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by jonp888 4y ago
The New York Subway is probably the only major metro system in the world which has two person operation. Not quite sure why the Americans can't figure it out. Single manned freight trains are common worldwide too. What is the second pe
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> I don't understand about trains but I imagine that doing maintenance in one electrified line would shut down or overload other parts of the network. The track is divided into section, so you can turn off parts of it. It isn't
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In this case it was plain and simple one off cash payments targeted at their core voter base. I don't think many governments are as blatant as that.
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The traditional solution of the US government to prevent this was to make you pay thousands of dollars to do it. So much that Germany, which normally doesn't allow dual citizenship, would make an exception on the basis that it was fina
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It's protocol used to control stage lighting equipment. Very simple. You can set the value of 512 channels from 0 to 256. Any definition of what those channels or values mean has to be handled externally.
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by jonp888 4y ago
I apologise. I will delete my ill-informed comment.
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Which single use venues are your referring to, exactly? All the venues built for the London Olympics are either still in active use, or were specifically designed to be temporary.
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Comment was wrong and has been deleted.
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That's simply not true. A glance at any opinion poll shows there is nowhere near a majority for leaving the EU in any member country. Politicians who used to talk about it as a goal, such as Le Penn in France, no longer mention it at a
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Looking at it, it appears to cover only equities and ignores all other financial products, which renders the "90%" claim risible. To claim that a good example of the other 10% is the location of oil tankers is either deliberately
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by jonp888 4y ago
I'm rather surprised you would identify an obscure visa regulation as "the" reason, and not say anything with available venture capital, tax and employment regulations, and the risk taking culture. In practice it's not r
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In Germany it's pretty straightforward. If you have a job offer as a software engineer, have a related degree and earn over a threshold which most experienced candidates will meet, you automatically get a so called "Blue Card&quot
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Chrome on iPhone is just Safari with a different menu bar. The web page rendering and interaction is entirely controlled by Apple's webkit.
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Volunteering has nothing to do with it, either back then or nowadays in Russia. They are ordered by their coaches to take the drugs, and if they refuse orders from their coach their elite sporting career is over.
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As a foreigner, I do not see it as productive to seek any explanation or expect any reaction when yet another news story like this comes along. It's clear that this is the way Americans wish to live, and it is their perogative to do so
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> Lastly, football is the most diverse sport in the US. There's a role for everybody I don't know whether to laugh or cry that you would unironically write that about a Sport that excludes 50% of the population.
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> If "commissions of neutral experts" were a real thing that exists we could just dispense with democracy and rely on them! No, we have democracy in order to choose between competing policies and ideologies. An expert comission
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Hooray for people having their entire lives destroyed because someone decided they 'know' something which might not even be true. There are plenty of cases of trials over rape or assault allegations which were entirely fictitious.
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by jonp888 5y ago
There are two parts of the Raspberry Pi organisation - the Foundation(a charity) and the Trading company(not a charity). The hardware is developed sold by the non-charitable part, and recently announced that they prioritise orders from indu
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by jonp888 5y ago
Grocy https://grocy.info/ does exactly this - it's a tracking system for groceries/grocery shopping/recipes and a few other things. You enter what you have bought/eaten and it keeps track of what you hav
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by jonp888 5y ago
I travel regularly on long distance in Europe and have never encountered any problematic behaviour. What you have there is an "America" problem, not a "Bus" problem.
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The posting of status updates has declined, but at least for me there's still a lot of worthwhile content there which I can't get anywhere else. I am a member of a number of active Facebook Groups for neighbourhood news, some nich
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by jonp888 5y ago
As I understand it the chip was partly intended as a starter project for RPi's newly founded in House silicon design team, so not using an existing design could be partly deliberate. However the PIO state machines set it apart.
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by jonp888 5y ago
Some people choose to stay as contractors. My last team had one. Compared to the internal employees he earned more money, paid less tax, could work for multiple employers, could work from home 5 days a week instead of 1(pre-pandemic), and h
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by jonp888 5y ago
LZB uses cable loops. ETCS can use cable loops, but for full functionality a radio data connection is required.
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Not really. The Royal Mint doesn't even make the British Banknotes, they're made by a company in France.
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"This product is so incredibly amazing that you should be grateful to us that we allow you to use it at all, and not ask any awkward questions about the restrictions we've placed on how you use it" is such a 'Apple'
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It is however, as they state quite clearly on their website, not a bank, but an e-payments provider which 'does things differently', including as mentioned on the thread, giving it's users bank accounts numbers based in a dif
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These are seafarers working on Cypriot flagged vessels used in international voyages. UK employment law is entirely irrelevant here, only international maritime law applies.
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The bizarre thing about the US is that as far as indviduals are concerned "socialism" and government assistance are dirty words, but not when it relates for corporations. So benefits that are absolutely standard like universal hea

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