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by jwdunne 9y ago
Thankfully her majority is razor thin so there's a strong chance this may not get through :)
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Yes, there were huge rumours she was in big trouble. Many recounts. She is on a knife edge. Her majority, or lack of, would harm her authority. The Tories are all about performance and she simply hadn't performed.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I figured this was an automatic, statistical process and not a reflection of a company with ailing reputation as of late. I modified the title from the headline so it was less aggressive. Technological perspective from the competent technol
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Uber criticised for raising fares during London terror attack(metro.co.uk)
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Not at all. I've seen this when police are searching cars owned by young drivers without children. My point was that it can and has been broadly applied. If an officer believes an object is intended to cause harm, you can be arrested f
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I've seen police officers search for a ball when finding a baseball bat in someone's possession, implying that, without a ball, they consider it an offensive weapon. This has been in the context of searches based on unrelated susp
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by jwdunne 9y ago
To note, this legislation covers a wider array that may shock our American commenters here. If the police pull you over and find a baseball bat without a ball, you are in violation of the offensive weapons act. Forget about handguns with le
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by jwdunne 9y ago
It's difficult if I take it as something I'm meant to believe. I always get that tug in my stomach. It's interesting as a reflection of culture, of which religion takes a prominent part in much of history. I see it like viewi
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Why is that? Some of the language isn't all that easy to get through but, taken as a piece of literary work, I don't find it that unreadable.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Can you recommend a good English translation of the Qoran if it exists? I've asked Muslim friends but they seem adamant that it must be read in Arabic or, at least, only know of the Arabic text.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
To extend your last point, David Cameron has been down on record as saying "I can't wait to privatise it". It was said tongue in cheek as a response to unfavourable coverage. Job security obviously isn't a joke to BBC em
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I've thought about this one for a while and I keep coming back to modelling actors with a set of behaviours that influences/triggers other behaviours and variable changes (which can then influence other behaviours and variables).
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by jwdunne 9y ago
That's the most ridiculous thing that I've ever heard about marriage. In a solid, loving, marriage, your wife will resent you for not being open and honest. She's meant to be your best friend. She wants to be there for you as
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Without much Clojure experience, I agree. Sequential, what-comes-first, is easier to read than finding the first evaluated expression and peeling backwards just to build the same mental model.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
For some odd reason, I was sure there was an independent kingdom but clearly not. I think I've played too much Ck2 to remember my real history now. Thanks for that :)
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Here's a few more interesting facts: - before the Crown, there were several crowns. England was composed of a handful of Anglo-Saxon petty kingdoms - before that, it had an emperor. The Roman emperor. - parts were ruled by the Danish (
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by jwdunne 9y ago
My boss said once "you're like a rollercoaster. When you're at your best, you're on fire. When you're at your worst, I consider letting you go." Thankfully my "best" has, I hope, outweighed my "w
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I'm called James so when I got a "Thanks J", I thought they had taken it on themselves to give me a new nickname. Perhaps signing off my emails with "Thanks :)" gave them sane impression. Strangely felt better when
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Lives too. Our already financially crippled NHS was hit extremely hard. They are not allowed to upgrade automatically because their software will break. The cost to upgrade the software isn't feasible when you have a multi-billion wide
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Perhaps one day a machine will smell if you are irreparable. Perhaps even smell if any spare parts remain.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
This is called an "audience". You can pretty much create an audience from anything. You can build up a whole chain of audiences. For example, if you watch a video ad, you can then be targeted. If you, say, click a link as part of
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I think you're probably right. That's the ideal. Thanks for letting me know - can't believe I missed that. I don't use Ruby professionally, just as a scripting language to make my life at work easier.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Not at all particular to writing. I believe Einstein went on frequent walks too. A walk through a park or a country path would be even better: greenery and nature has shown to boost creativity in some studies.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I think the problem is that, yeah, they're messages but very low level messages about the state of the object and not at all about a behaviour of the object in response to a message. I think, however, they're a good way of buildin
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by jwdunne 10y ago
If you look up how asbestos damages the lungs, perhaps carbon nanotubes are something we wouldn't want to ingest. I can't say the effects would be remotely similar but: - asbestos was considered safe (or some type of it). Used in
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by jwdunne 10y ago
In the UK, O2 has a line in their terms and conditions that pretty much say they're allowed to sell your data to 3rd parties. Now it's obvious why I've got people calling me asking about my recent loan that may have had PPI o
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by jwdunne 10y ago
Could be worse - they could want 10 - 15 years experience in all the latest technologies.
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by jwdunne 10y ago
Taking off my shoes is a key element. Even if I'm not in work, I put my shoes on so I'm ready for the day. I then can take them off and feel relaxed once the kids are in bed. It's a weird little thing I've noticed but it
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by jwdunne 10y ago
Press C-z. Multiple edits can be achieved through marking in helm. I need to get a grips with this part myself - sometimes it's just easier to use dired. Have you figured out how to switch between recent list and other match lists? So
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by jwdunne 10y ago
The syntactic sugar is perhaps what's special. Code without that isn't so pretty. I do find it impressive, however, because it's based on an abstract, wide-ranging and extremely useful concept that can actually be expressed i

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