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by jvvw 11mo ago
It did, but I'm not sure it exists any longer. This was 15 years ago and I've just done a quick google and can't find it. It was called the Pelagios project and it used the Pleiades gazetteer.
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by jvvw 11mo ago
There are actually quite a lot of these in the UK - I remember many years ago meeting a lady who had visited them all and written a book about them!
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by jvvw 11mo ago
I'm curious as to how social media gets defined for these bans. I presume text messaging doesn't count whereas Discord/WhatsApp do? What about Minecraft and other games? What about school platforms which they can post comment
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by jvvw 11mo ago
I'm in my 50s and British and I've only had it done once: by the police when the house I was living in got burgled and they wanted to rule out our finger prints. It was 30 years ago and I imagine I could have refused. I didn'
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by jvvw 1y ago
Same in UK - I usually use it when giving my postcode to people.
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by jvvw 1y ago
For a while I worked on a project related to mapping the ancient world (so you could e.g. click on a ancient city and then see items from museums from that city, references in ancient texts etc) and one of the interesting problems was not j
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by jvvw 1y ago
The first ever night train I went, about 25 years ago, on was from Berlin to Malmo. Early morning, I woke up to the feeling of my bed swaying and looking out of the window realised 'hang on, they've put the train on a ferry'.
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by jvvw 1y ago
I've definitely seen an NHS comment on a planning application near here along the lines of 'for this number of new houses we need this amount of money to increase GP provision'. I guess it feeds into Section 106 stuff?
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by jvvw 1y ago
Surely name, email, phone and date of birth aren't enough to do this at any bank? That's not quite public info but near enough. I've filled that in on hundreds of forms during my life and it's info that any of my friends
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by jvvw 1y ago
When I saw this originally on The Guardian website I thought 'has the Guardian really sunk as low as clickbait titles?' and didn't click, not realising that is was a self-referential title!
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by jvvw 1y ago
If you're travelling with young children being seated together isn't a luxury, so it's basically a tax on travelling with children, and a fairly expensive one ($100 easily for a return flight perhaps for four seats?) when you
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by jvvw 1y ago
It's pretty much impossible to find a school in the UK that doesn't use phonics. One of my sons learned to read mostly using phonics, whereas the other one I think learned through a mixture of phonics and whole word recognition (n
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by jvvw 1y ago
I wonder if there is also a problem where if you are too 'rational' then it's easy to dismiss other people's emotions as invalid - you see them as cognitive biases and look down on people who want to listen to or express
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by jvvw 1y ago
Looks like it was removed in 1827. I don't actually remember having to say anything at any of my graduation ceremonies there (BA, MA, DPhil), just walking on to the stage. I do wonder if at matriculation we all had to make some oath to
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by jvvw 1y ago
I have a very different sense for the size of countries since starting to play Geoguessr as the number of points that you get depends on distance. You start to appreciate things like how big Brazil and Indonesia are and other things like ho
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by jvvw 1y ago
The schools here I have experience with are stricter about smart watches than phones - you can get everybody to turn their phone off all day or keep it in a locker, but it's much harder with watches.
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by jvvw 1y ago
I've learned a massive about the world in the process - before I started playing I wouldn't have had a proper image in my head for what certain parts of the world were like really. And there's lots of weird and curious things
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by jvvw 1y ago
Haha, I do still need to get better at my different shades of red! (Actually I can actually recognise some areas from soil/vegetation but I can still have rounds where the area that seems feasible seems huge to me).
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by jvvw 1y ago
Sorry I skimmed through a bit too quickly when I first looked - I do totally agree you know enough to be able to evaluate this stuff btw. Although pro players are better, I don't think what they do is that qualitatively different on th
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by jvvw 1y ago
I'm Master level at Geoguessr - it's a rank where you have to definitely know what you are doing but it isn't as high as it probably sounds from the headline. Masters is about 800-1200 ELO whereas the pros are 1900-2000ish. I
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by jvvw 1y ago
Definitely. The season that coverage was done can be a big thing too. In Russia you'll be looking at the car, antenna type and the season as pretty much the first indicator where you might be. Copyright year and camera gen is a big thi
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by jvvw 1y ago
This sounds weird to me. What's the context? Toddler group? Play date? Playground? Also as somebody said, if you are male which from your username I guess you are, then that will change the dynamic - it will be easier for an older pers
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by jvvw 2y ago
I definitely learned about the Irish Potato Famine when I did GCSE history in the UK (England) in the early 90s. I learned a lot about British colonial history too in my GCSE.
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by jvvw 2y ago
I have two and it has never been a big problem. Anything official will have a 'middle name(a)' section and you just put both in there. I think it is sufficiently common that official systems deal with it. I have occasionally had t
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by jvvw 2y ago
A quick google suggests that only 35% of US adults have 20/20 vision (although I guess it might be higher if you restrict to the population of the age required) which is one of the requirements so that by itself limits the pool of appl
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by jvvw 2y ago
I agree on the grades part. And I was just thinking that the university that I went to never gave us grades during the year (the only exception I can think of was when we did practice exam papers so we had an idea how we were doing). I thin
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by jvvw 2y ago
I don't think they have entered last in the current UK series so far have they?
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by jvvw 2y ago
I do wonder how much meta gaming is going on though. As a faithful, given that new traitors are recruited, your goal isn't actually to eliminate a traitor but to survive, ideally knowing who the remaining the traitors are at the end (a
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by jvvw 2y ago
Just to confuse things, some former grammar schools turned into private schools but kept 'grammar' in their name. But to confirm, there are still areas that have state grammar schools and have the 11 plus: Buckinghamshire, Essex a
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by jvvw 2y ago
My parents were both grammar school kids with working class parents, who didn't get any special prep for the 11+ beyond what their state primary school gave them. Both were the first people in their families to go to university and bot

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