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by iso947 7y ago
> needs more than just the rocket. You also need a lunar lander With blackjack. And hookers. In fact forget the lunar lander.
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by iso947 7y ago
Some of us are lucky - my first websites are not available anywhere, including the web archive. All that is left are some lingering sigs in a few usenet posts from 1998ish still archived on google.
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by iso947 7y ago
Don’t conflate the majority of the beeching closures with a lack of investment. The problem was during the 80s when Japan and France were building new high speed railways, we weren’t. We’re now trying to catch up with HS2, which is sorely n
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by iso947 7y ago
Earthquake hasn’t caused any problems in nuclear plants in Japan A tsunami that killed over 10,000 people caused some minor problems. That’s like saying you got a puncture in a multi car pileup.
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by iso947 7y ago
London to X sure Southampton to Leeds, Manchester to Cornwall, and of course Belfast to anywhere isn’t easy or fast by train
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by iso947 7y ago
But that can’t be done en mass without people noticing and reporting it
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by iso947 7y ago
In the uk we count by hand, and election night is exciting as different districts race against each other. We have a good idea of the results after 4 hours, usually a concession speech by 6 hours
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by iso947 7y ago
Sure with gerrymandering. I’ve been involved in two major elections in the last 12 months in the uk, one as a candidate. I couldn’t think of any way of significantly changing the votes without another party finding out. Can’t register fake
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by iso947 7y ago
British English? Which part of the UK is that from. I speak English English.
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by iso947 7y ago
Macy’s call it 4th of July https://www.macys.com/shop/4th-of-july-sale
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in which case it should be easy to measure performance
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by iso947 7y ago
What stops people just watching cat videos on Facebook in those situations?
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They could. Or those areas could dissolve in a spiral of depression and alcoholism
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by iso947 7y ago
There were major benefits of things like the new deal - massive road systems, parks, etc which allowed America to prosper for the next century. Mass infrastructure investment would be great, trouble is we need educated workers now, not day
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by iso947 7y ago
The fear is, like the agricultural and industrial revolutions, that change will suddenly spring forward at a rate that society can’t adapt fast enough. And people are unemployed, or worse they are employed but at a rate they can’t afford to
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by iso947 7y ago
We have that in the uk - £20 a week for the first child, £13 each for the rest You are required to feed clothe them and deliver them to school. If you don’t do that you’ll get social services on your back very quickly and eventually they’d
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by iso947 7y ago
Tax in the Uk pays no attention to your marriage or other domestic situation* A house with a £55k earner and a £5k earner will pay more in tax than a house with two £30k earners (about £2400 a year more, even without student loan repayments
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by iso947 7y ago
So those in cheap areas with no jobs can never move to the areas with jobs?
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by iso947 7y ago
The assertion that most people and most countries in spoken language say “day [of] month”, which I find anecdotally accurate, although that’s mainly in European countries and languages This matches why almost every country in the world uses
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by iso947 7y ago
D/m/y is little endian. In a base 10,000 system there would be 3 symbols, each unique.
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by iso947 7y ago
The author of the post invented a character born today and who will live for 1010 years. The author’s character was described as “he”. You seem to think that this is wrong despite it not being your character.
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by iso947 7y ago
Latency will be lower for intercontinental distances if its forwarded from satellite to satellite, as the signal propagates at light speed in a direct line rather than 2/3rds in a non direct fibre. Inmarsat technocrat offsr broadband t
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by iso947 7y ago
In the US, are PayPal registered as a bank in the same way Wells Fargo are?
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by iso947 7y ago
PayPal isn’t a bank and is known for that behaviour. I understand Wells Fargo is a bank.
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by iso947 7y ago
Bought my new property in 2016, it’s GCH. Only comes on in deep winter, and that’s with a thermostat at 21C 24/7
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Gas, which in my experience is far more prevalent in the UK than electric heating.
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by iso947 7y ago
If you’re running your own server you need to be babysitting it, extra babysitting for your https cert is negligible
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by iso947 7y ago
That worked so well before
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by iso947 7y ago
I assume “India 3” would be the other 500+ million?
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by iso947 7y ago
Too cheap? Why is it a problem?

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