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by frobozz 7y ago
It isn't about size, it's about the nature of the foodstuff. A biscuit is basic. A chocolate biscuit is luxury. Cake is basic Meals you cook at home are basic Meals someone cooks for you (e.g. restaurant or takeaway) is luxury. (a
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by frobozz 7y ago
The no-pockets version is French Billiards
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You're right. I can't work out what I misread to get that statement. It's not as if I could have just misplaced a multiple of 10. It's just wrong.
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by frobozz 7y ago
Krakow is the second or third most populous city in Poland. However, the population of the whole metropolitan area is ca 1.3 Million. [1] or 1.7 Million [2] At the larger estimate, that's about as big as Oxford or Slough, smaller than
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by frobozz 7y ago
No single thing that a single individual does will have much of an effect on climate change. The point is that a lot of people have to do a combination of things. The article states that: > First, he points out that calculations, for the
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by frobozz 7y ago
Python has doctest, which can be run on its own or integrated with documentation generators (e.g. Sphinx) and testing libraries (e.g. pytest)
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by frobozz 7y ago
Openseamap shows two sperrgebiete in the bay, and one just outside it http://map.openseamap.org/?lang=de
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> No boats - not even local fishing boats - are allowed into the area, called Eckernförde Bay, about 70km (44 miles) south of the Danish border. Do they mean this Eckernförde Bay? https://www.google.com/maps/@54.4733
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Because we haven't already done so.
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> That is actually what taxation-based solutions do. They make travel cost more, so fewer people do it. Which is fine, but it punishes us for travelling rather than encouraging us not to. Those with significant disposable income who migh
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Friendly for certain kinds of businesses and practices - those that make short-term high gains for investors through rent-seeking and asset-stripping before shutting down or selling off to the next mug before it all goes down the pan. Not f
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by frobozz 7y ago
Maybe we should have a referendum on it, then we can just go ahead with it regardless of how much it will cost and how little benefit it might provide.
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by frobozz 7y ago
I can't picture a single scenario in which "doesn't crash" is the sole criterion by which code is evaluated as "working"
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How does one operate a touch screen when wearing anti-flash gear?
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by frobozz 7y ago
My local Aldi normally has a box of boxes in most aisles. My local Tesco has it (unhelpfully, considering how many tills there are) near the exit. I suspect that part of it is that many of the boxes are now trays designed for shelf display
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by frobozz 7y ago
Many things are delivered to the supermarkets in cardboard boxes. Many supermarkets leave those boxes in a box or cage near the tills.
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by frobozz 7y ago
Which I read as "happiness is not correlated to success when you control for most of the factors that influence happiness in the workplace"
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by frobozz 7y ago
I'd be surprised if any single factor directly and unambiguously influences success. You could hire a bunch of jolly simpletons, have the happiest company in the world, and go bust before the year is out. You could make it perfectly cl
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by frobozz 7y ago
Academic papers in computing don't tend to be written with lay practitioners in mind. If I want to try out a technique in a business setting, I ideally want at least one of: * A library or application I can run * A code sample I can co
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by frobozz 7y ago
Ursine genes and woodland defecation also seem to correlate.
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by frobozz 7y ago
My real name is not uncommon. Many years ago, I decided to use it for professional posts on the web in order to build an online presence. There were no significant search results for my name at the time. Shortly after that, two people (an
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by frobozz 7y ago
The John Wayne quote is a slightly different thing. I don't think its particularly controversial to suggest that stupidity should not be rewarded as well as the absence of that stupidity (calling it punishment may turn some people off,
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by frobozz 7y ago
Siblings born years apart can turn out to be similar to one another as adults, both in appearance and temperament, despite the fact that the parents have changed and learned in that time, and they grow up with a different peer group. Someon
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by frobozz 7y ago
I like that you use the word albeit in that comment. It's one of the words where the pronunciation rules go awry. No one is denying that English has rules mapping spelling to pronunciation for the lion's share of text. It's
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by frobozz 7y ago
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10426/theresa_may/maidenhe... Some excerpts on the PM's voting record on environmental issues: > Generally voted against measures to prevent climate change > Gener
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The government cannot make long-term plans to spend the income received from arbitrary donations like this. Charities handle it by encouraging people to make regular donations and by conducting campaigns to raise money for specific purposes
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by frobozz 7y ago
Good public transport exists where people live, as well as in the priciest parts of the city. A suburban office, or one in a medium-sized town would be walkable for a large portion of your staff.
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The larynx allows us to firmly shut off our airway (far better than lips alone) in both directions (unlike the epiglottis that just prevents inhalation). By firmly shutting off our airway, we can stiffen our bodies to facilitate lifting. Th
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by frobozz 7y ago
Part of the problem with the free college issue is that the extra time spent in full-time education is not free. It's another 3 or more years of not earning a proper full time wage. It's also (in my country) a time when you are
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You can probably work in some kind of FTE exemption. It would need careful writing, otherwise it might introduce more precarity by encouraging employers not to offer full time contracts.

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