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by elthran 11y ago
How do you not? Someone's history and expertise should absolutely be used as a gauge of how to view the information they're presenting. Do you treat Fox News the same as the BBC? Or are you going to take David Icke at the same le
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by elthran 11y ago
I think that's because its fairly...intuitive? I know that I could easily see when it was wrong, the difficulty here was getting it to be precisely right
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by elthran 11y ago
If the "correct" valuation was halfway between the 2 valuations, then they could have overpaid at valuation, and still have declined in value. Of course, value is relative and only based on what anyone will pay for it.
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by elthran 11y ago
Counter point, from the wiki article on Charles 2 >Charles attempted to introduce religious freedom for Catholics and Protestant dissenters with his 1672 Royal Declaration of Indulgence, but the English Parliament forced him to withdraw
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by elthran 11y ago
>Except shellfish though - but I don't count it as food anyway. I think this is the first time I've ever seen an oyster being the subject of No True Scotsman
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Fine Brothers spark fury with YouTube trademark attempt(bbc.com)
2 points by elthran 11y ago|0 comments
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by elthran 11y ago
> Also, if programming in Excel is so awesome, why am I not developing banking software using it? Well, if you took away Excel, the banking system would collapse. It might be old and clunky, but it can do anything you need it to. It migh
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by elthran 11y ago
Has this been proposed at all? Is there anything weird about american policing/law that would mean a national, federal agency wouldn't be able to take on this role?
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by elthran 11y ago
Entrepreneurship Illustrated: Swimsuit Edition
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by elthran 11y ago
This sort of stuff really aggravates me. In a similar anecdote, half of my town is unable to get Virgin media, purely because when it came to laying cables under a major A road, the council kicked up a fuss, so Virgin just walked away.
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by elthran 11y ago
(Admission - I've only read the abstract) I wonder if there is any/what the correlation is between the attrition rate of these females and pregnancy - is becoming pregnant a significant blocker to their survivorship rate?
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by elthran 11y ago
Agreed, title is (if slightly pedantically) inaccurate - although I'd recommend "Usage in Great Britain"
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by elthran 11y ago
I love the visualization here - but I'm not quite sure what it's showing me. Is the increase compared to the starting point, or is it a year on year change? I'm also unsure as to whether the white colour was the best choice f
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by elthran 11y ago
I can see the use of killing someone with a painful, elongated death by polonium poisoning, it's obvious, and makes a statement. I don't feel the same can be said for making the body of someone appear in a locked bag though - peop
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by elthran 11y ago
Yeah - completely farcical ruling. However, surely if he was killed to order, the people responsible would make it far less obvious, and if it was attempted to be covered up - surely it wouldn't be as poorly done as this?
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by elthran 11y ago
Also, from http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/about/ >I’m Daniel Stenberg, a network hacker working for Mozilla. Sigh. Why does everyone have to be a hacking rockstar ninja? What's wrong with not using a word that
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by elthran 11y ago
Definitely agree with one of the comments on the blog - the domain (haxx.se) really doesn't help the author's case here when trying to explain to a layperson.
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by elthran 11y ago
Not in Europe, no. But do you really consider all speech to be equal and deserving of being free?
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by elthran 11y ago
why would they do that, when they can just make extra profit?
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by elthran 11y ago
Perhaps not a federation of city states, but I would definitely be in favour of a federation of England/Scotland/Wales/NI/Dependencies - perhaps even with London as a separate federal part
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by elthran 11y ago
I find myself in the middle - I love reading the joke comments, but I don't see the use case for letting someone review a product that they haven't purchased - Does anyone have any ideas why it would be a positive thing?
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What's it like to have your emails investigated?(bbc.com)
1 points by elthran 11y ago|1 comments
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by elthran 11y ago
Yeah - And that mystery is why its so important to find this plane in particular - all we really have now is wild mass guessing
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by elthran 11y ago
“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
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by elthran 11y ago
First thing I noticed >“That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous t
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by elthran 11y ago
Yeah, as a Brit, I've never fully understood the Constitution and its related documents being so glorified and set in stone - Especially when discussing the 2nd Amendment - Its an amendment, so obviously the founding fathers intended f
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by elthran 11y ago
Really interesting read. I love the style of this site, clean and easy to read, while still managing to be a pleasure to look at.
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by elthran 11y ago
In the UK at least, at a cinema you'll choose between sweet or salt popcorn, you can get salt/sweet/mixed popcorn in supermarkets, and Butterkist toffee popcorn is a common thing
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by elthran 11y ago
> If you scream in my face I'm not going to watch your movie in the theatre You've caught my interest here - Is this out of dislike for advertising as a whole? Do you apply this principle to non-movie situations? (TV, food prod
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The 'bogus boss' email scam costing firms millions(bbc.com)
83 points by elthran 11y ago|138 comments

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