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14,547karma·4,845submissions·June 3, 2013
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Every time I watch a video it’s like I’m running a Turing test. Mispronunciations could be a giveaway, but then some people may have naïve pronounciations. So many videos about nerd-sniping niche subj…
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A Wikipedia list of English Corn Exchanges: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_exchanges_in_England …
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I would have thought other countries have corn exchanges too.
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So if this restriction, some may say unfair, was lifted then the betting industry wouldn’t be so profitable. Maybe it would go back to being underground, for people who aren’t so adept at reasoning.
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This is just amazing, comparing the street scenes of The Sweeny from 50 years ago with those of today. I miss the WW2 bombsites, the derelict ramshackle buildings. I guess if you go beyond the M25 the…
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Maybe he looked it up on his AI
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One of the bigger problems was all the manure on the streets. I believe this is one of the reasons why there are stoops in New York, the steps up to brown stones. Also there’s a dump site in New York …
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I guess tripping on LSD L being pound, libre S being shilling D being pennies, I’m guess denari because someone went to grammar school
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“ The wrecks in the Royal Port were discovered through a new high-resolution sonar survey of the seabed. This produced enormous quantities of data that was fed into a machine learning algorithm traine…
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“ There are so many generational differences. Neighbours were saying: ‘I did hear a noise but the chap behind me is always beating his wife so I just thought it was that.’” “
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Having had to wait a few months to work on a project I realised I had been thinking it through in much depth for so long. Once I was able to get some time in Windsurf I churned through my ideas in 2 h…
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Scope creep to orbit: “Budget escalation: The initial budget was €37 million, but the final cost has grown to around €480 million.” Astounding though it is it sounds like it may have been stone souped…
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Has Ada been portrayed in a film, a biopic even, Steampunk or otherwise. Along with Babbage, and Byron it could be quite interesting. There’s quite a few Turing films.
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Would this include the UK I wonder?
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It could be worse. They could rely on providing banking services via shoddy software, and prosecute people, and hound them to death rather than face up as to how crap their software is, until someone …
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That is as long as gas forms the final price at the determination of each 30 min electricity price setting around. The prices plummet from time to time, even going negative, but not enough for the pri…