NeoTar

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by NeoTar 2y ago
Huh. I always assumed Jasmine rice was flavoured with Jasmine, didn't realise it was a different species.
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Depending on your definition, there are anywhere between five (the classic) and upwards of twenty senses - e.g. is the ability to sense temperature a part of touch, or a separate sense?
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by NeoTar 2y ago
The classic example is 'next Saturday'. Is this the next Saturday (since today is Friday that would be tomorrow) or the Saturday of next week (i.e. eight days time). And then you end up with needing a locale based week, since
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Interesting, because I believe today there are not regularly scheduled flights to TRNC, except from Türkiye( ) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ercan_International_Airport#In... ( although I have heard that there is a
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by NeoTar 2y ago
I was about to comment similarly that this is totally a wireless telegram system! For anyone who doesn't want to click the link, it's a visual telegram system similar to semaphore codes, or the 'clacks' in Terry Pratchet
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by NeoTar 2y ago
At this point street furniture should achieve a level of protection as a reflection of our technological past.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
There is the wonderful figure on light bulb packaging in the EU which attempts to express how much energy the light bulb will use in a year (defined at 1000hours of usage)... It's given as XXX kWh/1000h ... which if you're at
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by NeoTar 3y ago
How about for subscriptions in general? Both virtual and physical (e.g. a gym membership)? At the very least, a regulation could say that for any promotional rate, the duration of the promotion, and the non-promotional rate must be shown at
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire, although now pronunced by most people as 'God-Man-Chest-Er', used to be pronounced (and may still be by some locals) as Gumster.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
In some places and markets it is – I believe if you live in British Columbia basic vehicle insurance is done through the province. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance_Corporation_of_Briti...
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by NeoTar 3y ago
The article appears to be from 2017; does anyone have experience of what has happened since? Were the new shillings actually issued? Are they used?
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by NeoTar 3y ago
A few examples: - Doctors/Nurses working at free-clincs, - Legal professionals will sometimes offer their services for free to needy individuals (I don't mean no-win-no-fee, but more writing a letter to a landlord on a tenant&#x27
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by NeoTar 3y ago
> Surely the future human being would have ways to detect nuclear waste before digging around Technology doesn't inevitably progress. Its certainly possible that we lose even relatively simple nuclear detection technology (e.g. a Ge
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by NeoTar 3y ago
If you’re only changing your duvet cover once a month (or less) you’re sleeping under a sheet under the duvet, right? We don’t do sheets and are in the change once a week camp.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
My experience is the opposite. Most people don’t really care, but if pushed they’d be “well of course I don’t think the royal family should have a constitutional role, but I wouldn’t kill them, and I don’t trust politicians to put a better
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by NeoTar 3y ago
The prices have been increasing above inflation for years, but especially in the last few years - e.g. in 2001 a first class stamp cost 0.27 GBP (0.49 in 2024), and even in 2019 in was 0.70 GBP (0.86 in 2024).
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by NeoTar 3y ago
My brother recently asked for help in determining who a footballer (soccer player) was from a photo. Like in many sports, the jerseys have the players name on the rear, and this player’s was in Cyrillic - Шунин (Anton Shunin) - and my broth
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Interesting, because many renters (myself included) would not be permitted to change the locks.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Would you imagine that you could you still buy/sell patents? In which case - Google, rather than applying for patents itself, offers a patent purchase programme for employees. It will buy every patent filed for by it's employees a
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by NeoTar 3y ago
> "First-to-invent / first-to-file makes no sense, as it seems that if two people invented the same thing at the same time, that should set a strong presumption of "obvious." If two people file for the same patent, un
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by NeoTar 3y ago
I'm not saying that I disagree, but this strikes me as a "Things are different from my youth and are therefore bad" style comment (on behalf of the article author, not the commentator).
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by NeoTar 3y ago
It seems there is a second story here about their University requiring the purchase of a 'meal plan' and that generally not being good value (costing more than the dishes individually)? Am I reading that between the lines correctl
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by NeoTar 3y ago
From what the Wikipedia page of Overtime says about the EU ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtime#European_Union ) it seems that the laws are very concerned with working hours, but have nothing to say about overtime be
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Watching a lot of American television, I'm normally OK, but what got me recently in connections is that apparently Jelly Beans are associated with Easter in the USA... that was a completely new revelation to me.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
I celebrate Pi-approximation day on the 22nd of July
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Yeah - If singular means distinct, and even setting aside Slovak, then Czech is part of the West Slavic language family and my Polish-speaking partner says there is a degree of mutual intelligibility.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Sadly it feels that overtime has been eliminated from the industry. Every contract I've ever signed (and this is in the supposedly more worker-friendly EU) has had text along the lines of 'Your working hours are 40h a week. Occasi
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Fair point - I just didn't want to make a post saying '95% of people get this wrong, but I'm not going to tell you how!' - the message is presenting, in my own simplified form, what I understand is the popular understand
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Everyone thinks they are familiar with the Dunning Kruger effect. Probably 95% of people get it wrong. [I am not a psychologist, but here is my summary of how I think the real effect works... Let's say we have a skill we can be assesse
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by NeoTar 3y ago
I think you can blame Broadcom now.

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