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by tomalpha 6y ago
I don’t think that’s true. An invoice is just a formal request for payment. It doesn’t itself legitimise that request. Otherwise I could send you an invoice for $1m out of the blue and according to that logic you’d have to pay me. There m
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by tomalpha 6y ago
One interesting advantage for UK buyers of gold coins specifically, is that if they're legal tender they're exempt from (Capital Gains) taxation[0]. Even if the gold content is worth significantly more than their face value, which
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by tomalpha 6y ago
IIRC: Broadly yes. We tried doing this before and called it the Gold Standard[0]. [0] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard
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by tomalpha 6y ago
MI6 asked the court service to not give certain papers to the judge. The court service said “no”, and promptly informed an MI6 oversight body. It’s not great that they asked, but the system does appear to have worked as it should. Or am I m
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by tomalpha 6y ago
One of my pet peeves is Fibre To The Cabinet being marketed as Fibre. Yes there's a fibre optic cable in there somewhere, and it terminates a bit closer to my home than old fashioned DSL, but it's still fundementally DSL. It'
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by tomalpha 6y ago
Completely agreed. And being in the UK, and of a certain age, I still use inches, miles, pounds and stone but I think that’s due to familiarity during childhood. I don’t use Fahrenheit like my parents did though when describing the weathe
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by tomalpha 6y ago
> ...everything measured in grams... > Ideas and tech that are unlikely to catch on in the home kitchen Given the posting time I’d guess you were likely not US based so I found this surprising. Even if that is so, then I continue
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by tomalpha 6y ago
To offer an honest answer to an honest question: Coming to this a couple of hours later I don't perceive what you're saying to be any different to the parent. 'Difficult/annoying to deal with' could easily match &#x
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Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born(bbc.co.uk)
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by tomalpha 6y ago
Posting to highlight the lack of information from Virgin Media. > Cause of outage: > Some customers in parts of London experienced an issue with their broadband. > This meant they may have still been connected to their Hub but no
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by tomalpha 6y ago
It’s not hard to work out what it means, but the headline should probably either be: “Julian Assange Charged...” or the original “Wikileaks Founder Charged...” The current half-and-half is a little strange (who founded Julian Assange?).
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by tomalpha 6y ago
It looks to be another data point, and that's generally a good thing IMHO. There's a comment above somewhere that casts doubt on its methodology, but reports of Tesla quality issues certainly aren't anything new [0][1] To be
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by tomalpha 6y ago
Not just the manufacturers - motoring journalists have generally said the same thing from the get go: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/tesla/model-s/first-dri... > Inside the car there are plenty of ri
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by tomalpha 6y ago
> Tesla isn’t officially part of the study because it doesn’t allow J.D. Power access to customer vehicle registration data. Interesting quote. Does that mean if I buy a non-Tesla car in the US, that my personal details automatically get
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by tomalpha 6y ago
> Extrapolating linear trends over four orders of magnitude is a good way to be disappointed in life It's clearly early days - "it works in the lab, now we just need to scale it" type of progress. But still, it's prog
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by tomalpha 6y ago
https://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/business-laws-and-regulati... > Topless clubs in Las Vegas may serve alcohol, for example, but fully nude clubs may not. My (genuinely...) limited understanding is that this is not limit
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by tomalpha 6y ago
I remember painting my daughter's bedroom in A Whisper Of Rodeo Drive. Which was also a light blue. Possibly light purple. Ish. Where do they come up with these names?
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by tomalpha 7y ago
> “No one is qualified to discuss this sort of news at all,” Haririchi said This almost made me laugh out loud, tragic though any deaths and disablement are. It does seem to get to the heart of the matter, and not just in Iran either.
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by tomalpha 7y ago
The site claims the following as fact. I’d like to see the research proving this but the click-through link to the “full appeal” where I hope they’re listed didn’t work for me (timed out). > ... numerous recent scientific publications ha
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by tomalpha 7y ago
This might have been your point, but it would indeed be interesting to know whether they have better or worse health outcomes than those without dogs.
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by tomalpha 7y ago
I'm around this age and haven't applied for entry-level dev roles since I was truly an entry level candidate. I've endured whiteboard sessions for every role I've gone for.
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by tomalpha 7y ago
For me, they are (or were) both great actors, but there is something masterful about Alec Guinness’s portrayal of George Smiley. The film has the better supporting cast by far[0], but the original series is worth watching just for that port
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by tomalpha 7y ago
I’m an old Perl 5 dev. I haven’t touched it in years apart from the occasional mega-one-liner (that I find strangely satisfying). I’d lost touch with Perl 6’s progress way back when. This was an interesting read for me just finding out how
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by tomalpha 7y ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48795264 has a map of the worst affected areas
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by tomalpha 7y ago
That Secret Barrister link paints a very different (and much more measured) picture to what's been splashed on the front pages of the newspapers. It bears reading. Unrolled version of the above. https://threadreaderapp.com&#
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by tomalpha 8y ago
Apple have built up a reputation for not knowing this about me as a consumer. Maybe they do know lots about me, maybe they don’t. A significant part of their public reputation rests on their respecting privacy concerns however. So if it t
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by tomalpha 8y ago
That's an interesting and informative read, however one line did catch my eye, and increase my background level of despair at the general maths/stats level of the wider population: > An overwhelming majority of employers, 48 pe
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by tomalpha 8y ago
Fun fact: New Line Networks mentioned in the article is named after the New Line Tavern in Chicago [0]. Which is actually quite good. And might just attract network engineers that work for HFT firms. Purely coincidentally. [0] https:/
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by tomalpha 8y ago
In terms of scale, these numbers appear to be similar in scale to Uber's quarterly numbers [0] of $2.95B and a loss of $1.07B. (Yes I know I'm off by several hundred million in revenue!) [0] https://www.bloomberg.co
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by tomalpha 8y ago
I (think I) have that with an Amex card linked to Apple Pay. I get the iOS notification instantly when I pay for something with the card, whether in person or online. Is this something more? (I'm a potential adopter if so)

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