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by zhte415 8y ago
Just thinking how I would react in that situation... the concept being alien to me (UK, and having lived in various other countries) perhaps little wooden signs around the garden explaining the features of each plant and multi-plant eco-sys
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by zhte415 8y ago
Because the poster is presenting in perhaps a difficult way to understand. Listed prices are inclusive of VAT/sales tax, there's a single price listed. Companies can reclaim VAT/sales tax from the tax office on presentation
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by zhte415 8y ago
> I got a code violation warning last month for not mowing my front yard That sucks. Why do such restrictions exist? My whole front yard is ivy and bushes. There's no mowing that, and it looks very pleasant (and the frogs like it
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by zhte415 8y ago
That reasoning is like, 70 years ago deciding smoking is fine because there are few and conflicting scientific studies that conclude no, smoking does not have serious impacts on health. Insect deaths are acutely reported in the last decade.
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by zhte415 8y ago
From the article > an empire that makes a million dollar a year by illegally hosting 24.3 million files copied from other sites That's quite an interesting stat: that 24.3 carrots can be thrown on the web, made hard to download, and
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by zhte415 8y ago
From their website it seems they don't allow bank transfers out, so money in is, well, in. Getting it out means a 2% fee. FX at 1.5% is also high.
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by zhte415 8y ago
So this isn't done? Wow.
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by zhte415 8y ago
I was also going to mention this: cake flour for it's low protein levels. In determining what you're cooking/baking, the brand matters far less than the actual type of flour. Cake / 'biscuits' (my idea of a bi
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by zhte415 8y ago
I think the parent means why not have a safety mechanism stopping the counterweight from falling? That would stop the lift shooting up.
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by zhte415 8y ago
I agree. Am in China. Some caveat: The cash is not placed with the mobile payment provider. Your bank card(s) are linked. Making a mobile payment prompts you enter the password setup for bank-to-mobile payment. You can pre-deposit money
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by zhte415 8y ago
He certainly didn't give up. He seems tenacious. And that seems the right thing to have been done. > "I knew the importance of them straight away," said Mr Smith who has been prospecting for around 30 years. > "I
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by zhte415 8y ago
Renting a somewhat modern one bedroom apartment in Moscow for $400/month seems pretty cheap.
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by zhte415 8y ago
They are not 'clickbaiting' it in the web-sense, they're just doing what they do with all stories: They use UK tabloid newspaper style headings, have always used this style, and probably will always use this style. It's
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by zhte415 8y ago
I've seen a great connection between how happy people feel about their workspaces and how happy they feel they are in are them, physically and mentally. When on-boarding in my first regular job, we received a couple of hours training i
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by zhte415 8y ago
When having a few conversations a few years ago with enterprise devs, the React license was seen as a problem[0][1], and Angular wasn't, so the default path was from the top-down to go with Angular, for those I spoke to. This was also
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by zhte415 8y ago
For the OP to have returned the book, the vendor must have accepted the book for returns. By providing a returns policy, the vendor is presumably able to generate increased trust and provide sufficient value by doing so, as a customer may n
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by zhte415 8y ago
I'm sure a lot of A/B testing has gone into the changes a lot of others are complaining about. Given GMail's mix of users, a subset of whom are probably power users that are open to 'discoverable' features, would it
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by zhte415 8y ago
I had a programmable calculator during A Levels (UK sixth form college). Was talking Computer Science, Maths, Further Maths, a couple of others. These were not AS Levels, full A Levels. I also had the seemingly good idea it would be nice
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by zhte415 8y ago
Question 5 alerted me > Don't worry, we'll keep this bit of information private So the rest isn't? And then... there's lots of mention of 'we' in this thread and on the form, but no mention of who 'we&#
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by zhte415 8y ago
Aren't most Singaporean Chinese Hokkien and Hakka, not Han?
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by zhte415 8y ago
"Yes we can so this", technically, facial recognition is now there. "Why are we doing this?" Singapore is an already incredibly safe place with pride in the effectiveness of the rule of law. The screenshot, as captioned
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by zhte415 8y ago
My T420 is from 7 years ago, as is my desk neighbour's X220. I don't believe we're legacy. Well made laptops last a long time. Anything requiring server is in server.
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by zhte415 8y ago
First, I was running Javascript on a server. Now, I'm running X in a browser.
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by zhte415 8y ago
I pretend to understand finance but constantly get surprised. In financial statements, revenue is stated with (can be subtracted by) cost of revenue. Say you're selling baked beans, the cost of revenue is your beans and the tin and as
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by zhte415 8y ago
This sounds quite awesome, terrible, and he sounds like he was jumping into a very deep end. Quite sad that he seemingly didn't have someone to tutor/mentor him moving to this role. Given that it worked, and there was a learning
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by zhte415 8y ago
According to this [0], there's quite some caveat for airline pilots in China. I was going to quote parts of it, but it's all quite insightful that, making 150k-300k is not quite how it goes. Take a read. [0] https://one
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by zhte415 8y ago
For personal learning: I use a personal wiki and update it ASAP whenever I learn something new, be it via a meeting, reference, news story, link. A collage of references. I use pmwiki but the wiki always-editable concept is more importan
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by zhte415 8y ago
Reading this today on Firefox on a laptop running Linux. 22 years ago (when using the internet for the first time) it would have been on Netscape running on a green screen Unix terminal in university lab. I used my first credit card to buy
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by zhte415 8y ago
LIBOR met the mainstream decades ago, in the 80s and 90s a nice guideline, and ended up pre-financial crises with adoption of financial models that balanced on the edge of single basis points that depended on a single digit that a not very
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by zhte415 8y ago
Off the cuff guess based on chatting about the annoyance to colleagues, and based on the colleagues and team, around 2002-2003.

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