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by beejiu 9y ago
In the UK, many cars sold in the past few years are under a so-called Personal Contract Plan (PCP). These are basically sub-prime loans for cars where you lease the car for the difference between its purchase price and its projected depreci
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by beejiu 9y ago
Google's IPO auction famously just scraped the low-end of its estimate (after the range was revised down). It "popped" 18% on its first day of trading which - at very best - shows that dutch auction is no better than underwri
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by beejiu 9y ago
> a public auction should determine the IPO price An IPO is (usually) for a small amount of a company (5-10%) - hence the term "initial". Once the stock is traded, the market is continuously setting prices (essentially a contin
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by beejiu 9y ago
Maybe it is different in the US, but in the UK the charges being inconsistent is the reason I do not use One Click. (Amazon UK not being as good seems to be a theme in these comments.)
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by beejiu 9y ago
I am sure I posted it as just 'BBC' (that is what is in my autocomplete). I think somebody changed it.
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BBC Sport ditches Gill Sans and replaces it with bespoke typeface(designweek.co.uk)
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by beejiu 9y ago
An organiziation should not be free of criticism simply because it does not have an obligation to do or not do something.
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by beejiu 9y ago
I don't know if it is the same in the US, but in the UK you would basically tell the credit card company this is their problem.
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by beejiu 9y ago
Tweetdeck is a useful tool for this kind of thing. You can just set up some keyword searches.
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by beejiu 9y ago
I don't understand why they close questions without noindexing them. The content is either relevant or it isn't.
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by beejiu 9y ago
"successfully escaped" is probably more accurate than "forced to quit"
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by beejiu 9y ago
On the other hand, you do not need to run a scientific study to make every UX decision. There is a lot of "information" (in an abstract sense) in a person's intuition, experience and common sense. Using a small usability grou
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by beejiu 9y ago
Stocks have two prices. I guess this would be reflected in test data.
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by beejiu 9y ago
On the other hand, does it matter how long the business lasts? It seemingly has minimal costs and is making bank.
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by beejiu 9y ago
> I have to work until 67 in my country. I presume you mean you have to work until 67 if you rely on the state to fund your retirement?
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by beejiu 9y ago
If you feel like you are suffering from depression, see a doctor. They can give advice specific to your situation, which might involve therapy or drugs. The treatments do work.
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by beejiu 9y ago
Interesting. I had a similar idea but for 'political policy' rather than code. Basically, a kind of social network where people work on editing a single corpus of text, making 'merge requests' and voting. It used a stati
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by beejiu 9y ago
It's not being changed arbitrarily. It's being changed by agreement. Holding 33% could make it difficult to raise money in the future I presume, which wouldn't be in anyone's interest (including the leaving founder). Eve
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by beejiu 9y ago
In the UK, the vast majority of ATMs are free.
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by beejiu 10y ago
If you ever get the opportunity to visit a power station, you should definitely do so. I visited the coal-fired station in Tilbury when it was running and I was amazed at the sheer scale of the operation. The tour showed how the coal was pr
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by beejiu 10y ago
I cannot comment on the legal aspects, but the Chrome user-agent contains "like Gecko", "AppleWebKit" and "Safari". It is common for user-agents to be constructed like this for compatibility. (Most for historic
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by beejiu 10y ago
There is a legal basis in the European Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
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by beejiu 10y ago
Some of the electricity is also done by gas.
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by beejiu 10y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I strongly suspect you have a fiduciary duty to all shareholders. If you are director-shareholder, you cannot act in the interests of your shareholding alone. Also, the idea that you can put any condition into a c
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by beejiu 10y ago
It is not "their" company, however. The company belongs to all the shareholders.
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by beejiu 10y ago
That's like saying the horse meat scandal doesn't matter because horse meat tastes just as good as beef. If you purposely deceive consumers in a calculated way to skim off profit, you will have problems as a business. Consumers ne
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by beejiu 10y ago
Two years ago I had to work on integrating a SaaS product with fax. The client was a large financial organization who had a contract with a counterparty. Under this contract, they had to give notice to each other of a certain action and the
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by beejiu 10y ago
It doesn't stop them using it in a Lua script. Better off renaming the function in the config file to a some UUID.
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by beejiu 10y ago
Presumably, it is designed for larger customer support requirements, where you have a call center team taking many calls one after the other. It doesn't seem worth it to take occasional support calls.
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by beejiu 10y ago
Google Analytics 'session duration' is not what you expect it to be.

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