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From Two Bulls, 9M Dairy Cows(undark.org)
1 points by sambeau 7y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 7y ago
"Seen here in an illustration" This half-hearted attempt to say that the impressive-looking image of The Nearby Star was in fact an artist's impression of what a Red Dwarf might look like, made me laugh. Is it seen here?
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Cat filter accidentally used in Pakistani minister’s live press conference(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by sambeau 7y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 7y ago
One of the easiest ways to be predictable is to tell children what is happening and what is about to happen soon—especially if it will cut short a game or a play session. I have experienced so many tantrums of other people's children w
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by sambeau 7y ago
True, I could have worded that better—I meant it as a high-profile example of a restaurant that could have been destroyed by norovirus. It lost a Micehelin star for a while which is often portrayed as a disaster for a restaurant but, as you
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by sambeau 7y ago
I could have typed that better for sure. I had meant to say that Apples were not common anywhere in the UK but the places I had seen some were in tech colleges and private schools which it seems would fit with your experience too.
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by sambeau 7y ago
Again anecdotal, but my experience was that state schools had BBC Micros but private schools and many technology-focused colleges had AppleIIs. Apples were very expensive. I remember helping out at a technology college night class where peo
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by sambeau 7y ago
I think that's a fairly harsh reading of the report. Saying "Fat Duck was criticised for poor food hygiene practices" is a little different to saying "Several weaknesses in procedures at the restaurant may have contribut
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by sambeau 7y ago
People do go into restaurants with viruses though, and restaurants get treated very harshly should people get infected from someone or some foodstuff there. Restaurant's don't create viruses, they just pass them on, usually unwitt
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by sambeau 7y ago
While reading this I think it's worth taking into account that not all the plastic waste originates in these countries, some of it is western trash sent there for recycling. At one point China was importing more than half of the World&
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Where does your plastic waste end up?(nationalgeographic.co.uk)
69 points by sambeau 7y ago|26 comments
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by sambeau 7y ago
Third Light | Cambridge UK | thirdlight.com | Onsite / Remote (UK, maybe EU) Third Light makes a media library management and sharing platform that helps people to manage tag and sort through large collections of media files: images, v
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The white paper on online harms is a global first. It has never been more needed(theguardian.com)
1 points by sambeau 8y ago|0 comments
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African Burial Ground National Monument(en.wikipedia.org)
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by sambeau 8y ago
It's nearly happened: A minister inadvertently found himself in the wrong lobby in a Commons vote after a mix-up with a glass of water. Lib Dem MP Andrew Stunell was filling up a glass from a washroom inside one of the Commo
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by sambeau 8y ago
Security, yes. Privacy—I don't believe so* *—though it depends what you mean by 'better'. I don't think anything existing int the EU is as secure and as private as what Apple just announced. For sure the average EU CC is
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by sambeau 8y ago
Just in England and Wales so not including Scotland or Northern Ireland.
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Automation could replace 1.5M jobs [in UK], says ONS(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by sambeau 8y ago|1 comments
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Google fined €1.49bn by EU for advertising violations(theguardian.com)
4 points by sambeau 8y ago|0 comments
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The Cambridge Analytica scandal changed the world–but it didn't change Facebook(theguardian.com)
2 points by sambeau 8y ago|0 comments
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Air-breathing rocket engine set for key tests(bbc.co.uk)
192 points by sambeau 8y ago|109 comments
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by sambeau 8y ago
Every time someone mentions Micro Men I feel compelled to mention that the original script title was "Syntax Era"
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by sambeau 8y ago
• No running water inside: "Some people, if they’re homeless, use a sink to wash their laundry," says DiBenedetto. So there’s no sink I find that a very strange feature. What is wrong with homeless people washing clot
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Microsoft Staff: Do Not Use HoloLens for War(bbc.co.uk)
39 points by sambeau 8y ago|65 comments
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by sambeau 8y ago
Me too.
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by sambeau 8y ago
Could you perhaps point us all in the direction of an article that gives some useful solid advice?
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by sambeau 8y ago
This thread about what to charge is also interesting and enlightening (especially the concept of asshole rates): https://twitter.com/XCK3D/status/1093937747478233088 This is the basic formula for figuring out
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Elon Musk's Tesla to cut about 3,000 jobs as cars 'too expensive'(bbc.co.uk)
26 points by sambeau 8y ago|4 comments
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by sambeau 8y ago
I once asked the nurses in the intensive care ward, where my baby son was, why they didn't work with adults rather than children. Surely the heartbreak was hard to cope with? They said it was because children didn't know they were
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by sambeau 8y ago
"It’ll cost about $1.5 to 2 million to replace the Amiga" :facepalm:

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