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by phillc73 11y ago
My community (horse racing) is also very active on Twitter. However, I find it highly beneficial to stay abreast of the latest news, and have a chuckle from time to time. Yesterday a certain horse was confirmed for a certain race (Smad Plac
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========================= SEEKING WORK ¦ REMOTE or AUSTRIA ========================= Key Language: R Key Skill: Building Shiny apps Other skills: Linux, SQL, Project/Product management, Business Analysis. Examples of work: - An R libra
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Ask HN: A fitness or health wearable for which I own the data?
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One of my top 10 must go to tourist destinations: http://wankerscorner.com/ Just for the laughs.
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Rocket.Chat perhaps? https://rocket.chat/
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To pull another quote out of the article: “Lots of ordinary financial things are gambling,” says Robin Hanson, an economist at George Mason University. “But they are carved out in the public mind.” Life is playing. Everything you do is an i
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"Intrade’s system was designed to evoke sophisticated investment, not a casino or a horse track" I resent the supposition that there is not sophisticated investments being made on horse racing. There are many professional investor
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Current generation drones don't handle severe weather conditions very well. Even larger military drones, such as the well known Predator, have severely limited crosswind components. http://middleeast.about.com/od/u
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It depends.... If you're unaccompanied on someone else's estate, then it's your responsibility to bring the carcass down off the hill. That usually involves tying yourself to the carcass and dragging it (or if the hill is ste
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Just seen this on Twitter: @BetfairRacing: After taking an early lead Marmalad traded at 1.01 for over £18K before getting get beaten on the line by Brasted. http://t.co/ht4mo7suyj
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I don't think he has. You've equated regular gambling with losing. Casino games, against the house, and computerised "slots" are gambling games which can't be beaten long term. Sports gambling is very different, and
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The speed and instant gratification of using a search engine to find information online is becoming a problem for me. I'm only going to conduct information searches at a public library from now on. Almost everything we used to physical
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Whether you're accompanied by a gillie often depends on the estate and your experience. If you've completed the Deer Stalking Certificate (DSC) levels 1 & 2, there are many opportunities to wander around on your own with a gun
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I don't believe they are kept at artificially high numbers, but their population is actively managed. Culls often remove poor specimens, such as switches, to improve the wild stock. It does make sense to manage the Scottish red deer po
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When I started my UK Limited company I immediately registered for VAT, so I could claim VAT paid on purchased startup equipment, which was mostly computing goods. I could then obviously offset that against VAT collected in the first months
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I'm not sure this still holds true with the advent of betting exchanges. The market is now pretty efficient. Sure, there's still value to be exploited if you're good enough. However, in general the wisdom of the crowd is quit
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I can't really see the problem here. The employee made a bet. Sure, he used information not commonly available, but he didn't do it on his own site. And it was still a bet, not something that was guaranteed to win. If I was employ
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Slightly, but I love R and make a sizeable part of my living using that language. From a design perspective I much prefer websites like R's, rather than disaster zones like Mashable (although haven't been there for a long time, so
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I think the R homepage is pretty much perfect: https://www.r-project.org/ Who wouldn't be excited about learning R after visiting the website!
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If you want a self-hosted Trello clone, check out Wekan ( http://wekan.io/ ). I've recently installed Kanboard ( http://kanboard.net ) on the smallest DI instance and it works a treat. Kanban board, task list,
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I've struggled to really engage with Asana, when I've had to use it in the recent past. I hope these enhancements make their product better, but apart from one part-time role where I have to use it, Asana isn't my first choic
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My father's left handed, I'm left handed, my sister's ambidextrous. A couple of her kids are left handed. There is certainly a genetic component. My son's too young yet to have a dominant hand, but I make a point of putt
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I thought the Hunter S. Thompson article linked from the sidebar offered far more interesting advice regarding finding direction and life's fulfillment: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/04&#
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Not every bank charges £25 for informal overdrafts (which is what happens if a standing order attempts to be drawn with not enough money in the account to cover it). My bank specifically charges £10 per month for informal overdrafts, with f
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Aeroplane age is generally measured in total hours flown. Turbine engine life is measure in a combination of cycles and operating hours. A piston engine aeroplane has nothing measured in takeoff/landing cycles, although it is good prac
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I find it hard to imagine a conventional petrol powered car only lasting 200,000 miles. Which manufacturers only build cars to last 200,000 miles? I can't think of a car I, or my family, have owned which hasn't lasted at least twi
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Growing up in Australia, and being left-handed, I thought changing gears with my left hand was completely natural. Now, after several years living and driving in continental Europe, I still find it slightly uncomfortable changing gears with
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Apart from all those thousands of sailplanes people fly every week. They land without power, and very few of those landings would be an emergency.
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Plenty of "commercial" aeroplanes only have one engine. The Cessna Caravan springs to mind. I run a couple of Cessna 206s for joy flights. Strictly speaking, people pay my company money for this, therefore the aircraft are "c
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Is that unnamed dot in "German" meant to represent Austria? It is currently unlabeled, so just guessing. Australia's population is also around 22million, not 15 million. I struggle to believe there are 7 million non-English s

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