arethuza

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by arethuza 3mo ago
I'm pretty sure that if the Argentinians hasn't invaded they would probably have the Falklands by now. As it is it I would think that it would be political suicide for any UK government to even contemplate any kind of deal.
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by arethuza 3mo ago
The Forth Road Bridge stopped having tolls in 2008 and was effectively replaced more recently by a new bridge, the Queensferry Crossing, that has never had tolls.
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by arethuza 3mo ago
"Cometh the hour, cometh the bin".
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by arethuza 3mo ago
The decision to not go with the development of extremely large thermonuclear weapons might count - the US Sundial Project was supposed to be about 10 gigatons of TNT. Not the most practical weapons but once you get to a certain size deliver
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by arethuza 3mo ago
The steering wheel on my Scala has 8 buttons, two knobs (which can be clicked), 2 flappy paddles and 3 stalks...
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by arethuza 3mo ago
Yeah I once saw a system designed about 2000 or so that pulled messages from an MQ queue and updated a database all within a single transaction managed by COM+. To be honest the distributed transaction side of it seemed more bother than it
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by arethuza 4mo ago
I think that is changing though: https://www.business.gov.uk/campaign/employment-changes/
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by arethuza 4mo ago
There are about 17,000 heat networks in the UK: https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/business/consultancy-and-st... Only about 2% of the total heating used though...
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by arethuza 4mo ago
Different legal systems have options for groups organizing to do a join litigation e.g. England and Wales have Group Litigation Orders. I'm not a lawyer and not in England or Wales! ;-)
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by arethuza 4mo ago
That sounds a bit like the UK concept of a Company Limited by Guarantee - which is used by a lot of charities. Edit: I'm not a lawyer either!
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by arethuza 4mo ago
If you buy and off the shelf company then you don't need any of that - they supply a pile of stuff (e.g. articles of association) and you don't need a solicitor to be involved. Edit: And these days you don't even need two p
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by arethuza 4mo ago
When I co-founded a company in the UK in 1995 there were two £1 shares - one for each founder. Mind you it was an off the shelf company - but the process couldn't really be much simpler back then - and its probably a lot simpler now.
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by arethuza 4mo ago
Did you mean the 1956 Suez Crisis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis
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by arethuza 4mo ago
UK debt to GDP ratio is quite a bit less than that of the US?
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by arethuza 4mo ago
A lot of social housing in the UK (about 45%) isn't owned by councils so can't really be sold off by the state?
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by arethuza 4mo ago
A rough calculation: £8,580 funding per child at state school, ~90,000 less in private schools and in state schools so about £770 million more required for state school funding and this measure is supposed to bring in about £1.7 billion a y
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by arethuza 4mo ago
Senior leaders in large companies I've worked at always had a fairly high turnover just because they all tend to be hyper competitive and engaged in their own Game of Thrones type competitions - which someone has to lose.
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by arethuza 4mo ago
Reminds me of the scene from Devs: "The box contains us, the box contains everything and inside the box there's another box"
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by arethuza 4mo ago
"Even though the house is really old" Apart from a brief spell when I was very young and my family lived in a 1950s council house I've never lived in a building as new as that... and I'm 60 and have lived in 11 different
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by arethuza 4mo ago
Is that to restart the call to the same person or a case id that gives details of your request and that could be passed to anyone?
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by arethuza 4mo ago
Yes, was just relating my experience - it's just go the the point where I personally opt to play safe. Like everyone I do get calls from people who aren't in my contact list but it was getting silly so I've defaulted to ignor
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by arethuza 4mo ago
Just looking at my incoming call list on my phone for yesterday: "Suspected Spam", "Suspected Spam", "Suspected Spam", "Potential Fraud", "Suspected Spam", "Suspected Spam", a real
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by arethuza 4mo ago
"It’s just a network of individuals selling products, promoting each other’s products, and creating new avenues to sell more products" That's hardly unique to the self-help world - doesn't a lot of tech also fall into th
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by arethuza 4mo ago
I'm pretty sure I watched this when it was broadcast - when I was 12. It was fairly clear to me at the time it wasn't a real documentary.
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by arethuza 4mo ago
Probably sublime... who knows!
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by arethuza 4mo ago
I can see why you might think that - but people and machines and groups are free to leave if they want - at least one of the Culture stories is based on this: e.g. "A Gift from the Culture".
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by arethuza 4mo ago
I now have visions of an Apple Extended Extended Keyboard that comes with a crank...
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by arethuza 4mo ago
I don't think it's just a matter of ethics - some legal entity owns these mountains (park authority of some kind?) and drilling holes and placing bolts done without the permission of the owner sounds like vandalism to me.
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by arethuza 4mo ago
And I think even before 1950 there was a feeling, particularly in the US, that it was good to have the Germans on-side in a military conflict due to their recent experience fighting the Soviets.
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by arethuza 4mo ago
The long term viability of the UK nukes does rather depend on support from the US though - they use our own fissile material, but the warhead designs are believed to largely be based on the US W76 and the actual Trident missiles come from a

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