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by philjohn 5y ago
Interestingly, the dialect of French spoken in Belgium has a name for 90 - nonante. They still use quatre vignt for 80 though.
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by philjohn 5y ago
And to be fair - even that quote "It doesn't provide the perfect protection people think it does" and "people touch the masks". The science on masks points to them helping when used correctly, but many people use th
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by philjohn 5y ago
Yes - but it's likely they'll be releasing those in cinema's and not doing premiere's on Disney+ as they did during the lockdowns.
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by philjohn 5y ago
These aren't for AI workloads, they're for things like simulating atomic blasts.
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by philjohn 5y ago
It was either "voluntarily block, or we'll force you to". And the piracy site blocks are due to high court orders - not a lot an ISP can do in those cases.
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by philjohn 5y ago
There seems to be other equally pressing market capture targets to go after - Sinclair broadcasting being one example. It seems interesting that "Old Media" is coming off unscathed and the ire is all directed at "New Media&qu
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by philjohn 5y ago
There are a lot of things that are just plain better in the UK compared to the US. Out of network ATM fees being a big one. See also regulation about what the incumbent last-mile network provider (Openreach) can charge ISP's to provide
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by philjohn 5y ago
And incidence of myocarditis if you get Covid is even higher than if you have the vaccine ... who'd have thought it.
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by philjohn 5y ago
To be fair, when you fly to tiny regional airports 100 miles away from the city you're supposedly flying to, it's not hard to advertise destinations that larger airlines don't serve ... (only slightly joking).
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by philjohn 5y ago
Not if you're buying stock on the open market - only in the IPO, or in additional sale rounds, are you providing funds for a company to scale out their operations.
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by philjohn 5y ago
I had a similar experience with Logitech - when I first got into sim racing I got their cheapest wheel and pedal set - it started not keeping a calibration so contacted them. They paid for me to ship it to them, and then just sent me the ne
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by philjohn 5y ago
When I started having meetings in Workrooms I was shocked by how much less fatiguing it was than a standard VC, even with the Quest hanging off my face. I also regularly sim race (1-2 hour races on iRacing) in VR and that's a much bett
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by philjohn 5y ago
To sway an election, even a close one (e.g. PA or GA in 2020) you'd still need tens of thousands of votes. The sheer scale of an operation to cast that many fraudulent ballots has such an infantessimally small chance of not being disco
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by philjohn 5y ago
Need a citation on that. UK has universal mail-in-voting for any reason. Some US states also have universal mail-in-voting, and have done for some time. The counterpoint to "make sure elections don't have sources of fraud" is
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by philjohn 5y ago
Pretty much any app using bog standard winforms seems to suffer.
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by philjohn 5y ago
VR has much more feeling of "presence" than just video calling, or texting. I've been doing meetings in VR for a few months now and it beats Zoom etc. hands down IMHO, being able to look around, coalesce around a whiteboard,
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by philjohn 5y ago
Much like Microsoft's misstep in not taking the internet seriously in the 90's, and not taking smartphones seriously in the 2000's.
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by philjohn 5y ago
Anonymous voting of your representatives should never be a thing - you need to know their record to see if their values align with yours when going to the ballot box.
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by philjohn 5y ago
I don't sweat a massive amount from my face when working out, but my baseline level of fitness is relatively good. They are introducing a new workout pad (the pads are super quick to interchange).
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by philjohn 5y ago
They also conduct a LOT of government business over Whatsapp - and aren't keen about giving up the contents.
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by philjohn 5y ago
Beat saber is a surprisingly good cardio workout - lots of squatting, moving around etc.
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by philjohn 5y ago
Citralopam is also a mild antihistamine - so not beyond the realms of possibility.
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by philjohn 5y ago
I don't know - I saw most BLM protestors wearing masks. There was a distinct lack of them at the capitol ... that's what happens when a sensible public health measure becomes politicised I guess.
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by philjohn 5y ago
It's worth bearing in mind that just over the last few days we've seen Conservative MP's respond to genuine questions and being held to account over a recent vote (against preventing the dumping of untreated sewage) respond t
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by philjohn 5y ago
And if you DO need to file a tax return (e.g. earning over 100k, certain types of income) you can (in most cases) do it for free on the HMRC website with a guided system.
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by philjohn 5y ago
They've already put prices up once, but are still supremely affordable for a "fire and forget" backup service. Sure, you can probably do it cheaper with your "friend with a hard drive" solution, but there's zer
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by philjohn 5y ago
Warwick School, which was purportedly founded by Æthelflæd in 914, is the oldest boys public school in the country, as well as the oldest surviving school founded by a Woman.
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by philjohn 5y ago
If it's in the US it's likely the OP is in a "Right to work" state, so can be fired for whatever reason. One family in particular funded a lot of the push to implement "Right to work" - the AmWay owning DeVos&#
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by philjohn 5y ago
Someone I know was fortunate enough to get onto one of the clinical trials for ipilimumab - he had Malignant Melanoma that had spread to a nearby organ. He's still alive 15 years later, despite the survivability for Melanoma that has s
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by philjohn 5y ago
More to the point, the Canadian parliament could simply outlaw this property holding arrangement.

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