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by swish_bob 7y ago
It's not really about the offer being made on the basis of public information though, is it. If the eventual settlement is less than the original offer, then the plaintiff is liable for costs that occurred after the point the offer was
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by swish_bob 7y ago
This is explicitly why I did so well at Maths at A-Level. Once I could explain something to my less gifted peers, I had it. Completely and without the need to do the endless repetition I found so boring that is otherwise normally used to ge
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by swish_bob 7y ago
Numerous studies appear to show this.
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by swish_bob 7y ago
No, it's not. Doubling down on making their shit lives worse isn't the solution either, though.
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by swish_bob 7y ago
That turns out not to be the case. As is discussed at length in the article we're commenting on.
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by swish_bob 7y ago
So, given the limited set of US States I've driven in, I don't appear to have been guilty of any violations. Thanks.
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by swish_bob 7y ago
Wait, "right turn on red" is a state-by-state law? It's been a while since I drove in the States, but I always thought this was the rule everywhere.
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by swish_bob 7y ago
You should try Amsterdam if you think it's bad in London ...
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by swish_bob 7y ago
People who've been using an OS for a fairly long time tend to accumulate applications. Many of them will have been 32-bit at the point they got them. Many of them still will be, or will be fairly awkward to update. While I'm happy
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by swish_bob 7y ago
However at work I am explicitly disallowed to run Docker locally, and instead I'm expected to build my images directly in my dev OpenShift environment, yes, from a Dockerfile, but no docker-build for us ...
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by swish_bob 7y ago
The ones who aren't _yet_ editing videos aren't.
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by swish_bob 7y ago
You have full local admin access, right? And a dedicated workstation that's powerful enough for the job? I'm not in the target market for this, but I can absolutely see a class of people for whom this style works completely.
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by swish_bob 7y ago
It took a _lot_ of practice. I think I managed to successfully do it about 3 times ...
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by swish_bob 7y ago
I guess it's not the public money they're trying to save!
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by swish_bob 7y ago
Except it's still mostly pronounced WUSS-ter sauce in the UK.
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by swish_bob 7y ago
> what do we expect them to do? Tell the office manager that her beautiful design had to be screwed with just because of some senior engineer doesn't fit there? Yes. Literally that. Seriously. I ruined my hearing sitting in a server
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by swish_bob 7y ago
If the current appliances are already set to last and be reparable, then the regulation is a NOOP as far as business is concerned. So there's an insignificant cost to the business, and the consumer's get some reassurance. Seems li
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by swish_bob 7y ago
It seems likely. It was _quite some time ago_.
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by swish_bob 7y ago
Ironically, perhaps, the case I was thinking of when I wrote the comment was my friend's insurance refusing to pay out on his CD collection being stolen because there was no sign of forced entry (he'd left the patio doors unlocked
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by swish_bob 7y ago
Your household insurance might well refuse to pay out if there isn't evidence of forced entry. That's a fairly sizeable variation in the cost of being broken into ...
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by swish_bob 7y ago
The vendor experience with PayPal is appalling though. They'll randomly take money back off you when a customer hasn't even complained, frequently they'll just freeze you out of your account for months at a time. Better not r
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by swish_bob 7y ago
Except it isn't, because most of your developers will be using an environment that includes syntax highlighting and probably some linting. Except within string literals. Code inside string literals is less readable and more inclined to
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by swish_bob 7y ago
Well, those aren't incompatible statements. It just pre-supposes that GP doesn't like the sort of people that WeWork attracts, but that they like each other. Personally I have no experience with WeWork, but I've never really
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by swish_bob 7y ago
Back in the dim and distant past I worked Tech Support for Psion. One gloriously quiet morning our number was redirected to the house of some poor woman in South London who eventually just gave up and left her phone off the hook. Sadly I co
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by swish_bob 7y ago
Paternity leave in the UK has been two weeks since at least my eldest was born, 15 years ago.
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by swish_bob 7y ago
We wouldn't even have gone into hospital for the second one, except the midwife was unable (or too uncomfortable) to sew up the worse than expected tearing my wife suffered. Even after being whisked to hospital in an ambulance (at abou
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by swish_bob 7y ago
If you're carrying a tube connected to a water supply, you're already carrying something you could use to transmit power ...
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by swish_bob 7y ago
It's pronounced "rooter" in the UK. The wood-working tool spelled the same way is a "rowter" though.
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by swish_bob 7y ago
I left my iPod on the desk overnight once while working at a large international investment bank. It vanished, presumably lifted by the cleaners. Security were remarkably uninterested in this, refused to do anything whatsoever (including ch
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by swish_bob 7y ago
I'd be happy with the leaders of those countries being told to sit in a corner and shut up until they could stop encouraging violence. That wasn't my point though, and I'm pretty sure you know that.

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