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by desas 3y ago
Tidal energy is expensive - sea water is very corrosive and under water maintenance access isn't cheaply solved. Also you need to retain access for ships and subs. The UK has the second highest tidal ranges in the world and is probably
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by desas 3y ago
Is this an argument made in good faith? The commentator said reduce meat consumption and that most people ate too much. They didn't say "ban it for everyone, let the autoimmune suffer"
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by desas 3y ago
They have, Eventbrite is in the same ballpark for example. How come they don't succeed is the question.
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by desas 3y ago
The two US corps both want to do business in the UK. If the two US corps don't want to do business in the UK, they can feel free to ignore the UK authorities.
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by desas 4y ago
Modifications you distribute have to be given back. You don't have to distribute the modifications though.
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by desas 4y ago
I can guess a few reasons: * Cars tend to be bigger i.e. more dangerous in the US * Drink driving seems to be more acceptable in the USA. * The driving test in the UK is much tougher than even the toughest us state * Most of the US don&#x27
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by desas 4y ago
Maybe people are voting with their feet for constitutional protections. Maybe it's because the USA is significantly richer and pays more, there's likely to be a whole range of reasons. I work with several US nationals who have rel
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by desas 4y ago
Just to clarify, health insurance is a benefit-in-kind in the UK which means you legally pay tax on it at your marginal tax rate. If you earn over about £50k you have to pay 40% of the value of the health insurance etc.
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by desas 4y ago
You say he built a cabin but it was basically a shed. One room, one floor. No insulation against noise or heat loss, no electricity, no running water, no toilet. Our standard of living had massively increased since Thoreagh's shed, in
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by desas 4y ago
The communities are moving to London. Hundreds of thousands of (primarily young) people have been moving into London each year from other UK regions for decades. It's mainly balanced by migration out of London due to house prices and i
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by desas 4y ago
> My understanding too is that energy intensive manufacturing, like that of aluminum, often take place in regions of the world where energy is cheap: as an example the hydroelectric power along the Columbia River in the U.S. North West.
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by desas 4y ago
Life + 70 years for people, Publication date +70 years for non-people.
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by desas 4y ago
It's not. The copyright year shows when the content was first published (if a range, then when it was last modified). If the year is dynamic, then it's untrustworthy. If I'm reading some content in the year 4023 that says (C)
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by desas 4y ago
There's a partial ban that covers some of the most sensitive areas, probably 90+% of the grouse moor burning that happened before, still happens. You can see reports at https://twitter.com/wildmoorsuk . I agree with you
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by desas 4y ago
The grouse moor is basically a grouse farm. The moor is periodically burned to promote the right kinds of growth, 100s of grouse are released and nature like birds of prey somehow end up with a shorter lifespan.
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by desas 4y ago
Copied and pasted directly from the link I gave: Deliveroo customers will see Klarna as an additional payment option when they arrive at check-out, where they’ll be able to choose one of three payment options: Pay Now, to pay the full
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by desas 4y ago
> First, c'mon, people don't (directly) finance sandwiches. Have you ever seen a sandwich shop accept Klarna? If you're talking about a credit card that's something but that's not what this article is talking abo
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by desas 4y ago
My house was built in England last year and already came with two separate fibre gigabit internet lines, one grainconnect and another BT. I think there are two separate ducts running throughout the entire development. I'd imagine this
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by desas 4y ago
I joined a company that provided Pluralsight to technical staff, policy was that all technical staff had to complete some mandatory courses on there. Pluralsight used two Account Managers to put on a live webinar for myself and another lead
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by desas 4y ago
In Britain we've had something similar to this California legislation for at least fifty years. Roughly speaking there's a sliding scale from non-custodial sentence to 4+ years in custody which governs how long you have to disclos
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by desas 4y ago
Dinorwig isn't profitable due to energy arbitrage, at least not within 4 decades of construction. It does also get paid for maintaining a permanent on-call capacity for urgent frequency regulation though. Maybe recent energy price incr
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by desas 4y ago
There's a difference between the running mate - the defacto deputy taking over in a foreseeable move and the nth choice person taking over after the two previous incumbents have been forced out.
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by desas 4y ago
> I’d also like to see them switch to git for the plugin repos. Could you explain this idea some more? It doesn't seem related to your first suggestion. Some people just use the svn plugin repos as a release system, the actual devel
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by desas 4y ago
The police are just people. They employ some bad drivers, just like they employ some bad people.
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by desas 4y ago
Legally speaking they're not cyclists though.
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by desas 4y ago
> Leading to the ever popular driving across a crosswalk (I'm not so sure who's at fault if I were to hit a bicyclist on a crosswalk, and I'd rather not find out). It's you. If someone had left a dumpster in the cross
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by desas 4y ago
It's literally the guidance that every police force in the UK work to, you need to leave a space of 1.5 metres between your car and the cyclist when overtaking at 30mph. It might be that our road lanes are narrower than yours of course
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by desas 4y ago
You're falling into the exact same trope that the person you're replying to is admonishing. Motorists running red lights, speeding up for amber lights, exceeding the speed limits, tailgating, dangerously overtaking and so on, is a
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by desas 4y ago
I wonder if it differs across Europe. In the UK at least, you are very right. Debit cards run via the visa and mastercard networks and every store that accepts debit cards also accept credit cards.
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by desas 4y ago
Then your society has bigger problems than how purchases are carried out.

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