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by wbillingsley 9y ago
They made the mistake of thinking the cool demo was the finished product.
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
Any minute now, I'm expecting someone to pipe up "Oh, I just shower clothed..."
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
We had some. Can't recommend them enough if you're a small family. They're also more flexible -- in a normal dishwasher you'd only put pots in the bottom rack, meaning if you've got a load of plates on you'd ha
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
Nope, that would be one of those leaps you can't make, loosely akin to the schoolyard game of - Donut consumption linked to economic development... Development of satellite infrastructure linked to economic development... Does this mea
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
I know universities are sometimes accused of "teaching for the test" anyway, but, well, wowsers
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
Of course, you do realise that dolphins spend practically their entire lives in close proximity to a reflective surface, seeing it from both underneath and above? Of course a surface where they can see clear reflections close up is going to
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
It's getting a little hard to see what he's hiding from -- his asylum claim had been based on fears that after being extradited to Sweden he would then be sent to the US; but (according to the article) he's only facing UK cha
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
https://abgc.org.au/2015/05/21/what-assistance-is-resistance... It seems the industry has been working on - - identifying "tolerant" varieties of Cavendish (there's more than one) - a GM fusari
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
Someone's already done that... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01670-6 Still has to go through all the usual trials, etc, before it can be grown commercially, and then there'd be questions over GM
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/11/google-ap... Technically, no. Though the Guardian is good and thorough at what it does, it is explicitly established to advance a liberal viewpoint
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
It may be because in the EU (and The Guardian is a pro-EU UK news organisation), Google is up before the regulators on more than one case, for example recently receiving a record fine from EU authorities that runs into the billions of dolla
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
Some modern defined benefit schemes do that -- give a formula for the total dollar value you'll receive at retirement. And if you want to convert that to a pension you buy an annuity with it. However, they seem (to me) to have a couple
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
A lot of this devolves to discovering that you can't remember more than you can remember, that you do indeed "feel" your mood just as we've talked about since the dawn of time, and other ways in which what we think is
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
Always embarrassing when after deciding academic results aren't a good enough indicator, the showcase achievement for "a better process" is a single tutorial question from an undergraduate class (or less than a thousandth the
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
Hmm, I suspect I'd have the opposite problem if I were to go interviewing again. As I teach students, there's an awful lot of whipped-together-in-an-hour demos on there from answering student questions by writing tiny non-meticulo
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
I had a mini, which was a very unique and fun design, and once had a Rover Metro as a temporary car while our car was in the garage -- also a vey fun car to drive and solid as anything. Supposedly, the problem Rover hit was though their las
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
They won't eliminate you. Just ignore you to play videogames in your parents' basement until it is clear that your future is gone. After all, in parts of most western countries, that is already what they are doing to local youth.
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
PhDs are a research training scheme, not an academic training scheme. As the economy has become more competitive, and more of the population has bachelor's degrees, proven research skills (as well as proven skills at independent work,
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
Apparently, one of the teams from Andorra does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Andorra
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
> Oh man, is there like, a big group of people for whom this distinction matters? Um, given there's been multiple court cases about that, yes apparently there is a big group of people for whom that distinction matters...
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
IndyRef didn't hammer out all the details first either. Neither did Brexit. Before the detail-hammering starts, it needs the decision that people actually want it in the first place (the referendum) otherwise it's all moot. A two-
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
Why wouldn't Barcelona continue to play in the Spanish League? Swansea (Welsh) currently play in the English Premier League (as did Cardiff City until they were relegated). Monaco play in the French league, San Marino in the Italian, t
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
This is not impossible to organise. Scotland and the UK were in a very similar situation, and determined answers to those issues perfectly well, and held a referendum in which it was closer than expected but Scotland opted to remain part of
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
> 1. Go to a mental health professional and talk about what's going on. Do so for several months. "Oh, just what I need - Another thing for my to-do list..." :)
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
To coin a cynical phrase, every job in the world advertises it requires excellent communication skills, and yet somehow they all get hired...
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
SO = family. I would honestly be very surprised if even you would be game to tell him/her that they are only on the level of importance to you as one of your dogs. Or that if there were a fire, you'd be rushing out the door with a
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
> My dogs are as important to me as my friends and family. The first criteria my girlfriend and I apply to where we eat, drink, and travel is whether our dogs can enjoy it with us. Eek, the article lost me here. Much as I have a very dea
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
> Why are the poor getting pets? Why do you think it's a right? Wow, there's a way to get an Englishman's hackles up! Nation of dog-lovers... Generally, we'd like society to be reasonably inclusive regardless of means
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
The one I was replying to was talking about objectors in the mid-west. Not much ocean in Iowa :)
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by wbillingsley 9y ago
If you're not keen on a big noisy ugly thing near your house, then the unspecified-risks-to-health card looks like handy one to play.. As I understand it, it's predominantly the noise that annoys people (At 110db up close, a turbi

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