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by frobozz 7y ago
Sorry, I evidently skipped that paragraph. I only saw the bit where the cheese burial was mentioned.
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by frobozz 7y ago
It doesn't say that the cheese was lost. It says that it was buried in a time of crisis. It is a comment on the practice of "burying goods with the intention of recovery", which is part of the definition of treasure.
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by frobozz 7y ago
Northern Ireland? Or Northeast England?
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by frobozz 7y ago
> However, without archivists actively transforming content to new formats as required, it might only take a few decades before a lot of content starts to require a massive effort to read.
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by frobozz 7y ago
What is the likelihood that historians a century or two hence will have an application capable of turning an ISO 32000-1 file into a human-readable text? If we are talking about archaeologists, rather than historians, even ASCII and Unicode
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by frobozz 7y ago
> thus making it more likely the book will survive via an SSD than a physical book Yes. That's what I mean by LOCKSS being easier. > is found and is understood by an archaeologist, There is a problem with merging these two prob
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by frobozz 7y ago
> I do wonder wither digital or analogue formats are better able to survive into the distant future. There are 5000 year old clay tablets we can still read. There are centuries old documents on paper, vellum etc. that we can still read.
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by frobozz 7y ago
That's what the 'A' in APR means. It's pretty clear. If I take out a £100000 loan with an APR of 2% and pay it back in full at the end of the first year, then the total amount I pay back is £102000. Apart from any earl
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by frobozz 7y ago
"uber for storage"
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by frobozz 7y ago
We must not forget that this poison has been published by current government front benchers. Worst idlers in the world.
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by frobozz 7y ago
If you need to either own or rent 12 shares of a tech company so you have somewhere to sleep, and if the value of each tech company stock rises and falls roughly in line with that of other tech companies in the region, then the comparison i
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by frobozz 7y ago
Where I live, 100% LTV mortgages are not common, and prices have been rising for years. Someone who took out a 100% LTV mortgage ten years ago and only paid the interest would now own about 30% of the equity.
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by frobozz 7y ago
Only if you want to downshift to an even lower value area (or smaller place in the same area), or if the higher value properties maintain their value better than yours. If you were trying to move from a 150K place to a 200K place, you are n
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by frobozz 7y ago
Sort of. These things all have limits. People with negative equity cannot easily sell up. People close to negative equity will have a bit of a hard time. Say I owe $400K on a $1M home, and I want a $1.5M home. I sell my home to make a 60
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by frobozz 7y ago
> find enough voters that would take a X% haircut Or enact laws that don't have a negative effect on most voters - e.g. block non-resident ownership like in NZ and give owner-occupiers the same tax breaks as landlords. I would gladl
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by frobozz 7y ago
Capitalism at its core is to sacrifice everyone's humanity to maximise a few people's profits. It means prioritising treatments that manage conditions over ones that cure or prevent them. It means prioritising drugs to fix the pro
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by frobozz 7y ago
There is an E in Wales.
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by frobozz 7y ago
> Relatives often shoot themselves in the foot though ... because they didn't want to look after them themselves. Or because it is too difficult to do so. People are having children later in life and moving to different cities. Hou
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by frobozz 7y ago
People being convinced by reasoned argument, and perhaps by skilled oratory is how the political process works. People being convinced by outright lies is not how democracy works. If one side can gain the advantage by telling people that th
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by frobozz 7y ago
This is like when people say that all racists voted to leave, and someone pipes up with "I voted to leave and I'm not racist, that's really insulting". You are confusing the direction of if and then. The referendum was
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by frobozz 7y ago
> I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and
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by frobozz 7y ago
Then that's not playing politics and throwing people under a bus, that's standing up for values.
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by frobozz 7y ago
There may be more nuance, but as long as at least 650000 people were hoodwinked by that, or by the threat of their children being conscripted into the EU army or by the fear of Turkey joining imminently; or lured by the bogus newfound oppor
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by frobozz 7y ago
There, at the top of "Other Expenditures", Slightly smaller than running the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales. That is what's governing the entire political agenda right now. That's the amount of money stuck on
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by frobozz 7y ago
> Shape shoe heels with a knife, and sand them on a buffing wheel for smoothness. > Adjust felt hammers on pianos to increase tonal mellowness or brilliance, using sanding paddles, lacquer, or needles. > Review filed tax returns to
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by frobozz 7y ago
In my experience, the message passing architecture of the NHS system almost exclusively uses Paper.
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by frobozz 7y ago
Two reasons: One is as others have said. Election now would make a no-deal crashout more likely. The other is that it was also deliberately timed to reduce participation in a largely non-tory demographic. https://www.thetimes.co.
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by frobozz 7y ago
He put in his notice that he would finish no later than Oct 31.
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by frobozz 7y ago
The "Good Guys" are fighting the "Bad Guys" because the "Bad Guys" do "Bad Guy Stuff". It is taken as normal that the "Bad Guys" are "Bad". When they do "Bad Guy Stuff",
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by frobozz 7y ago
Biscuits are basic, but chocolate biscuits are luxury. Chocolate cakes are basic. Cake is a made up drug.

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