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by frobozz 13y ago
Not necessarily. It could be racism, in the case that the cleaners are of an ethnicity the attorney despises. It could be bullying, in the case that the people whose change he is stealing deliberately leave cash in their desks for paying ve
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by frobozz 13y ago
You handle it honestly, openly, and by negotiation with the workforce.
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by frobozz 13y ago
In England and Wales it's a bad thing, because it's another example of the "pull the ladder up" generation doing what they do best. The people who, in the 1970s&80s, benefited from grants, free tuition, and the ability to claim unemploy
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by frobozz 13y ago
Really? I'm shocked and horrified that it's so low, same with the police. Their entire purpose is the health of the nation. They have no other stakeholders. They should score close to 100%. What do those 63% believe is at the heart of the
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by frobozz 14y ago
>The "true" list at the end, like a Hollywood ending, was probably not necessary. I sometimes think that, being of an inherently analytical bent, engineers tend to underestimate the inability of others to add facts and observations toge
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by frobozz 14y ago
I would hazard that it's partly because the rich don't get rich by throwing their money away. The thing about "cool scifi sh!#" is that it stands a very good chance of not being profitable, and an even greater chance of not being profitable
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by frobozz 14y ago
> When reading fiction and non-academic work, it took the joy out of reading. What was the point of reading a novel fast if I didn't enjoy it. Agreed. Personally, I think that if you don't subvocalize at least the dialogue in a novel,
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by frobozz 14y ago
Disk space has a history of misleading sizing, with 1 "MB" often meaning 1000 KiB, and 1 "GB" seeming to mean any combination of decimal and binary multipliers between 1GB and 1GiB (Including 1000 "MB", which might itself be something betwe
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by frobozz 14y ago
At first, I was surprised by this. If IBM wants to use 100% IBM developed and owned open source code, then the licence of the original project is irrelevant. However, the use of a copyleft licence for the project leaves open the possibilit
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by frobozz 14y ago
>its unlikely that mortgage payments are lower than rent - otherwise, it'd be better to pay the mortgage than renting! In some places, they are, and it is. However, I would be incredibly surprised if there is anywhere where the mortgag
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by frobozz 14y ago
It doesn't, but that's not the punchline. The punchline is the reaction. People are almost enraged enough to boycott instagram over this.
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by frobozz 14y ago
When I first read that paragraph, I thought she was talking about a school trip. It turns out that it wasn't a bunch of yet-to-be-educated 14-year-olds, but a group including at least two senior female professionals in the technology indust
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by frobozz 14y ago
Stupid headline. If it's doing the commuting for me, then either I'm working from home (in which case, why am I sending my car to the office), or it's also doing my job for me (which is extremely impressive).
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by frobozz 14y ago
Special Constables are properly trained, qualified and warranted volunteer "real" police officers. PCSOs are paid, barely trained normal citizens with a police-like uniform.
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by frobozz 14y ago
Are back-end developers really "developers"? Surely if you aren't developing the full stack from raw minerals to painting pixels, someone else has done all the hard work, and you're just doing the easy bit and plugging it in.
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by frobozz 14y ago
This is hosted on Blogspot, so I don't think the author has the authority to permit or deny people access to that computer. Surely it's entirely within Google's gift. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/ That said, I can't actual
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by frobozz 14y ago
This would have been my first thought. Another thought is the difference in the effect of wage inflation between higher and lower incomes. I intuit that people on higher incomes are more likely to see rising salaries in real terms (either
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by frobozz 14y ago
>Using big words not only improved your grade, it also took up space, getting you closer to the critical 5 page minimum. I have to disagree with this point. Using "big words" (or "fancy vocabulary words"), often makes it difficult to re
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by frobozz 14y ago
I wouldn't have posted a comment like that if the story was about someone in Somalia complaining about a US company. Norway is part of the EEA, and has laws equivalent to the European Data Protection Directive. Amazon.co.uk is a company op
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by frobozz 14y ago
Individuals have the right to see any personal data that an organisation holds about them. If automated processing of such data leads to a legal or significant effect (e.g. you've violated our contract, so we're deleting everything you've
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by frobozz 14y ago
IANAL, but I believe that the Personopplysningsloven is compliant with Directive 95/46/EC; of which Article 12 has provisions against the behaviour exhibited by Amazon in this exchange.
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by frobozz 14y ago
I buy lottery tickets occasionally when I feel a bit down about money - doing so is a win-win. If I win a prize greater than my stake, then that's great. If I don't, then it reminds me that I can still afford to throw away a few pounds ever
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by frobozz 14y ago
It is easier to mentally calculate the approximate circumference of a circle whose radius is a multiple of 7 using 22/7, than it is using 3.14(...) Admittedly, that's a pretty niche use, but a use, nonetheless.
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by frobozz 14y ago
Homeopathy was more effective in the 1800s because the patient was only under threat from their ailments, rather than having to worry about the doctor killing them as well. Early medicine was in a large portion, quackery. Some of it was ac
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by frobozz 14y ago
The normal definition of scrapping something is to get rid of it, typically in such a way that it is not reused in its current form. e.g. If I scrap my car, it means that I am no longer using it, nor have I sold it on to another driver to u
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by frobozz 14y ago
If you use a 100% portable tool like passwordcard, then you can use it on any computer. Though someone may be able to get one password by keylogging, the remainder of your passwords are safe. Your own database can only be compromised by yo
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by frobozz 14y ago
I can't find anything saying where the money actually goes. One injustice of levies like this is that the money may not actually go to those who piracy is harming, but instead it lines the pockets of whoever can already afford to lobby for
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by frobozz 14y ago
Germany has had it since 1965. The news is the massive increase, not the existence of the tax.
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by frobozz 14y ago
One benefit that _they_ has over _e_ is that it is distinguishable from _he_ in those variants that tend to drop word-initial _h_. Another benefit that these novel pronouns can't pick up is that _they_ is the normal gender-neutral pronoun
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by frobozz 14y ago
The ability to see a bad side, and the inability to see the bright side are two different things. Of course digital immortality is inestimably cool. There are so many amazing and obvious positives that we can even imagine on this side of t

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