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Comment · 4 months ago
> So you could, even knowing only "phobia" and being able to guess "hippo", have a good basis for your choice.

Except "hippo-" is from Greek and means "horse".

Comment · 1 year ago
How do they know they're your first pick? Unless things have changed, you don't provide a ranking until the universities have made their offers.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's like Boost Lambda2 or Boost HOF. Boost Hana also has a similar feature.

This seems to be more fully featured than all of those though. Maybe some could be ported over to Lambda2.

Comment · 1 year ago
The Eurostat style guide puts the Euro sign in front of the numbers for English text: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

I think the general rule is that in English the currency symbol for the primary currency goes in front of the number, while the symbol for a subunit (pence, cents, etc) goes after the number.

Comment · 2 years ago
There was no monthly fee.
Comment · 2 years ago
At least for the identification sticker / stripe on cars we've moved from GB to UK. Maybe we'll just move to uk as the ISO 2 letter code.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Nokia decided to use the LGPL and the KDE Free Qt agreement was then updated to specify LGPL.
Comment · 2 years ago
You don't have to use all the fuel produced.

Presumably some could be used to make plastics and everything else we make from oil. You could also bury some.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
This isn't a case of slot machines where they got the logic for the house edge wrong. This is a case of double redeeming winnings because the machine would give you your winnings but not mark the ticket as redeemed.
Comment · 2 years ago
That technique is something you get pretty much automatically if you use an electric toothbrush.
Comment · 2 years ago
You need a lot more infrastructure for trains, and more people to maintain everything.
Comment · 2 years ago
There's also a prescription charge, so it's not completely free.
Comment · 2 years ago
Visa and Mastercard (and American Express) are international networks. How could any individual central bank provide that?

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