Wildgoose

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by Wildgoose 3y ago
I think it is more likely that average human intellect is going to regress in the next few years.
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
Not actually true. The first year the Famine Relief provided by the British Government was better than anything anywhere else in Europe, (which was also affected). The second and third years the pressure on the Treasury was such that Westmi
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Frank Borman, Commander Apollo 8, RIP(latimes.com)
2 points by Wildgoose 3y ago|0 comments
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
https://archive.ph/crQJO
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
I am absolutely understood understand the situation as a former vice-chairman of the Campaign for an English Parliament. And describing a national law-making Parliament such as Holyrood as a "regional assembly" shows that your pr
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
I remember on 9/11 that Slashdot was one of the few sites that stayed up available to deliver commentary and speculation. That was impressive for the time.
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
Apparently human grandmasters remember around 50,000 board positions and play moves that manipulate the current board position to a more favourable one. They don't see moves in the same fashion that a beginner does. It seems like the
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
No, that's thanks to unbalanced Devolution which grants Parliaments and self-government to everyone except the English who are still (over-)ruled by the Union Parliament in Westminster.
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Chinese Scientists Create Alternative to Concrete(scmp.com)
3 points by Wildgoose 3y ago|0 comments
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
It's a shame that nobody seems to have understood the comparison you were making. You can directly compare the value of investing money in education and the stock market. If you had $80,000 to invest at 18 you often would be better si
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
On the contrary, it was Bismark's successor who wrecked the private non-aggression deal between Russia and Germany by initially agreeing to its continuation and then suddenly pulling out. Bismark succeeded in diplomatically isolating
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
Which looks like an auto-correct issue - I regularly curse when a correctly spelled word (perhaps including partial capitalisation) is "helpfully" corrected to a valid word that is meaningless nonsense.
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
Re Agincourt. The ground was so muddy that the French armoured knights had to walk their horses rather than charge. That's not the same as fighting on foot - or at least, not until your mount has been killed beneath you by English an
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
It is. I remember when we had a power cut and when I went outside I could see that only a single phase had been lost - every third house had gone dark, the rest remaining lit. I reported it and it was sorted pretty quickly.
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Chess Rivals Settle Cheating Dispute(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by Wildgoose 3y ago|0 comments
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
I've read it and I recommend it. I recommend you simply make an alphabetic list of various Emacs commands. You will see the correspondence between many of the commands depending on the modifier (Ctrl, Alt, Ctrl-Alt, etc.) that is used.
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
The e-ink screen on my Hybrid HR has faded/burnt-in as well, so the contrast is not as good as when it was new. I have had it almost three years though and I can still read it unless the ambient light is too dim. I find it useful to qu
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
Another aspect to be aware of is that English is often much shorter than the equivalent translated text, especially on buttons with text labels. I remember many years ago we used a rough rule of thumb of always doubling the space used for
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
Yes, but surely you would do that first ?
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
We had something similar in London recently. A pub band was covering Green Day when Billy Jo walked in to the pub and decided to to go up on stage and sing his own song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhmrRqaM1s0
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
What an incredibly productive way of idling away your time. Wonderful!
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
This tweet talks about the "Eurozone", (those countries sharing the Euro), rather than those countries belonging to the EU. Furthermore, any EU figures will have been badly skewed by the UK having left the EU since 2008. Comparis
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
It's actually even worse than this - in the case of Water, the original water companies were built by local government providing clean water to their own residents and paid for by long-term loans. First, the Labour Party nationalised
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
The marbles that were bought, preventing them from being ground up to be made into cement - which was happening. Yes, the "cleaning" was stupid. People didn't realise they were meant to be painted.
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
I have a globe. But even that doesn't show the true distortion, which is that the Earth is wrinkled. For example, Korea is mountainous and so its actual surface area is much greater than its apparent surface area when looking at eith
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
It sounds to me that pg had realised there wasn't a future in their web-based email, but thought they had good programming chops and would be able to produce something useful.
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
20% of workers are now paying the 40% Income Tax Rate (with around 10% Employee National Insurance tax on top of that). It's not atypical if it's a fifth of workers.
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
To be fair, Czechoslovakia was part of the Warsaw Pact. The USSR withdrew from Austria in return for Austria becoming a neutral country. I presume the commenter is suggesting that the same approach would have worked for Germany.
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
Application dependent. Usually Microsoft Swiftkey, but Hacker's Keyboard when I am programming (or similar).
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
One of my friends wanted to make Lemon Rice as good as his mother's. He always followed the recipe religiously, but it never tasted the same. Eventually, he insisted on watching his mother make the dish. Only for her to use limes. &q

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