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9y ago
Except that bad reviews are sometimes put there by competitors
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9y ago
Probably the best thing would be to edit or replace it and then in addition to the criticisms, mention how they were very proactive about replacing/refunding for the item
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barking
9y ago
Yes you're right! That's a relief, thanks. I feel stupid now for going into complete paranoia mode.
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9y ago
I'd never heard Kite until today and following a one of the links ended up at Adam Smith's blog a couple of hours ago. I did no more than to read a blog post. Just now I went to checkout from my local tortoisesvn repostitory and
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9y ago
More recently, there was a lot of comment last year about the strength of Nigerian scrabble players, such as this : http://www.slate.com/articles/life/gaming/2016/05/have_niger...
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Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
(theguardian.com)
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barking
9y ago
Yes but if the body is trying to maintain normal body temperature it is necessary to burn fat if you are not eating to excess.
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barking
9y ago
Except swimming where a lot of calories are burned to maintain body temperature. The number of calories top swimmers have to eat per day dwarfs those of other sports I believe. In fact I believe being cold in general is a good idea all else
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9y ago
It's like when Israel says jump, the USA asks how high. The USA's unconditional support for Israel despite its oppression of the Palestinians has poisoned its reputation in the entire Muslim world.
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9y ago
The greeks used the method on this page ( http://www.trottermath.net/algebra/multsqs.html ) to do multiplication so I suppose the romans did too.
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9y ago
This would definitely be a contender.
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9y ago
At one time we were required to keep an extensive list of emergency drugs at work. Off the record, it was generally accepted that we should never, under any circumstances, use any of those drugs, bar adrenalin, for fear of doing more harm t
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9y ago
Bill Gates agrees with you. "He said this week during an interview with a German media that European countries should take measures to make it more difficult for migrants to leave Africa through the current transit routes." http:
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9y ago
To support your point, the economist I can most clearly remember and who seemed to be on tv every other day, was chief economist with a bank that later needed rescuing.
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9y ago
I don't know about your industry but the abiding memory i have from before the financial crisis of 2009 was of economists fanning the property bubble with the mantra ' the fundamental are sound' and how the worst scanario wou
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9y ago
My gmail account is my password manager. I click on the forgotten password every time I need to log in pretty much everywhere and paste in some random thing I typed in notepad
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9y ago
Liver disease is commonly symptom-less until very late on. And to die from liver disease is just about the most unpleasant way to go. It's got to bring added pain to dying seeing the suffering it brings to loved ones, especially childr
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9y ago
This is not meant as a smart-ass comment but I think that you should go to an AA meeting and tell them your story. If I was to guess I'd say it would resonate with at least someone there. You need to talk to people who've been the
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9y ago
One per house, like everyone else!
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barking
9y ago
yes i dislike as much wine as I like, I find beer a lot more reliable.
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9y ago
I have no idea but a simple blindfolded test should answer that one, you'd think. This guy did a small one and it seems to show that his small group of people can tell the difference mostly. Rose tripped them up a little https:/&
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9y ago
Predictable deluge of thin-skinned comments under that story in the guardian.
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9y ago
Brian Will, the guy behind the 'why OOP is bad' youtube video brings this into his argument. In a follow up video to that video he rewrites an OO program in procedural style. In doing so he reduced the number of methods/func
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9y ago
All the way through that article I was waiting for the point of it and then it ended. What it's doing on the front page mystifies me.
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9y ago
The best bet is to assume that everything is traceable. Best you can do is do ocr on what you've printed and pass that on, i'd say.
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9y ago
The biggest change in my memory was the one that stopped the endless passes back to the keeper by preventing him from picking it up if it had been kicked back. Also worth mentioning is the 3 points for a win I suppose.
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9y ago
The reason for advent of behemoths like Lomu was the allowing of wholesale substitutions. This meant that players no longer had to play the full 80 minutes and so endurance could be sacrificed for power. This in turn has likely contributed
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The offside rule's been there since long before WW1. They did alter the number of defending players needed to put a player on-side down from 3 to 2 in the mid 1920's. I'd argue that was altering an existing rule rather than a
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9y ago
Wasn't there something about the infield fly rule? :) But the same goes for soccer which has altered very little since the rules were laid down in the 19th century.
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9y ago
Around the time that came out a widely criticised portrait of the late writer Brendan Behan was unveiled in some gallery and someone came up with 'the unbearable likeness of Behan'
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