Normille

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by Normille 4y ago
>How do people find your blog? Generally soeaking, they don't. I've just checked and my blog has been running since 2004 and I still get very little traffic. Mind you, I just write about things that tickle my fancy or w
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by Normille 4y ago
I'm not from London myself but I've never heard a Londoner [or southerner] use Pony in that sense. I've often heard it used for an amount of money. £20 I think. When I read your opening 'I wonder if there's somewh
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by Normille 4y ago
For which we humbly apologise.
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by Normille 4y ago
>It was low quality. Setting up a business in the UK, for example, costs £40.... £12. See my reply above: https://www.gov.uk/set-up-limited-company
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by Normille 4y ago
>I looked up once how one starts a business in a few European countries and what taxes are. The processes I found were really expensive... In UK [if we're still allowed to count ourselves as part of Europe!] it couldn't
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by Normille 4y ago
>There's nominal UK resistance to ID cards because the right-wing fascist papers say there is. I'm not convinced the population is all that bothered... I think you've got it the wrong way round. People who oppose a
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by Normille 4y ago
>U.S. scientists have achieved “ignition” — a fusion reaction that produced more energy than it took to create... >The inefficient lasers used in the experiment required about 300 megajoules of energy to fire just 2 megajoule
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by Normille 4y ago
We seem to have one of these 'breakthrough battery' stories every few months. I'm still waiting to see one in the wild.
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by Normille 4y ago
>The issue in the UK is that the Police suffers from scope creep. The UK police force has been criticized for expanding its scope to include enforcing anti-hate crime laws and investigating "non-crime hate incidents."...
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by Normille 4y ago
Lesson No.1: Don't use your phone in public while strolling about, oblivious to what's going on around you. I used to cycle to work down a pavement which was divided into half for walking on and half cycle lane. I lost count of th
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by Normille 4y ago
>Because the US has both historically demonstrated will and irrefutable capacity to pay its debt... 'will' hardly comes into it. It hardly matters if I'm 'willing' to pay my debts, if I don't actuall
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by Normille 4y ago
Point taken. I suppose the 'out' is open to interpretation. I read it as in 'counting out[loud]' or just 'counting out [the number of something]'. But I can see how they could have meant it as in 'countin
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by Normille 4y ago
Lots of presumably learned research and obscure historical fact in that article. But it continually states that eeny-meeny is a 'counting system' eg. "used by shepherds to count their sheep" etc. Eeeny-meeny is not a c
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by Normille 4y ago
...and the award for 'Most Dumbed-Down Headline of All-Time' goes to...
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by Normille 4y ago
Telegram have just added the ability for people to set an 'Auto-Delete Timer' on messages in any conversation or group they participate in. This on top of the already fuckwitted ability for anyone in a conversation to delete their
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by Normille 4y ago
Why does the US have a AAA rating in the first place? It owes more than its GDP in debt repayments. If I owed more on my credit card than my yearly salary, I doubt I'd have a AAA credit rating. https://tradingeconomics.com&#
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by Normille 4y ago
Continuous scrolling is one of those crappy 'Look what I can do with JavaScript' ideas that ruins usability, but which devs think shows how clever they are.
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by Normille 4y ago
The Moe Sizlack (sp?) was uncannily spot on. But the rest were a bit 'meh!'. Probably because so many of them were interpretations of the totally insipid 'handsome hero' and 'beautiful lady' characters with whi
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by Normille 4y ago
The democratically elected government of Mexico has been overthrown by a populist uprising and has been replaced by a government which is staunchly pro China and wants Mexico to appy to join in a military alliance with China. Being a stalwa
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by Normille 4y ago
>As far as I remember, it was still possible (in terms of banking systems/santions) to pay the gas in Euros as usual; Russia decided, unilaterally, that they would require the payment to be in Rubles (to try and limit its plumm
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by Normille 4y ago
>What had not been foreseen was the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the associated general energy crisis in Europe... >Can't forsee covid though, nor the war in Ukraine... Yes. Who could possibly have foreseen that an
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by Normille 4y ago
>lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said, according to Russia’s Interfax news agency. “...under the Constitution of Russia, he can no longer be extradited to a foreign state...” How very civilised! Not like all those western countries whic
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by Normille 4y ago
I think the begging bowls are becoming contageous. Wikipaedia has been doing it since forever. The Grauniad for quite while too. And, this morning, when I launched Thundebird, it spawned a page in my web brwoser with a begging bowl held o
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by Normille 4y ago
Isn't it said that, over a period of 7 years, every cell in your body will be replaced?* In which case, none of us is even the same person we were 7 years ago. *I don't know where I go that from. It's just one of those rand
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by Normille 4y ago
I'm definitely in the Transhumanist camp. I'm really looking forward to the possibility of being able to get my brain uploaded into a big fuck-off Terminator style robot, when I become old and decrepit.
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by Normille 4y ago
>people were complaining that the same Elon Musk tweet got submitted at least 5 times in 30 minutes…. Don't get me on my other soapbox --people posting fecking Tweets as 'news' stories! Mind you, the throbbing vein
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by Normille 4y ago
>It's official (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), and it's not limited to Show HNs. ---- Are reposts ok? If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number
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by Normille 4y ago
"As a company we're totally committed to sustainable innovation and action, and inkjets simply use less energy and fewer consumable parts," explained Epson sales and marketing manager Koichi Kubota in canned statement. &quot
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by Normille 4y ago
>I subscribed the Guardian for one year just to avoid that it goes down (I could read it for free at work), and of course it is excellent, but it has a tacit pro-UK bias that brits (esp. leftists) wouldn't even notice. On the o
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by Normille 4y ago
These days holding the door open for a woman probably qualifies.

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