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by srgseg 15y ago
Just to balance out the nightmarish images of London, here is a video of the community rallying together to clean up the mess the day after http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz7WGzsaHQE
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by srgseg 15y ago
I find it hard to believe a shop owner is seriously going to try and hold the line by themselves against a mob Groups of shop owners are defending themselves. See this video http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2011/aug/09/london-riots-...
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by srgseg 15y ago
No but it only takes about 30 seconds in a spreadsheet :)
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by srgseg 15y ago
To be fair, it's not just Apple. The UK is known in the industry as "Treasure Island" because they know that they can charge more here and get away with it. E.g. Bose QC15 noise cancelling headphones: 25.2% premium excluding sales tax, 50.2
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by srgseg 15y ago
The UK HMRC charges no customs duty or import duty on imports of computers, but does levy 20% VAT (sales tax). Using today's exchange rate of 1.6149, here are the UK like-for-like premiums for several Apple products in the UK: 7.6% - i
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by srgseg 15y ago
> 2. Deferring your happiness to the future is a terrible idea Every time I see this, I ask myself, how is this advice reconciled with the famous Marshmallow experiment? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment The
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On nerds and exercise(jdbtrading.blogspot.com)
1 points by srgseg 15y ago|0 comments
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by srgseg 15y ago
Also covered here: http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/14/google-announces-instant-pa... "Instant Pages will be available on Chrome Beta in the next week and for adventurous Chrome Canary users today, with a Firefox version also in the works."
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Google Instant Pages - will this mess up your server stats?(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by srgseg 15y ago|1 comments
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by srgseg 15y ago
I thought it was an excellent summary. What kind of cost do you perceive/predict?
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1 in 6 Russian entrepreneurs are in jail, 1 in 3 prisoners are businessmen(bbc.co.uk)
268 points by srgseg 15y ago|230 comments
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by srgseg 15y ago
I love the idea. Do you have any clips of other things you've directed? Wouldn't want it to be like the startup scenes of NCT Software in Birdemic... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phsq297Budw#t=19m10s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phsq
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by srgseg 15y ago
Fun fact: Mike Rowe wasn't rich growing up, but because of the way the freeway next to his house cut off access to a large area of land, he had free roam. His family kept a horse, which he used to ride to school on.
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by srgseg 15y ago
It makes sense though - more people probably stumble across HN while searching for programming answers than through hearing about Y Combinator. Even those that realise that the top left top left 'Y' image is actually a link to ycombinator.
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by srgseg 15y ago
Legal contracts normally state "days" or "business days", and often then later specifically define these terms, e.g. "Business Day means a day on which trading banks are open for business in London, United Kingdom excluding a Saturday, Sund
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by srgseg 15y ago
...internal memo blames lost-in-translation of "iPad 2 launch will result in having to beat customers away with a stick"
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by srgseg 15y ago
The moreover link helps avoid the FT paywall.
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by srgseg 15y ago
"Anyway, running a country on eloquence alone hasn’t worked out disastrously – or at least not yet" Good grades are certainly not enough, but they are almost always required. Oxbridge only invites the best students to interview, and even th
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by srgseg 15y ago
I remember reading that about 40% of people tested suffered significantly more eye strain than others with a glossy screen. The theory was that there is a genetic trait affecting whether eyes tend to constantly refocus or not. Personally,
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by srgseg 15y ago
Yes. And it used to be 10% with no limit until 2008. Those were the days. Also it's not just the "first time you sell a company". It applies on as many company sales as you want, up to a lifetime total of £10m.
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Blackbox Mansion is Playboy Mansion for geeks(thenextweb.com)
2 points by srgseg 15y ago|0 comments
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by srgseg 15y ago
More images here: http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/23/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-shows-...
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ThinkPad X1 MacBook Air competitor confirmed(engadget.com)
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by srgseg 15y ago
What I'm trying to get at is that while 0.3333... is a "valid" number because it can be represented by a fraction, 0.9999... is not a valid number because it cannot be represented by a fraction. Is there any merit in this reasoning, and the
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by srgseg 15y ago
Can anyone comment on my non-mathematician reasoning here: 0.9999... cannot be represented as a fraction. 0.3333... can be represented as a fraction (1/3). Therefore we can apply meaningful operations to the fraction (1/3), but when we try
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by srgseg 15y ago
Until we have electric aircraft this sounds like a very good idea
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by srgseg 15y ago
This is my favorite pronunciation of Hyundai: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI#t=2m35
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by srgseg 16y ago
Steve Jobs once described himself as "the best programmer I know". I think I read this in the book "Apple Confidential"
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by srgseg 16y ago
This is one of those times where not being able to see comment points really hurts my ability to read this thread. Lots of people saying slightly different things, and no way for me to know where consensus lies.
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by srgseg 16y ago
Counter-experience to 2. Not eating at the computer: I used to take a break to eat food - I'd watch TV or read a magazine while eating. However, this context switch would be costly, and when I got back to the computer, I'd be starting to ge

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