NeoTar

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by NeoTar 3y ago
Indeed - the final few novels lacked the finesse of the earlier works. I believe Pterry, in common with many authors, would produce a basically complete manuscript, and then relentlessly iterate on it - removing inconsistencies, adding deta
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But it also influences behaviours. This could be switching to smaller vehicles (which may not be a net-reduction in carbon dioxide emissions), or alternate means of transportation; perhaps in some areas rail freight becomes viable, or encou
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It's interesting speaking to German's about their language sometimes, and the way that as a language leaner I perceive words differently to how they do as a native speaker. For instance consider the word for a wedding 'Hochze
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If they obeyed the rules to begin with they wouldn't be fined. It's literally a calculated risk by the big tech companies that the cost of compliance will be less than the profits during the time of non-compliance.
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I think eInk price labels are now getting to be quite a common thing in some stores - while it's probably not fair/legal to change prices while the store is open, it means prices can be updated very easily overnight.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
I don't know whether this is true, but I think I've heard it said in connection with this story. Egypt had a solar based-calendar, so (to a decent approximation) on every named date the sun would be in the same place in the sky. S
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by NeoTar 3y ago
There is a big tension in the UK between people who use kilometres by default, and those who miles. Although road-signs are all in miles, it's not unknown for other distance markers (e.g. on walking / cycling trails) to be in kilo
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by NeoTar 3y ago
I did the same - taking only the kings/queens of England (i.e. starting with Alfred and ending with Queen Anne, ignoring those after the unification of the United Kingdom). Son is by far the most common (21 from 50), followed by brothe
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Obviously this is not the intent of the article, but it would be interesting to compare actual decibel levels of the mediaeval world and today. I strongly suspect that despite all of the sources of noise noted, the world would on average ha
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by NeoTar 3y ago
What is my incentive as a car-park owner to agree to your federated system when scummy company X has just offered me $1000 to exclusively allow them to collect fees for my car-park?
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by NeoTar 3y ago
I think that introduces some problems: - who should have access to the database linking license plates to addresses? - what about people with vehicles other countries? Less of a problem in North America, but I recently was in Canada, and sa
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> Pay-for parking feels like the kind of thing that should become a utility with one, easy, well-known way to pay for parking anywhere. The trouble is that this either requires government regulation, or for one company to effectively bec
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That was my opinion as a PhD astrophysics student. I didn't recognise the people being presented.
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"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation." -- Gustavo Petro
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Does anyone make any car which satisfies those requirements? I believe you may be looking for a mini-bus.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Isn't this just a manifestation of high-context versus low-context cultures? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-context_and_low-context...
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That's the highest point that could reasonably be described as central - 137m For the rest see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_points_in_Lond...
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Yep - Greater London does have some hills, especially in the outer boroughs, but most of the highest points that are not within a couple of kilometres of the border are all under 140m high.
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[Congestion Charge]( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_congestion_charge ) Not to be confused with the [Ultra Low Emission Zone]( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Low_Emission_Zone ) which a
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by NeoTar 3y ago
The real story is one of intensification. Before 2000-or-so there weren't many sky-scrapers in the City-of-London (i.e the central financial district), now it looks like there are upwards of twenty. Similarly in almost every photograph
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by NeoTar 3y ago
If you are interested in patterns in the solar-system, then check out the Titus-Bode Law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titius–Bode_law Basically the inner planets seem to follow a pattern in their spacing from the S
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skewes%27s_number In number theory, Skewes's number is any of several large numbers used by the South African mathematician Stanley Skewes as upper bounds for the smallest natural n
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You should look into the German system. How it is supposed to work is that 50% of representatives are 'local' representing a region (of roughly 300.000 people) and the remaining 50% of representatives ensure proportionality. So, i
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One important aspect though was that Coutts is part of a larger banking group, who offered Mr Farrage a chance to open an account with Netwest, another bank in the group. So it’s not that they refused him service totally and he was unable t
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To quote the Family Guy theme-song: "It seems today that all you see, Is violence in movies and sex on TV" So this pattern was being noted at least as far back as 1999.
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It has been a problem in the UK - Doing some quick googling I found this - > The research also estimates the average person now receives 6.04 nuisance calls every month, while 56% of people receive nuisance calls every single week, and 8
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by NeoTar 3y ago
... perhaps the title (currently "One thing that has changed in the professional game industry is that ") can be altered, it's not useful in it's current form, and a bit click-bait (but no shade on the author, I think it
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Interesting. In Europe (at least the UK and Germany) it seems to be the opposite. Outside of a big-city Uber is non-existent and you are relying on local taxi-firms.
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'Regards' -> Normal Interaction, 'Kind Regards' -> You've done something to annoy me, 'Kindest Regards' -> You've really pissed me off!
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Not in any detail, but as a hand-waving explanation it keeps tracks of the Sun and the star Canopus, so by two fixed reference points you can have a known orientation.

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