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by frobozz 13y ago
The difference will exist at some point in the future when I want to convert those flacs/mp3s to a new lossy format for some reason (e.g. when the only place you can buy an mp3 player is in an antique shop). Then when my great grandson
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by frobozz 13y ago
I agree that the website looks awful, but it always baffles me when people blame open standards for the fact that their devices don't support them. It's like blaming USB for the fact that a micro-usb plug doesn't fit into a l
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by frobozz 13y ago
Not really. If I found a page that redirected me to a login, I would assume that that page is not intended to be publicly available, and that other content that I don't know about exists which is not intended to be publicly available.
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by frobozz 13y ago
The netmarketshare link in the article states > This report lists the market share of the top operating systems in use for browsing (not servers). This data is derived by aggregating the traffic across our network of websites that use o
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by frobozz 13y ago
Sadly missing is the "Fallacy Fallacy", which seems to crop up in internet discussions rather frequently.
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by frobozz 13y ago
Selling bitcoins (or any other currency or asset) to someone for money that they have obtained illegally is money laundering. Obviously, all transactions cannot be held to the same standards of diligence. e.g. How can a bureau de change at
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by frobozz 13y ago
I don't think RIPA even requires an accusation. A complete innocent who is not under suspicion of anything can be served with a disclosure requirement if they hold the key to information that the authorities desire. This is a sorry st
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by frobozz 13y ago
Don't equate the term "accused" with the term "convicted". They mean totally different things. We have no evidence that detritus has been convicted of any crime, so is not in the same situation as the subject of t
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by frobozz 13y ago
Not repelled by the sun, but propelled by the prevailing local source of charged particles as long as the sail is deployed. Hypothetically, if that source is on the opposite side of the vehicle to the sun, then it could be propelled towards
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by frobozz 13y ago
Even more confusing: Unless his accommodation in Lancashire is completely free, then living in Ramsbottom and travelling to London is significantly more expensive than just living in London.
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by frobozz 13y ago
Almost, but I'd like to suggest an amendment to your first conclusion: Time travel may well be possible, but unbounded backwards time travel is clearly not possible. It may be the case that a machine will be invented that allows peop
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by frobozz 13y ago
Language and nation are not the same thing. Sadly, a policy like this would open up a can of worms. Should the Cherokee syllabary be permitted in .us domains? If so, you are still open to homograph spoofing against the Latin character set
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by frobozz 13y ago
From the three Fs? From a customer who wanted some playground equipment? From a crowdfunded philanthropic project that wanted to build some playgrounds? By saving up their income from previous jobs before making a go of a new company? Basic
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by frobozz 13y ago
IMHO, The banning of "what have you tried", and the removal of "too localized" will lead to even more poor pedagogy. The question to which the author links (2387218) is a perfect example of a wholly unresearched question
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by frobozz 13y ago
The entire Holmes canon has been in the public domain in its original country of publication for some time. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930 (more than 70 years ago) and I don't see any evidence that he wrote anything about Mr. Holm
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by frobozz 13y ago
Interesting. I use tabs because there is no ambiguity. One tab is one level of indentation. How big that indentation appears on screen is up to the viewer.
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by frobozz 13y ago
Shops over a certain floorspace have restricted opening hours on Sundays. (see: https://www.gov.uk/trading-hours-for-retailers-the-law ) Some shops exploit a loophole in that a shop isn't open unless the tills are open.
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by frobozz 13y ago
What sort of dreadful tasks are you talking about? There are plenty of things that managers do, that could just as well be done by some kind of junior administrator.
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by frobozz 13y ago
Another difference (in addition to the other responses) is that thirty years ago, DINKYs bought houses at prices that a single-income family could afford, then sold them on (or let them out) at prices only DINKYs could afford. A middle-clas
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by frobozz 13y ago
Your boiled-down version of the question leads on to the following questions: * Why is impossible to know X? * How can we prove that X impossible to know? * How close to knowing X can we get? * What else can't we know? Is there a mode
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by frobozz 13y ago
This is somewhat impotent advice, you don't just magically make money by giving up everything you're no good at. There are two reasons for this: 1) I'm good at making things. I'm bad at sales, marketing, hiring and del
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by frobozz 13y ago
I was similarly shocked by characters in their 40s ogling and catcalling at "girls" in school uniform (though clearly played by women in their 20s). This seems to be a norm of the era, and it goes so strongly against today's
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by frobozz 13y ago
Once autonomous cars have saturated the marketplace, I can only think of two reasons to still drive manually: 1. As with people who row or sail, just for the enjoyment. Such usage could be restricted to specific places like racetracks. 2.
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by frobozz 13y ago
How often have you seen a "they" whose antecedent might have been either?
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by frobozz 13y ago
> “Him” or “They”? English language aficionados haven’t yet decided what to do with a singular pronoun of unknown (or irrelevant) sex. Since this usage of _they_ has been around for at least 600 years, they're clearly taking their o
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by frobozz 13y ago
Trivial once the company is successful, but isn't the purpose of the money to ensure that the founders don't have to give up and get "proper" jobs before the company succeeds?
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The one that appointed Aneurin Bevan as Minister of Health. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan
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by frobozz 13y ago
Not to mention taking advantage of the deduction by "volunteering" at your friend's charity in some kind of fuzzily-defined "advisory" role, probably by attending a series of "thought camps" with your frie
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by frobozz 13y ago
> Do you expect your £18Kpa hairdresser (or the minimum-wage junior that sweeps up the hair) to spend £5Kpa (after tax) getting to work, or would you prefer to have go to Northampton every couple of months to get your hair cut?
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by frobozz 13y ago
1. Not everyone in London is Dick Whittington (and this is also a criticism of other comments in this thread, that seems to assume this), coming for the gold-paved streets. Some people live there because they grew up there, as did their pa

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