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rtghnyhjm
16y ago
Nope - remember it's only idiots that play the lottery. This is like helping the nerds carry on taking money from the bullies once they grow up and get dead end jobs
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16y ago
He will have the original photos because any serious photographer will capture them in RAW - which Flikr doesn't store. The issue though is the links, comments, viewer history and comments that you cannot backup or restore - but which have
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It's an engineering decision - Flikr has to host a large amount of data for very little cost, since most users aren't paying. Space isn't cheap by the Petabyte! The design for a system where you had multiple redundant copies of all the data
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16y ago
Most lottery tickets are sold from small convenience stores, either family owned or with just a couple of staff - hard to enforce this. There is a crackdown on relatives of store owners winning the lottery - but is normally them defrauding
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16y ago
I'm very surprised that he wasn't arrested, prosecuted, served with an injunction not to talk about this and have all his computers confiscated. The lottery commission in BC is on it's Nth major criminal investigation - but the trick here s
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16y ago
I think the idea is to build a community - in order to use SO as more than a Google scrape you need to put in some work and become involved. Then you are more likely to go back and add answers yourself - so you contribute to the collective.
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16y ago
I think thats a big problem with the "accepted answer" Firstly it's accepted by the questioner - who by definition knows the least about the subject, otherwise they wouldn't be asking! Even if it is correct and well written - then it stays
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Because at low reps they are an anti-spam measure. If I have demonstrated I'm not a spammer by having a solid score on SO then I should be allowed to post a comment straight away on cooking. That's the reason for the 100rep liking bonus - i
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16y ago
I think the Dutch Sandwich is something like - you move all the money to Netherlands, so no tax in the rest of Europe (common market) then to a Dutch owned off-shore tax haven like the Dutch Antilles - so you pay no tax in the Netherlands e
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It seems to be a thing of - "I'm too cultured and refined to understand science and maths". Which extends to - I can't understand how to put simple bits of engineering together because I'm so spiritual!