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by willyt 5y ago
Well it set a precedent for Cross-European collaboration and presumably a whole bunch of engineers from Britain and France all started talking to each other sharing ideas, learning each other’s language and cultural differences in the early
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And the whole thing is full of factual errors as well. I’m not in aviation, but I’m quite interested in it and I know enough to get the sense that the only research this article was based on was some notes taken during a drunk hyperbolic co
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But it jump started Airbus, a hugely successful aircraft manufacturer, the difference between Airbus and Boeing is the dependence on fly-by-wire a technology that was first used outside the military in Concorde. So yes it was £3BN down but
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For a well dressed white person it would be sensible advice but I’m not so sure how well it would pan out for a black guy at 3am in Tottenham or even a white kid in a shell suit in Castlemilk for that matter. You almost certainly wouldn’t b
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I think a lot of American TV and movies that we see from a young age tend to portray America as some combination of violent, corrupt, venal, frenetic, a struggle. For every thoughtful film or show where no-one brandishes a gun there must be
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The Labour party in Britain was complicit in Brexit, otherwise it wouldn’t have happened. It is one of the only two mainstream parties that can realistically win an election. During the Brexit referendum and afterwards it was lead by someon
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French nuclear deterrent is entirely developed in house, whearas the UK one is US power plant, warheads and missiles with British naval architecture. Maybe the French didn’t give them nuclear tech for security reasons, same way no-one else
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All the <10 yr old spec houses in housing estate near me have got huge mould problems as somebody cut corners on either the installation of the insulation, the detailed design of the floor/ground connection or the ventilation, or al
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I just set the input language to French and let autocorrect add the accents, 99% of the time, it gets it right as there are not that many words where the accents change a word into a completely different word. The only one I can think of is
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This is a very deep rooted idea in American culture, the kill or be killed, you screw someone over before they screw you over mentality. It's actually something people from Europe need to learn about to be successful in business negoti
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We are supposed to have one bomber sub at sea at all times but a Royal Navy submariner once told me that we quite often don't have this due to cuts in maintenance budgets causing the vessels to be out of service quite frequently. Also,
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Two layers of 9mm used to be quite common in UK if you are aiming for a robust, heavy, quality feeling wall. One layer of 12mm feels cheap, not that hard to put a hole in it while moving furniture etc. One layer of 15mm board is common now
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I have friends from Europe who studied architecture in the UK and they say that after the 7 years of studying and working it takes to become an architect they would struggle a bit to have an intellectual conversation about architecture at
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I have a couple of 6tb usb disks formatted as a Btrfs RAID 1 volume plugged into a Rpi4, it's not the fastest but it has been reliable for over a year. I always make sure I stop the backup before pulling the cord on my laptop though. M
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Yep. I think they need to implement a "Fuel cost equivalent tariff" on public transport. FCET because everyone switching from a car needs to do this gradually so you can't include the depreciation etc because they are sunk co
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If you look at the accident maps, there are almost none on single track roads and lots on twin track roads. My hypothesis is that driving on a single track road feels much more risky so people pay more attention and slow down more on blind
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Lots of roads like that in Britian as well and the speed limit is 60mph/100kph. Not uncommon for two cars on a single track road to adjust speed to pass each other at a passing place without slowing down much, so at a closing speed of
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by willyt 5y ago
Quite and apparently everyone else thinks I deserved it for some reason! Fairly standard makita accessory, none of FFXtools, Axminster, Toolstop or even eBay had it in stock only place that came up in search was amazon. It was out of stock
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I just bought something from amazon and it turns out it was coming from a seller in another country and i had to pay an extra £24 in import duties and carrier charges. Nowhere on the listing did it say it was coming from outside the UK.
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If you have a mouse with more than left, right, middle buttons and scroll wheel, it needs a 'driver'[0] of some kind so you can configure what the extra buttons do. Otherwise you can ignore the extra buttons and just use it like a
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It takes about 2hrs to drive to the tunnel from London. The high speed train does London to Paris in 2hr25. I’m guessing it takes about 7hrs by express coach.
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It mostly transports people who live in the 'home counties' (the smaller towns and countryside surrounding London) to and from the major rail stations, so maybe they should pay for it. e.g. 750,000 people pass through King Cross s
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Freight 60-80mph constant speed. Stopping and semi-fast passenger up to 100mph but varies a lot. Fast passenger between 125-140mph. Fast-passenger is moving to HS2 albeit at 10 times the cost it would be to do the same thing in France.
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The tube has shorter times between trains than the New York subway. For example, Picadilly/Central/Victoria line trains run at <120 second headways on the central section. You couldn't control the gaps between trains preci
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Like on 17th century sea voyage, passengers would have to take a turn on the pumps if the ship started to founder in a storm…
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How Innovation in the Commercial Space Industry Is Impacting the Maritime Sector(gcaptain.com)
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I walked down through the financial district of London on a Tuesday morning recently and I did not see one single office worker sat at a desk in any office I passed. Just empty buildings with lights on and bored receptionists sat at front d
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That sounds like nonsense and it's certainly not what I've been taught when I've taken advanced first aid courses. It's true that the statistics are not on your side in that the CPR has only a 1 in 5 chance of being succ
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> I don't understand this part. Isn't the important number here the total number of people in the hospital (or ICU or other ward) relative to the total number that the hospital (or ICU or other ward) can accommodate? Or alterna
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I haven't checked this as the full data the article was based on wasn't given in the article, but it wouldn't make much sense to count out-patients as part of the covid hospitalisation statistics, so I imagine that the word &

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