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by detritus 5y ago
I always wanted to go on a kibbutz but have never even managed to visit Israel. One day, perhaps. I ended up spending a decade living in a warehouse community, wherein ours had 20+ people downstairs, 15+ people upstairs and a number of simi
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by detritus 6y ago
Yes, I read that line, the third suggestion after leadership woes and a lack of local resources, and one that points at European protectionism generally. Elsewhere in the article in mentions that Egypt herself didn't have an entirely u
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by detritus 6y ago
Curious about your Britain-bashing last line, I had a quick gander. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/whp-origins/era-6-the... Seems to suggest that Britain may well have meddled in Egypt's industrialisa
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by detritus 6y ago
Good point, I hadn't considered that. But the example here seems to be literally a spreadsheet's worth of content, in a database format. At least ignore the code and allow importation of the content? Anyway, I don't much care
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by detritus 6y ago
What about grass-fed beef like we have more of here in Europe?
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by detritus 6y ago
I'm not sure I implied that, and I've been a PC since '97. This just seemed like a particularly pointless restriction. It's database. How hard can it be to support and convert?
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by detritus 6y ago
> Modern versions of Access refuse to open databases that were created with old versions, so I dusted off an old copy of Office 97. Goodness gracious, Microsoft - why?
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by detritus 6y ago
> Neutron stars OTOH are arguably the most complex objects in the Universe. In OUR universe, at least. If a black hole ends in a white hole, Gosh only knows how complex things will end up at the other end. Witness, for example, our entir
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by detritus 6y ago
<cranky>Perhaps in the olden days when various releases were somewhat fundamental in nature - not sure it's quite so impressive when we've had 3 'major' releases this year already</cranky> Not that I muc
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by detritus 6y ago
Conversely, two of the richest and most successful friends I have have been chronic weed smokers for over twenty years. I've seen people go off the deep end with weed, but I can always discern patterns of behaviour that would lead to t
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by detritus 6y ago
Cigarettes are specifically designed to get you hooked, whereas pot isn't.
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by detritus 6y ago
I want to love this, but the interface is too opaque. How on GoogleEarth do I get back the timeline option that I've somehow closed? I'm probably being an idiot, but I'm not a total idiot, and it's not at all clear to me
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by detritus 6y ago
The only difference being that we can understand the impact we're having. And yet...
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by detritus 6y ago
The AZ doses that the EU did not receive were from plants based in the EU run by European companies fulfilling AZ production. The UK government even invested £55m over a year ago in one such EU-based plant to bring its capacity up after the
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by detritus 6y ago
The UK has a vaccine export ban in place? "Let me be clear: we have not blocked the export of a single covid-19 vaccine or vaccine components." - Boris Johnson https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2021-03-10&
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by detritus 6y ago
It's the presumably extremely expensive watch front and centre that particularly irritates me. I don't get that shit.
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by detritus 6y ago
Terrible. Barely adolescent. I've never much liked Wix for all of the obvious reasons, but I now have an absolute anchor in my head to discourage anyone I talk to who might ask me if Wix is a worthwhile option.
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by detritus 6y ago
There's a link down the article to an even more gut-gnawingly huge fishing vessel, the Russian-flagged 'LaFayette'. It's longer and has only a slightly smaller displacement than the UK's new Queen Elizabeth-class ai
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by detritus 6y ago
Thank you so much for your comment! It made me dig into the article a bit and appreciate that this could be really handy for me. I do a lot of conversion of bitmap designs in Illustrator and this two-path problem is frequently something I a
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by detritus 6y ago
I'm in your camp, but still have paid-for copies of the Affinity Suite because despite once been a total PS and AI - and by extension Adobe itself - fanboy and having used them since the mid-nineties, I now absolutely loathe Adobe and
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by detritus 6y ago
I'm sure you already know, but Google Earth's actually had a really basic 'flight simulator' built in for a while now: https://support.google.com/earth/answer/148089?hl=en In gaming or technica
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by detritus 6y ago
Illiterality gets me nowhere.
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by detritus 6y ago
Yeah, I'm sure I read a year or two back that Cats have an odd sense of direction in which they don't 'join up' different paths - say, that from out of the front of a building, to that out of the back. Rings true with a
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by detritus 6y ago
I think OP was being quite dry with those two last lines. At least, that's what I upvoted them for.
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by detritus 6y ago
I don't think I'd ever considered prior to now how much more economic it would be to release "The one nuclear bomb [TerroristOrganisation] can afford to muster" in a shipping choke-point, rather than a city. So, another
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by detritus 6y ago
Here in Britain at least, having 'the flu' is basically having a particularly miserable cold - rather than a bout of influenza which fills the lungs with fluids and decimates armies.
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by detritus 6y ago
A cursory Google search implies that the EU did indeed invest quite a lot of money on the AZ vaccine roll out, mid-August, after it had already entered trials which had been part-funded by the UK government months earlier. The EU investment
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by detritus 6y ago
Ah, thanks, I didn't know! *Googles
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by detritus 6y ago
You may well be correct, technically (I'll admit, I've not got a clue) but it seems that late May was essentially when an agreement in all but the finalised signing was made, with the UK government investing £65M in the Oxford&#x2
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by detritus 6y ago
From a very brief Google, it looks like there was a near three month difference: UK, May 2020: https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/business/astrazeneca-... EU, August 2020: https://ec.europa.eu/commi

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