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by willyt 2y ago
I looked up blendle and it seems to be a subscription service not a micro payment service. For the UK it only has The Guardian and The Independent. The first a reliable paper with opinion columns that lean left. The second a bit more tabloi
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by willyt 2y ago
But that’s good. In cases where your freedom to say whatever you want is used to incite hatred and abuse of others, this freedom is restricted by society. I would say that’s a better system than the US.
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by willyt 2y ago
What do you mean by free speech is regressing in anglophone countries? That seems like a weird opinion to have? Do you have a particular example?
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by willyt 2y ago
In a country of ~300 million people and with billions of people speaking English or having English as a second language that doesn’t sound like that many? If I bought the paper edition of the NYT most days for $2 that would be ~$600/yr
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by willyt 2y ago
Isn’t that exactly why having the option to buy a set number of articles would be better? If you get weirded out by your newspaper of choice you can try some other ones without subscribing for a year. Or even better regularly dip into newsp
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by willyt 2y ago
I’ve never heard of Blendle or post.news. I want a source of news that’s a known quantity and has been around for a while. I know where I stand with The Guardian[0] or The Financial Times or The Telegraph or Le Monde or the New York Times.
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by willyt 2y ago
Also, we did use to pay for the dead ends by just buying a paper with some ads in it. You haven’t explained why this model doesn’t work anymore? The newspapers have reintroduced the ‘you read it you pay for it’ with paywalls but they’ve ove
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by willyt 2y ago
Or that one article you wrote for motherboard about undersea cables in (2010) occasionnaly makes it to the top of hacker news…
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by willyt 2y ago
I’m talking about a general newspaper like if I go to the newsagent now and buy a broadsheet newspaper like the FT or The Guardian or The Telegraph it costs something between £1.50 and £2.50 ($2-3USD) which gives me access to about 100 arti
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by willyt 2y ago
>...or you bought them ad hoc one by one at the newsstand... 100% This is what is missing. I don't want to subscribe to the New York Times for £90 per year because I only want to read about 5 to 10 NYT articles a year. Why can'
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by willyt 2y ago
There’s a strip across France, the zone rouge, that’s too contaminated to farm because of WW1. There’s not even any effort to remove un exploded ordnance because the contamination means the land is unusable. https://en.m.wikipedi
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by willyt 2y ago
Right. This is also possible for us, but the engineer needs to go to the engine room and bypass the throttle system and take manual control of the engine management computers to give throttle inputs to each engine. If these computers fail b
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by willyt 2y ago
Transport for London is a pretty tightly run ship. Only capital city in the world that doesn't receive operating subsidy for its public transport. Not that that is a good thing necessarily as the tube is expensive to use relative to Pa
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by willyt 2y ago
'The Post Office' is a private company. Wasn't the Horizon system implemented after privatisation?
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by willyt 2y ago
Every property already has a UPRN (unique property reference number). If you go on a council website and find a recent planning application it will be linked with this UPRN in the council's database. If I ever want to find a postcode I
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by willyt 2y ago
I doubt they thought about it at that level of detail. I think it was just sold off on the cheap through a share offering with an initial offering[0] of underpriced shares? There was some kind of scheme where a private individual could buy
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by willyt 2y ago
That would be the French national grid system, no? The UK has the ordnance survey grid which is based on the OSGB36 datum. I'm pretty sure France will have a similar national datum to create their own local grid coordinates as planning
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by willyt 2y ago
I've experience of steering a twin prop 50 tonne SAR vessel so quite a bit smaller than this but still same principles. We also have strict procedures for transferring command of the helm between different stations. There is never a
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Design Language Basics for TfL's Digital Displays(blog.tfl.gov.uk)
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by willyt 2y ago
£3.50 more likely for central London, Edinburgh or any fashionable tourist place.
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by willyt 2y ago
I find that the cheapest kind of eggs poach much better because they have a much higher turnover in the supermarket so they are much fresher. The fancy omega eggs and other specialty ones are quite old in comparison.
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by willyt 2y ago
Yes, you would probably run some trains empty to a carriage sidings south of London to be cleaned and restocked.
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by willyt 2y ago
It would make more sense for Euston to be a deep level station and for HS2 to continue onto the mainline to Portsmouth/Bournemouth which have a similar population to Birmingham. I don’t think there will be the stomach to build a new hi
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by willyt 2y ago
They’ve already built the most expensive bit; all the tunnels under Home Counties Tory constituencies. The line to Birmingham has cost ~£100bn. To finish it to Manchester would cost another ~£30bn for about the same distance again. They sho
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by willyt 2y ago
They didn’t make the trains run on time they just said they had made them run on time and they controlled the media so it was impossible to know otherwise.
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by willyt 2y ago
I already delete unread emails like this that are written by humans. Unless there’s a specific bit of text in the email that’s generated by the new enquiry button on my website or someone has left an answerphone message then it’s deleted un
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by willyt 2y ago
It sounds like it’s an issue with political accountability in that it’s unclear who’s in charge and what the hierarchy is and therefore what the priorities are and who’s responsible for implementing them. Transport for London is government
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by willyt 2y ago
The new entrants just need to order a few 150,000 tonne container ships from Korea, these should be ready in a few years then they'll be good to go, as long as the incumbents don't sneakily cut prices just as their new ships are r
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by willyt 2y ago
I often get caught out by this in France because I usually eat a late lunch in the UK and France is 1 hour ahead. You are cutting it fine if you start trying to find somewhere to eat at 1:30pm and by 2pm you’ve had it, game over. Suddenly t
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by willyt 2y ago
It doesn't matter how many times you click it, there is a delay before it unpauses. If you click it once it will unpause after about 15-20 seconds. I'm not sure why it does this, it could be syncing with iCloud to also remove the

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