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was_a_dev
3y ago
How can you demand monetary compensation for working on an entirely voluntarily basis? They're already awarded power over the domain they moderate
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3y ago
In the realm of quantum computing, it always has
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3y ago
I know we have wet and cold climate in the UK, but it is also pretty mild. We could have timber framed housing, as we don't get hit by natural disasters with the exception of flooding
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3y ago
At that point a cheap photodiode would be more sensitive and have higher temporal resolution
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3y ago
I agree, but I also think it translates to a psychological discomfort for the passenger behind.
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3y ago
The adjustment is still enough to cause conflict - evidenced by it being discussed here. The design of an enclosed space should be to minimise conflict. The fact that people will be entitled over either "right to recline" or "
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3y ago
Seats on airplanes should not be abled to recline. The impact for the passenger behind you is always negative.
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3y ago
> But seriously, this article is light on details I'd expect it to be light on details. It is a project funded by the Royal Navy for next-generation navigation. Thye don't really want to give away details other than, "we
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3y ago
While this is a problem. The single largest issue that isn't properly being disscussed (especially during the strikes) is retention. The NHS is a leaking bucket of highly skilled doctors and nurses. Anecdotally, my wife is a doctor at
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That makes sense. People in the UK want their energy prices to fall, at pretty much any cost at the moment
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The attraction of owning a home is your landlord is the bank, who has set a long term profit goal on you loan. Not some landlord trying to extract futher value from your home. Since purchasing my home, my stress has evaporated. The freedom
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3y ago
To be fair, it wasn't even their natural resources
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Are renewables economically viable? I don't expect any nation that isn't "rich enough" to go green, but the trends of it becoming cheaper means it will become the cheapest means. Are we there yet? My assumption was the p
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3y ago
The user isn't even American. Nor is it clear that they are "liberal"
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3y ago
The issue here is point #2. We Brits already have a cultural apathy for learning other languages. And as you have said theres enough proficiency in English in Sweeden, that combines to make it easy for English speakers to take the easy opti
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3y ago
You are correct it is a difference rather than an advantage. Moving to France works well because the French are passionate about their language. Therefore you must learn French to thrive. This can be harder in other European countries where
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3y ago
I think a lot of people don't realise the large cultural differences between the US and Europe. Most Brits (myself included) fall into this due to the lack of language barrier. In my opinion, British culture aligns better to Europe tha
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I agree. I was thinking today how during covid, my country was short of PPE for doctors and nurses. As were many countries One policy failing in this instance, was our reduction of stockpiled PPE several years earlier. Since COVID, there ha
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3y ago
Except there wouldn't be any flights
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3y ago
Most of the New Scientist is breathless articles. It's borderline science-fiction hooking in the very latest of publications
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3y ago
Good to know. Thank you for answering my question
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3y ago
That's an industry standard as well
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3y ago
Would you be making that much outside of CA?
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3y ago
The sooner we divest away from London the better. Let Northern investment be more than polticial virtue signalling
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Nice singular data point
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I think it would be safe to call London an outlier for the UK, for the reason of how much investment is directed there
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3y ago
Part of this seems inevitable, with the West providing world-class education to Chinese students for decades, which can them be imported back into China Add in the funding China provides to universities, and you would be disheartened if Chi
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From a UK perspective, the US "throws money" at everything, both culturally and because you are a larger economy. Education, sports, healthcare, industry, space, science to name a few. The UK also has an opposing culture, we don
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The real issue isn't the smell but it out-competing native species
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During my physics undergraduate, it was for two primary reasons 1) Writing is more efficient when taking notes in real-time for maths notation 2) Better rentention of knowledge from the act of writing vs typing Now as I teach, more students
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