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Nagy? 
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Next year it is your turn!! 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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If you've ever played Santa, you'll understand the need to drink, sometimes heavily.
Gawd, but they are little monsters.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Really? Doesn't look so little[^] to me! 
Link reasonably SFW if you're in a holiday mood...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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In that case "Little" refers to "IQ".
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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How did she get on the "nice" list?
Conspiracy theories invited!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I'm sure I wouldn't want to know!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Since it is too cold at North Pole, Santa wanted someone to warm his chair. She was an ideal choice and hence on the nice list.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Conspiracy theories invited!
She's a fake person on a fake Santa, it's all an illusion.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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What little girl did he give that plastic doll to?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Reminds me of when one of the other fathers in my daughters kindergarten was going to host a birthday party for his little kid.
He had a few practical questions, but finished with: Are you allowed to be drunk?
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Are you allowed to be drunk?
And what was he answer?
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We were dealing with Reuters and Bloomberg recently and discussing the validity and veracity of the rating agencies when someone suggested that there is an industry ripe for some disruptive technology.
The data providors have a monopoly and therefore charge huge fees for something that should be relatively simple to reproduce. Reputation is something that cannot be disrupted easily though.
The rating agencies have proven to be corruptible and really should be disrupted, possibly with something more than mere technology.
Are there any attempts out there to disrupt this industry that we just don't know of.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Reputation is something that cannot be disrupted easily though.
But what is reputation in the financial sector (and other places), other than a bunch of wizened CEO's "reputating" each other?
Marc
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Are there any attempts out there to disrupt this industry that we just don't know of.
There are, yes, but they are (a) focused on a small part of the industry and (b) privately owned and publicity shy. Lots of AI and data mining involved.
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It's an "industry" that deals in self-fulfilling prophecies.
The biggest money's made by those given he earliest access to the information before the lemmings move in, each step in the food chain having less an less of fair chance.
"Them what has, gets"
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Years ago, supermarkets used to have minimum of 10 staffs at checkout counters. Now, automated self checkout counters... and hardly 2 staffs. So, what is going to happen for those who is loosing the jobs because of their role is replaced with a machine? Universal basic income is something I never thought of.....
Automated future and Universal basic income
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Sounds a little like communism, doesn't it? Or like Star Trek.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Not really communism imo. More of a socialist policy. Most UBI theories center around a basic income that simply allows you to live whereas other sources of income (like work) are the same as in capitalism. You earn it you keep it. Communism rejects the idea of personal ownership of anything (wealth, religion, etc) while socialism promotes both personal ownership and community ownership which is why it works well alongside other systems like capitalism. The general premise being to help both yourself and the community.
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Not really. Communisn really is all asset are owned by the government which also decide of your activities.
Communism nor Capitalism have nothing to do with the exact percent or absolute value of taxation.
That could as well be "ultra capitalism" with an absolute (i.e. not relative to your income) negative tax amount.
Now, did you mean "it sounds like USSR, I am afraid it's gonna turn bad for the same reason"?, well fear not, this look nothing like Russia! No goulag, no forced labor camp, no 5 years plan!
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Super Lloyd wrote: Now, did you mean "it sounds like USSR, I am afraid it's gonna turn bad for the same reason"?, well fear not, this look nothing like Russia! No goulag, no forced labor camp, no 5 years plan!
To be fair, no country on Earth has achieved true communism. True communism is the complete and utter surrender of all personal assets (including spiritual) to the state - including the highest ranking officials. All attempts including the USSR have been "corrupted" communism.
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Well, close enough though, all what is really missing is the enlightened benevolent state elite.
Don't see it coming anytime soon though....
Although to be fair, there has been some case of enlightened elite on earth, Singapore past dictator wasn't too bad... I have trouble in believing in non democratic benevolent durable state though...
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How about an ignorant malevolant state elite?
I can see that happen soon enough. 
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it's already there alright! 
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