Our precious engineered systems are based on certain assumptions, and those assumptions are often faulty.
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Twitter, like all major online sites collects our usage data and makes certain assumptions about us.
The case against Google rests on certain assumptions about how the markets in which it operates function.
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The case against Google rested on certain assumptions about the functioning of the markets in which Google operates.
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Some books target specific needs, such as caring and providing for an elderly relative, but they still make certain assumptions.
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That outcome, however, was based on certain assumptions which Mr Netanyahu, since he came to power last year, has been busily trampling on.
This contains certain assumptions about what is likely to happen to important economic variables, such as inflation and passenger numbers, over the contract period.
Certain assumptions were made about frictional trading costs in each portfolio.
It incorporates certain assumptions about refinancing activity.
Have you taken a hard look at how certain those assumptions are, and the dependencies between them?
On certain familiar assumptions the answer is simple enough.
Such advice is predicated upon certain unsupportable assumptions (for example, that nuclear weapons, other military capabilities or mere moral suasion will suffice to deter chemical attacks against this country or its friends and allies overseas).
The question for this column, however, is whether the economic assumptions weaved into certain storylines are sound.
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"Virtually from the day you start you will find that some of your assumptions are not correct and that certain goals are not achievable, " he says.
Human beings have certain characteristics -- you can use artistic licence to make assumptions.
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We often make assumptions about one another, without trying to understand why a colleague is behaving in a certain way, he says.
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