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by neffy 8y ago
Guess again. https://www.ft.com/content/eef717f2-bb6e-11e8-8274-55b729265... https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/corps-regiments-and-units... etc. There is so much information available in democrac
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by neffy 8y ago
Not so much the source, as the destination.
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by neffy 8y ago
Actually... no it´s not. The underlying technology is a medieval single error correction/detection process called double entry book keeping. So the operation is some variant of [credit cash, debit account] or [debit deposit account1, c
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by neffy 8y ago
The other precedent is the ratification of the Maastricht treaty, where it was rejected by referendum in Denmark for example 50.7% vs 40.93% - so again very close - amended, and then passed - by a second referendum. https://en.wi
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by neffy 8y ago
Usenet being "friendly" was not exactly my recollection of alt.politics.* Whatever happened to Serdar Argic?!
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by neffy 8y ago
There are two answers to this. The obvious one is, yes of course they could. The annoying one, is that it has to be negotiated, world wide flight maps would have to be updated, flight traffic control reprogrammed, and it is just easier by f
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by neffy 8y ago
..and you´re lucky enough with the timing for the business cycle to give you that long. Which probably won´t be the case for most people working there now.
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US health spending in aggregate is between 2-3% more than comparable European countries. Life expectancy is several years lower.
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by neffy 8y ago
It´s complicated. To believe that the Euro is malice by design you would need to believe that current Macro Economics - which most economists are happy to agree is deeply flawed - is not only deeply flawed but is deliberately flawed and pro
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by neffy 8y ago
@freehunter Yes, you were and are quite right. We´re looking at a feedback loop not entirely dissimilar to the one that caused the '29 crash. Only then it was corporates lending to banks to lend to investors to buy shares. I guess this
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by neffy 8y ago
The best book ever for understanding how Elevators work is a wonderful late 20th century work of fiction called The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead, which was described by its author as what you would expect to happen if you let a child gr
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by neffy 8y ago
You're so lucky you never had Thomas Hardy as the author of a set book in English Literature.
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by neffy 8y ago
I think you´re right. I certainly wouldn´t work for any of those companies, and have repeatedly turned down interview requests. Would not have had Google on that list up until a year ago, but am starting to feel glad I escaped there.
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by neffy 8y ago
They used a pick up from the airport service, and apparently the owner/driver was a relative of one of the senior managers. It was somewhat blatant, in the kind of questions he slipped in weren't quite in the zone for your typical
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"The two doctors made no secret of who they blamed for “this preventable cause of death and disability”. “It’s about money. Money has influence, and it influenced the joint commission,” said Lucas." See also: https://ww
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by neffy 8y ago
Indeed. No significant student loans in Germany.
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by neffy 8y ago
Depends on the company. OP is quite correct, often the lunch buddy is another interview, sometimes it's just a way to give junior employees some exposure to the process, sometimes it's it really is just lunch. I interviewed once w
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by neffy 8y ago
I once had an interview with the partner of a major consultancy who did turnaround kind of work. I had been in your kind of situation, and at the end of the interview I asked him how this kind of situation was handled. Without missing a bea
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by neffy 8y ago
That´s not... exactly... what was being referred to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
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by neffy 8y ago
No, the US is as OP said. Apropos... popular macro-economic theory is based more or less on the idea that the economic financial system is not sensitive to conditions like these. As you just showed, it's actually quite trivial to demon
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by neffy 8y ago
It was also underground in the Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Heinlein) 20th century science fiction should always be taken as a how to guide for space colonisation. Now about that FTL transport.
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by neffy 8y ago
"living the american dream" has indeed started to be used rather sarcastically in foreign parts, for exactly this reason. Your dream, everybody else´s nightmare.
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by neffy 8y ago
Agreed. If you keep up to date (hey, who needs spare time). If you have marketable skills all over the stack. If you are persistent, then eventually you can find something. Possibly something really good if there's the right scarcity&#
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by neffy 8y ago
Actually, some of us do, and some of us study it rather more widely than the US - which is actually regarded as having one of the world's more dubious banking systems during the 19th century. Some of us would also make the claim that t
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by neffy 8y ago
No you´re right. The banking system was bouncing up and down like a yo-yo in the 19th century, on average there was a crisis every 10-12 years (also astonishingly regular). The mean time to crisis is several years longer these days.
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by neffy 8y ago
Yes, it's really fascinating isn't it. For the first time in decades, the US stands up to the Saudi's. Not even 9/11 was able to make them do that. I wonder if it's anything to do with US oil production recently goi
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by neffy 8y ago
Unfortunately in practice, the lowly paid support agent is being bean counted on the number of outstanding tickets they have, and being told to periodically fix that problem. "You get what you measure."
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The "not the right fit" one always makes my blood boil especially in these cases.
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That's the thing about personal experiences - they tend to transcend epistemology - but fortunately, at least in my case, not basic self-defence techniques.
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Not very often at all. We know the difference. We know, or learn quite quickly, as do the vast majority of men, how to politely say no, to those who wish to be polite. Stop assuming this is hysteria, it's not. It's a collective, w

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