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by smackay 7y ago
3) the people handing the tickets will see that it's an issue and maybe they'll pass the message on. You move mountains one shovel at a time.
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by smackay 7y ago
Excuse the intemperate tone but you could also consider this is a move by the financial institutions in London to remove some competition.
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by smackay 7y ago
From wikipedia: The name is presumed to be a corruption of the Old Norse "Petlandsfjörð",[1] meaning "the fjord of Pictland", and is completely unrelated to the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh. https://en.wikipe
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by smackay 7y ago
It is rather interesting to see Stratechery talk about values when normally the articles are about markets and capital. I don't how the latter, since they are inherently amoral, can accommodate values either. As a result the argument s
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by smackay 7y ago
Anyone know if there is "handedness" in tails, particularly in monkeys where they use their tails while climbing. Do individuals always curl their tails clockwise or anticlockwise around a branch?
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by smackay 7y ago
One interesting side-effect is the rise of the edible straw. There are other edibles as well, spoons, forks, knives and bowls - though the latter is rather an old idea. So while the ban straws was a token gesture it does seem to have genera
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by smackay 7y ago
For anyone who thinks the Scottish highlands are beautiful. Here is what it used to look like and will again one day soon. https://rewildingeurope.com/rew-project/restoring-the-caledo... (The video at the bottom is a b
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by smackay 7y ago
A single tree can be an entire ecosystem in itself from all the fungi, lichens, insects, mammals, birds, etc. etc. A loss of tree species means a loss of others too. A lot of migrants birds and animals depend on seasonal fruits and nuts as
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by smackay 7y ago
While the basic message is probably true the way the article is so economical with the facts that it rightly belongs in the trash. The one example it cites is for a species of moth from the Balkans. Last time I checked the Balkans were stil
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by smackay 7y ago
From: http://www.celestialseasonings.com/product-safety-facts "On packaging, it’s important for you to know that our tea bag paper is made of a blend of natural, chlorine-free fibers, and does not contain epichlorohydr
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by smackay 7y ago
For a little cultural orientation, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letter While redemption is one of the themes in the book sadly the internet has not quite developed that level of sophistication so we ar
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by smackay 7y ago
But surely the first researcher is also in a state of quantum superposition and they are 50/50 opening/not opening the box. So how does time come into the equation? And does that mean that any observation is localised and there&#x
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by smackay 7y ago
4 could easily be true also. If I am a Polar Bear hunter but I can't travel so far in search of my quarry because the ice is melting and can't support the weight of my snowmobile then bear numbers could indeed rise. Whether they c
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by smackay 7y ago
Indeed nothing particularly controversial there and nothing that says that warming on a global scale is not happening. Take the point that climates have always changed. Most definitely. However the concern has always been the rate at which
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by smackay 7y ago
> competing to see who's last That's a very interesting observation but to really get it to work requires very close cooperation between parents. That takes a lot of time and goodwill which is not easy to create or maintain exc
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by smackay 7y ago
A well researched but ultimately rather lazy article there the author posits "Is Trump really a Nazi?" with the answer "No, not really". There are a few items thrown in about the UK just to keep it looking up to date. In
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by smackay 7y ago
Any issue tracking system is only as good as your ability to act on the information in it. Github issues' apparent simplicity is to your advantage here so I'd stay away from trying to recreate Jira with it. Kanban boards are a gre
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by smackay 7y ago
I don't want to make this overtly political but there is often good news on https://thoughtcontrolscotland.com/ The Scottish Government is at least trying to address the problems with some degree of success and a certa
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Scotland’s Electric Car(grousebeater.wordpress.com)
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by smackay 7y ago
> If you have a job that pays $20,000/year and you lose it to a robot, the silver lining is that the automation reduces the cost of living by $1000/year I think that is a highly unlikely scenario. Automation is being introduced
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by smackay 7y ago
This https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/different-types-twilig... is probably a good approximation.
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by smackay 7y ago
Seems it's a rather old idea, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
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by smackay 7y ago
It's definitely not made in good faith but I did say that generating angst was more important than facts not that the articles were based on lies though clearly being economical with the truth clearly helps push the writer's agend
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by smackay 7y ago
Agreed. However the trade in shark fins is very profitable and leads to excesses and unspeakable cruelty. Just search for "sharks cut off fins" in your favourite video site. Warning: the search results are graphic.
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by smackay 7y ago
There are lots of wires and connectors that come with mechanical controls. Everything need to be certified to make sure you don't have a recall of a million or two vehicles because the air-conditioning dials break after 6 months. All t
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by smackay 7y ago
Context is always important. Switzerland still has conscription in to the military and the culture that comes with it is very strong and male dominated - though it's importance has lessened somewhat. Switzerland is a modern country and
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by smackay 7y ago
So Assange is going to be sacrificed to further Javid's leadership ambitions. Shameful.
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by smackay 7y ago
It's always worthwhile to learn the history of an organisation. That tells you a lot about it's culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Food_and_Drug_A...
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by smackay 7y ago
I have a vague memory that there were also problems with the Sea Wolf based defence system on the ships. The controlling software apparently recognised the incoming Exocets as friendly. I don't know if there is any credibility to this
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by smackay 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_water_disinfection has a lot of great information on doing the same thing for free using sunlight. Perhaps of most interest is the rather long set of cautions. These would appear to

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