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by NeoTar 3y ago
Schedules are irrelevant when frequencies are high enough. If you look at the most successful public transport systems (e.g. in London, Paris and Berlin) trains frequencies are often at least every ten minutes off-peak and can be every two-
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Hopefully developments like this will encourage the provision of good public transport. Ideally they would be built around transport hubs. A lot of the outer London suburbs originated as basically railways stops in fields, where the suburb
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by NeoTar 3y ago
[According to Wikipedia] the aim is to have one post-code per fifteen addresses. Which means that unlike (5 digit) ZIP codes and German Postal codes, UK Postcodes are typically pretty useful for navigation - people will often enter a postco
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by NeoTar 3y ago
That is pretty much how it works in Germany - flats are identified by resident surname, and numbers, if they exist, are not known or little used.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Isn’t this a standard in parts of North America too? Although probably using feet instead of metres.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
A lot of the British Overseas territories have adopted similar postcodes (e.g. ASCN 1ZZ for Ascension Island) Although it’s disputable whether they are a part of the UK, or separate administrations that have postcodes designed to look like
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Whilst possible, the ‘standard’ origin for French is that (the language as a whole) derived from Latin combining with native Celtic and Germanic languages. Of course this doesn’t mean that specific words (for example the numbers) may not ha
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by NeoTar 3y ago
And Sapporo in Hokkaido.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
> This only applies to TV or broadcast mediums that are actually observable by a third-party. I think you are mistaken here. The ASA covers (according to their website) - Ads on the internet, smartphones and tablets - Ad claims on compan
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Is this just a US-American (or non-European) thing? I don't think I've ever seen obviously fraudulent video advertisements in the UK or Germany. Video ads are generally video games, supermarkets or generic products (razors, pers
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by NeoTar 3y ago
> "no ticket sales were permitted for domestic passengers to board the plane from Melbourne to Adelaide" Isn't that relatively normal? I mean I think there are plenty of circumstances where an airline is permitted to fly i
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by NeoTar 3y ago
It’s a fascinating subject. I think a lot of the English peculiarities with spelling come from it adopting other vocabulary without enforcing a change to English orthography onto it, so we end up with a crazy mix of Germanic, French, Latin,
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by NeoTar 3y ago
I am intrigued on how this would perform on astronomical data. If anyone is not aware there are many periodic phenomena in astronomy - e.g. variable stars which can have periods from minutes to hundreds of days. The description of this libr
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by NeoTar 3y ago
There are also plans for 2G to be switched off by 2033 referenced in the article.
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I believe postal codes for the British Overseas Territories (etc.) were adopted in early 2000s to allow for more convenient online ordering since for the remaining British territories postal codes are probably overkill (having about 80.000
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by NeoTar 3y ago
yes; it's ... similar? Pokémon Sword/Shield released Nov. 2019, a two part expansion released June/Oct 2020. Current costs of £50 for base game, £27 for expansion. Pokémon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl (remakes) releas
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Indeed - there is an interesting question on Stack Exchange about if a law written and passed in Spanish would be valid ( https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/80132/if-congress-pa... ) - the conclusion (based on
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by NeoTar 3y ago
I think if you are writing for a single-language audience (as here), then the best format is to write the month in full as they advise (6 August 2018), because it will totally avoid ambiguity.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
I imagine there are cases where you want a large number not expressible in base-10 exponential notation. The obvious examples are the upper limits of integers - 2_147_483_647 and 4_294_967_295.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Because sometimes someone (a partner, a friend, etc.) is driving for you . Yes, you could take a taxi, but that can easily cost more than parking, even when parking is as expensive as in London.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
I don't know if this would be practical, but a nice curtesy would be for the authorising agency to verify that there aren't any outstanding parking tickets against a newly registered plate, and to at least advise the purchaser, or
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Because there is a population 'bulge' of younger people who haven't yet had children. For a very simplified model, imagine at t=0 there were only 'x' people all of whom were twenty-years-old. Run time forward to t=2
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How do you know what the birth-rate would be without those policies?
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> It'd be nice to be able to earmark it to particular government functions, maybe even charities in the area, etc. "[Your Town] has finest municipal art galleries in the state whilst streets are filled with pot-holes" Allo
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We’re definitely giving negative seventy year-olds too much responsibility.
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It can also help you understand what physics you should be using / taking account of. A metal ball travelling 1m at 3 m/s and I’m pretty confident I can get a good approximation using the basic Newtonian equations. An irregular sh
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by NeoTar 3y ago
How would you define a micro-transaction? Maybe we need a pornography-like definition ("I know it when I see it") but I think there is certainly a continuum from high-quality DLC / expansions to existing games (which can be b
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Five minutes research": Wiktionary - Underpaid: "Getting too little financial compensation for one's work." Meriam Webster - Underpay: "to pay less than what is normal or required" Cambridge Dictionary - underp
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Back in the early 2000's (maybe 2004-2005) I remember buying a can of Coffee from WHSmiths which was self-heating - I think through some exothermic chemical reaction. It was also really bad as I recall, more like an instant Nescafé tha
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Half-lives that long really begs the question to me - does every heavy nucleus (i.e. heavier than Iron-56) have a half-life? Does Gold-197 which is 'stable' actually just have a half-life of 10^50, or 10^100 years?

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