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by frobozz 7y ago
That's a minor irritation of a similar scale to accidentally leaving their wallet at their summer home and having to wait for replacement bank cards. Poverty tourism is bollocks.
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by frobozz 7y ago
Chat (and communications in general) is a tricky field to evaluate for this sort of thing, due to Metcalfe's law and related effects. I also don't think it would be easy for the gap to be retaken (for the same reason). I use Slac
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by frobozz 7y ago
After those 15-30 years are up, you no longer have to pay that $XXXX per month. In 20ish years, inflation is likely to have significantly reduced the value of $XXXX, it could have as little as half the purchasing power it does today. If re
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by frobozz 8y ago
3. Heat given off by the engine and propulsion mechanism when running at that speed. For many vehicles, the difference in that factor between running at ideal cruising speed (the 60MPH car in both of our examples) and a lower speed is minim
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by frobozz 8y ago
> As for CO2, the plane flying slower is more fuel-efficient. Isn't this lower CO2 emissions? Possibly lower emissions per minute, but if they are in the air for significantly longer, then that may be cancelled out by the extra time
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by frobozz 8y ago
It would get you averages or the salaries of people whose marketability you don't know. It doesn't get you "Hey! That bozo now earns £20K more than me"
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by frobozz 8y ago
This is something I have thought about before. If the raise is "good" (well above inflation, at least as good as market rate), then it doesn't matter. Other motivations (pursuit of mastery, desire to do a good job etc.) have
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by frobozz 8y ago
Do you not enjoy playing video games? What would you do instead and why? Is there an amount of acceptable time that you are exceeding? What are your long term goals that suffer from you playing games?
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by frobozz 8y ago
Considering the response to this one: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/223729 I suspect that the government are going to to ignore the current one. The debate around 223729 made the very important point that in
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by frobozz 8y ago
One reason not to switch professions is affordability. Few established mid-career professionals can afford to either take time out to train and qualify in another trade, or jump back down to the bottom rung and take a junior role in someth
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by frobozz 8y ago
> “if you generate profits in the USA, This sort of thing already gets dodged by international companies who "generate profits" in countries with lower taxes and "incur costs" in countries with higher taxes. >&quot
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by frobozz 8y ago
Sadly, 1000memories.com seems to have disappeared.
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by frobozz 8y ago
The global nature of software development limits the utility of licensing. You can't go overseas to get a bridge built across the river in your town. You can't get a foreign barrister to represent you in court in your country. Yo
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by frobozz 8y ago
Examen philosophicum is common in Norwegian universities. It is worth noting that this is common to all first degrees, and may or may not be tailored to your particular subject area, so it's often up to the learner to work out apply th
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by frobozz 8y ago
Not strictly true. In the W3C process, a Working Draft can be written before any implementations. Even a CR doesn't need to have been realised. To progress to PR and Recommendation, it needs to have implementations. WHATWG is more de
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by frobozz 8y ago
When it is a matter solely for the individual, that's fine. If an "article" claims that exercise and vegetables are bad for you and that Brawndo is nutritionally complete, then it's tough luck for the idiot who chooses t
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by frobozz 8y ago
That's only because Richard Of York Gave Battle Playfully sounds stupid.
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by frobozz 8y ago
CTRL-F pronoun: "Also it’s nice to allow your attendees the option to add pronouns to their badge."
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by frobozz 8y ago
When they do these election polls, do they stand in the street randomly choosing people coming out of the conference centre where one of the major parties is having their AGM?
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by frobozz 8y ago
sample size is irrelevant if the selection criteria are poor.
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by frobozz 8y ago
This is precisely what the OP (with expertise in this field) is stating. See the statement about Honeycrisp apples. Yes there are varieties more suited to different purposes, and there may be some that are grown specifically for those other
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by frobozz 8y ago
Yet somehow, we don't typically do Sylvester Brosch or Holger Nielsen any more. Instead, we favour the direct transmission of exhaled air as a method of artificial respiration.
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by frobozz 8y ago
Often it's the same doctor who will refer you to themself in the NHS after an initial private consultation if they work out that the insurance company isn't going to pay enough for your treatment to make it worthwhile.
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by frobozz 8y ago
The only pieces of advice available for 60 and 64 are unhelpful - they both talk about starting to save for retirement. I'm sure that the idea is that these things will fall off the bottom if the site gets more popular, but pretty much
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by frobozz 8y ago
Part of the point is that the competitor chooses the routine based on what they can get the most points for. They are marked not only on quality of execution, but technical difficulty of the routine. Crudely speaking, what this means is th
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by frobozz 8y ago
Nonsense. In the private sector, shareholders take money out of the system in the form of profit. Something that costs £X in labour and consumables must be charged at £X+Y% in order to make that happen and still give money to investors. I
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by frobozz 8y ago
As with many "ancient" traditions, a lot of chivalric code stuff was invented by Victorians.
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by frobozz 8y ago
Those numbers are massively out of date. Even Warwick (cheapest top-10 university in England and Wales, Scotland is a different story) is at least £6750K per year for UK undergrads. Many universities charge the full £9250 allowed. Granted,
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by frobozz 8y ago
Measuring the utility of a language by number of countries in which it is spoken, or number of speakers worldwide is pretty meaningless. It's not dissimilar to the argument that children in SE England should all learn French because m
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by frobozz 8y ago
The definition of "results" and the criteria by which they are measured is the critical thing. If you measure everyone in a company by how much money they directly make, then salespeople are the best, and everyone else is just dri

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