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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
One of my colleagues as very keen to ensure that 576i material when upscaled/downscaled went via 702 wide with crop/pad to 720 before scale
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
Annual tickets are 40 weeks meaning 5.75 trips per weekly ticket (230 a year). Newbury works out 21p a mile, Ipswich 23p a mile, Cambridge 22p/mile, so yes prices have crept up just above 20p/mile in the last year or two.
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
White walls in my kitchen look different depending on the time of day and weather, and that’s before I turn on the lights. What is the correct colour?
784.
by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
It’s ignoring S&P dividends which add a significant amount. S&P on its own is up 20 fold since 1990 SP500TR Is up 40 fold.
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
Southampton 20p/mile Brighton 17p/mile Battle 22p/mile Compare to say wilmslow to Manchester (33p/mile), or northwich (29p/mile) Compared to to people doing one off journeys. London-Southampton 77p/mile, Bright
786.
by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
Of course it does. I forgot ya is can’t tell sarcasm when it splashes them in the face. But when a train had to divert and delays someone by an hour or two it’s somehow kidnapping.
787.
by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
When the weather forecast said it would rain on Friday and it didn’t was that also called a lie?
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
Using Google - one of the largest data mining companies out there - rather than my trusted ISP doesn’t sound d like a step towards privacy
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
That jhst highlights the difference. In Europe people are concerned about whether something is available. They aren’t interested if the book was banned by a federal government or a school librarian, it’s still banned. American view is that
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
So European values of the 1500s through 1700s are not puritan values. Europe has liberalised since then.
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
Most people do 5 days a week, 46 weeks a year - with 6 weeks holidays. Alton to Waterloo is £5520 a year, 50 miles each way or 23,000 miles a year, 24p per mile.
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
In the U.K. “Trump” is a synonym for “Fart”
794.
by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
drivers have amazingly good pay compared to say bus drivers, but station staff and on board staff don’t.
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
English people can speak Italian though, just add a vowel-a on-a every-a word-a
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
Planes have never diverted people to the wrong country. It’s always state institutions.
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
A typical season ticket into London is under 20p a mile. Outside of London it’s far more expensive (35p a mile is common), because the railway has not had the investment London has over decades. Platform lengthening (of possible) is not che
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
I’ve taken four international DB trains in the last 2 years, into Germany from Belgium and Denmark, and out to Switzerland and Austria. In all 4 cases the train was delayed in Germany - the longest by 4 hours, one by a mere 30 minutes.
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
I take those long distance trains and it amazes me the choice and how low the cost is. You can choose an empty high speed service in peak time with a 20 minute frequency for a high cost (comparable to flying), you can book ahead for a lower
800.
by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
People who claim the U.K. is worse have no idea what DB is like and just think that “nationalisation” makes trains half the price and twice as reliable.
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
Puritans were kicked out of Europe for their views
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
The sewer section of sites like the daily mail has been needlessly censoring words for well over a decade
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
Hate speech has not been tolerated in the U.K. for many years. Other subversive speech hasn’t been tolerated in many counties, from nazi worship to glorifying terror, from obscenity to copyright. America bans Harry Potter, in the past The U
804.
by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
Don’t need to ban speech when your population preemptively does it for you in fear of an unaccountable corporation blocking you.
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
It’s Badenoch wanting to deport a British Citizen for what he posted online, not Starmer.
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
American views on “free speech” are not global, both in terms of what’s banned and in terms of what’s not banned.
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
Chilling effects. Western culture is taken over by American Puritian values thanks to the globlaisation of the media.
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
Plenty of automated barrier-less toll roads in the U.K. - typically bridges, and of course the London congestion charge zone. The longest toll road still has (automated) barriers to stop at though - the M6 Toll.
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
Delivery driver passes that costs of delivery on to you, so you do pay.
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by hdgvhicv 10mo ago
Flying in the pre “no frills” days was far more expensive. This was good from an environmental point of view but bad from allowing mass transport

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