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elthran

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About elthran

Python developer working in London finance

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    Your phrasing of the last sentence caught my interest. Is the other reason fresh chicken meat, or is there another benefit to keeping them that I can't think of?

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    Comment #45105258

    "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute …

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    Comment #45103787

    We were running late for our train in winter - the Sapporo underground system let us walk to the station so much faster than trying to navigate ice, snow and road crossings

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    Comment #44940874

    Have a third! https://www.londoncentric.media/p/picturehouse-central-cinem...

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    Comment #44720867

    Ah, you must be a Clacton resident then

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    Comment #44594775

    UK pensions are subject to income tax, if you're receiving more than the annual tax free allowance.

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    Comment #44377119

    Team Fortress 2 had crates/keys before CSGO was released - but the blame definitely falls on Valve's shoulders in this timeline (I'm sure if Valve didn't create them in the popular…

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    Comment #43170538

    At least in the UK the license plate lets you know when the car was registered, so it's simple to tell if they bought the Tesla before Elon went off the cliff fully. I'm not going …

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    Comment #41972787

    The process is super common in the big UK supermarkets - and it's absolutely my preferred way of doing a larger shop. You can use whatever bags/containers you like (or even none at…

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    Comment #41767509

    Nothing to prevent them giving you an "F U quote" of say 6k for a year though - they've offered to insure, you've declined their price (speaking from UK perspective)

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    Comment #41442720

    It doesn't necessarily show that at all as an isolated statistic - it could be telling us that Germany has less people who are convinced an AI startup is a sensible business decisi…

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    Comment #41266935

    Monday Night Combat gave me such good times at University in our LAN gaming society, It was such a breath of fresh air compared to the other games we were playing, I don't think it…

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    Comment #40983729

    Agreed - I've been unable to get at sensible meaning in my head for "AI safety" that isn't "to prevent ultron/skynet/the matrix"

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    Comment #40936317

    Online ordering and delivery I'd assume

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    Comment #40924598

    Yeah, it's definitely seems it's this from my perspective. The companies reformulated and reduced our full-sugar options, all so they didn't have to put their prices up, at the cos…

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    Comment #40798738

    "Cambrian Chronicles" is a great example of this on Youtube - the channel is primarily about Welsh History, but often ends up as an academic exercise of starting with a reference o…

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    Comment #40749742

    now you just hire them to seize unreleased trading cards https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/trading-card-game/new...

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    Comment #40657921

    It's also the language/dialect where you can basically used any phrase ending in -ed to mean "drunk". The classics being pissed, plastered, wankered. But if someone came up to me a…

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    Comment #40594716

    As someone that always makes guacamole immediately before eating it - what do you say changes with the flavour profile by letting it sit?

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    Comment #40585943

    > While the Big Mac doesn't use chicken At least in the UK, they've sold a "Chicken Big Mac" as a special menu item twice now

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    Comment #40535221

    And then you get the ones that don't have one at all, or they have a website but refuse to put a menu on it

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    Comment #40309771

    It's present day WB - I'm fully expecting a worse cash grab than the third hobbit film. Maybe we'll be lucky and they'll decide to cancel it for the tax write off.

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    Comment #40220470

    Londoner here - with our fare evasion stats at this link https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transparency/freedom-of-informa... None of the articles I've seen ever seen to address why NYC…

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    Comment #40142066

    Unfortunately you missed this bit >Frey launched Appointment Trader, an online marketplace for people to buy and sell reservations—everything from private shopping experiences (the…

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    Comment #40074239

    Non-Jewish and British. Personally I really enjoy just slathering it in good butter as a snack - I'd often end up eating a box at a time this way as a growing, ravenous teenager. N…