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by hanoz 6y ago
I'm sure they would have warmed up a bit if they'd realised you were Canadian. They probably assumed you were English, or, worse still, from a different part of Wales.
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by hanoz 6y ago
Does anyone remember what the "You Have Been Warned" sign was all about? The full text of the warning itself must have been an impressive sight, if that was just the reminder.
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by hanoz 6y ago
I haven't seen so much barely visible grey text since the last Hacker News thread discussing current affairs.
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by hanoz 6y ago
Ut ameris, amabilis esto.
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by hanoz 6y ago
Is that the Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz defense? It doesn't make it right, does it?
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by hanoz 6y ago
You will if you take up citizenship in a country which doesn't allow dual nationality, or, more commonly, you will if you're an EU resident who doesn't have EU citizenship. It's a bad enough rule to apply to individuals,
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by hanoz 6y ago
Not everyone resident in the EU is an EU citizen, and not every other country allows dual citizenship.
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by hanoz 6y ago
This is unbelievably petty and spiteful. The least they could do is grandfather in existing registrants and only enforce these requirements on transfer. I don't suppose many of their EU registrants realise they'd have to forfeit t
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by hanoz 6y ago
3% solar and 4% wind right now. Seems a long way to go before these can get us through days like today.
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by hanoz 6y ago
> For example, I bought and sold Virgin Galactic 3 times over the past 13 or 14 months, which tripled my initial capital You would have more than tripled your capital if you'd bought 14 months ago and held until today.
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Christmas star: Jupiter and Saturn set to align in the night sky(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by hanoz 6y ago|0 comments
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Countries ban flights from UK over new variant(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by hanoz 6y ago|1 comments
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by hanoz 6y ago
> Why is this the top article on hackernews without any comments? Because of man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
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Statement from Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty about new strain of Covid-19(gov.uk)
10 points by hanoz 6y ago|1 comments
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by hanoz 6y ago
That's great. Well, if they're in at all between Christmas and New Year maybe they can quickly sort the common cold out. Then full steam ahead in January and they should have all the plagues of humanity pretty much wrapped up by E
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Genetic clues for severe Covid identified(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by hanoz 6y ago|0 comments
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by hanoz 6y ago
>There is one small comment at the top of the chapter, which says ‘Irony detected’. The whole chapter is littered with clearly tongue in cheek remarks.
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by hanoz 6y ago
These epidemiologists have some strange priorities in life. Only about 3% of them would have, if needed , attended a wedding or funeral. Ten times as many would have gone for a haircut.
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by hanoz 6y ago
I would highly recommend Martin Rees' Just Six Numbers . I've not read the actual book, but the author-narrated audio is a perennial mind-expanding yet strangely soporific bed time favourite of mine.
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by hanoz 6y ago
"OK Computer, play some cheery music please" "#Karma.. Police.. Arrest this man, he talks in maths...#"
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by hanoz 6y ago
Just what this country needs, more barriers to entry for struggling would be owner occupiers.
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by hanoz 6y ago
Where on earth do you live that any one at all is wearing a mask hiking?
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by hanoz 6y ago
I'm not sure the Cheshire Cat was really extolling the virtues of knowing where you want to get to.
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by hanoz 6y ago
That's all for an emergency on day one! If the stock market goes up 70% before your emergency, you'd have been better off with the all in strategy.
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by hanoz 6y ago
People may think they want colour, but I'm convinced it's not as much as they don't want something resembling a glaring low grade android device, propped up on a bookshelf, with a usb power lead trailing out of it to the near
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by hanoz 6y ago
Every couple of weeks I find myself wondering: "It's (insert year here), why no e-ink picture frames yet?". Much as I like tinkering, I don't want a cobbled together raspberry pi plus lower power mamagement module with s
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by hanoz 6y ago
In reality they mean: LOW (deprecated) MODERATE (deprecated) SUBSTANTIAL means an attack has not happened recently SEVERE means an attack has happened recently CRITICAL means an attack has happened very recently and may be ongoing
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by hanoz 6y ago
> That is a pretty obtuse reference to use without explanation. It’s also an odd choice because it feels weird to call an AI a “who”. The slight incongruity of the word "who" is the explanation, or at least hint, that there
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by hanoz 6y ago
Scalene triangle breathing?
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by hanoz 6y ago
>"absolutely sucks compared to JIRA" Congratulations, according to Google you are the first person on the internet ever to use that phrase. Indeed only the second ever to string the last four of those words together.

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