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midasuni
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midasuni
4y ago
In the US, Men are 2-3 years older than women at first marriage and have been for a century https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/tables/familie...
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midasuni
4y ago
We’re watching Harry Potter with the kids, probably haven’t watched the blu rays since they were born (now 10) Popped in deathly hallows part 2 this very evening a few minutes before everyone was ready. Couple of kites later I turn on the t
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midasuni
4y ago
The broader question is probably “what do you mean by network automation” Dhcp could well be described as network automation. Same as LLDP and arp.
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midasuni
4y ago
Only if you cause untold misery to millions of charities
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midasuni
4y ago
Templates sure, I’m not sure that the type of automation software developers are used to applies.
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midasuni
4y ago
Sure, Rockal being one controversial claim. but in reality if new land appeared in the middle of the English Channel on the French side, I can’t imagine the U.K. being happy with suddenly losing a fair bit of EEZ. China can get away with it
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midasuni
4y ago
So asssume there’s a 20 mile gap between, and the island appears 18 miles of country A’s coast, clearly it’s part of country A. Is the new maritime border still at the 20 mile mark or is it equidistant between the new island, 11 miles off s
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midasuni
4y ago
So pedestrians should wear helmets to protect themselves from cars, same as cyclists?
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midasuni
4y ago
Sorry all I can see is comical pair of glasses and a fake nose on a plane! It’s an interesting idea, but that they’re leaning into VTOL implies the efficiency is less than a conventional jet engine, which is a shame. I’m sure it will have m
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midasuni
4y ago
Head injuries are a leading form of death for car occupants, so why don’t we wear helmets when driving? “While car accidents contribute about 14% of the aggregate TBI cases in the US, they are the leading cause of TBI-related deaths among c
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4y ago
The U.K. has a large number of nuclear missiles. The prime minister of the U.K. flies budget airlines https://www.aviationbusinessme.com/airports/airport-business... Goes shopping in foreign supermarkets https:/&
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midasuni
4y ago
I wonder how that would compare to South Africa, Brazil, Indonesia, etc In SA our office DSL in 2010 had a cap of 500MB a month.
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midasuni
4y ago
In the 1980s the internet was hardly in every home globally either.
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midasuni
4y ago
A hackney cab is a type of taxi (one used in london), and can be hailed. A mini cab must be pre booked, like Uber or Addison Lee.
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midasuni
4y ago
I think the cfds were a Lib Dem idea. Like other good things from the coalition (equal marriage, working people tax cuts etc)
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midasuni
4y ago
Despite what corbynites tell you the problem has never been privatisation or the franchise system - certainly not the TOCs. Indeed the system has managed to take Marylebone and the Chiltern main line from near closure under government contr
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midasuni
4y ago
I guess you can’t have two suppliers, one on a traditional fixed contract and one on the octopus stuff, and choose the best one
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midasuni
4y ago
How would building 100 times as much wind power in Scotland reduce gas usage in England/wales without building more north/south interconnects?
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midasuni
4y ago
But it’s expensive and takes a long time. The U.K. isn’t building enough quickly enough to take benefit of production in the north. Maybe if variable prices encourages energy intensive demand to shift to Scotland that will help, but that’s
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midasuni
4y ago
Only if the interconnects are there. Scotland can operate without gas for periods now, but it can’t get enough power where it’s needed.
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midasuni
4y ago
Specifically poor people have more cavities “found” It’s unclear from the abstract what country this applies to.
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midasuni
4y ago
To cross the Atlantic between NA and Europe you need to be able to travel 138 minutes from an airport, although for almost the entire area it’s 120 minutes. This is accomplished by having air strips which can take massive planes like A350s
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midasuni
4y ago
If you drive say 300 miles a week that’s 100kWh for a typical electric car. Another 150 for domestic use and that’s 35kwh a day. You have a system that generates more than that if you have excess to pump into liquid storage, but why do you
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midasuni
4y ago
Compressed air has a higher round trip efficiency than storage, and pumped hydro is twice as efficient as compressed air. However until zero kWh is generated from fossil fuels in summer, solar/wind and battery is a massive gain, even i
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midasuni
4y ago
Why not just a 20kWh battery for energy time shifting. Or are you looking to sell the hydrogen?
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midasuni
4y ago
That’s exactly it, and led to activex in response.
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midasuni
4y ago
That would break the business logic of millions of small businesses globally who rely on write-only excel spreadsheets to encode their business logic.
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midasuni
4y ago
Does YouTube stop people from uploading the videos to other platforms? Do they require a set commitment of work? There are various tests that apply to contractors in the U.K. to work out if you’re an employee or a Lego mate contracting comp
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4y ago
As household wages have increased (especially with increasingly two full time professional incomes now, which was very rare 30 years ago) and internet rates have been low, the monthly cost of housing hasn’t changed as a percentage of take h
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midasuni
4y ago
Wait for the twist when it’s revealed chatgpt wrote it
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