hanoz

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by hanoz 4y ago
Right in the middle of a similar sized European city, very built up, loads of traffic - the children have to walk to school, from aged 6. Parents are actually not allowed to take them in.
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by hanoz 4y ago
Pity the article has been getting Kopp's name wrong without correction for the last 10 years though, despite containing several other changes suggested by the photographer.
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by hanoz 4y ago
> ...whereas "fishes" is the correct way to refer to multiple species of fish. What about the fishes of bread and fishes fame?
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by hanoz 4y ago
That this month's rate is smaller than expected is a completely different thing to it being smaller than last month's rate.
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by hanoz 4y ago
> (10€/mo) I have to pay about double that per month (in £) for electricity, even if I don't use any electricity at all! And the electricity I do use costs nearly that much per day , and that's without having to use any
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by hanoz 4y ago
Now there's a sentence I never thought I would read.
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by hanoz 4y ago
Thank you! I was having a very frustrating time trying to parse the titular sentence, after all that build up. Username checks out by the way.
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Spain briefly closes airspace over risks from Chinese rocket debris(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by hanoz 4y ago|1 comments
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by hanoz 4y ago
I daren't think of the number of stocks I've held which have gone all the way to zero over the years.
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by hanoz 4y ago
> mostly self inflicted ...by the Bank of England stoking a multi decade house price bubble.
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by hanoz 4y ago
I'm not sure Betteridge really works directly in this case, because the headline is kind of implicitly Should we avoid messing with asteroid orbits .
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by hanoz 4y ago
It occurred to me to try this for the first time last week and the extra cleaning thing swung it for me too, which is a pity as there's a good 40 pence worth of heat in that water at current prices. Not sure the wife was going to be to
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by hanoz 4y ago
Touché. Although I don't think that's quite what the questioner was getting at.
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by hanoz 4y ago
I'm not sure about your terminology, and I'm probably not about to do much better, but yes the first coupling must bear the load of the full train, how could it be otherwise? In fact it's worse that that, the first cross sect
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by hanoz 4y ago
* >Buddhism and Christianity make it sound like you have to be perfectly clean and disciplined to be “enlightened”* I'm my no means a scholar of such matters but I don't get than impression of Christianity at all. From the conc
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by hanoz 4y ago
Always nice to see it get a mention, it made quite an impact on me at a formative age in the late 80s. As a bonus it then got me on to Thoreau, as he talks about reading Walden to his son in the book. Oddly, I distinctly remember what in tu
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by hanoz 4y ago
> Nothing happening today is remotely as scary as what we saw in 2008 As what's happening "today" is basically a postponed and amplified version of what should have happened in 2008, I have to disagree.
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by hanoz 4y ago
That feature is nice, when it works, but like its ctrl+v counterpart, 20% of the time it just doesn't. Same problem with with ctrl-shift+p, which is supposed to paste just the plain text - a lot of the time, seemingly at random, it jus
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by hanoz 4y ago
Copy and paste in Windows.
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by hanoz 4y ago
There's only so much runny foodstuff you can fling at glass-fronted paintings before people stop paying much attention. They say they're not afraid of the consequences but I'd like to see them try thier luck irreversibly dest
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by hanoz 4y ago
> guineas book of records Apologies if that's just a spelling error, but if it's an eggcorn / mondegreen, I feel duty-bound to point out that it's Guinness Book of Records, as in a pint of .
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by hanoz 4y ago
Not entirely surprising with so many couples suddenly at home all day, with any children at school.
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by hanoz 4y ago
Quite. It's too depressingly plausible a thought as it is, without digging up evidence that it might actually be true too.
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by hanoz 4y ago
By proxy.
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by hanoz 4y ago
Now that, ladies, was a very good movie.
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by hanoz 4y ago
> hashtag Hash , surely? A hashtag is the combination of the hash and the tag text.
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by hanoz 4y ago
> The FTSE 100 is almost at the same level as in 2014 The FTSE 100 is currently at almost exactly the same level as it was on New Year's Eve December 1999!
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by hanoz 4y ago
Still have my copy of ML for the Working Programmer, my one surviving book from back in the day (early 90s in my case). Being hit with all that stuff from day one, fresh from a childhood of Spectrum Basic and Turbo Pascal, was a real shock
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by hanoz 4y ago
Not surprised to see the the whining over-mortgaged home "owners" , who've had it far too good for decades, at the expense of priced out renters, cited as victims in this riposte. Seems to be a common theme in the wall of me
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by hanoz 4y ago
The "tax cuts for the rich" aspect of the mini budget was miniscule (and possibly not even a net loss of tax revenue) compared to the absolutely massive borrowing-funded subsidy of fuel costs this year, on top of the unbelievably

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