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by manarth 9y ago
Cave-divers are expected (and taught) to carry reserve gas supplies with them. From the description, they had reserve supplies - enough reserves to search for an hour - but failed to recover their guideline within that time. The issue was t
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There are conventions in the cave-diving community on how lines are left/maintained/removed, which prevent caves from being strewn with abandoned lines. Much like the IT community adopt coding-standards for a project, the cave-div
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by manarth 9y ago
As it was already air-filled, it almost certainly has a natural opening to the atmosphere, and will eventually reach normal gas levels (hard to say without more information whether that's a few hours or a few days, but very unlikely to
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Thankfully there's absolutely no porn on peer-to-peer services.
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In their roadmap [1], they talk about using their activities to drive additional funding: Seabed 2030 will create a series of programmatic guidelines to be submitted to national and international funding agencies, with the goal to pro
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Once upon a time, the platform used to be displayed in the National Rail app, even when it wasn't shown on the departure boards…For a long time I used that to good effect to get a seat on rush-hour trains at Paddington. That changed a
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by manarth 9y ago
Commercial pilots are generally required to take a regular medical (it's every 6 months or 12 months in the UK). If a pilot were to acquire colour blindness, they'd be obliged to ground themselves and report the condition to the a
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by manarth 9y ago
2007, in Romania [1][2]. More specifically, horse-drawn carts were banned. From what I can see, the movement to ban them stems from an argument that horse-drawn carts/carriages are a form of animal cruelty [3]. I haven't seen anyt
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The physical limitations of vinyl had a direct effect on the sound. Although the Loudness War [1] started on vinyl, the move to CDs let it step up to a whole new level [2]. Without getting into the merits or detriments of loudness and DRC,
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"doesn't have a produce market a mile away" I have a produce market 10 minutes walk from my home - unfortunately, my working patterns prevent me from using it except on extremely rare occasions. Supermarkets do have m
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I think much of that is around knowing that these tools exist, understanding their benefits (to the point of recognising the ROI in spending the money on a quality knife, a mandolin, etc), and then using them to the point where the ROI star
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I wonder if the nature of the product creates incentives for fussy recipes with a lot of ingredients You make a good point, and I wonder whether this could be mitigated by balancing some simple recipes (which lets the cook deliver w
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Ryanair's new web app is actually not that bad compared to the hostile site they had a few years back Which is roughly when they refocused on customer-service, when their previous customer-hostile approach generated enough ne
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The "au quai" etymology isn't universally accepted, and isn't recognised by the Academie Française, who don't concede its use. Generally, people use "d'accord" (sometimes shortened to "d'ac&
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Property sizes by country: Canada, at 72 sq m per person, comes third to Australia and the USA. http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/how-big-is-a-house
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If you report income as an independent contractor/self-employment, you pay both sides of it (since otherwise people would artificially class themselves as contractors to pay less). In general, that's true in the UK, bu
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The interesting question for me is this: is there a reason to believe human seed distribution is biased towards the west? If it is human-influenced, what are the determinative factors? Do humans favour certain seeds/trees in this selec
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Describing the Americas Cup yachts as "modern sailing" is akin to describing F1 as "modern motoring" or the Cray Titan as "modern computing". They're amazing feats of engineering, but not really representa
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Lifeboats of the kind that are sent to sailors in distress, or lifeboats of the kind carried by large ships in the event of having to abandon ship? One compromise made by the 42-inch yacht is speed. As a general rule, speed is proportional
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The message they display says: We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned sub
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It may seem unfair to take $140 million and build a $10 million game If a film spent $10M, and turned $140M at the box office, it would be seen as a success, rather than a con. Should a game be any different?
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Cultural sensitivity has increased, especially in the last 30 years or so. In the example of Egyptian mummies, they would be covered under the 1983 law of Protection of Antiquities. There's an ongoing controversy around the Elgin Marbl
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36,000 engineering students from IT related branches took [the test] over 2/3 could not even write code that compiles The information missing from the report is: 1. What stage in their IT education were they in? 2. Was the te
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by manarth 9y ago
My apologies, you're quite correct. I must have misread the specs - I'll edit the post to reflect that. Thanks for the correction!
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Canon have four mirrorless cameras with APS-C sensors (the M10, M6, M5, and M3). Canon don't have a full-frame mirrorless camera. Nikon's mirrorless range is the Nikon 1, with 3 cameras which all have sensors well below APS-C spec
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Empathy for the people living with us is the reason why we all left the wild Archaeological records indicate empathy amongst neanderthals [1]. It's been with us a while. [1] http://www.evoanth.net/2012/04&#
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From what I understand, it depends on jurisdiction. It's allowed in some countries.
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I find it interesting that all cases resulted in a conviction. I wonder whether that might be related to the fact that all of these are cases that went to appeal. I'd assume that convictions were more often appealed than findin
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Corbyn seems pro-Brexit, and only a fifth of the party defied the whip in the Brexit vote. What would happen without Corbyn is anyone's guess though.
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Is there a monster raving loony candidate?

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