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by ronaldx 13y ago
Not sure - if it's a hobby, then it's a hobby with fair potential to become a passive income or a lifestyle business (or more). Just because the parent has reduced the risk of setting up a business doesn't mean he isn't
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Genuine questions: why does this service require a login? Why does it require a secure login?
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Profitable corporations would see VAT as adding 0 cost, since they would otherwise have to pay the same amount directly to HMRC. It depends who your customers are.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
20% and 14.5% are not comparable percentages here: You charge 20% VAT but then you pay 14.5% of the 120% total (i.e. 17.4%). This may be a good deal if you have relatively few VATable expeneses, and you are charging customers who are insens
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by ronaldx 13y ago
There's no once-and-for-all answer, but this is what I would go with: * 99p may fool less numerate customers into believing they are paying less than they are. A fair proportion of the general population are not numerate enough to add
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Do humans grow in 3 dimensions? Research suggests the power should be slightly less than 2. e.g. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15761809 Some groups of athletes list overweight because muscle is very dense - BMI do
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by ronaldx 13y ago
A public expression of liking something does not typically give the company permission to use your endorsement as part of a commercial presentation.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Yes, exactly. The present state of cycling is such that any R&D budget can be used more effectively on bending the doping rules than on mechanical innovation.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Much the same in cycling - there are many innovations that could potentially improve speeds: as a simple example, recumbent cycles are faster under many conditions. But, the UCI sets its rules based on innovations up to 1972, in order to ma
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Reading that in British English: coffee, meet keyboard.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Mid-1990s at the very earliest, and arguably later: he still presumably had easily accessible, fast, internet access with wikipedia and google (just, not on his phone) and could still contact other people on their cellphones.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Medical advances have - up to now - probably meant more disabled people, and I expect this will continue. As people reach old age, disability rates increase. Medical advances allow people to live full, healthy lives with their disabilities
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Each individual disability is rare and people have different needs. A solution for one disability won't work for every disability. And so, catering for disability in general is a challenging (but worthwhile) problem.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I expect massive inflation on particular necessities (likely rent/housing, utilities) as rent-seekers squeeze the available money. Necessities within competitive, or border-crossing markets (likely food) might not be subject to such in
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by ronaldx 13y ago
A reference solution, "OK you did it - here's another way", would be super-useful for learning. I know that I can complete most any kata, but I don't always know if I'm doing it the most efficient way under constrai
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I am using Noscript and the page works fine: - usvsthem is white-listed so Javascript runs, which is all that's strictly required. - White-listed sites are still blocked from running plugins including <AUDIO>. It's straightf
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> It would have been better to give them nothing rather than a "cheap" gift? Yes. Giving nothing doesn't give any indication of value - maybe the work is very highly valued but it's not Yahoo's policy to compensa
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The title purports to be about how Twitter acquired 1000 users. The article is more about how to spam-favourite your way to 1000 followers on Twitter.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I lost the flow of the article and closed the tab at this point.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> twins reared separately This is the gold-standard for testing genetic association, yes, but it is increasingly considered unethical. And is not perfect - twins are still likely to be placed in similar homes (typically both in foster ho
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This result is really saying that 1 out of 1 tested Marijns are female - since they have only tested one Marijn, you should consider the result in this light. The numbers are honest enough to admit that the result is crap in this case - thi
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Also PNG file size is typically smaller than SVG size unless you are literally drawing Bezier curves.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
A fair point, thanks, but I still think the company would be better served by nailing down what they need in employees rather than nailing down whether or not there is beer.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Your point here, as I understand, is to subvert the test by mentioning e.g. beer specifically not being a perk. This illustrates an interesting problem of parsing natural language, but IMHO this should still give the same negative result an
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This Ariely experiment is unconvincing because it's quoted with percentages. Are the free customers switching down from the luxury product, or are they new customers who otherwise would have gone for neither option? The percentages wit
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> If I considered those words a turn-off, then I'd be happy for job postings that lend themselves so readily to such a quick filter. This makes filtering jobs quite easy, true. But it shouldn't - this situation makes me unhappy
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> I think it's pretty sexist to suggest that no women programmers are into pizza, beer, or ping-pong. Um... That wasn't what I was trying to suggest, and if anything, I would suggest the opposite: if programming jobs require pr
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Mentioning pizza, beer, ping-pong, or swearing in a job ad are all will-not-apply conditions for me. Pizza, beer and ping-pong in the job description suggests it's a social requirement to be involved in those things: it's almost l
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Ah, for minus you should probably use − (U+2212), which will typically display at the same width as numerical figures. Next question: should you use the same character for unary minus and binary minus? That is, to represent negati
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by ronaldx 13y ago
A master's degree is almost certainly worth less than than a year of full-time work experience on your resume. So, the master's is potentially costing you triple - you're paying for it, you're not getting paid, your valu

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