been working for less than minimum wage...

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