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Offices in the UK. I would encourage anyone in the EU who used this to file a GDPR complaint.

I’ve been doing something very similar to this for about ten years. I did experiment with using Anki for it, but ended up with a more manual approach involving wiki software and manually rescheduling when I’d read a chapter again. Anyway, can highly recommend.

They are the same references. Most companies with a decent HR department will only give the employee verification answers anyway.

I wonder what’ll happen if they’ve sucked up a bunch of European data too

Recruiter and former CTO here. References are a box-ticking exercise that you pay someone like Experian to do, so that you can say it was done as part of a security review.

Interestingly you omitted the currency of that loan in your comment. Thinking on that should answer your question.

> there are millions of young males in the US alone who are more careful than millions of young females

Yes, and millions of young men in the US who are shorter than millions of young women. What’s your point? Young men are still disproportionately more likely to be in road traffic accidents.

Re testosterone, the keywords you should be searching for are “risk taking behaviour”.

I’m curious also what percentage of time you think the average military driver is being shot at is.

> What does them being male have to do with anything?

Being young and male correlates strongly with high testosterone, the effects of which you can Google for. Being young and male also correlates with higher incidences of road traffic accidents than most other demographics.

Are you familiar with a Thermomix?

> So.. Extra tariffs will bring extra tax revenue

In the short term. In the long term, that’s far from clear. The world economy is rather different now than it was when America was a fledgling economy being exploited by the Brits

I wonder if you could help me understand Trump trying to rescue ZTE in terms of what you’ve just said?

Another word for “groupthink” is “consensus”

I’d be interested to see its effectiveness vs any other activity involving high quality time with intelligent, motivated, caring adults.

> Making a false statement isn’t necessarily fraud

Making one intentionally in order to defraud people is most likely fraud though

I’ve been in the UK about ten days, and spent less than £10 of the cash I withdrew on the same day, while having spent well in excess of £500 retail

I’m generally pretty privacy conscious, but not about my location data. What worries you about that?

This is a great effort, but the spot lighting on earth obscures more than the pretty effect is worth.

Cute PR move but what an indictment of American local governance

> because the open internet is damn inhospitable.

And the answer to this is writing text-processing functions that you expose to the world, in C... skeptical face

Norman’s birthday was an auspicious date...

> From the perspective of the lay investor, what distinguishes the two cases?

You can buy a Tesla car today, strip it down, and confirm it works and isn’t a giant Potemkin village?

Pharma Bro needs to go to prison to stop the next arrogant idiot who thinks he can dig himself out of a hole from attempting to do so.

That he actually managed to is great — for his investors — but it’s not a course of action society wants to promote.

Any given 711 is dramatically more likely to be in Asia than North America.

> there are little street-side stalls selling drinks and snacks every 50 yards in most SEA cities

This makes the absolutely spread coverage of 7-11 sound more romantic than it is. There’s a place I can stand on my street where I can see 3 7-11s, one Lawson, and one FamilyMart.

I wonder if a diamond could be fingerprinted and that shared on a blockchain to encode provenance data.

> they’re certainly not capable of defending themselves

This is true of most countries in the Caribbean, but being close to a big, heavily armed, friendly world power (as the Faroes are to the UK) is usually sufficient.

The product description for the book you quoted:

> Debunking Economics exposes what many non-economists may have suspected and a minority of economists have long known: that economic theory is not only unpalatable, but also plain wrong.

Plainly alludes to the fact that the book is not mainstream economic theory. People arguing for minority views of complex subjects find — rightly — that the burden of proof is on them, and not the other way around.

Related: it’s not in the least bit surprising to see the book make an appeal to common sense over “those experts”. Truly we live in the age of Trump and Farage.

You gave a link to a popsci book whose Wikipedia Criticism section is ... unforgiving and relentless.

You then double down on your True Scotsman fallacy, mae a sweeping unsupported claim about a nebulous group of people, and follow it up with another conjecture about another group in an attempt to appeal to authority.

We can do better than this.

> Frankly, everybody with a bit of economic common sense knows

Citation? True Scotsman fallacy?

You forgot “А у вас негров линчуют”