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by frobozz 10y ago
The Lords Spiritual of the CofE are members of the House of Lords, which is part of the UK parliament, and not an England-only house. Unlike the other nations, England doesn't have any independent government, so it doesn't really
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by frobozz 10y ago
Which is cheaper than panini at €5.50.
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Ryanair, I guess. Verona to Brussels is 8 Euros. A "meal deal" on the plane is 10.
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by frobozz 10y ago
Yep. In a corporate environment, I've had far more freedom to explore new technologies and work on things outside of my specialism, than I ever did in startups. When I was in startups, anything other than working in a tried-and-tested
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by frobozz 10y ago
What currency are you quoting in? I wouldn't get out of bed for 130k in Norway. I probably couldn't even afford to.
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by frobozz 10y ago
I disagree. The things that come up every day in practical, real-world professional software development, such as design patterns and SOLID are the things that professional autodidacts normally have plenty of experience in and knowledge of.
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Not to mention that they probably already have a dozen or more skilled employees who have already done this or could easily do it if permitted, but who are instead kept occupied with pointless busy-work. A culture of warring fiefdoms and or
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by frobozz 10y ago
That doesn't work. You haven't mentioned anything about how much CO2 there is in the atmosphere and how it got there, and when. Just because CO2 is a greenhouse gas, it doesn't mean it is _the_ greenhouse gas, or even the mai
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by frobozz 10y ago
This Kindle edition is free: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300.kindle.images I assume that the 99c one comes with some feature other than the text - e.g. convenience, formatting, something else. The 99c is not a lic
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by frobozz 10y ago
It's inconsiderate to use an umbrella in a densely packed city like London. Get an overcoat.
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by frobozz 10y ago
Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe: https://www.lockss.org/
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There is: http://www.worldservice.org/docpass.html
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by frobozz 10y ago
Mildly disappointed that this appears to only be a list of national passports. It would be nice to see the World[1] and Sovereign Military Order of Malta[2] passports on here, as well as any others that I don't know about That said, ne
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by frobozz 10y ago
Though Basque is an isolate, it has a lot of Latin-origin loan words, due to centuries of contact.
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In freestyle races, maybe. In races for specific strokes, there must be rules defining how you get across, otherwise there's no distinction between them. You could liken it to the difference between running and walking races. Without
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by frobozz 10y ago
Sending a vote buyer knocking on doors and watching people vote when they happen to be voting is not very scalable. However, party activists and pollsters already do the first part. Adding the second isn't a massive leap. However, th
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by frobozz 10y ago
The paper based system guards against vote buying through the guarantee of secrecy. I go into a booth on my own, make my mark(s) fold my paper, and put it in a locked box. No one but me knows how I voted. If I go in with someone else, the
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by frobozz 10y ago
>> That's why you have hostile observers from opposing parties present. Even though observers are supposed to behave in an impartial and accurate way, partisan observers help ensure accuracy by their partisanship. If an individua
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by frobozz 10y ago
FTA: > The term URL was later changed to become URI, Uniform Resource Identifiers rfc3986: > A URI can be further classified as a locator, a name, or both. The term "Uniform Resource Locator" (URL) refers to the subset
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by frobozz 10y ago
In the broad middle, I don't think there is much of a manners/customs/grammar distinction. Any well-brought up middle class child should be perfectly capable of interacting with all but the wealthiest nobility. Of course, t
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by frobozz 10y ago
Why not send a few SmartMedia cards, a Zip Disk, or a few 3½-inch floppies?
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by frobozz 11y ago
Or a linter. It helps to stop you inadvertently doing something stupid.
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by frobozz 11y ago
It's not about principles, it's about efficiency. 30% (if that is the number) is a huge markup. That's a lot of money that could be being spent on research and is instead mostly going to the shareholders of five publishing
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by frobozz 11y ago
What do you mean? Of course publishing is a service. At what point did I claim otherwise? The point is that taxes pay for people produce the content, and to allow people to read the content. If the publication of the content were also a
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by frobozz 11y ago
From the clause: > activity intended to influence or attempt to influence Parliament, Government or political parties From Stephen Pinker's "The Language Instinct" >As you are reading these words, you are taking part in
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by frobozz 11y ago
I certainly don't have a problem with the users of a service paying something to use that service, in order to save the rest of us a bit of money. That is how the postal system and a lot of public transport works (and, as you say, Nat
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by frobozz 11y ago
> There have been moments of regression, some of them atrocious, but these are only relapses into the barbarism of the past, interrupting a course of development that is essentially benign. For anyone who thinks in this way, ISIS can onl
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by frobozz 11y ago
Dear Ms. Pukinskis, I'm writing to you to let you know that as you haven't provided us with a preferred form of address, out computer has automatically chosen one for you (see above). If you'd prefer us to use a different fo
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by frobozz 11y ago
I wouldn't trust these programs to work. The fibonacci one certainly doesn't. When the explanatory line in the fibonacci example first hits the left hand side of the program, the Direction Pointer appears to be being rotated anti
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by frobozz 11y ago
> why try when you are not rewarded When all are treated the same, regardless of performance, there are two possible situations - either all are rewarded as though underperforming (i.e. raise below inflation), or all are rewarded as thou

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