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by detritus 5y ago
I used to cross this at least twice a day going to and from school. One time as a teenager a friend and I were fart-arsing around very (very) slowly until a stern warning came over the tannoy and we looked Eastward to see a plane coming int
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by detritus 5y ago
> From its southern point, at Punta de Europa and O’Hara’s Battery, the view across the Strait to Africa is like nothing else in the world. It's not 'Punta de Europa', It's just 'Europa Point'. I've no
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by detritus 5y ago
Same here - I HAD to move over to Fastmail because like GP I'd respond to email enquiries from GMail addresses and then never hear back. After weeks of this, someone finally phoned up to complain about my poor customer service. This de
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by detritus 5y ago
> I base the Muji prediction on their hopeless online presence Isn't that "A Thing" with Japanese companies? :) Well, as long as their retail stores don't all disappear, I'm ok - I don't much like shopping f
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> But adoption of the metric system has stalled so clearly in the short term there are various competing forces Presumably this is from an American perspective? Even here in Ye Olde Englande we mostly defer to metric, even if there are s
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by detritus 5y ago
We already have oodles of those - you can see them off major motorway arteries and intersections. I think this is more about last-mile fulfillment.
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by detritus 5y ago
This is what Sainsbury's appear to be doing - consolidating some of their Argos branches with larger Sainsburys stores and added general fulfillment centres. Not sure if this is across the country, but it was interesting to see the app
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by detritus 5y ago
Why do you think we'll lose Muji? Presumably you've tried UniQlo too?
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by detritus 5y ago
Without even reading the article - "Good!". "Now increase the size of the fund".
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by detritus 5y ago
That's interesting - I thought that fat was the trickier element to replicate, which is a more important dimension in pork and beef. Now then, the interesting question for an Israeli-company - would producing and then consuming synthet
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by detritus 5y ago
Yup, and they live for about two months with a level of cognizance and culture that I can just about live with having killed on my behalf. Such things are horrors to our eyes, because we know better. They don't. Not saying it's ri
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by detritus 5y ago
I know we've got to start somewhere and I'm all for this direction, but wake me up when we're making synthetic meat products based on beef or pork cell lines. Chicken's the one meat I don't feel too guilty about eat
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by detritus 5y ago
I find this hard to believe, given how protective Italian regions are over their fayre. Do you have a source for this?
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by detritus 5y ago
I think they meant 'du jour', which makes it a bit easier to parse.
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by detritus 5y ago
Brings to mind Stanislaw Lem's concept of Linguistic Futurology in The Futurological Congress.
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by detritus 5y ago
- ed Sorry, I realise you were riffing that phrase, more cleverly than I appreciated! </ed> I had to Google that as I'm not Roman and my last latin lesson was as a 9 year old many decades ago, but having Googled, should that
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by detritus 5y ago
Don't Russia play this game themselves with Bears (as in Tupolov, not hairy) flying close to [insert relevant territory, e.g Scotland] fairly frequently?
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by detritus 5y ago
I realised and edited just as you, correctly, chided me :) </reddit>
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by detritus 5y ago
Not to be That Guy (again), but it would be helpful if headlines like these could distinguish between 'electricity usage' and 'total energy consumption', because the non-electricity slice of the overall energy pie tends
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by detritus 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification. But - n=1? Seems like this context disacknowledges improvement of infrastructure.
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by detritus 5y ago
> Public transport is less accessible to people who can drive and walk very short distances. Perhaps I'm just stupid, but I can't parse the intent behind this response - what do you mean, exactly?
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by detritus 5y ago
Perhaps, i more meant just plugging into a computer and dragging over files using the OS's file manager.
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by detritus 5y ago
It might seem stupid and petty, but this was my single biggest gripe with the year I spent on an iPhone which led to my going back to Android after that phone (like all the others in my life) expired. The web browser is my single-most used
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by detritus 5y ago
I was part of a company years back called "the psyche deli", which a partner came up with and we all thought terribly clever, especially given what it did. That is until we had to explain email addresses over the phone. My forenam
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by detritus 5y ago
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by detritus 5y ago
O/T > There is Russian proverb that aptly describes such behavior: "назло маме отморожу уши" (cut off your nose to spite your face). Curious to finally learn its origin, I had a Google - particularly as the phrase popped i
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by detritus 5y ago
How is this an improvement over a myriad of confusing and recursively-named nested folders with repeated copies of existing content in ever-growing names like "final_final-FINAL-05-CLIENTEXPORT"?
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by detritus 5y ago
I actually copied 'Gil O’Tyne' to Google it, then as soon as I pasted it in the search box, realised what a fool I'd been. . And yes, I appreciate that I could have just right-clicked the selection to Google it direct, but my
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by detritus 5y ago
BO has completed 15 test flights over 6 years of a platform that bears little comparison with SpaceX's achievements. Each BO test I've watched has been very well presented and seemingly marketed - it's just that at this point
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by detritus 5y ago
You can output this as an SVG - just click 'Customise' and find the relevant option to do so. This just takes data from OpenStreetMap, which itself allows for exportation of SVG data - but everythng available, not just roads.

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