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by dan1234 10y ago
On a related note, the BBC made a very interesting article about how the Premier League fixture list is created each season. "...The whole process starts upwards of a year in advance when Fifa and Uefa release their match calendars but
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by dan1234 10y ago
Looks great, but one thing I’d love to see would be if the system could calculate the nutritional information for a recipe. This would make meal planning a balanced diet that much easier.
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by dan1234 10y ago
I don’t know where in the EU you are but, in the UK I buy Vanguard funds (mix of LS100[0] & LS80[1]) through an S&S ISA[2] and a SIPP[3]. Pretty straight forward. The ongoing for the funds are 0.22%, the ISA platform 0.25% and the S
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by dan1234 10y ago
http://i.imgur.com/dYdHDYe.png I've exported it to imgur for you.
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The way people tilt their smartphone 'can give away passwords and pins'(bbc.co.uk)
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Interesting, but market cap isn’t everything - FTA: "While Tesla’s market capitalization has swelled in size, Ford still overshadows the Palo Alto, California-based company in most other financial metrics. Over the last five years, For
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by dan1234 10y ago
Young couple both earning a lot, and saving/investing most of it - a turbocharged retirement plan.
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Greens on three-day weekend plans: 'Bold ideas needed' for UK(bbc.co.uk)
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by dan1234 10y ago
The UK has been using bimetallic coins (£2 coin) since 1998. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_pounds_(British_coin)
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Article 50 has been priced into the markets for months, I’d be very surprised to see any significant movement.
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It proves (if the issuer has done their job) that the organisation requesting the certificate has been properly vetted, so you’re more likely to be doing business with the right website.
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UK Bank cheques to be cleared within a day(bbc.co.uk)
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Looks like the working link is http://reviewdeeper.com (not https).
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Pulling it along is fine while the car is going straight but a sharp corner or sharp braking could give the drone some problems!
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Maybe the higher quality work just hasn't been leaked (yet)?
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Softbank to sell 25% stake in ARM Holdings to Saudi-backed investment group(bbc.co.uk)
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What’s the battery life like for a drone that’s trying to keep up with a car? Now you can have range anxiety for your drone as well as your car…
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by dan1234 10y ago
Grouping by decimal point or apostrophe would be just as confusing in the UK (where grouping by comma is the norm). In an ideal world, numbers would be formatted based on the user’s locale.
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by dan1234 10y ago
This isn’t a problem if you surround your field data with quote marks (this is also required if the field data contains newlines). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values#Basic_r...
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by dan1234 10y ago
My goto solution for Linux backup is an encrypted Duply[0] back up to an S3 bucket. Duply is a more user friendly front end to Duplicity[1] [0] http://duply.net [1] http://duplicity.nongnu.org
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So, essentially the same way SSH works? The main problem I'd see is training users to get that initial trust phase correct. Too many wouldn't try to parse the info given and just click Trust regardless (or run away from every site
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by dan1234 10y ago
Yeah, I see your point. Thankfully (though not helpful in your case) the UK registry does allow “non trading individuals” to opt out of the public record. You can also change the registrant type from individual to company later.
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by dan1234 10y ago
> If you are an EU citizen looking to move to the UK: just don't. This country has decided they don't need you and me, they don't deserve our labour, our ideas and our taxes. Well, 52% of the people who voted kinda, sorta
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by dan1234 10y ago
Yes, the designer is creating some SVG icons[0] which you can get a discount on, if you sign up to the newsletter. [0] http://www.heroicons.com
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> what happens when my site gets very popular and lucrative, and someone uses my whois info to rob me in my home? You form a company around it and use the business address? Or use your domain registrar’s privacy guard if you can’t/w
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by dan1234 10y ago
I think thin margins for a product not replaced too often, and a heavily patented technology makes it pretty unattractive market to new entrants.
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Yeah, that changes everything. I’m all for Apple forcing developers to include 64bit support in their builds.
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They were victories in that those parties won the election/referendum. I never meant to imply either would have a positive outcome. FWIW, I voted Remain and wouldn’t have voted for Trump. I also admit that I didn’t see either result ha
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I keep an eye on David Smith’s published iOS version stats[0] which say around 23% of his users are running a 32bit CPU. This includes iPhone 5/5C and older iPads. https://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/
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by dan1234 10y ago
Not really, the iPhone 5C was sold worldwide up until September 2015 and was sold in India until February 2016 so anyone still using it will be stuck.

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