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by barking 8y ago
I bought my son a ticket for a music festival that was sold out within hours of ticket release from ticketmaster's reseller site seatwave and paid triple the price to some guy with an Indian name who I'm fairly sure never had any
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by barking 8y ago
That's why I'm very suspicious of Paddy Power's ownership of betfair. They won't ban people there because their angle is as a broker working earning commission but they do potentially gain insider knowledge that they can
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by barking 8y ago
I just looked it up and I think I was confusing two different events. Curley's coup was at bellewstown in Ireland while he wasn't involved with the Cartmel one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Sam_betting
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by barking 8y ago
That article mentions Barney Curley, I'd recommend his book giving a little back. In it he documents a coup he pulled off against the bookies on a horse running at a small English course Cartmel in the 70s iirc. The key point was that
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by barking 8y ago
Owned by Paddy Power. Not surprised they are welching on the bet, they make a great play on what good sports they are in their advertising but will ban you if you show signs of not being a complete mug.
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by barking 8y ago
If he produces something better than either Code or The Annotated Turing he'll be doing very well. I'm almost tempted to buy that ancient Windows book he wrote except that I have more than enough things I ought to read already.
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by barking 8y ago
There's this new cure for insomnia and everybody is saying the same thing about it!
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by barking 8y ago
"TimTheTinker", I think it's a fair assumption.
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by barking 8y ago
It's years since I was in a library, the one where I lived was getting worse for a while. The stock of books was decreasing and the staff were resorting to displaying them in a manner that made this less obvious such as some books bein
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by barking 8y ago
According to wikipedia, she killed in 1965 by a booby trap explosion triggered by the marine in front of her while on a patrol. She was 47.
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by barking 8y ago
If that article hadn't been upvoted here I would have just glanced at and instantly dismissed it as rubbish, the style, the stock picture, the seemingly fake piece of dialogue at the start stop being so productive! . The whole looked
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by barking 8y ago
In the past at a dangerous junction with limited visibilty owing to corners and high speed traffic I found myself looking one way then the other repeatedly before moving. Now I look to one side until I'm certain it's free I look
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by barking 8y ago
Romans ship, Greeks maintain. -anon
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by barking 8y ago
I think that what you're describing there is known as the curse of knowledge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
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by barking 8y ago
I agree with you. They are raping the planet with the best of them. If they truly wanted to make a difference they'd leave the oil where it is. This is nothing better than a gangster putting a little on the plate on a sunday.
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by barking 8y ago
The same is true for every forum I know of, in fact a lot of them now have a google search box that gives site specific results
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by barking 8y ago
Thank you for your reply Frank. I am lucky to never have had that degree of dependency on alcohol though there have been times in the past where I've felt myself getting a bit too fond of it. It's always been easy enough for me to
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by barking 8y ago
True but sometimes it can be very large indeed. Nearly half the population of the UK watched the England vs Croatia world cup semi final.
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by barking 8y ago
Sports broadcasts still bring in live tv viewers in large numbers They have ads on the pitch side, player kits, ads on screen during play, ads during breaks, stadium naming rights, stats brought to you by some company or other, the league
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by barking 8y ago
$600,000, pfft, try £350 million, Niall Fitzgerald at Unilever. We launched a product with a wonderful new element in it, which had the capacity to clean clothes better than anything that had ever been seen. Unfortunately, if it wasn’t use
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by barking 8y ago
When I started smoking I used to smoke other people's cigarettes. Then I started buying my own out of embarrassment. I wasn't a tobacco addict in my own mind at that stage, I just like smoking. It was only when I wanted to quit I
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by barking 8y ago
I'd like to know why you say you're an alcoholic.
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by barking 8y ago
So what's an alcoholic? Seems to me that almost all drinkers are, seeing as how most of them find it nicer to keep drinking.
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by barking 8y ago
You could be right. The reason I said it was that as part of the pathway to becoming a senior hospital doctor (apart from moving a lot, working hard and studying for post-graduate exams) is the requirement to get stuff published. This makes
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by barking 8y ago
I'd never looked at it this way before but it makes sense. You'd have thought that accounting for the extent of a cancer at diagnosis would be a requirement for determining the success of any subsequent treatment. Is it cynical to
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by barking 8y ago
All the developments we've had since 1969 feel more like improvements of what was already invented. Within living memory of an (old) person alive then would have been the birth of nuclear power, powered flight, the telephone, car phone
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by barking 8y ago
In 2 years we won't have to worry about Trump any more, maybe.
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by barking 8y ago
Someone described Aid as taking money from poor people in rich countries to give to rich people in poor countries. An additional difficulty Niger has is that it has the highest birthrate in the world.
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by barking 8y ago
Betfair was bought by the bookmaker Paddy Power. Betfair has both an exchange and sportsbook components. The former is where you bet against other punters and the latter is where you bet against the company. The site seems to steer you by d
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by barking 8y ago
I could understand the integer arithmetic example they gave and I think you are pointing out how this is flawed security-wise (its use lies in explaining the method). This flaw is addressed by using finite field arithmetic but I did&#x2

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