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Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
I suspect you're confusing money and cash - they're two distinct things. I would be incredibly to learn that my bank had anywhere near the amount of cash stored compared to the amount of money deposited there. Cash has storage costs and pays a 0% return where deposits with a central bank have historically paid higher than that. (This isn't universally true.)
Comment · 7 years ago
I would assume that the translator could provide a translation along the lines of:

  ($count -> Jana ($gender -> {addedHis|addedHer}) {n} {apples|apple}) ($gender -> to {his|her} profile)
(obviously with addedHis and AddedHer substituted for the correct word.)
Comment · 7 years ago
If you're writing translation code then you're (probably) doing it wrong.

If your clients are happy to only ever have a product in one language which will never have to deal with anything outside the 7bit ascii range then ignoring the complexity required to do it is (probably) fine.

As soon as you hit some requirement which violates the above if you haven't considered how this might affect you you're likely in for some horrible problems when suddenly you need to handle these things.

Comment · 7 years ago
Think about how often the english documentation coming with cheap products from china is mocked - do you really want your professional output to be treated in the same regard?
Comment · 7 years ago
Council tax on the most expensive property (band H) in kensington and chelsea is £2,246.14 in 2018/2019. Westminster would be £1421.00.

Council tax for my band C property in south gloucester was around £1700, with the highest (band H) in the area being around £3800.

All numbers yearly.

Comment · 7 years ago
To address the last point - if your neighbour can't afford to move because the rent is too high elsewhere then under a non-rent controlled system would the landlord not have raised her rent to a point she would be unable to pay it and would thus be forced to move elsewhere?

(I don't know enough to actually have an answer to this.)

Comment · 7 years ago
The 50m is a slightly misleading point (it includes everyone too young to vote, whatever their viewpoint) but there's a much stronger case to take into account the perspective of the 16m people who voted against this car crash.

To declare that because a poorly defined proposition sold with untruth and misdirection won out in a vote means that we can't reflect on what is now known is absurd.

Comment · 7 years ago
If you talk to _your_ lawyer about your issue the lawyer can't go and tell anyone else, nor can that discussion be raised as part of a legal process against you. Not the case if you post it to a public forum.
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Comment · 7 years ago
I'm guessing this is on a one way road? With traffic driving on the left you'd normally want to look right to check you're not stepping into oncoming traffic (although you should probably check both ways on a normal zebra crossing as you'll be crossing traffic in both directions).
Comment · 8 years ago
But without there being a general audience for those things the cost is generally too high.

The example which springs to mind is the pre-peeled fruit a number of years ago which was similarly dismissed for having a harmful environmental impact, but if you've lost motor function in your hands it means you can eat a wider variety of foods.

Just because you don't see the need for something doesn't mean the need isn't there.

Comment · 8 years ago
I've said it here before, but these services are a lifesaver for some.

It might seem lazy to someone in full health, but sometimes those small things make all the difference.

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