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by beejiu 10y ago
I'd give up now.
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by beejiu 10y ago
So you are saying the jobs should be taken away from developing economies and into the United States? That sounds very liberal and socially minded of you.
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by beejiu 10y ago
The article is extremely verbose. The diagram on page 1 of this document sums up the idea: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-education/reprints/1997-Percept...
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by beejiu 10y ago
He was being billed from his savings account. It was only when the threshold increased (which Google increases after some time) that the bank raised the warning. (Source: The Register)
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by beejiu 10y ago
Another product (Discussions) that Google discontinued.
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by beejiu 10y ago
I think you'll be surprised how many people spend their time traveling around Europe having fun, being lazy, drinking beer and having sex. I mean, it sounds idyllic, but how many people -- particularly working classes -- do that? I don
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by beejiu 10y ago
I think you are missing that fact that being a "potential revenue generating scheme" is not what the BBC is setup for, nor is it what the UK general public (which the BBC serves and is funded by) wants. This is why BBC Worldwide a
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by beejiu 10y ago
This was also the case with GCHQ's website until recently.
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by beejiu 10y ago
This page has download 20MB of content in about 20 seconds. Despite having a top of the range iMac, I can barely scroll the page without lag.
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by beejiu 10y ago
Google Map's directions doesn't work between postal codes in the UK, unless you specify the space. And it hasn't worked for about a year. I must say, I find Google Maps quite difficult to use.
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by beejiu 11y ago
If there was any opportunity to take advantage of large movements, it is likely somebody else is already doing it.
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by beejiu 11y ago
There's a fun video he created with Cambridge University a few years ago, called "Professor Risk". Worth a watch (6 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1PtQ67urG4 Takeaway from the video "I've
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by beejiu 11y ago
The fact that addresses don't come in canonical form is an interesting challenge for anybody who wants to verify addresses, e.g. for fraud preventing. Actually, many banks, when verifying addresses for online transactions, just strip o
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by beejiu 11y ago
The reality, however, is that if you took this point of view, you will spend your time reinventing the wheel, introducing bugs and wasting resources. That's how it works in real life.
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by beejiu 11y ago
Or, you could look at it, it's 101 fewer things to think about. Besides, we're talking about a package that doesn't have any dependencies.
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by beejiu 11y ago
In addition, a poorly written Regex can open you up to a Regular Expression DOS attack. If anything, it should be on the security checklist as something not to do.
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by beejiu 11y ago
The article mentions a case where Amazon Prime membership wasn't refunded. The Amazon Prime terms state that it would be refunded on termination. However, it also has the following term: > However, we will not give any refund for te
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by beejiu 11y ago
Because BBC Worldwide is a commercial organisation and the BBC (the parent company) is a public service broadcaster. Even though BBC Worldwide is a subsidiary, if it started publishing content in the UK (where it has no commercial interest)
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by beejiu 11y ago
Somebody has to be the 'others'. Somebody has to know what's behind.
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by beejiu 11y ago
I guess there's a difference in perspective if you take your machine learning classes with the Mathematics/Stats department rather than the Computer Science department.
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by beejiu 11y ago
Because he's using pounds, I assume he is in the UK, where you can get 3%-5% in current accounts within certain limits. Even on a relatively small amount of savings, those amounts are decent enough to worry about, and it certainly make
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by beejiu 11y ago
> This is in the UK, and it might be available but certainly not with any of the major banks I recently opened an account with HSBC fully online; didn't need to go into a branch. Think I have been to my Santander branch once over 4
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by beejiu 11y ago
I think the language is slightly confusing on their website. It appears they took part in a HM Treasury led consultation, along with 38 other organisations. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads
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by beejiu 11y ago
Given the government's history of failed and overbudget IT projects ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_failed_and_overbudget_... ), probably billions of pounds for something that half works.
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by beejiu 11y ago
The entire point of capitalism is to exploit individual's self interests for the betterment of society. > those genes completely determine one's physical self They also have an impact outside of one's physical self.
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by beejiu 11y ago
Another nice system is for you to 'queue jump' when you call back after a certain time. E.g. if you call before 10am at a busy time, you have the option to call back after 12pm and you will be guaranteed a direct connection to an
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by beejiu 11y ago
In the UK for example, when you buy cigarettes you pay 77% tax. The total tax receipts for this tax are about £9bn per year, whereas the NHS spends only £2.7bn. (Figures from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/
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by beejiu 11y ago
At least in the UK, if you are in any place that serves alcohol, they are legally obliged to provide you free water (most restaurants serve alcohol.)
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by beejiu 11y ago
It is arguably the best way to learn the language; after all, it was the way you learned your first language. I think a great deal of people find 'theory' boring, and would otherwise not be interested in learning a language. Duoli
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by beejiu 11y ago
> Just one idea: you don't come across things in multiples of 7 that often. Days of the week?

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