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by pwagland 9y ago
Unfortunately peanut butter I think you are right about that!
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by pwagland 9y ago
Well, the author of the article is assumedly from the UK. In general, this is not what they would say. They would say something like "respectfully, I'm not sure that's correct". One is a lot more "direct" than
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by pwagland 9y ago
Your argument is based on incorrect assumptions. You are assuming that the only reason for _not_ being in the alt-right, is the fear of offending someone. I would argue that this is exactly the inverse in real life. If issues are discussed
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by pwagland 9y ago
Yes this! Just try talking in a "silent carriage" on the train. That said, on a non-silent carriage, unless the talk is offensive, people tend to live and let live in my experience.
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by pwagland 9y ago
This is, of course, also true. However, at least in the case of the Dutch, there is more to it than that. The Dutch have no problems saying "that's not right" whether they say that in Dutch or English, that particular phrase
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by pwagland 9y ago
I don't think that this captures it correctly, otherwise the Dutch, for example, would be considered polite when speaking Dutch. But they aren't they basically say the same thing. The example about the hair cut from the article is
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by pwagland 9y ago
The biggest problem with Apple maps is that it is terrible at working out where you want to go. You have to know the correct name that they have in their database. Google tends to have a lot more context, and so can often work out what you
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by pwagland 9y ago
From an Australian heritage, I would say that dinner and tea were, more or less, used interchangeably. Some families used one, some the other, but pretty much everyone understood both. Over time I get the feeling that dinner was the winner
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by pwagland 9y ago
The point that the op is making is that this is only looking at the "successful" trades. It is not looking at the set of "attempted" trades. So it is only looking a selection of the possible trades, and so there is a sel
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by pwagland 9y ago
Where did you get the three minute response time number for Gladstone? It is not backed up by the article, it only mentions that it should respond within six seconds, but that "Data from AEMO (and gathered above by Dylan McConnell from
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by pwagland 9y ago
I think that you'll find the author meant that if the number of dollars doubled, with all else held the same, that the currency would go down by roughly half. M0 doubling over ten years is not surprising if the underlying wealth that i
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by pwagland 9y ago
So, this is the transition plan. Is there anywhere where we can find what progress has been made on the plan? As far as I can tell, it is only a plan at the moment? I also like the idea of a transition plan, but is there anywhere a proposed
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by pwagland 9y ago
Assume that this is the case… then just do the same as they already do in Australia, and put caps on how much you can download. I assume that you are totally cool with that, and indeed they already do this with a lot of mobile plans. Then G
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by pwagland 9y ago
I haven't downvotes your answer, but you ask why people voted you down… so here goes. It is because you try to pin everything on Socialism, when the real problem is actually Cronyism and Despotism. I.e. it was their political system, n
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by pwagland 9y ago
Interestingly enough, in the UK, that 1/2 million cost (345,000GBP is about 1/2 million USD) is the 14 year running cost[1]. That doesn't make it cheap, but suddenly that 2K car is not 2K when looking at the 14 year running c
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by pwagland 9y ago
While this may be true, you will find quite a reasonable number of people who can speak non-English foreign languages quite well, and that excludes the foreign nationals that come to live and work in the Netherlands as well. If you wanted t
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by pwagland 9y ago
Using the Java terminology, there is no "happens-before" edge. So every action must appear as if it occurred in the specified order in that thread, but other threads are free to see those actions in a different order. On some mach
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by pwagland 9y ago
The short answer to this is that if they don't, they have to give it away for free[1]. Plus this has received so much press that this will be made to work… [1] : http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-07/elon-musk
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by pwagland 9y ago
Well, the bigger problem would be ensuring that the criminals used known broken encryption. The only advantage is that many of these attacks are copy-cat, so if you released the source code for a broken ransomware implementation, it will pr
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by pwagland 9y ago
And some believe that they are distracting to everyone else in the class: https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2017/apr/29/secr... Also there is no evidence yet that they do help concentration, so
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by pwagland 10y ago
Even ignoring the speed of the electrons, this ignores that several steps of that route will almost certainly be done over fibre anyway, and at that point there is clearly no transfer or electrons from the "seller" to the "bu
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by pwagland 10y ago
Indeed. We have had these things in Europe for a long time already. They tend to be really convenient when you are in a foreign country, since you don't need to be able to speak to them, you just press the buttons, and get what you wan
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by pwagland 16y ago
Along with convergence not being identity, any time you start playing with infinity, and then pretend that (∞-1 = ∞) you know that you are looking at a proof with problems…