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by phillc73 9y ago
The so called "60% winners tax" doesn't kick in on Betfair, according to the linked article above, until you've reached a total lifetime profit of £250,000. Up until that point you'll still pay the normal 2%-5% comm
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by phillc73 9y ago
Betfair merged with Paddy Power, not Ladbrokes. They probably stopped offering their service in Canada due to unclear licensing and operating regulations for their Exchange product. It has happened in a number of other jurisdictions too. Wh
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by phillc73 9y ago
Pretty sure I've eaten rabbit in a restaurant in Australia, but I am sure it was wild rabbit. I remember as a child in Australia eating a lot of rabbit. My father would hunt them and Mum's speciality was curried rabbit. I used to
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by phillc73 9y ago
I think it depends where you are, regarding the use of sheep. In Australia and New Zealand, lamb consumption is quite popular. Australian figures from 2016 show 9.5kg of lamb consumed per capita[1]. From the article: "This means that w
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by phillc73 9y ago
Thanks for your concern, but I am very happy with the professional advice I have received and am entirely confident that no tax fraud is being committed.
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Another shortcut, while still remaining in the EU is a Maltese Limited company. Very similar rules and structure to operating a UK based Limited company, but a much better corporate tax regime. I went this route, using an accountant recomme
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by phillc73 9y ago
No, it's not something I worry about at all. I'd be interested to know why you think the education would be objectively lower. I'm still living in a city, just a small one. Having checked Wikipedia, it tells me the population
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by phillc73 9y ago
> However, once they have kids, they have to settle and are back to square one. I don't necessarily think it's back to square one. One doesn't have to settle in a big city. I moved out of London when my first child was due
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by phillc73 9y ago
In Korea, only old people wear pants.
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by phillc73 9y ago
Open Notify has an API for this and some other space data. Here's a few more APIs I've collected into a small R package: https://github.com/phillc73/rinspace
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by phillc73 9y ago
A better way to connect funding with research. This applies to many fields, but in general the academic and R&D funding process feels broken. Researchers and scientists spend a disproportionate amount of time writing funding application
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by phillc73 9y ago
> Can’t fly with an FAA license in a German plane in Germany. I used to fly a British registered aeroplane (G-reg) in Britain, with an Australian licence. However, I couldn't fly that same aeroplane over the channel to France. For t
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by phillc73 9y ago
There are aboriginal communities who are using camels to their advantage, generating jobs and income for the community.[1][2] Of course that's not the whole story, and these feral animals do create some damage to the native environment
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The problem is not wind turbines or radio towers. The problem is cats.
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> Even back in 2008 they were. When I started playing Rugby Union back in 1989 as a teenager (League in 1986 for a couple of seasons) I was always taught to do neck exercises before training and playing. I was also encouraged to continu
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by phillc73 9y ago
I think there's been a positive change since Rugby Union scum engagements went from "Crouch-Touch-Pause-Engage" to "Crouch-Bind-Set". The initial contact is not as violent, and it would seem far fewer scrums are col
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by phillc73 9y ago
As an ex-prop forward, I have to say scrums (especially), rucks and mauls are a fascinating part of the sport. These aspects are what really differentiates the game of Rugby Union from Rugby League. Regarding cricket, this too is an evolvin
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by phillc73 9y ago
Or in Rugby Union, during a ruck or maul. The main difference in tackling technique between American Football and both codes of Rugby is use of the arms. In Rugby the arms must be used to tackle the opposing player. A shoulder charge, with
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by phillc73 9y ago
I think Rugby Union is more interesting than American Football (in my biased opinion), because the ball is in play for a lot longer and the game has better momentum. Then again, many Rugby Union vs Rugby League debates involve the criticism
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by phillc73 9y ago
This article in general reminded me of the role camels played in the European exploration of Australia. There is now a reasonably large population of wild, feral camels in Australia[1], and I thought this article might speak of something si
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by phillc73 9y ago
> I used to work for Smartjog who did the same. In fact I wrote the software (RBC, Reliable Bit Cast) used to send the actual satellite data packets through our provider Intelsat. I really loved Smartjog for a while and even commissione
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They tried again, and in April 1944, pulled off the same stunt, ducking their captors on an unguarded forced march. This time, Ramotnik and his brother-in-arms got away. A few days later, they heard the news: The Allies had won.
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by phillc73 9y ago
Who is "us"? I'm not English, but lived there for more than 16 years. I think I understand most British regional English accents, including Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish quite well.
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by phillc73 9y ago
> ... mining as one of the worst inventions for consuming energy possible? It depends on what you're "mining." I've been mining Gridcoin[1] for a while, which basically pays crypto-currency for working on BOINC projec
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by phillc73 9y ago
I did not know that. So why all the noise about how expensive tertiary education is in the US?
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That's how undergraduate University education works in Australia (at least it did when I attended. Perhaps someone younger than me can comment if things have changed in the last 20 years). Effectively the government pays your undergrad
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by phillc73 9y ago
I call it wankerisation. That is, a place, location or destination has become overwhelmed with wankers. "I don't go to that bar anymore, it's too wankerised." "I don't visit Facebook anymore, it's become w
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by phillc73 9y ago
Not at all! I just want to learn really. R is the language I know best, but am somewhat ignorant of its shortcomings compared to others.
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Appreciate this is not Stackoverflow, and happy to take the discussion over there if you would like to raise a question. However, the function I would write is: string_test <- function(x){ is.character(x) && length(x) ==
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You're right in the sense that there is no fundamental difference between character and string type in R. A "string" is just a character variable which contains more than one letter. variable_name <- "This is a st

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