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by century19 4y ago
You think there should be more tax on non-alcoholic beer than beer with alcohol? Should be the other way round.
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by century19 4y ago
Why? It costs more to produce.
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by century19 4y ago
Sturgeon's law, 90% of everything is crap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
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by century19 4y ago
You don’t get 10/1 for red versus black!
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by century19 4y ago
Using a computer. Have been examples of devices hidden in toilets, that kind of thing.
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by century19 4y ago
Not exactly the same as eye contact :-)
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by century19 4y ago
Cycling in Amsterdam often involves eye contact between cyclists and drivers at busy junctions that don't have lights. I don't think self driving cars would be very good with that subtlety. The main safety feature for cyclists in
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Instagram fined €405M for GDPR violations(rte.ie)
23 points by century19 4y ago|9 comments
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by century19 4y ago
Isn’t Google responsible for this? They rank results based on how long users stay on the page, plus how much they scroll. Forcing all those “when I was a girl in Sicily…” stories at the top of a recipe that nobody wants.
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by century19 4y ago
Indeed, it was Azure DevOps. I had linked it with Teams as it was accessed through that, or so I remember.
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by century19 4y ago
I worked for a large department in a large bank that changed from Jira to MS Teams Scrum, as the new licence for Jira was too much. No way that it had as many features as Jira, but it worked fine, maybe was simpler. So it ain't nonsen
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by century19 4y ago
Very true, effectively French speaking Vikings. Who changed the English language to include lots of French. We can see the fingerprints in the way food is named: pork/pig, beef/cow, etc. The French word was used when serving the N
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by century19 4y ago
And the Norsemen/Normans invaded England and took over. They went native and became English after a while. Then started The British Empire.
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by century19 4y ago
-- Calling such people ‘Vikings’ would be like calling 18th century British, French or Dutch naval officers ‘pirates’ simply because they wore vaguely similar hats and sailed vaguely similar ships to Blackbeard. Thing is, pirates like Black
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by century19 5y ago
Be careful in case it is a scam like this. They seem to put a lot of time into convincing people that they are genuine. https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/arti...
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by century19 5y ago
The Netherlands is 17th, 18m population. With the population and resources Russia has you might expect them to be higher up.
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by century19 5y ago
I've also heard that this wasn't the case, but that it was to force the cashier to "ring" the transaction through to get the cent to return and not just pocket the $2. And that the custom just stuck.
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by century19 5y ago
Was not clear to me.
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by century19 5y ago
Same thing happened somewhere I worked, except all mail was being sent to the company HQ. It was loaded on lorries but someone at the sorting centre had the foresight to phone up and ask "is this correct"?
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by century19 5y ago
Or tap water.
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by century19 5y ago
I remember that the site used to have a message from the developer saying that if he got 30 sales he would go full time on the project. 30 sales were faxed through and he considered it a message from God.
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by century19 5y ago
Couldn't this be a positive long term benefit of Corona? A push back against globalisation and more domestic production in each region of the world.
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by century19 6y ago
Seems like a valid point to me, not sure why down voted. If Republicans won those two Senate seats would companies (including Facebook, Twitter) be acting the same.
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Baby Shark becomes most viewed YouTube video ever(theguardian.com)
2 points by century19 6y ago|0 comments
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Facebook takes down ‘call to arms’ event after two shot dead in Kenosha(theverge.com)
7 points by century19 6y ago|3 comments
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by century19 6y ago
Yep, I got your original point. I heard the GDP figures I mentioned on an economics podcast last week and had to shoehorn them in ;-)
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by century19 6y ago
-- more than a third of the world GDP When the British took over India it was 31% of global GDP. When they left India's share of global GDP was 2%.
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Pentagon Has ‘Off-World Vehicles Not Made on This Earth’(popularmechanics.com)
2 points by century19 6y ago|0 comments
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Hong Kong property tycoon pitches new city idea to Ireland(theguardian.com)
6 points by century19 6y ago|1 comments
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by century19 6y ago
-- under GDPR regulations, which are similar in the UK and the Netherlands... GDPR is an EU law. What is the "similar" UK version post Brexit?

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