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While there's clearly a lot in the whole $1/day thing, it's not as clear cut. If you live in Sweden on $30 a day and pay $900 a month in rent, that leaves you with just 31 cents a day. Meanwhile if you live in India on $5 a d
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Imagine if the development work for covid vaccines ends up with more effective vaccines against things like flu and even the common cold
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64.3% currently. 83.9% have had 2 doses.
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Pre covid, the UK typically had 1400 deaths a day in the winter. It's a little higher at the moment, but nowhere near 400. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... Be careful about who
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Do you have a link to UK hospitalisation figures?
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I can see benefits of something like ansible if you have a command-and-control environment where you deploy 300 machines from a central database. Still allows you destroy 300 machines in one single misconfiguration or mishandled error thoug
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Puff piece spun by PR after a tweet went viral. News at eleven.
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https://data.cso.ie/ Has price index since 2005, but not before. For all residential properties it was 2005-01: 125 2007-07: 163 (peak) 2013-03: 73 (trough) 2021-11: 155 (latest) Even just looking at Dublin houses (where pe
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UK is pretty much doing it, Especially England. The Omicron peak is over, hospitalisations never reached the numbers feared, indeed there were more people who tested positive that were hospitalised for other reasons -- something miles away
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Sure, using K8S in your learning envornment because you're managing 800 different services in your dayjob is fine. Personally I have my learning environment as part of my day job though. At home I just want things to work, hence a nice
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Can you sell your idea as a software-as-a-service platform that can rapidly expand to a $1m/month revenue stream?
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You'd have to be very good to run a system worse than the US
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US tax revenue is broadly about 25% of GDP, significantly lower than the 33% that's average in the OECD It reached it's lowest since 1965, 22.9%, in 2009. Highest recently was 2017 (27%), and in 2000 it reached 28.3% The Clinton y
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Religious fundamentalist group fishing for money from the US.
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I'm sure in your country you can catch rats and serve them in "special stew", not bother about basic hygine, have under-counter cameras taking pictures up skirts, have no requirement to ensure that customers don't get el
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Hence the reason TV would only attract half of the adult population then. Those still exist and presumably attract similar numbers, but there are far more options in the 'sitting on couch' area, hence TV viewership is massively do
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I read it as their inherent unconscious bias will be left leaning, and they will attempt to adjust for that in their output (certainly I've spoken to journalists based in Israel, and their views over a beer in the American Colony are v
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By the end of SG1 the stargate program fell under the "Homeworld Command" department, headed by a 3-star general, still part of the Air Force. Not sure how they can really progress from the. The power of Stargate is that it was ba
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Don't fall for the mistake that everyone voting for X is as polarised or 'extreme' as the activists campaigning for X.
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> When papers like the Sun and Mail are the most popular in the UK I think it's hard to agree that Britain overall is left leaning "Left leaning" is of course relative. Some claim that Tony Blair is right wing, and Corbyn
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In the terms of UK, "left bias" means "not tory/ukip", and the majority of the UK thus has a "left bias" Given that journalists are mostly aged between 25 and say 60, have a degree, and fit in the "AB
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BBC is certainly the most trusted news outlet https://yougov.co.uk/topics/media/articles-reports/2020/04/2... Although it's only about half
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I wouldn't watch a live sports match online, certainly not something like an England match in the world cup / euros (think Superbowl if you're American) - you're talking 30-60 second lag. The neighbours cheer at the goal
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Most journalists have degrees and are aged between 20 and 50. That demographic is certainly "left leaning". The tory base is * Old people who don't work * People with little education, who aren't skilled enough to work a
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> •Freeze the BBC licence fee for two years to help the cost of living. Hilarious. Even a 10% License Fee increase would cost about £8 per adult per year Meanwhile the tax rise they're implementing next month will cost an average £3
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In the 70s and 80s there was little entertainment other than real time broadcast TV on the 3 (later 4) channels. The BBC was a cultural institution. 20 million people would tune in to watch absolute crap, because that was really the only op
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> especially its partisan news reporting on the current government Is that pro-government or anti-government in your view?
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The BBC traditionally isn't "State Run" any more than PBS is "State Run"
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I think a lot of the problem is the aged technology where the regional news is routed via each region. Even just upscaling the local output requires massive changes, and any money for Engineering is rarely invested in old fashioned technolo
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I don't need to pay for a license fee because I don't watch TV. I watch Netflix, amazon, apple, disney etc. I still pay it because I'm listening to radio 2 at the moment, and have the news website in the background. While leg

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