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by willyt 6y ago
Try some European stuff? These are all excellent and non-violent: - Normal People - Call my agent (Dix pour cent) - Fleabag
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by willyt 6y ago
Not all species of mosquitos are bad, e.g. there is only one out of 3500 that spreads malaria, some feed on nectars and are very important pollinators. Can this tell the difference between the different kinds? Or will the drones buzz around
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by willyt 6y ago
Yes but you are comparing 1950s technology to 2020 technology. Sounds like the mechanical design was a bit ahead of the capabilities of materials science and readily accessible metal fabrication technology at the time. I expect if you could
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by willyt 6y ago
I think we need to look at what France is doing. They seem to have a good safety culture as a society, 90% of their power is nuclear and has been for decades they’ve never had a serious accident. Other examples, they have also never had a s
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by willyt 6y ago
Trouble is I bet the members get undercut by people who don’t care about any of this as most councils don’t have have enough (any?) inspectors to ensure everyone plays by the rules
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by willyt 6y ago
I didn't get the idea of a touchscreen laptop until I got an iPad recently, now I'm constantly trying to touch my laptop screen and then getting confused when I doesn't do anything.
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by willyt 6y ago
Right but its pulling 12MW to accelerate you to 200MPH in a reasonable amount of time, it's not sitting at full power for the whole trip. I think they are capable of >300mph if you open it up to full power and see what happens. Also
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by willyt 6y ago
I read this article and immediately tried it on my own 2014 MacBook out of curiosity. Turns out its a third party command line tool that doesn't come with macOS that's reporting statistics on a proprietary system on chip SSD tha
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by willyt 6y ago
Electric locomotives on freight trains are pretty common in Europe probably because they can have a much higher power output in a smaller unit. A pair of TGV power cars, one at each end of the train, has a max power of 12MW at full accelera
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by willyt 6y ago
For an average person, Italy, Spain and the UK have better healthcare systems than the US by most metrics. The US is only better for some very obscure and exotic diseases that require expensive and rare treatments that most US citizens woul
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by willyt 6y ago
Well maybe you didn’t study have to study history at school. But I did and we learnt that the 1918 flu killed more people than WW1.
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by willyt 6y ago
For sure, I think in an English speaking country you would probably get your point across. They would most likely come back with asking for confirmation that you are declaring 'mayday', but you would probably cause varying degrees
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by willyt 6y ago
“Declaring an emergency” is US specific. The rest of the world doesn’t recognise this phrase you have to use either “Mayday” for immediate danger to life or “Pan Pan” for less severe problems. As I understand it, “Declaring an emergency” is
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by willyt 6y ago
It’s slightly different for marine radio, where it follows the MIRPDANIO mnemonic you might be thinking of that?
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by willyt 6y ago
I expect the person interviewed is a pilot?
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by willyt 6y ago
The death toll in Britain so far is about 3 times the number of British civilians killed in WW2.
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by willyt 6y ago
I dont like the new safari web extension that adds little in page pop-ups everywhere. When I enter my master password, how can I be sure that the pop-ups are coming from the 1-password web extension and not from the website or another exten
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by willyt 6y ago
That’s completely incorrect. There are only 802 seats. 92 are hereditary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords . Just because you have the heriditary title of Lord, it doesn’t mean you are a peer of the House of
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by willyt 6y ago
Not really. You don’t have to be a landowner or an aristocrat to become a lord. The ‘Downtown Abbey’ style lords, called ‘hereditary peers’ are on their way out, there’s not many left. Most peers are appointed by the government of the day s
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by willyt 6y ago
But on the other hand we dont have punitive damages in civil law for anything. Generally, you can’t be sued for a randomly large amount of money like you can in the US. It has to be provable and direct costs of, in this case, lost business.
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by willyt 6y ago
But they would have to pay their share towards the upkeep of NYC at least or there would be border checks on the subway bringing Wall Street to its knees as they run out of secretaries and cleaners who commute from distant suburbs. Many com
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by willyt 6y ago
Calling someone an ‘engineer’ doesn’t make them magically a more practical person. I’ve been on the contractor’s side in arguments with structural engineers where they’ve designed details that were literally impossible to weld.
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by willyt 6y ago
Also because plastic gets scratched easily by dust blown in the wind, after about 10-15 years you can’t see through it.
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by willyt 6y ago
It’s interesting that you can order custom made DNS sequences so easily, I didn’t know that. But, vaccination is something we have to do as a society. It’s fundamentally a social action taken across a population. He says that after taking t
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by willyt 6y ago
Surely that’s the same with NASA pork barrel politics affecting who gets to build it and therefore the particular companies and manufacturing capabilities the engineers have to work with. The space shuttle wasn’t engineering lead either.
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by willyt 6y ago
In business its called an overhead ratio. The total cost of employing someone, giving them a desk and buying them equipment, heating the space they work in, paying other employment related costs like a HR department, payroll etc. In my indu
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by willyt 6y ago
Assuming Canada has similar rules to Europe on energy efficiency now: It would not be such an elegant slender looking structure as there are stricter requirements for insulation which, for a structure like this, would require some major gym
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by willyt 6y ago
#Edit: I probably should have said that I was responding to this quote in particular, which made me angry: “Johnson assured Northern Ireland business owners in November 2019 that they would have “unfettered access” to the rest of the UK. “T
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by willyt 6y ago
The government has commissioned a contractor to supply these to all the schools in England and it turns out they haven’t done it properly. I would not be surprised if the next thing we will find out is that the company that provided these l
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by willyt 6y ago
You’ve forgotten how fast it felt compared to the previous computer you had when you first bought it? You’re working up to convincing yourself to buy an m2 MacBook 16? (I know I am). There’s less than 25gb of free space on the HD?

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