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by clort 4y ago
Is "life without parole" in the USA actually a whole life until death sentence? Here in the UK I don't think it is, though I do think it would be preferable to have a name mean what it says. (ie if you want to give 20 years t
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by clort 4y ago
Yes, effectively the North Sea, the Irish Sea and the English Channel. I don't know where the fulcrum would be exactly but they are all shallow.
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by clort 4y ago
The sea level rise is not simply because of the addition of glacial meltwater but is apparently because the weight of the glaciers in the north pressed down on the land (which is essentially floating on magma underneath), tilting it towards
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by clort 4y ago
I see a selection bias in your comments there. There may be numbers of people who manage to achieve it but you can't strictly say if it was difficult or not unless you compare the number of people who tried and failed. You can't s
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by clort 4y ago
No they do not cease to be a refugee when crossing a border, or many. That is simply a dismissive and disingenuous talking point pushed by the outrage media. They cease to be refugees when they have settled somewhere or voluntarily returned
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by clort 4y ago
I would like to see Germany step up and shut down that gas pipeline. Today It might be hard, but they will have time to sort something out before winter comes. Appeasing Putin in the short term while hoping that it will be resolved before t
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by clort 4y ago
Well yeah, but a hut could have something a bit more robust, with a larger battery bank. This is optimised for weight, which a fixed installation does not need to be.
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by clort 4y ago
My sister lives about 100m from such a church tower (which has 5 300yr old bells). Its not really as intrusive as one might imagine..
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by clort 4y ago
Ooh, his "earnings" See, in 2010 he was worth $12.6 billion. In 2011 it was $18.1 billion. Then in 2012 went up to $23.2 billion. These figures apparently come from Forbes, who calculate this stuff.. see https://www.the
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by clort 4y ago
You'd better believe he would certainly cash every cheque that comes his way. He once claimed $4000 tax credit for his children even when he wasn't entitled to, see https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-claime
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by clort 4y ago
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. -- Anatole France (The Red Lily, 1894)
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by clort 4y ago
Double-clicking the title bar of a window toggles between sized-window and full-size-window mode
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by clort 4y ago
Well of course, GP said 'positions of power' rather than 'politician'. Controversially, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Lebedev has been ennobled and is now qualified to sit in the House of Lor
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by clort 5y ago
I remember reading about an experiment where they gave somebody a belt which would vibrate at the north side and the subjects became very spatially aware would never get lost. Even when they were taken at night, blindfolded and driven aroun
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by clort 5y ago
Re data privacy, as of last summer in the UK we had to opt out of data sharing of our NHS records with third parties. I am conflicted about this because as you suggested, large amounts of data could be beneficial for things like statistical
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by clort 5y ago
I never suggested any such thing
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by clort 5y ago
So anyway as I understand it we have a pretty technical readership here on HN. Technically, the virus is called SARS-CoV-2 and the disease is called COVID-19[1]. That does mean, technically, that due to vaccination the virus can indeed circ
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by clort 5y ago
Actually, it does mention in the article (referring to UK law, and the man is based in the UK) that the prosecutors want to see evidence of interactive phone use. That means that 'glancing at your phone every once in a while' is l
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by clort 5y ago
Alas the first part "even if I knew" when you know that you do know, is not truthful..
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by clort 5y ago
There was I think a nightingale hanging around in a copse near me for a couple of weeks last autumn. It was so amazingly clear and liquid at 3am I didn't even mind being woken up.
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by clort 5y ago
s/friend/ex-friend/g
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by clort 5y ago
This technology is not great on a windy[1] european road though. I rented a car recently and noticed that it was auto-dipping but the problem is it dips once it has detected the oncoming vehicle. That is fractionally too late as the driver
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by clort 5y ago
WD-40 is pretty good stuff but I understand it is not permitted on eg Lloyds insured ships. The problem being that it is a very good solvent for oil products but it itself is reasonably volatile and once it dissolved the oil coating on stee
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by clort 5y ago
It sounds good but I find this framing uncomfortable because tax is not a penalty. Overweight people pay a penalty in a significant decrease in their quality of life, yes. That is not a tax though - tax is a contribution to society, and a d
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by clort 5y ago
as another Brit, I wondered if it is the case that "we pay for medical training for people", so I looked it up https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/career-planning/study-and-t... and it seems that basically you c
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by clort 5y ago
To be clear, everybody who had the opportunity back in the day "installed software" on computers in public stores: 10 PRINT "Hello" 20 GOTO 10
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by clort 5y ago
Might be better to have a smaller barge (or a bunch of them) which would load up at the tanker and transit over to the satellite with just enough fuel that was ordered? No need to waste energy moving the whole tanker..
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by clort 5y ago
I was at a country cafe in the UK where there were plenty of wasps nearby. They had some 'fake nests' hanging up, as apparently wasps will swarm and kill intruders, so they also don't go near nests that they know are not thei
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by clort 5y ago
plenty of text results (including wikipedia as top link) but no images
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by clort 5y ago
Incredibly the image at the top of the article is a low-quality drawing of the poster itself in a picture frame. I thought it was just a cartoonish outline of the concept but its almost as detailed as the original..

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