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Just like within British cities, I enjoy having occasionally quirky, inconsistent and unusual routing and signage. On the whole, modern British road signage is of excellent quality and was globally influential. Little history here: http:&#
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The art of diplomacy is to let other people have your way
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Before you start working at Google and get an internal email address you have almost certainly communicated with HR using your external email address...a basic profile has been setup etc
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In general we take vaccines because we believe in the science and trust the authorities in charge of administering them. Here's a good dashboard showing uptake rates of childhood vaccines in the UK: https://app.powerbi.com&#
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Could you privately find a potential buyer for your 40%? Then tease that info and magically they may prefer to buy you out and suddenly find a way to do so...
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Great piece. It took me four years of divergent exploration to go from program management in Big Tech to becoming a solo woodworker, and was worth every diversion along the way.
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It's been running in one form or another for 11 years now.
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It's very much a hearts and minds project, with stakeholders in engineering, marketing, press and policy. Each dept uses it to aid their local and regional initiatives. For the first few years it had to fight hard for its existence (or
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Imagine this for DVDs. A lawyer representing the now-defunct Virgin Megastores is obliged by Warner Bros to contact you and insist you download a firmware update for your DVD player to disable playback of the Lord of the Rings disc you purc
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Thanks!
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Some good tips, but I read the section on nominalisation three times and I can't for the life of me tell you what nominalisation means or how to apply it (or not). However, it piqued my interest in the concept, and this article helped
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The whole point was that this was a house that shouldn't have been demolished (or moved). The council didn't want the sculpture to stay because it stood as a reminder of their policy, the public were in two minds because it was so
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While this sounds plausible - yet simply shifts the blame for the bias elsewhere in the technology supply chain - it does not adequately explain the experience of Elaine Owusu cited in the article. Her photo shows a clear-as-day mouth close
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While this may represent a failure of those systems to adequately cope with data outside of typical ranges, your anecdote is orthogonal to the notion that the system linked in this thread did not appear to place dark-skinned women firmly wi
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This. Many readers enjoy gaining multiple perspectives on the same news story from which to draw their own conclusions. This behaviour is scarcely catered for today.
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Jon the Bus: the man who favors magic over fact(nowness.com)
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Be yourself. It's easier and you won't get found out.
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I found the idea of letting some people know they were not welcome at the funeral very powerful. There's no simple way to communicate this while alive, and no way to police it while dead. But this works. In my last days I might appreci
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Boris Johnson pinning hopes on £100bn 'moonshot' to avoid second lockdown(theguardian.com)
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Sorry but I just loved this turn of phrase and how well it sits with the issue. Thanks.
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He wasn't being rude or dismissive to others. He cites repeated examples of being generous and welcoming to passing cyclists who repay his kindness with disrespect. I'd go out of my way for a shop like this.
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I see corona-disused office blocks in city centres wrapped in mirroring systems that reflect sunlight throughout each floor to become farmscrapers.
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More like the attackers rifled through the chest to find the map of the real treasure, leaving the meaningless trinkets behind.
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You could achieve this by selectively showing what it was like last Friday night at 1am instead of a live view at 8pm when nothing is happening but people are deciding...
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Have seen plenty of evidence of freight being shipped in passenger cabins the last few months too. Some in and on the seats and others with seats newly stripped out.
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It feels churlish to point it out, but occasionally he delves into new areas and makes some dreadful beginner mistakes by trying to invent solutions from scratch without any knowledge or apparent interest in conventional wisdom. For me this
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Matt Estlea - talented, clear, dispels myths, but his personality is an acquired taste https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxWzA3ZlYEOLr1JkKH0ZMyg/vid... Stephens 8x6 Workshop - tiny space, clever projects. At the re
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https://artsandculture.google.com/project/gigapixels
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Here are 1847 of them, on a CDN that is almost like Google Maps. https://artsandculture.google.com/project/gigapixels
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Almost a decade since the first gigapixel of this painting went online[1], and they've gone from about 14 gigapixels to 44, which in layperson's terms feels like another zoom level. The main difference is in the conservation work,

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