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by dylan62 6y ago
Note that the Astrazeneca share price is about the same now as it was before the pandemic. So if there is some fortune to be made out of the vaccine, it seems the stock market has not yet noticed.
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by dylan62 6y ago
Very annoying, but if you want to play the game you can use the app on your phone to sign up and give completely false details (name, address etc). Nothing is posted to you so the false address isn't an issue. And you have the satisfa
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by dylan62 6y ago
Netflix impressed me recently with how easy they made it for me to cancel my subscription. It means I will have no hesitation to re-subscribe in future, should I feel the urge. I just wonder how long it will last. It sometimes feels like al
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by dylan62 11y ago
I have a lot of time for Michael Moseley, but recently his "Trust me, I'm a Doctor" TV show has been falling into the same traps as the medical establishment, making concrete claims based on the flimsiest of evidence. In a re
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Selling an idea(dilbert.com)
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by dylan62 14y ago
> Forcing someone to save a file and open it in another > application just to paste the text is just plain terrible. That's a general problem with copy/paste, not specific to Word. A great workaround is PureText, which configures W
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by dylan62 15y ago
I'm curious - heve you ever been a juror? I've only done it once, but for that trial any correlation between justice and what the jury decided was purely coincidental.
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by dylan62 15y ago
> How can this be true when our exam pass rate has been climbing for yonks? If anyone wants to see grade inflation UK-style in black and white, take a look at these two pages: http://www.bstubbs.co.uk/gcse.htm http://www.bstubbs.co.u
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by dylan62 15y ago
Hasn't Firefox supported this for years? https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Link_prefetching_FAQ
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by dylan62 16y ago
I've always wondered why the USB port is the way it is. It seems such an unbelievably stupid design, but I assume there must be a reason for it. Does anyone have a link, or brief explanation? Incidentally a search for "why is the usb port
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by dylan62 16y ago
I eat lots of supermarket 'ready meals'. There seems to be an assumption that this is worse for my health that if I prepared and cooked the ingredients myself. Can someone point me to some concrete scientific evidence that that is true, o
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by dylan62 17y ago
The difference between gold and fiat currencies is that gold cannot be devalued through inflation. We don't have a machine that can manufacture gold, but central banks can 'manufacture' as much new fiat currency as they like. I imagine tha
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by dylan62 17y ago
Presumably the 1 million 'residents' who logged on in the last month disagree with you. http://secondlife.com/statistics/economy-data.php?d=2009-12-... Although I don't use it any more, the vitriol and scorn that SecondLife engenders amaz