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by iso1631 6y ago
Austrailian version shut down in 2012, when it was attracting 28k issues a week. UK version does fairly well, 3rd after Private Eye and Economist. They do a junior version for I guess 8-13 year olds too which is doing well too, so that&#x27
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by iso1631 6y ago
In the UK I subscribe to "The Week", which covers stories by reporting what different newspapers report. You don't get much in depth, but you do get a good cross-section of how stories are reported, and you get to remove head
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by iso1631 6y ago
And of course there will always be torrents, usenet, irc, or whatever. Even if that weren't the case, the final choice is "don't buy that song". There is always competition, and that will always keep a lid of prices to a
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by iso1631 6y ago
"You know where to Come" I thought Comet was like Currys though
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It seem blatent copyright infringement to me.
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by iso1631 6y ago
> the last time I had an Argos catalogue in the house was probably more than 20 years ago! If that was normal then we don't need to worry about > less paper going to waste. My kids love looking through the argos catalogue and pla
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Canada and Mexico. That's not international coordination.
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by iso1631 6y ago
> Hence why international coordinated action (all countries pricing carbon) is the best option. Also not going to happen
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by iso1631 6y ago
> Unfortunately, airlines avoid taxes on aviation fuel because of the Chicago Convention. It could be difficult to enforce a carbon tax on fuel for international flights. Why can't airports be taxed based on the CO2 generated by pl
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> Who knows how much all those private jets burn A B737 burns about 750 gallons an hour for 200 passengers. A Lear Jet 45 burns around 165 gallons an hour for upto 8 passengers. If both planes are full the Lear Jet uses about 6 times as
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by iso1631 6y ago
Here's a statement from Jan 9th https://web.archive.org/web/20200115194156/https://www.who.i... "Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses with some causing less-severe disease, such as the
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by iso1631 6y ago
I'm shocked by the number of people calling a website founded in 2003 as "old school". That was 3 years after the dot-com bust!
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Or two repair missions to fix the same defect in both telescopes would have cost even more
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by iso1631 6y ago
I hate software as a service, but people gotta pay the bills.
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by iso1631 6y ago
In the UK mask adherance in supermarkets is spotty at best, but when I say "died down" that's because we've been following social distancing measures. The feeling I get is that the public However high density mass transi
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by iso1631 6y ago
As for Austrialia, Melbourne's high today is 16, Perth 21, Brisbane 21, Hobart 15, Adelaide 16. NZ - Christchurch 12C, Wellington 15C, Aukland 16C. South Africa, Cape Town high of 19, Joburg high of 18, similar to Glasgow in Summer. So
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by iso1631 6y ago
Indeed, that's the point. You can't predict what's going to be the big winner of the next 20 years, but you can predict that some brands are going to be fairly safe and will at least not wipe you out without notice. Sure you
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by iso1631 6y ago
East Asia.
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by iso1631 6y ago
Australian winter is hardly the same thing as a European or worse US winter. Sydney's temperature tomorrow is a high of 17, low of 10. Glasgow's temperature tomorrow is a high of 19, low of 10.
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by iso1631 6y ago
It seems that people expect the WHO to be clairvoyants rather than reporting evidence. It's disappointing that a scientifically minded community like HN believe absence of evidence is evidence of absence.
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by iso1631 6y ago
Wikipedia has 3 clear link from Jan 14th - the Telegraph (UK), Straits Times (Singapore) and Reuters, all conveying the quote that there was indeed human to human spreading, but at the time it seemed limited. Which is right. The WHO further
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas... 14 January 2020 • 5:40pm > While clear information about the mysterious virus remains hazy, the WHO said on Tuesday that transmission between humans ha
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by iso1631 6y ago
> declaring there is no human to human transmission till January It was first diagnosed in late December and the earliest the WHO became aware was 30th/31st December (depending on timezone). WHO issued a statement saying there had b
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It's amazing how well brainwashing works
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by iso1631 6y ago
We don't know, we won't guess, but we have to have a policy, and that policy is based on what we do know. If what we do know changes, we change the policy. The problem with that is that policy changing every week is not something
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by iso1631 6y ago
Problem is in Winter you also have normal flu season, pressure on hospitals is higher, etc. The reason the UK locked down was to "protect the NHS". The lockdown worked - dramatically, spread was cut to almost zero overnight, the e
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by iso1631 6y ago
virus has died down in Europe and Asia, although may be upticking in Europe again. Seems clear it's not heat related though - In Europe when people socially distanced there were few cases. As people are more blasé about it cases start
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by iso1631 6y ago
Or we could embrace electric mopeds instead.
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I did do healthcare - $10k becomes $22k. Housing $10k becomes $17k (rent is a little higher at $20k but housing in general brings it down) That rent figure is based on "Raw Consumer Price Index data from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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> IMO the same tension exists in Python. The hobbyist-hackers are using the language to write small-ish scripts, and the enterprise-scale developers are working on million-line codebases. It's an endless cycle in all aspects of IT,

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