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by elemeno 13y ago
It's not abnormal to see time stamps like that with print publications - they often publish to the web in advance of the print edition coming out, but it makes sense to use the print edition as the 'reference' edition when it
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Director of ‘The Fifth Estate’ responds to Julian Assange's attacks(theverge.com)
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by elemeno 13y ago
It's not really a dark pattern when the Acrylic plate is the product that most people are trying to buy - without it you don't have the physical numberplate you can put on your car.
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by elemeno 13y ago
It's not strictly accurate to say that "virtually all domestic firearm ownership" is banned in the UK - it's just highly controlled and restricted. There's roughly 800,000 people in Great Britain (Northern Ireland h
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A Novel Prompts a Conversation About How We Use Technology(nytimes.com)
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Teenage Engineering’s Minimalist Garage Is A Tinkerer’s Paradise(fastcolabs.com)
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Open Source Appliances(wired.com)
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by elemeno 13y ago
Perhaps because there haven't been any wide scale clinical trials that prove it's effectiveness? Of the papers I read through at the given link, most seem to come to conclusion that Gendicide p53 is safe to give to humans and don&
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Taken - The Coldest Case Ever Solved(edition.cnn.com)
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Deciphering Beanish - The Language from xkcd's Time(beanishlang.wordpress.com)
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by elemeno 13y ago
In pubs in England it's traditional to tip by offering to buy the staff member a drink. They'll charge you for a nominal drink - often saying that they'll save it for later/when their shift ends as the explanation for wh
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by elemeno 13y ago
As the article mentions, the margins on the restaurant business are slim enough that the wage pool is effectively fixed - it's not a hypothetical scenario, it's a practical constraint.
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The big question that the generation raised on porn must answer(newstatesman.com)
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Apple Developer site hack: doubts cast on Turkish hacker's claims(m.guardiannews.com)
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by elemeno 13y ago
Which is why employers would usually pay you for your notice period but tell you not to come to work, or at least that's the standard practice in the UK. To my mind, notice periods are good for both sides - the employer gets peace of m
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by elemeno 13y ago
I'd be a little weary of keeping cooked rice for a week, even in a good fridge (my fridge stays at a solid 2C, which keeps most things good to eat for long than you'd think!). Rice is a surprisingly good vector for food poisoning
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by elemeno 13y ago
It's the UK term for Wall Street. It doesn't have as much of the geographic connotation these days - working in Canary Wharf or a Mayfair hedge fund can all come under the phrase of 'working the in the city'
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by elemeno 13y ago
If you went to an 'elite' university a 2:1 would be generally taken to indicate that you worked hard, but you also had a social life as well. A 1st from an elite would not uncommonly come with the assumption that all you did is sit in your
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by elemeno 13y ago
GPs in the UK earn an average of £103k if they're a partner in a practice or £54k to £81k if they work for a primary care trust - that is if they work directly for the NHS unlike many GPs who are self employed but contract their services to
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by elemeno 13y ago
London (N/NW), UK - Permanent (no remote) C#/ASP.Net Developer - Help bring the NHS into the 21st Century Job Description We're looking for smart self-motivated developers who can bring their own ideas to the table and get excited about the
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by elemeno 13y ago
It's not so much that they're paying for a C++ developer, they're paying for a C++ developer (or C#/Java/whatever developer) with a certain set of skills. The sort of developers that get well paid in finance (it should be noted that there's
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by elemeno 13y ago
GoF is, in my opinion, about establishing a language to talk about commonly used constructs in languages - especially given it's providence in Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language. Referring to it as 'a set of tricks' would suggest to
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Computer Network Piecing Together a Jigsaw of Jewish Lore(nytimes.com)
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The same way anyone else does - you spend more than you make.
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Designer Spotlight: Bathsheba Grossman(shapeways.com)
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by elemeno 13y ago
The three days ago one didn't come up when I first put the URL in, though the 500+ days ago one did. Quite possibly I was simply lucky in that I posted near the start of the UK work day, thus making it likely to get noticed by people in Eur
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by elemeno 13y ago
Pretty much. I saw it had been submitted before, but that it was over a year and a half ago and the page had been recently updated, so it seemed like it would be an acceptable resubmission. Plus, it's a pretty damn cool project!
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by elemeno 13y ago
Some of his other projects are pretty impressive as well - I'm taken by the FORTH computers myself.
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Homemade GPS Receiver(holmea.demon.co.uk)
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by elemeno 13y ago
Pretty much every step of USD -> CHF -> USD for large enough denominations is dealt with by firms that have strict requirements regarding recording transactions and verifying the identity of their customers due to anti-money launder

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