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by onethree 7y ago
Someone once described the difference between working with Cisco and with Huawei as being (and I'm paraphrasing) with Cisco if you have a feature request or bug report, you'll submit it through to your account manager, it will wor
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by onethree 8y ago
I stopped trusting the wire cutter after they shifted from recommending a $40 knife to a $145 as their best chefs knife for most people
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by onethree 8y ago
Mine is about 70% US car dealerships and I'm not American. I guess they've been buying up some low quality contact lists
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by onethree 8y ago
Except that's not what happened in the specific example given - it was a strategic decision to spend a billion dollars and multiple years to replace an old system that processed transactions in daily batch jobs with a modern system tha
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by onethree 8y ago
While most of your points are valid, you've misunderstood the last quote. CBA didn't fire people and then need to pay a billion dollars to fix something. They specifcally did migrate to a modern system - they completely replaced t
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by onethree 10y ago
fishing vessels: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Malvinas/
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Uninstall QuickTime for Windows Today(blog.trendmicro.com)
6 points by onethree 10y ago|5 comments
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by onethree 10y ago
I've found that there's a number people who are afraid to come out and say they didn't like Cuba, it's a very unpopular opinion. I spent two weeks there as part of a 6 month trip through North and Central America, and be
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by onethree 10y ago
His next sentence explains his point - the food you get at Cuban restaurants is nothing like the food you actually get in Cuba. Most of the food in Cuba is simple and quite bland
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US police shootings 'grossly underreported'(stuff.co.nz)
5 points by onethree 11y ago|1 comments
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by onethree 11y ago
looks like the decimal was in the wrong spot in the ounces
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Wikipedia’s longest-running hoax(smh.com.au)
1 points by onethree 11y ago|0 comments
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by onethree 12y ago
But both countries’ products -- and all of Blue Moon’s products world-wide, for that matter -- share one thing in common: nowhere on the packaging is there any indication that the beer is a product of MillerCoors, the second-largest brewer
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by onethree 12y ago
and now NZ customs is seeking blanket authority to force people to give them passwords at the border
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by onethree 12y ago
anecdotally, I've never intentionally clicked on a google ad, but there's so far been 2 ads on facebook which directly led me to a purchase
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by onethree 12y ago
if someone can afford plate armor, they can probably afford a decent ransom edit: beaten to it, that's what i get for loading a whole bunch of tabs when i first get into work...
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by onethree 12y ago
i built a pc for a family friend around that time... i'd spec'd it with a different drive, but they showed it to the IT guy at their work who recommended seagate. 6 months later the drive stopped working, and it had to be shipped
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Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: 2015 [pdf](demographia.com)
1 points by onethree 12y ago|0 comments
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by onethree 12y ago
Australia right now? inflation 2.3% [1] my interest rate : 4.02% [2] [1]: http://www.rba.gov.au [2]: https://www.ubank.com.au
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To Entrap an Innocent(theatlantic.com)
5 points by onethree 12y ago|1 comments
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by onethree 12y ago
its right there in the article: Dates, times, and durations; Percentages; Number formatting the number of times i've opened a csv to find that excel has tried to determine the dates, and decided that the year thats being referred to is
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by onethree 12y ago
medium is confusing, it was actually written by Quinn Norton. also female, so your point still stands
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by onethree 12y ago
i loved the idea, but stopped using it around the time of the name change - for some reason the login stopped working for me in Opera, and that was enough friction for me to give up on it
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by onethree 12y ago
edit: missed the "unlimited" bit, i agree if you're buying an "unlimited" service, there shouldn't be an artificial cap why not? if I only want to use a small amount of bandwidth per month, why should I pay the
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by onethree 12y ago
on mobile (android), it was absolutely awful, every few scrolls it took over my screen and started automatically playing a video. if i wanted to watch the video in your article, i would press play, don't force it upon me
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by onethree 12y ago
8 times? the median house price in Sydney just hit 800k. The median wage is 57k. I wish house prices were only 8 times the median wage...
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by onethree 12y ago
parking under my building in the Sydney CBD is ~$85 a day, and checking the Sydney airport website, a days parking is $105 $40 a day is a pittance
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by onethree 12y ago
I dream about renting in Melbourne - i can get the equivalent of what i'm renting in Sydney for easily 2/3 of the price I'm paying now You hit the nail on the head there - the price of a house is what a bank is willing to len
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by onethree 12y ago
I'm impressed - it suggested New Zealand as #1, and Australia as #2. Raised in Australia and New Zealand, with kiwi parents.
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by onethree 12y ago
I find it really easy to tell people who are native german speakers, based on learning german for years, and having had grammar drilled into me. I dont think there's been a time when I've picked up on it, and been wrong

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