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Comment Re:All Financial Products Regulated (Score 1) 22

In the UK, you would have to register it as a unit trust, an investment trust, an exchange traded fund, or something along those lines.
People buy those to either let a fund manager pick the stocks for you, or to invest in an index. There is no legal reason why it couldn't be a single stock fund.

Comment Re: My recent AI hilarity (Score 1) 39

Sure, but at least you know you don't know what a shape file is.
I've worked with map stuff before, so I am familiar with them. I'm usually looking to convert to GeoJSON because that's what works best with the tools I use, and sometimes it is shape files I am converting from.

If you are wondering, it is a type of map data file originally invented for use by ArcView GIS

Comment Re:Still not very intelligent (Score 1) 92

Correct answer, wrong workings / methodology.
You also have to consider "eleven", and the teens. Some odd numbers have those rather than the single digit numbers it considered.
But they also have ees in them, so the eventual answer is correct.

Comment Re:why do we still need car dealerships that are n (Score 1) 74

Does the fact you can buy them from Best Buy and similar places affect your assessment of that?

On the hardware side of things, there are of course a lot more alternatives than just Samsung and Apple, so I don't think there is a problem there.

The App Store situation is different though because there's only two of them, and they are not direct competitors.

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 212

If you are driving a lorry load of lemons from Sicily in southern Italy to Dartford in the south east of England, that is a 29 hour drive assuming no rest breaks.

Even if you are driving between Glasgow (Scotland) and London (England), about 8 hours, then realistically you are only doing a run in one direction each day. Or sometimes, if it is a big company, the drivers might meet up half-way and swap vehicles.

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