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by barking 7y ago
Fair enough, everything is relative. Where I live I'd have difficulty getting a shotgun licence (pretty much the only allowed firearm) as I'd have a hard time making a case for needing one (not being a farmer).
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by barking 7y ago
I do have a bit of a problem with this. If I were ever trapped in a building on fire I would hope it happened in somewhere like New York where the fire department would put themselves in harm's way to rescue me. In London, and I could
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by barking 7y ago
Jim Starkey the man who probably invented mvcc back in the 80s had some interesting thoughts on this topic. Firebird a fork of Interbase used to rely on visiting transactions to clear up garbage. This meant that old versions of a record wou
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by barking 7y ago
Sorry if I reported it incorrectly. The point remains however that the ambulance services protocols put the safety of their staff over those of injured members of the public. I think I heard of heated exchanges between police officers deman
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by barking 7y ago
I read somewhere that at some point the prevailing culture in American Police forces changed from putting public safety first to putting police safety first. Not just in America, in the UK the Health and Safety culture has resulted in drown
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by barking 7y ago
Sickle cell trait works to protect from malaria. It works but is broken.
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by barking 7y ago
It's an Israeli company not Israel the state that's facing the lawsuit
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by barking 7y ago
But can a conspiracy of more than a very few people be kept under wraps for a lifetime? I find it hard to believe that if there really was a conspiracy that nothing concrete has emerged in all these years.
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by barking 7y ago
I hope it all works out great for your little one.
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by barking 7y ago
I was reading a news story featuring a senior doc in the UK who was castigating about lots of things. One of them was keyhole surgery which he claimed was often undertaken for reasons of vanity by surgeons, when a conventional approach woul
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by barking 7y ago
Criminals are persecuted for their criminality. That's a whole different scenario to what was happening to Mr Groden where a law abiding citizen was being harassed because people in authority felt like it.
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by barking 7y ago
In the case of Groden it's sort of like the employer (taxpayer) being persecuted by his employees (public servants).
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by barking 7y ago
When i find a receipt the first thing I often wish to know is when it is dated, so if it's old I can just dump it. It can be really frustrating as it can be anywhere on tiny piece of paper. There should be a receipts standard that all
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by barking 7y ago
Problems caused by inheritance is not one people maintaining legacy vb6 software have to worry about. But in the day the main reason VB6 was called a toy language was because it wasn't fully OO, it lacked inheritance. And in his 1999
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by barking 7y ago
Sorry for being off topic but is there an ORM or any other tool that can rewrite messy SQL, ideally replacing right joins with left ones at the same time? I have several hundred of these that I am afraid to touch.
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by barking 7y ago
I agree, I thought it both overly long-winded and unclear. If I were the guy he was addressing I'd suspect he was flannelling me.
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by barking 7y ago
The 50-60% efficiency does matter if wind power itself isn't all that green.
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by barking 7y ago
That sounds plausible. There was one teacher I had who seemed to have a complete personality change after he nearly died (heart problem I'm pretty certain). He went from being demon* who specialised in humiliating students to being ple
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by barking 7y ago
When you're not dating someone seriously, you're asked if there is anyone special in the picture. When you are dating someone for a while, you're asked if this is the one . When you've made that official, you're as
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by barking 7y ago
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" -Abraham Lincoln
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by barking 7y ago
I can think of some well known entrepreneurs who could be said to have behaved in a psychopathic manner when younger, ruthlessly dealing with competitors, but then turned into philanthropists later. One name in particular jumps to mind, whi
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by barking 7y ago
Nothing's changed. This is what strong nations everywhere, have always done to weaker ones whenever the weaker one has something they want.
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by barking 7y ago
I used to use fireftp on firefox before it was broken by some change or other firefox brought in that crippled loads of extensions. I now open up waterfox on those occasions when I need to use fireftp. I'll definitely give this a try o
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by barking 7y ago
There's a link on that wikipedia page to this youtube demo which makes it really obvious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dqCQqI-Gis
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by barking 7y ago
What would magicians do without illusions, mere tricks, that's what. Shame on you.
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by barking 7y ago
I'd never heard of the man before his passing but I don't recall another person being remembered here with as much affection.
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by barking 7y ago
This is how fast food franchises work and is why you get a consistent experience from them all. All the processes are documented and checklists abound.
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by barking 7y ago
I was impressed to find many interviews of Estonian politicians speaking it fluently. That's a pretty niche area of interest, if you're not Estonian.
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by barking 8y ago
No he was a consultant, without the "", which means that he had a medical degree plus postgraduate qualifications and about 10 years in hospital training positions usually including experience in different countries. At least that
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by barking 8y ago
Tangential point here, I found the range of prices for this amazing, $40 to $140. Why aren't shops who gouge people getting called out more often?

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