anon98356

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by anon98356 10mo ago
I'm not sure it is objectively marginal. At Circuit of the Americas where they have both raced recently the difference in lap time is about 10 seconds. That doesn't sound like a lot but is close to 10% of the lap. The F1 race is 5
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by anon98356 11mo ago
In the context of the issue that doesn't really make sense. The issue is that the home office think you left and didn't come back. How would an exit check tell the home office you have come back into the country?
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by anon98356 11mo ago
very true, although in relation to OPs point I was talking less about the why of expiring laws/taxes and just pointing out that creating laws that expire can have its own less than desirable knock on effects
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by anon98356 11mo ago
Isn't that a big part of the issues the US has with passing a budget? Some of their tax breaks etc. have expiry dates so keep needing to be renewed. I think part of the current shutdown is related to the debate about renewing the obama
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by anon98356 1y ago
It covers the impact of fuel quite thoroughly but it brushes over the time element which I think is actually a bigger factor in why they don't really do it. Passing on the fuel cost to the customer they could probably get away with but
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by anon98356 3y ago
Because Iceland is a member of the Schengen zone. It's possible to travel between countries in the Schengen area without going through border control (although I don't know about the specifics of travelling to/from Iceland).
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by anon98356 5y ago
From my understanding of the article, the BoE aren't concerned about their own infrastructure. They're concerned about all the major retail banks using the same cloud provider and then that provider having a major outage. Individu
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by anon98356 5y ago
Firstly, never and never in your lifetime are two very different timespans. Second, just because those houses from 2008 recession are now worth more than in 2008 doesn't mean they have been steadily increasing in value since 2008. Ther
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by anon98356 5y ago
If I wanted to create a market in trains I wouldn't hold a bid to run a specific line or route. I would hold a bid to operate specific times on a given line. e.g. Operator A would run the 7:00,8:00 and 10:00 and Operator B would run th
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by anon98356 5y ago
This is something that actually really frustrated me about the Brexit referendum. I remember reading an opinion piece in the NZ herald from a women who explained why she was voting in favour of Brexit. What it basically boiled down to was t
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by anon98356 5y ago
One thing I would say on claiming health reasons is, from the employers perspective it might be taken more as "I'm not ready to return to the office" instead of "I don't want to come back ever". They are still
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by anon98356 5y ago
Yeh I'm sure 220k is a great salary for NZ. But in terms of purchasing power, how does it compare to $70k-£80k in the UK (I don't know, as I said haven't lived in NZ for 6 years)? I'd also be interested to know how commo
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by anon98356 5y ago
Does that figure take into account cost of living? When I left NZ 6 years ago it wasn't a cheap place to live.
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by anon98356 5y ago
My reading of GPs comment was more about the cause and effect of any corresponding price increase, not whether Netflix would actually increase their price in this scenario. For a physical good, if you have a surge in demand as more people c
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by anon98356 5y ago
From the article: "The organisation then tested it out by getting a number of ads mentioning winning prizes, or cocktails, or asking teens if they were “summer ready” approved for advertising to those targeted demographics." So it
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by anon98356 5y ago
I was recently in France and was told by a local this was actually an issue with the covid outbreak. There is a department that decides on the gender of new words and they determined covid (or some variant on that) to be feminine.
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by anon98356 6y ago
> So call me skeptical if after a decade or so they will all go back to what we had before. The implicication of the article is that they won't have a choice. If your product doesn't meet the repairability standards then you wo
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by anon98356 6y ago
Currently it costs $400 to repair. If products become more repairable it also becomes cheaper to repair them (in theory at least). This kind of legislation is likely to push up the initial purchase price but the overall cost should come dow
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by anon98356 6y ago
I believe they do use their own ad platform. But I would guess that the pricing of ads on Facebook and Google mean that even if they could charge a premium, it wouldn't be enough to sustain the business. There is only so much of a prem
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by anon98356 6y ago
As I said in my second line, in the case of Netflix, I don't think this applies. Their business model has always been to charge users for content. However when looking at the rise in the number of papers going behind a paywall like the
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by anon98356 6y ago
I think you have your cause and effect the wrong way around there. The argument put forward is that Netflix is forced to use a subscription model because Facebook and Google have almost complete control of the advertising market. In the spe
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by anon98356 6y ago
I can actually see self driving making this worse. If the cars can drive themselves there is less need for parking in the city. Cars can drive themselves out of the city for cheaper parking. So on top of the trip in and out taken by the pas
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by anon98356 6y ago
> I can bet that in most big European cities, relying on public transportation + renting a car whenever you need is cheaper than the maintenance costs of car ownership (parking + insurance + gas). That's already the case though. Hav
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by anon98356 6y ago
Creating something without the intention of making money is different from creating something without the prospect of making money. The former is already covered by the likes of Creative Commons licensing or just not enforcing copyright. Bu
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by anon98356 6y ago
IANAL but the judgement seems to saying, you can't just use prepned an actualy allegation of fraud with "It is my opinion" to claim it is opinion. My argument isn't that, it's to challenge the idea that calling some
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by anon98356 6y ago
MLA is a standard, not the only standard. Just becase a significant portion of universities/academic instituitions have adopted it as their standard doesn't make it the worldwide standard at all. It doesn't even make it the s
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by anon98356 6y ago
I believe opinion is a defence against libel even in the UK. Accusing them of being a scam strays close to being a claim that requires proof. But I wouldn't have thought it would be that hard to lodge a defence that it was an honest op
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by anon98356 6y ago
Is that the standard syntax? I've always been led to believe square brackets are used to insert words that don't exist in the quote. > "go home and bite my [his] pillow." To me makes way more sense. If I was to read &
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by anon98356 6y ago
> I am unable to get certain credit from my bank because of my employment contract (i.e. rolling yearly contract) even though I have a good income and savings. That's purely a risk appetite decision by the bank. If you looked aroun
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by anon98356 6y ago
Or you could use a standard card machine that has an included transaction buffer. I remember having these in my retail gig 15 years ago for the odd time the network went down (happened pretty much every christmas season)

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