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by tententwenty 15y ago
Speaking as a layman..this all sounds a bit far-fetched. A drop of 80 million people in the Americas then is as nothing compared to what's happened with world populations in the 19th and 20th centuries. Despite a growth by billions we're st
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by tententwenty 15y ago
It would be helpful if the downvoters would give reasons because I understand that this is how CEO pay is calculated
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by tententwenty 15y ago
In companies with stock exchange listings one thing that he likely does is to sit on the remuneration committees for other CEOs. Who better to judge another CEO's worth you might think. However as the criteria used to set pay include the le
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by tententwenty 15y ago
It shouldn't then. It's because Apple are so successful that so many have an opinion. I'd imagine that a lot more people have opinions on/advice for the NY Yankees than the Baltimore Orioles.
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by tententwenty 15y ago
Someone said somewhere that most people are over-educated. How much education do you need to work checkout in Tesco? To listen to some, British education has been a mess since the 60's (apostrophe?) Despite that, Britain still muddles along
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by tententwenty 15y ago
But Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house?
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by tententwenty 15y ago
The EU is at a turning point. A single currency without a single fiscal policy looks to be unworkable. The EU has either to take on more of the characteristics of a single country or retreat from the current level of integration. Yugoslavia
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by tententwenty 15y ago
"In another, he died. In the third, his entire brain was destroyed except for one part that kept him breathing." Maybe the choice of words used is significant. On popular tv there are now shows featuring people who had "technically" died b
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by tententwenty 15y ago
Another unintuitive probability (to me anyway) is the size of a group of people you need to have before it's more likely than not that 2 of them will share the same birthday
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by tententwenty 15y ago
One thing that annoys me with search engines including DDG is where they return results for the word they reckoned I meant to enter rather than the word i did enter. So if I enter axemple.com I get a pile of results for example.com and an