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by po8crg 4y ago
If Figma is running an ad on the Photoshop keyword, then it should be blatantly obvious that it's not an ad for Photoshop. Like "Figma: an Alternative to Photoshop" (you can tell I'm not an advertising copywriter).
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by po8crg 4y ago
Cell networks have a special "call emergency" code, which doesn't actually call a number at all; phones are required by the (ETSI) standard to translate dialling 112 into the call emergency code, and also to translate the nat
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by po8crg 5y ago
>But the best-case percentage improvement in the overall company bottom line due to his innovations as a fork lift driver is still very, very small Depends on whether you count sharing his "this is a better way to use a fork-lift&qu
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by po8crg 5y ago
Almost everyone owns stock in all the major companies - indirectly via their 401k or index fund. To a first approximation, there are no non-stockholders. One real question is why, when stockholders vote on CEO compensation, fund managers ar
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by po8crg 5y ago
> It is luck of a sort that someone is 2 meters tall, but I bet their parents were also taller than average, so saying that it's lucky that they were able to be a pro at basketball is going to confuse some people. There was no &quot
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by po8crg 5y ago
The circumstances of your birth are luck for you . They are not luck for your parents but you are not your parents. One of the problems here is that there is one position that everything is either the result of my decisions (ie under my
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by po8crg 6y ago
I think this makes a much deeper point. You can't create an app that will pay people badly because it will pay people badly. We (society) have traditionally massively underpaid people who are time rich and cash poor, but who have basi
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by po8crg 11y ago
>Really? Because AV is what Ireland uses and called it PR-STV. This is not correct. PR-STV requires multi-member constituencies (as they have in Ireland). AV is single-member constituencies and isn't PR.
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by po8crg 11y ago
We didn't want AV. It was the least-worst system we could talk the Tories into voting for a referendum on. We wanted STV. We also thought that AV would probably increase the number of pro-PR MPs and therefore increase the chances of g
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by po8crg 11y ago
It wasn't that we (I was a Lib Dem candidate in the election) promised it in the manifesto; it was that individual MPs made a personal promise to vote against an increase in tuition fees, and then voted for it.
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by po8crg 11y ago
If freedom of speech is absolute, then it means that any contractual clause purporting to restrict it is void. In the same way that any contractual clause purporting to enslave a natural person, even with their consent, is still void.
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by po8crg 11y ago
"freedom of speech, except you can't lie under oath in the witness box"?
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by po8crg 13y ago
So, it's just a coincidence that it happened on the day that the first episode of Doctor Who was broadcast? :)
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by po8crg 13y ago
Albert Einstein is already well on the way to being a legend.