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by barking 9y ago
The telegraph in the UK does this, they even show you a full screen Matt cartoon that begs you to turn off adblocker, on EVERY new tab/window. Even if you're a paying customer.
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by barking 9y ago
Yes. Thankfully I've never felt the inclination to join Facebook and reading stories like this just makes me angry at Facebook and at people for making them so powerful.
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by barking 9y ago
Even better when clicking back clears your entries on the previous page!
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by barking 9y ago
Idly click on a link to one offering in a marketing email and be prepared for a flood of follow-ups reminding you of that item you were interested in. I never click on anything in an email from Udemy for this reason.
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by barking 9y ago
>you could take the QE2 ship from New York to Southampton I thought that was a thing of the past! http://www.queenmarycruises.net/queen-mary-transatlantic-sch...
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by barking 9y ago
How is ebay better? The only counterfeit item I have bought on either site was a dell laptop charger on ebay a few years ago. It used to overheat and stopped working after only a few weeks use. Another time a product was never shipped and
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by barking 9y ago
It used to be a commented on phenomenon that the month after the twice yearly arrival of newly qualified housemen in hospitals were the worst periods, mortality wise. I don't know if that is still the case or indeed was ever a 're
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by barking 9y ago
All I can remember is that it was hardback with a plain red cover (if there had been a dust jacket, it was long gone) and she'd have used it in home economics class in 1950s Ireland. It was mainly what I'd call wholesome simple Br
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by barking 9y ago
And when you fall asleep it hits you on the nose.
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by barking 9y ago
I can remember feeling really intimidated by the proofs of theorems. What I now think is that at least some proofs are analogous to code you struggle when writing to get something working. Later, once you'd gotten the thing done you&#x
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by barking 9y ago
Mr OT here. IMO the best cookbook ever written was the one my mother had in secondary school. I don't know the name of it and I'm sure it's long out of print. She swore by it, used it all her life and was a marvellous cook.
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by barking 9y ago
>there are no easy solutions What's so hard about shifting the burden of tax from income to wealth? Week after week having 30% of your income taken away is what prevents a lot of people from ever getting ahead.
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by barking 9y ago
"Azure Database for PostgreSQL" Postgresql database for Azure?
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by barking 9y ago
you walk into it
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by barking 9y ago
If people are in prison who should not be in prison, that's a different thing. You mentioned murder. Personally I don't believe that murderers should ever be released. The fact that we do so sends a signal that murder is bad, y&#x
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by barking 9y ago
People jailed for life have usually done some pretty nasty stuff. Getting old is a prospect a lot of their victims were spared if that's the right word. And life becoming more miserable as we age is an experience not confined to prison
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by barking 9y ago
There was a submission ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14177074 ) here recently that linked to the wikepedia article on the curse of knowledge. Could it be that Wald's textbook illustrates that phenomenon?
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by barking 9y ago
That is true but even so it was the complete opposite of what I would have expected given Japan's large population and relatively small size.
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by barking 9y ago
>How do you know it was violent? I don't but most peoples, like most animals are territorial and resist the movement of others into their territory. Your language theory is interesting. But then the english language as spoken in man
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by barking 9y ago
But it's great for them to have such wildernesses. Western Europe is bereft by comparison and we've even cut down the trees on our mountains and put sheep and deer there to prevent them coming back.
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by barking 9y ago
Sorry for being a bit OT but you may remember last year a boy was missing for several days in a remote forest region of Japan. I found that surprising, my prejudice of Japan had been that it was very heavily populated and urbanised but when
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by barking 9y ago
You call it intermarriage between the San and the Bantu implying a nice peaceful union between the newcomers and the existing population. Do you know for certain that was how it was, the article didn't use the word intermarriage?
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by barking 9y ago
My theory: 1) The sort of people who had pcs before everyone got them, use pcs as much as ever, though they also use mobile. 2)The sort of people who got pcs because of the internet have moved to mobile and won't get another pc. 3) Tab
534.
by barking 9y ago
True but not the whole truth I think. My tablet's battery recently died and rather than get a new one I now use my phone for everything I used it for.
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by barking 9y ago
I now use my android phone for everything I used to use my tablet for. The only thing I miss about the tablet is that I could get a lower volume level on it than I can on my phone, for bedtime podcast listening.
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by barking 9y ago
jurinawaw...
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by barking 9y ago
So it was, once.
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by barking 9y ago
I remember that from when it happened, it was widely reported at the time, even in the UK. Hard to believe that it's 30 years ago now. Edit: Sorry, Nicholas was born 30 years ago, it was 23 years ago when he died.
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by barking 9y ago
It makes me feel a little nostalgic for the time of communism. They weren't religious but believed they could create a sort of heaven on earth. The reality was anything but, as we know. But this example is uplifting.
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by barking 9y ago
I would humbly suggest that they cease and desist from calling their workers stripes.

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