NeoTar

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by NeoTar 3y ago
Because changing a profession is really hard, and at a certain point in your life basically impossible without a big pay cut.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
If we move to a four-day week as standard I hope we do it in a flexible way, so that some people don't work Monday, some people don't work Tuesday, etc. I acknowledge that could be difficult to manage in some industries (e.g. tryi
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by NeoTar 3y ago
> EV performance is horrific in cold conditions. If anyone knows about it, I'd be interested to explore this further. My understanding is that in some parts of Canada it's common to plug your currently petrol/diesel car in
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by NeoTar 3y ago
I have often joked that every hotel owner/manager should be forced to stay in their cheapest room for one week a year and experience what it would be like for a guest. It would be the hotel equivalent of dog-fooding. You shouldn't
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by NeoTar 3y ago
One option, although costly in the long-term and I have no idea how practical it would be for someone in your circumstance, is to take a pay-day-loan. These are short-term loans at pretty horrible rates of interest (i.e. borrow 50 GBP, and
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Citizens advice can also help you out with a referral to a food-bank if your need is desperate: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/debt-and-money/using-a-foo...
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Thanks so much! Shouting into the darkness sometimes has results! :-D
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Can I make my periodic reminder to US-Americans that two-letter state abbreviations are not universally recognized, and please to use full state names where possible. The case of California / CA is especially bad, since this is the ISO
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Apparently the UK government does not get any income from .io sales: Wikipedia - .io - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io > In 2014, Kane claimed that "profits are distributed to the authorities for them to op
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by NeoTar 3y ago
I rather suspect that the generalised elliptic scaling factor is a continuous function, so the answer may be a bit boring. For any infinite series with a finite sum I would be able to give you an ellipse (indeed, probably an infinite number
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by NeoTar 3y ago
I find the luck vs. hard-work a weird dichotomy - both are true and both are false. If you don't work hard, you probably won't be successful. But if hard-work were sufficient for success then the richest person in the world, or th
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by NeoTar 3y ago
In a change from the normal refrain of 'there's an XKCD about that' - in this case there is an Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC) about it: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/pi-2?ref=refind For tho
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by NeoTar 3y ago
My apologies - I misread your first comment as '6 km' (rather than 6k km) annually, hence my incredulity.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
May I introduce you to the country of Luxembourg that offers free public transport - admittedly one of the smallest nations in Europe in area (2,586.4 km2 (998.6 sq mi)) and population (660,809), but bigger than many cities.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Are there not annual car-taxes where you live? Surely at that rate of usage selling the car is more financially efficient than keeping it!
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Thanks for the reply ! With respect ingredients such as onions, I am concerned that what I think of as a medium onion, may not be a medium onion in other countries/cultures. Like, I generally will consider an onion of about 5cm (2 inch
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by NeoTar 3y ago
> and use volumetric measurements instead of weights Sorry to pick up on one sentence of an interesting long comment, but this is a pet peeve on mine when having to rely on American recipes. There seems to be an obsession on using volume
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by NeoTar 3y ago
You'd maybe end up with a system where one member of the upper house was preventing any senior military appointments - https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2023/08/army-now-2nd-servi...
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Apparently not since the 1840’s: > The Chancellor may in theory deny an application, although the last time this happened was to Viscount Chelsea in 1842. In the debate over expelling the fugitive James Sadleir in 1856, the Government co
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by NeoTar 3y ago
.cs is especially interesting since it was the ISO-code, and so would have been the domain for the union state of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006). However it was ultimately not used, before the country divided.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
In recent years the British government seems to be distancing itself from the term Great Britain (perhaps as a consequence of more awareness/sympathy of Northern Irish issues?), and using United Kingdom / UK more. As an example -
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Article describing Yugonostalgia for anyone interested to read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/25/everyone-loved...
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by NeoTar 3y ago
And you haven't included some other costs of ownership of car - insurance, maintenance, purchase price/depreciation...
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by NeoTar 3y ago
I think the most common real-world example is Russian and Italian, which have a specific word for light-blue which is distinct from the word for blue. I assume this is like how ‘pink’ is a special word for ‘light-red’.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Spelling error in the title - Britsh should be British.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
No, since he was British he departed on 14.3
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by NeoTar 3y ago
This remind me of when the BBC had to remove the clock from their Internet homepage. This was because it just used the local time on the user's machine, and so was considered to be inaccurate (and people would assume the BBC were autho
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by NeoTar 3y ago
The argument I've heard from some US-Americans supporting the practice is that it's not the same election - i.e. you aren't electing Joe Biden, you are electing members of the electoral college for state XXX.
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by NeoTar 3y ago
One of my pet-peeves is when automated translation software translates between the 24h and AM/PM representations. "Das Konzert beginnt um 16:00" should not become "The concert starts at 4 PM"
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by NeoTar 3y ago
Emergency sirens being so loud is an unfortunate consequence of how good sound isolation is in contemporary cars. Unfortunately I don’t know of an easy solution to this. Perhaps vehicles should be required to rebroadcast emergency sirens in

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