arnold @_FifthBeatle

Programming, history, maths, quizzing. Constantly one banging tweet away from eternal celebhood. Goa Joined February 2008

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arnold @_FifthBeatle

a week ago

TIL: Taylor Dent & Misty May-Treanor are first cousins.

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arnold @_FifthBeatle

2 weeks ago

Doubt the creators of the NYT Crossword app/site have ever played a crossword themselves. Why else would they think it's easier to have to type in the missing letters rather than the whole word?

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arnold @_FifthBeatle

2 weeks ago

50% of any chess commentary by any Russian is "... but okay... "

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arnold @_FifthBeatle

2 weeks ago

Not to mention a lot of tourist locations in India charge foreign nationals anything from 20x to 50x the admission price for Indians.

Nachiket Deshpande @nachiket1982

3 weeks ago

Not to mention a lot of tourist locations in India charge foreign nationals anything from 20x to 50x the admission price for Indians.

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Nachiket Deshpande @nachiket1982

3 weeks ago

With all due respect, you are completely wrong on this. To seriously attract tourists, we need to do a lot more than blow the trumpet of being an 8000 year old culture. 1. We have horrendous public infrastructure, and yet massively overpriced domestic flights & hotels. 2. Law…

Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72

3 weeks ago

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arnold @_FifthBeatle

3 weeks ago

Airports make no sense. You can literally walk out with anyone's baggage from the carousel. How hard is it to implement a QR code system to match with your boarding pass.

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arnold @_FifthBeatle

4 weeks ago

You might think you're a calm person but have you ever completed a run only to find out that Strava hasn't measured anything because there was no GPS signal?

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Rohini Singh @rohini_sgh

4 weeks ago

Arguing that dogs should remain on the streets often ignores who suffers most from dog attacks- children, the elderly, sanitation workers and the urban poor. Not the elites living in gated communities. (1/n)

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arnold @_FifthBeatle

4 weeks ago

Oh great, it's that time of the year again where people decide to become a public nuisance by erecting structures in the middle of the street, beating drums and playing loud music.

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arnold @_FifthBeatle

a month ago

I feel like we ought to bring back the hanging, the drawing & the quartering. But not for silly stuff like high treason. It should be reserved for the truly grave crimes. Like traffic violations. See how quickly that would solve the problem - one way or the other.

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arnold @_FifthBeatle

a month ago

Step #1 to improving at chess is "Stop hanging your pieces". Everything else - endgames, tactics, opening theory, positional analysis etc - can come after that.

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arnold @_FifthBeatle

2 months ago

To the uninitiated, Dutch really does sound like drunk German.

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arnold @_FifthBeatle

2 months ago

Here's a 'tennis legend' I bet you never knew about...

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arnold @_FifthBeatle

2 months ago

If your opponent disconnects in a dead drawn position or two moves into the game, do you select 'Claim win' or 'Call draw' when you get the option after 30 seconds? #lichess

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arnold @_FifthBeatle

2 months ago

I've heard of a fork in the road before but never a spoon in the road!

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arnold @_FifthBeatle

3 months ago

Who called it an Equine Hospital and not a Horsepital?

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arnold @_FifthBeatle

3 months ago

Duh! If you're 2-3 down after 5 games, you need to win both remaining games for the title. If you consider each team's chances at roughly 50-50 per game (reasonable considering a 2-2 series), that will happen 1 in 4 times or 25%. Yet it's put out there like some amazing stat.