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by frobozz 9y ago
It is independent of racial and national origin of the individual concerned, but not independent of the nation of the civil service being examined. > This implies that variation in the ability to monitor or incentivize civil servants may
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by frobozz 9y ago
Actual title: Dishonesty and Selection into Public Service: Evidence from India The link title: "Students who cheat on a simple task are more likely to prefer public sector jobs", implies that this is a global phenomenon. One migh
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by frobozz 9y ago
If I'm hungry now, I can ... 1. Phone for delivery, and they will say "45 minutes" (it will probably be here in 35). 2. Phone an order for me to pick up, and they will say "half an hour", and I'll go and get
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by frobozz 9y ago
Exactly. Without trying you get double the recommended minimum cardio. I can't imagine how people can go about their daily business and not cover it. Strength is trickier. Nothing in my day to day life requires me to pull something
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by frobozz 9y ago
That quote from the article isn't at all surprising. The aerobic recommendation is 2.5hrs of brisk walking (i.e. 7 to 8 miles, e.g just over a mile a day). You'd have to be pretty dedictated to a sedentary lifestyle not to manage
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by frobozz 9y ago
Some typefaces have spaces as narrow as 1/5em. Many are around 1/4em. Spaces in a fixed width typeface will be up to about 5 times as wide as in some proportional width ones.
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by frobozz 9y ago
Who aligns like that? It seems to defeat the purpose of putting it on a separate line. void someNiceMethod( <tab>int myParam... ); Hey Presto! You, Joe and Jane all get your preferred size size of tab. As a bonus, this ind
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by frobozz 9y ago
If you have been bullied out of, or illegally fired from, a workplace, I don't imagine you'd actually want your old job back. What you would want is enough money to cover your living expenses for long enough to get a job you do w
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by frobozz 9y ago
Avenues are straight paths or roads with trees on either side.
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by frobozz 9y ago
True, but Mrs. May is not a fan of the Convention or the Court. Scrapping it is not directly tied to Brexit, but it's still related, if only by being an international agreement with the word "European" in it. http:/&#x
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by frobozz 10y ago
That is exactly corporate efficiency. Less efficient solutions that don't inconvenience passengers include: * maintaining extra crew on standby at each airport, in case of no-shows by the scheduled crew. * reserving (i.e. not selling)
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by frobozz 10y ago
Agreed. In fact, modern self-service soft drinks dispensers make it even more appealing and simple for the customer to get exactly what they want. Faced with a waiter or a person behind a counter, there's no way I'd order glass of
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by frobozz 10y ago
1: Automation. Availability of white goods is the reason why most people don't have servants. If I had a spare full-time wage hanging around, I don't think I could find enough work for a servant to do in my house. 2: We don&#x27
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by frobozz 10y ago
No, at most you can say it requires a way to introduce those chemicals into the bloodstream in the brain. Actually, all you need is a way to stimulate the same receptors that are stimulated by those chemicals. Just as with unit testing, you
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by frobozz 10y ago
A union representative is the next logical step. They will be able to represent you anonymously at first, and bring a collective action against the perpetrator if there have been multiple incidents against multiple victims. If you wish to
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by frobozz 10y ago
"main force tying people to your company", not "main force tying people to working at all". People happily work for £X + a good mission, interesting work, nice office, good team etc; even when they know they could get £X
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by frobozz 10y ago
Long juvenile period. A 10yo human child with living parents has a greater chance of surviving to breeding age than the same aged child with dead ones. Also, a reproductive pair with living post reproductive (but still not decrepit) parents
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by frobozz 10y ago
David Nutt tried this by defining the harmfulness of various drugs. He was sacked for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt
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by frobozz 10y ago
Dammit! I hadn't lost the game in years.
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by frobozz 10y ago
Streaming is the best approach (IMO), as long as the schools are large enough or homogeneous enough (or have appropriate intercollegiate relationships with nearby schools) to make it happen. If you can't make a full class of pupils of
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by frobozz 10y ago
This is what I do, and it wins for all sorts of reasons, not just the avoidance of mistaking flab for a foetus. If you are doing this, the likelihood is that there is someone more in need of a seat than you, and possibly for invisible reaso
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by frobozz 10y ago
Interestingly, the remuneration model used by most big companies seems to be based on the opposite of that. The rank and file tend to be told that we're not motivated by money, so we shouldn't expect any, whilst c-level salaries h
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by frobozz 10y ago
Given that narrative, it should be increasing in the sense of getting more people off the floor and on to the bottom rung. There's no reason to expect that it should be increasing in the sense of a higher percentage of people reaching
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by frobozz 10y ago
I agree, but with one caveat. If you wear trousers with buttons on the rear pockets, avoid the Mirra. The holes in the back are perfect for catching them and ripping them off.
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by frobozz 10y ago
PMD: http://pmd.sourceforge.net/snapshot/pmd-java/rules/java/code... Scalastyle: http://www.scalastyle.org/rules-0.8.0.html#org_scalastyle_sc... JSHint: http://jshint.com&#x2F
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by frobozz 10y ago
I hope you're not suggesting I didn't read past the first couple of paragraphs. The last line in my original post explicitly refers to the antepenultimate paragraph in the article. The author's problem comes directly from no
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by frobozz 10y ago
> Exceptions for example. Exceptions are not an example. They should inherit from BaseException (PEP-352). BaseException has __init__, therefore any Exception has __init__ by inheritance. > 50 lines is what fits in my terminal, 50 s
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by frobozz 10y ago
It's a violation of someone's coding standard, if it's not a violation of yours, then add it to your exclusion list. The point of the __init__ warning is that a class without a constructor might not really be a class at all.
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by frobozz 10y ago
> The real problem is the amount of output. That's a nonsense argument. The output is proportional to the number of violations. If you keep your project clean, then you'll have about a report of about 100 lines showing the st
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by frobozz 10y ago
You appear to be right, although it doesn't make sense (like a lot of things here, so it's not that much of a surprise). How can a nation without a government have an established religion?

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