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lewilewilewi

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    Comment #25443625

    While this is true, it might be costly (as it has been for Citigroup) https://www.ft.com/content/a50cd095-2811-41ab-b783-b09944691...

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    Comment #24847581

    What about a 'did you mean "in:trash"' if it detects the localised variant?

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    Comment #24757597

    You can't use Sweden as a counterfactual for the US (or any other country aside from their nearest neighbours) because their culture is so different. Most people in Sweden live by …

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    Comment #22357811

    You mean like the PFA [1] who are the oldest professional sportsmans union in the world? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Footballers'_Asso...

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    Comment #21850941

    "Third to last"

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    Comment #21084357

    Resemble? Or resent?

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    Comment #20860371

    If you produce a good one, you can sell them for $3000 (probably Canadian Dollars) a pop: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/sports/olympics/curling-s...

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    Comment #19978913

    First amendment - yes, in most cases. Second amendment? Hell no.

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    Comment #19960197

    This bit >Article 12(1) GDPR requires that the information provided to an individual in response to an access request is in “a concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessi…

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    Comment #19568440

    The lesson here appears to be that the balance between feature development and fixing technical debt isn't obvious - these things are measured historically and you only know that y…

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    Comment #19535415

    Why is it comparative? In the article it says that people left because they didn't like that others were getting a larger part rise to take them up to the minimum salary, which see…

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    Comment #19535394

    The old complaint of corporations that they can't find enough good staff, a shortage of workers etc always amuses me, because the unsaid part of it is 'at the price we're willing t…

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    Comment #19260092

    I absolutely love Kaya Toast - I had it every time I stayed in Singapore!

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    Comment #19190246

    Killing Hope ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Hope ) is a write up of all major US efforts at controlling other countries. I don't know what Americans think of it, but it's …

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    Comment #19120264

    Yep - someone posted an original proof of the lower bound for the Haruhi problem http://mathsci.wikia.com/wiki/The_Haruhi_Problem

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    Comment #19025383

    The safety aspect is... well, in my experience, the rich like dangerous sports. Think skiing, horse riding/polo, sailing/yachting. The rules of boxing are named after an aristocrat…

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    Comment #18590285

    Fluidly | Senior Engineers | London, UK | Onsite | http://www.fluidly.com Fluidly is a fintech venture that's using ML / AI to help small businesses to manage, forecast and optimis…

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    Comment #18502366

    Cool, so my measly pension is invested in a pension fund (as it has to be, legally). The pension fund managers then buy some exotics, which gives me exposure to the same exotics. t…

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    Comment #18057024

    Monzo have an API you can use: https://developers.monzo.com/

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    Comment #17908627

    Fluidly | Senior Engineer | London, UK | Onsite | http://www.fluidly.com Fluidly is a fintech venture that's using ML / AI to help small businesses to manage, forecast and optimise…

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    Comment #17827221

    > If I tell you that 9 is the result of my squaring operation, you can easily deduce that the input was 3. Or minus 3.

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    Comment #17663352

    Fluidly | Senior Fullstack Engineer | London, UK | Onsite | http://www.fluidly.com Fluidly is a fintech venture that's using ML / AI to help small businesses to manage, forecast an…

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    Comment #17113154

    How did they go to college before they were making the decisions about taking a loan in order to go to college?

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    Comment #16860137

    You're right - a URL is an address, and a link is a sign saying 'go here'. The address still exists with or without the sign.