spicerguy

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by spicerguy 7y ago
Thank you. Appreciated.
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by spicerguy 7y ago
British English speaker here - I'm having difficulty identifying the word you're referring to here. Or are you referring more to definition and statistical presence in common usage?
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by spicerguy 7y ago
"Law is also formal languages using logics" In theory yes, but contracts are not math and even though the consequences of disputes are costly, there is enough subjectivity within legal language that arbitration and interpretation
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by spicerguy 7y ago
IANAL, are you? This sounds like something you'd need to plaster with a LOT of disclaimers, especially if you're straying away from standard t&c/tos documentation. Discreet industries have quite specific legal terminology
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by spicerguy 9y ago
I knew I'd seen this before. Still, a slightly disappointing lack of cultural insight in the original article.
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by spicerguy 9y ago
I'm not sure about how contracting works where this guy is, but in the UK if you're contracting you can (generally) be let go by the end of the hour if your management wants it. Nothing illegal about that at all. Also, I can see h
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by spicerguy 10y ago
Completely unrelated but as a British English speaker I was amused by one of the linked articles - http://www.inquisitr.com/3341656/pokemon-go-accident-man-acc... - I think the writers don't realise how many aste
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by spicerguy 10y ago
yes, and scale is a material difference.
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by spicerguy 10y ago
Yes, I've been stung with these sort of charges myself in the past here in the UK - the banking code has cleaned up this practice a bit in more recent times; however I think it's fair to say there's a material difference bet
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by spicerguy 10y ago
agreed - though I think the grandfather comment was probably referring to the UK marketplace and the US experience of subprime credit sales is somewhat different at the mortgage level. Payday loans are a different story all together and hav
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by spicerguy 10y ago
Yes, exactly. Credit is by far the biggest the driver for income in the financial sector, and consequently its biggest source of pain for those swept up in disasters of their own or others making. Anybody thinking of starting something di
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by spicerguy 10y ago
There's a debate to be had about "no such thing as free banking" - I'm very familiar with the world of prepay in the UK and retail banking practice is a big headwind here.
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by spicerguy 10y ago
this is certainly currently the case for the UK, with protection of deposits up to £75k for private account holders ( http://www.fscs.org.uk/what-we-cover/products/banks-building... ), though I'm sure we could
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by spicerguy 10y ago
The bank itself is owned by the government but has independence from it in certain matters of policy. There are certainly many employees who come from private banking backgrounds but the bank is not a private bank.
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by spicerguy 10y ago
completely irrelevant point of clarification: bank underground refers to the London Underground (metro station) stop immediately in front of the bank, rather than some sort of anarchist agenda (but given UK civil servants general ambivalenc
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by spicerguy 10y ago
I would suggest you find out a little bit more about the BoE. It's not an investment or retail bank, it's a central bank which is more about influencing economic policy and other banking policy than pushing money around. Interesti
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by spicerguy 10y ago
This reminds me strongly of an article in the economist published in 2010 - the writing has been on the wall for a long time. Made me glad (in a way) that I didn't finish my own doctorate, although I did find the research very personal
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by spicerguy 11y ago
As far as aggregators go, Skimfeed.com is the obvious choice, and for more focused stuff I've also found applying filters on newsnow.co.uk can be quite useful as well.
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by spicerguy 11y ago
And would have the associated effect of providing a very clear analogue for the protesting licensed taxi operators.
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by spicerguy 11y ago
Yes, not sure if it's exactly what I want as details are scarce but I've dropped them an email, thanks for the nudge.
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Ask HN: Optimal office relocation (London) based on journey times of employees
4 points by spicerguy 11y ago|5 comments
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by spicerguy 12y ago
Yes, but the verification is tied to the phone, not the card. The way this fraud works is that fraudster has their "own" iPhone, then "loads" single or multiple stolen card details (perhaps obtained by mail intercept &#x
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by spicerguy 12y ago
yup, you're right - a misread on my part. Thanks!
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by spicerguy 12y ago
Using wayback looks like the last version update was back in 2012 - the mention of 32 bit systems ending at Win7 is a bit of a clue, but this project could still have a useful role - although this isn't the most scientific approach, a
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by spicerguy 12y ago
> 2) Is it a great idea to broadcast someone's card numbers so clearly? The graphic is so obviously a credit card, it would be easy for any onlooker to spot and steal. yes - anything that signposts card data clearly to an onlooker i
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by spicerguy 13y ago
The xkcd comic referenced in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6768540 helped me to realise that there is a counter proposition to "because" - "but" - "but minecraft!"
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by spicerguy 13y ago
yes, I know exactly what you mean and this was my first thought as well.