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by gutnor 11y ago
They are still called unarranged overdraft at Santander and HSBC. HSBC is now sending you an SMS and give you until the end of the day to transfer some money before you need to pay the fee. (note that unlike a few years back, money transfer
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by gutnor 11y ago
Because 1995.
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by gutnor 11y ago
Plenty of annoyances - landlord teaming up together, article of associations written by a company that we learned later one of the landlord is director of, ... One instance in particular - we don't have a parking space but we have a ce
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by gutnor 11y ago
There are benefit to the British system too. The real problem is common with both systems: bubble seller market like in London, and month long administrative procedures for what should be trivial matters in 2015. With the British system (in
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by gutnor 11y ago
Maybe, people buying a Series 7 are wealthy people that want a family car. And for the raw performance, they need enough to boast, but what they really need is a luxurious interior. Wealthy people looking for performance look at sports car.
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by gutnor 11y ago
This article is just pointing at the flaws, not really offering any alternative. It is just as GP said, a rant better kept for the water cooler area. You can guess that functional programming is going to be his response I suppose considerin
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by gutnor 11y ago
IANAL but your company is not shielding you from legal responsibility of the illegal actions you take, even if you are required by your employee to engage in those activities. That is a warning to be careful I heard was given to sysadmin. E
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by gutnor 11y ago
> It really is that simple. If you want to be pedantic - then no it is not that simple. The student is in license infringement, copyright violation, contract with CERN violation, ... but has not stolen anything. But yes, he need to pay f
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by gutnor 11y ago
The student didn't steal the license. He misused the license. The license for his usage existed in the pool - it is only a combination of CERN security policies and the company licensing check limitation of their product that prevented
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by gutnor 11y ago
He used it only under the scope of his work and the company contracting the work had the necessary seat in pool to cover for the student license. So the student is only technically at fault in the same way as you are technically trespassing
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by gutnor 11y ago
Not quite sure the article is making any point about technology that was not widely accepted before. Industrialization with its the social progresses, and the golden age post-WW2 are always taken as counterpoint in any discussion about impa
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by gutnor 11y ago
Secret in negotiation is like source control in software development. It is universally recognized best practice. So that's not really an indication of anything. You cannot practically publicly negotiate as that would require either sh
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by gutnor 11y ago
It depends the project you work on. Typical scrum project is one that contains lots of smaller tasks - the standup is an opportunity for quick interactions, ad-hoc replanning (like don't do Y this morning, I'm not done with X. Sho
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by gutnor 11y ago
Standing Up is a crutch to keep meeting short. If you can keep the meeting short and effective with everybody sitting why you make people stand up ? It is not agile to apply practices out of principle, you apply them with a result in mind,
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by gutnor 11y ago
Yet the Bible is not in the list. Edit: Oh, I get it - the Bible is not written by an American so it cannot make it into the list of American books. Could have used a hint with the downvote.
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by gutnor 11y ago
Careful here with the "prudent financial decisions" They took a risk and it paid off. It is only prudent if they were in a position to take the loss if the market had gone the other way. And I assume they still have their loan, so
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by gutnor 11y ago
Falling demographic is one issue, but the problem here is also due to urbanization[0]. My wife's village in Spain has a population between 50-100 during winter time and jump to over 1000 in summer time where families are back for holid
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by gutnor 11y ago
Well, Google is already quite fractured in the EU - it has something like 20 subsidiaries, one in most EU countries[0] ? That is also a common (mandatory?) setup, for multinational companies to have a local subsidiary in every country where
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by gutnor 11y ago
Poor people don't live in an isolated bubble. The culture you talk about is everyone culture. It affect middle class with a selection bias, like only seeing the welfare queen, and it affects the poor in a broken window theory fashion.
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by gutnor 11y ago
As far as complexity go, this is quite simple. Unlike a lot of latin accentuated characters, colour modified emoji do not have evil twin brothers that look the same with a different series of code point.
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by gutnor 11y ago
In London, I'm currently on a 2 month notice, however that has always seemed unusual to agents and people I interviewed with. Also, that's a fixed period for senior and junior position - in other companies I worked for, there was
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by gutnor 11y ago
Not quite sure if it is still the case, but not so long ago Germany was borrowing money at negative interest rate.
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by gutnor 11y ago
> Apple can't deploy a questionably-legal music streaming service as easily as a startup can. There is an illustration of that. Big companies using a lot of contractors normally go through intermediary contractor agencies simply to
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by gutnor 11y ago
Indeed, you are relying on the inefficiencies of the market you are currently operating in. If you find a niche where that works, milk it while it last, but any serious competition will remove the middleman. There is however a value added t
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by gutnor 11y ago
You don't really need to make money on appreciation, you need to make profit. If you have a mortgage and the rent cover the charges - you only need to beat inflation on the cash investment. For a simple example [x], I know people in Lo
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by gutnor 11y ago
> They do it because they can, because they are taught power and control over people is everything and the slightest challenge should be met with extreme force. Maybe they do it for more mundane reasons: because they are bored of nothing
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by gutnor 11y ago
If you push it to the extreme, a language only needs 2 words: 0 and 1. It seems to me that there is a lot more than 120 distinct concepts you need to handle the modern world, even basically - so if you are using only 120 word, you must must
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by gutnor 11y ago
They did the same kind of thing in a Spanish TV program about how creative young people are beating the crisis by inventing new businesses. One of their example was a team of 2 30-something living with their parents with a business like cle
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by gutnor 11y ago
Well so ? That how competition works. If the taxi are getting better than Uber, not using because they used to be crap is the same position than people not using Uber because they are not the good old taxi.
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by gutnor 11y ago
That's unfortunately going to be a tough deal. If anything the whole Euro thing has made its partners Euro-skeptical. I'm not sure you would convince Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece that more Europe is good for them consid

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