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by razakel 3y ago
What exactly is stopping me from registering a company at a PO box, creating myfakeshop.yourcountry, taking your money, and disappearing?
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by razakel 3y ago
Almost every law firm already offers this. What would you bring to the table? Counselling on the prospect of facing death?
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by razakel 3y ago
The wedding tax is basically insurance - you're paying through the nose to ensure absolutely nothing goes wrong. From the contractor's side, at least; the behaviour of your guests is a different matter.
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by razakel 3y ago
It's not for everyone, but getting the formal process over and done with and having a less formal party at a later date will probably save you a lot of stress and money. Especially if you don't tell the venue that it's a spec
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by razakel 3y ago
LD50 is usually rat dosage unless there exists sufficient evidence to establish a value for humans. Ethics committees frown on poisoning people just to figure out how much is lethal.
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by razakel 3y ago
Well, databases are black magic where it's difficult to determine if your issue is CPU-bound or IO-bound.
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by razakel 3y ago
I find it amusing that Oracle uses GraalVM.
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by razakel 3y ago
They look like beautiful places to live, there just isn't the infrastructure or economy to support them. Which, admittedly, is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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by razakel 3y ago
To quote Lady Hale, that is a startling proposition.
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by razakel 3y ago
Not when you're talking about tolerances below nanometres.
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by razakel 3y ago
We warned people that the government was snooping on everything you transmitted or received. They didn't listen or care.
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by razakel 3y ago
It was just guesswork based on other aircraft.
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by razakel 3y ago
Kubrick was even investigated by the FBI because he got the interior of the then-classified B-52 bomber almost exactly correct.
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by razakel 3y ago
That would be the class 333.
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by razakel 3y ago
At least in the UK, taxation on tobacco more than covers the cost of smoking-related illnesses.
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by razakel 3y ago
Teletext/Ceefax has been dead since the analog switch-off in 2012. Red Button uses MHEG-5.
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by razakel 3y ago
Yep, all you've done is created a scapegoat - which in some cases does satiate the public's bloodthirst - but does not actually address the fundamental issues.
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by razakel 3y ago
They are, that's part of the point of having a credit card - you're spending the bank's money, not yours, and they have better lawyers.
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by razakel 3y ago
>It wasn’t intended to be public knowledge The price the NHS pays for drugs is published in the BNF.
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by razakel 3y ago
There was a man executed in Texas based on evidence that was completely bogus.
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by razakel 3y ago
The difference being we decided that being gay shouldn't be a crime and never should have been. Defrauding public institutions is quite a different kettle of fish. There will be people convicted who really did have their hands in the t
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by razakel 3y ago
Yeah, this is a huge ongoing scandal, and you'd only know about it if you were in tech or a politics nerd. 750 victims, including bankruptcies, prison sentences and suicides, and just one week after a TV drama something is actually bei
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by razakel 3y ago
That book's a reference encyclopedia, not an intro/primer.
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by razakel 3y ago
There are licence brokers, but they tend to only deal with businesses. You could ask your job to buy it and resell it to you.
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by razakel 3y ago
I've heard the same. The dude with the Ferrari, Armani suit and Rolex is not as rich as he wants you to think.
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by razakel 3y ago
The RSPCA and TV Licensing bring the majority of private prosecutions.
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by razakel 3y ago
It's not the first time they've done this. They were datamining phone records in the 90s to create graphs of who was interacting with the authorities.
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by razakel 3y ago
I bet that figuring out the Coca-Cola formula is a rite of passage for all new food scientists at PepsiCo. But they don't want to make Coca-Cola, they want to make Pepsi.
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by razakel 3y ago
A cynic would say that Americans are deliberately kept in the dark as to what people actually had to do in order to win their labor rights, and quite how awful conditions were even for skilled workers. They'll bring back company towns
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by razakel 3y ago
It's not really the sort of movie you'd watch if you weren't Christian or interested in religion.

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