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by mkingston 5y ago
Curriculum change is relatively frequent in some places. Different classes take to different material at different paces. Different resources are available to different schools and different classrooms (think science experiments). In the UK
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by mkingston 5y ago
Whether this is a gimmick or not I cannot tell you. https://www.inov-8.com/g-series
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by mkingston 5y ago
Half of Paris city or half of Paris metropolitan area ? Where the former is inconsequential on the scale of France, and the latter is merely small.
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by mkingston 5y ago
My anecdotal observation is that is a position that a majority of old people themselves take, at least nominally.
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by mkingston 5y ago
One complicating factor: the repayment on this investment could very well be collected by another government, should said citizen leave. A similar problem to that of businesses financing education of their current or prospective staff.
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by mkingston 6y ago
Hey thanks for those. I hadn't noticed them as a whole, but I'd stumbled across a few of them from search results, and now I open the site and realise it looks quite familiar!
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by mkingston 6y ago
NZ has a similar problem with urchin ("Kina", in NZ) barrens. The urchins in NZ urchin barrens, as in CA, are malnourished and are subsequently difficult and unproductive to eat as they contain very little actual meat.
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by mkingston 6y ago
For sure it's bad for the laptop, I totally agree, and if you have something better to put your laptop on (a small table that goes over your lap, for example- I believe Ikea sells such a thing) do that. But given the choice between pil
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by mkingston 6y ago
I can't answer that, I'm afraid, I know very little of the Australian context, only estimated a router/antenna price based on a slightly conservative conversion of the price where I live.
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by mkingston 6y ago
Yeah, the UK rental market is pretty bad. My understanding is those fees are no longer legal. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tenant-fees-act See the section near the bottom starting "From 1 June 20
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by mkingston 6y ago
I don't understand what you mean by out of scope. I basically travel from activity to activity. Right now I'm skiing. As the snow recedes, I intend to take some time learning to paraglide. Then climbing season will begin. Circumst
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by mkingston 6y ago
Well, it's working for me right now. I've been in the van for a little over six months now and have a planned rough end date around mid next-year, so it's somewhere between living and long-term traveling. I'm not much of
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by mkingston 6y ago
Not OP. The van in the article appears to have ~800W of solar on the roof. Depending on preference, lighting requirements can be ~5-30W, laptop requirements ~20-150W. If heating and cooking needs are met with natural gas (the most common so
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by mkingston 6y ago
Others have mentioned an external screen. I have two ThinkVision M14 monitors (selected for USB C power + data on a single cable, and high brightness) and some tablet holders that mount on a range of different 1/4in tripod mounting har
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by mkingston 6y ago
Depends how remote you want to be. Your username suggests you're not living in Western Europe. But a (directional, especially) 4g antenna outside your vehicle can still go quite a long way, compared to cell phone tethering. You'll
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by mkingston 6y ago
Nix Pills was the "standard" intro text I started with a couple of years ago. At the end, you'll be able to navigate packaging with Nix in general, even if you're a little unfamiliar with some of the modern idioms and to
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by mkingston 6y ago
Nix is one part of the solution to this problem. About a year ago I lost my data to a corrupt file system. I tried to recover it for some time, eventually gave up, and was back to a working machine, with all the software installed and confi
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by mkingston 6y ago
Follow the nvim 0.5 release here: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/milestone/19
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by mkingston 6y ago
The official release of built-in treesitter comes with neovim 0.5. Which looks like it'll be out pretty soon. I've been watching a fairly steady march toward release here: https://github.com/neovim/neovim&#x
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by mkingston 6y ago
This is great. Speaking as a Kiwi, err, "conservation enthusiast": thank you for your work. May I ask: I see you're based in London and I'm curious what motivated you to work on this?
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by mkingston 6y ago
Anyone interested in a comparable organisation in their country might like to read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Consumer_Researc... Obviously I can't vouch for the reliability of these organisation
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by mkingston 6y ago
Thanks for the reply. Is there any middle ground? Is Sunpower's claim of 22-25% efficient monocrystalline semi-flexible panels not to be believed? Have I been fooled by the marketing? Are these thin film panels? Nothing I can find onli
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by mkingston 6y ago
I think that's correct for thin film panels. But it appears that monocrystalline panels can be manufactured with some flexibility. Hence my usage of the term "semi-flexible". Sunpower, for example, claims to produce high effi
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by mkingston 6y ago
The high efficiency panels are typically semi-flexible without the frame, are they not? Do you think it would be possible to obtain and mount them without a rigid frame? Or even to remove them from the frame? I'm asking partly because
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by mkingston 6y ago
In the USA ~17% of GDP appears to be spent on health care. I guess that skews fairly heavily toward elderly people, but 10% on health insurance for a family of four doesn't seem out of the realms of sanity. https://en.m.wiki
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by mkingston 6y ago
I'm no expert, but I guess if you disengage the load the turbine blades would accelerate until the internal heat losses to friction matched the energy input from the wind. In other words, they'd spin very quickly, probably far in
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by mkingston 6y ago
I agree that investment in an already very overvalued property market is unwise (except perhaps as part of a diversified strategy..?). Unfortunately, the capital gains tax status of real estate in NZ, and the leverage on your deposit (the b
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by mkingston 6y ago
Well, to call it completely hyperbolic without apparently looking for data yourself seems overstepping. Although perhaps this is a ploy to get the internet to do your research for you. In which case, well done. Choose house prices against i
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by mkingston 6y ago
Yes, that is definitely how it should be. Unfortunately the normal state of affairs is not the state of affairs in much of suburban New Zealand. I left Auckland eight years ago, and at the time rent was cheaper than mortgage payments with a
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by mkingston 6y ago
`kubectl apply --prune` should nominally do this. Irritatingly (I acknowledge I'm almost as responsible as anyone else for doing something about this), it's had this disclaimer on it for quite some time now: > Alpha Disclaimer:

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