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by timthorn 6y ago
The OS was made a Trading Fund under Labour, more than a decade before the Coalition came to power: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/965/contents/made
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by timthorn 6y ago
The OS and Met Office (and various other bodies) are established as Trading Funds. That means that they are responsible for their income and expenditure and have to balance their own books - the government pays for services in the same way
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by timthorn 6y ago
Perhaps it's a deliberate plan as part of the slow movement - encourage the anticipation, and release it when it is ready?
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by timthorn 6y ago
The UK has a two party system in terms of who will form the government, but there's a plurality of smaller parties acting as strong lobby groups - some even getting reasonable levels of parliamentary representation. Case in point - wit
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by timthorn 6y ago
Because they're using Ordnance Survey maps, which is what walkers in the UK tend to use.
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Pylon of the Month(pylonofthemonth.org)
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by timthorn 6y ago
A few comments from a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24792515
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by timthorn 6y ago
It's from Newton, who it is thought was aiming a barb at Hooke.
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by timthorn 6y ago
Yes, full archive is available here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/downloads
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BBC Radio 4 “In Our Time”: Alan Turing(bbc.co.uk)
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by timthorn 6y ago
> That's rather the norm for shows; cancellation is a business decision, not a story decision. But if the series wasn't so long, each series would be commissioned as a whole and production in the can. That might not protect aga
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"Matt Hancock is wrong about herd immunity"(unherd.com)
12 points by timthorn 6y ago|14 comments
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AWS makes its own Arm CPUs default for ElastiCache in-memory data store service(theregister.com)
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by timthorn 6y ago
Paul Fellows, mentioned by reference in the article as giving the talk on writing RISCOS, presented again at Virtual ABug earlier in the Summer. The talk is online here: http://abug.org.uk/index.php/2020/07/04
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Speaking Clocks(britishtelephones.com)
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by timthorn 6y ago
Yeah, Powerhouse Energy has got a demonstration plant for this running now, taking poor quality plastic waste streams and generating H2 and syngas, as well as heat & electricity: https://www.powerhouseenergy.net/
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The ESXi-Arm Fling(blogs.vmware.com)
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by timthorn 6y ago
That's effectively how it works in the UK. Look up "Section 106 agreements" if you want details.
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Great North Air Ambulance trials paramedic jet suit(bbc.co.uk)
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Data Leak: Unsecured Server Exposed Bing Mobile App Data(wizcase.com)
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Oracle adds Arm-powered servers with up to 160 cores to its cloud(theregister.com)
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by timthorn 6y ago
There are a lot of places to visit, should you find yourself in the area: https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment-and-planning/conserv...
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OpenStack Homebrew Club: Meet the sausage cloud(superuser.openstack.org)
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by timthorn 6y ago
It sounds like this is extraction more than "mining" - the source brine is also being used for geothermal energy. A few more details in this article: https://www.insidermedia.com/news/south-west/globally-
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Lithium find in Cornwall spurs hopes of regeneration(theguardian.com)
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Lithium explorer makes 'globally significant' discovery in Cornwall(telegraph.co.uk)
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UK government’s plans to regulate the internet are a threat to free speech(freespeechunion.org)
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“Globally significant” find for Cornish Lithium(insidermedia.com)
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by timthorn 6y ago
Most of this used to be on the curriculum - Home Economics and Craft, Design and Technology have gone out of fashion, but covered the practical things. My school had a vehicle workshop as well as kitchen classrooms. Oh, and a typing pool, t
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by timthorn 6y ago
8:50/9am start is quite typical on the UK, from primary on. It seems to work.

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