This seems to be especially true in Europe: the continent's labour markets are gummier than America's and services are more regulated.

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This seems to also be true of non-human primates.

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And tonight this seems to be even more true - hand carts, donkey carts, a boy on a bicycle carrying two large wooden crates, two boys on a moped carrying an extension ladder and metal piping.

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In a recession it can be difficult for employers to cut wages, and it seems obvious that this would be even more true when wages need to fall unevenly, e.g. not 5% for all workers, but 10% for some and 0% for others.

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Some Tumblr users are seeing their pages replaced with several dozen duplicate posts from a known hacker group, warning that deleting said message will delete the Tumblr page in question (it's unclear if this is actually true, but seems to be false in our testing).

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We all know this to be true of some of them, but the fashion seems to be to see all dev teams as doing that purposefully, especially when they are transparent about a process that has been in place for over a decade now.

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This may be especially true if it seems that your kid has gone from happy to snappy before her time.

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This is an important factor because, if the rumors are true, it seems that Apple might finally be willing to waver on quality.

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