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by willyt 4y ago
I had a friend who was a farmer in a rural part of Britain and you could send him a letter by just writing First Name, Last Name, County and he would get the letter as his family had been farming that land for hundreds of years and the post
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If everyone's messaging has to be compatible with everyone else's then maybe we will finally only need one messaging app on our phones again instead of 5. Sounds great. I just want to be able to send messages without thinking abou
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by willyt 4y ago
~7.5 tonnes for a bus that seats ~70 people, no? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEC_Routemaster
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Just tried this on macOS but it must be a different 'units' command as it won't accept that input. :-( However I just discovered that if you hit command spacebar and paste that into the spotlight search it gives the right ans
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by willyt 4y ago
I wish there was a way we could tag threads so that I can have threads tagged with "iMessage bubble colour" automatically collapsed. I can see both sides of the argument but I'm totally bored of reading it for the 100th time
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by willyt 4y ago
After this happens the first time they will add some kind of checking mechanism which means you can defeat repossession by putting a doll sitting on some bricks in a child car seat to avoid this happening automatically.
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by willyt 4y ago
I am not a lawyer, but my understanding of my liability to my customers in the UK is this: I am bound by the contract of sale for 6 years to provide a physical thing that is 'fit for purpose' or to take 'reasonable skill and
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by willyt 4y ago
London is a pretty notorious money laundering hotspot. One of the tensions between the EU and the UK was that the EU wanted better scrutiny and regulation of British tax havens which the dirty money sector in London is not keen on.
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Pilots are meant to have a rule of thumb where they set a stopwatch and whatever takeoff power they are using they should reach 80kts within a certain time period, can’t remember exactly but I think it’s about 30 seconds. If not they should
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by willyt 4y ago
And a minicab license as well maybe?
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Most other EU countries have no-fault insurance; you don't need to establish whose fault the accident was in the EU.
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by willyt 4y ago
What? But we just make eye contact and wave to let someone know they can start to cross? Also I thought when you were turning off a main road onto a side road, pedestrians already had right of way?
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Pop Art Tunnel Michelangelo – Dragados and the Art of Tunnel Scanning(londonreconnections.com)
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I mistated in my original comment, this page is not to do with UK or EU consumer law, they are explaining your rights established by UK contract law which are hundreds of years old. Any purchase of anything from a haircut to an airport buil
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by willyt 4y ago
Apple actually goes to the trouble to explain what your consumer rights are. Here's the page in the UK that explains that according to English law the contract of sale lasts 6 years: https://www.apple.com/uk/legal&
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by willyt 4y ago
For HS2? No its not, even if you deduct the £8bn for land purchases it’s still way more expensive. Most expensive French line so far from Lyon Marseille was around €35m/km crossing the Haut Massif on 50 tunnels and bridges. Most recent
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by willyt 4y ago
Yep £130 return to London from Glasgow or Edinburgh by car for four people. You might get less than £100 return on the train for one adult if you book 2 months ahead and don’t travel in the school holidays or when there’s a gig or a footbal
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by willyt 4y ago
https://rnli.org/safety/know-the-risks/cold-water-shock
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With training and when you are expecting to go into the sea yes obviously you can swim 20 miles across the English channel but all the cardiac arrests from cold water shock and general panic in the first 15 seconds bring the average down. T
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by willyt 4y ago
This guy was incredibly lucky. Wear a life jacket. Carry a means of calling for help on your person. Ideally a Personal Locator Beacon (>£150), a handheld marine VHF radio (>£75), at least a phone in a waterproof pouch. In water less
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by willyt 4y ago
I mostly don’t use it much anymore but is dropbox going to convert all my files to download on demand without me explicitly asking it to? Is it possible to have it keep all files synced by default or do i have to configure this for every fi
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by willyt 4y ago
I don’t want dummy files that only download when I want to use them. I work with a lot of 100-500mb files and I will be really annoyed if I have a 30second delay every time I open one of these or even worse not be able to access them becaus
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by willyt 4y ago
Googling ‘arrested for tweeting uk’ brings up some daily mail stories which are quoted in brietbart and other similar websites. Can you find a link to a reliable source? E.g Telegraph, Guardian, Times, Financial Times. Also in the UK being
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by willyt 4y ago
No the national governments choose the commissioner to send to the commission. A nation in the EU can recall its commissioner. The commissioner acts in the interests of the Government of the nation that sent them to the EU commission. The n
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by willyt 4y ago
It's arguably still democratic in that each country, through its EU commissioner, gets one vote and the power to veto unless they've given up that veto for a specific issue which is done at a summit of all the national leaders of
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by willyt 4y ago
If this is also true in the EU, which I expect it is, does that mean there's absolutely no difference between supermarket diesel at £1.60/l and BP diesel at £1.80/l apart from a little bit of stuff, extra detergent or whateve
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by willyt 4y ago
Both apple music and Duolingo are basically just downloading sound files from the internet and playing them. One can do it all day and barely drop 10% battery. The other would drain your phone in an hour. OK Duolingo sometimes does some spe
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by willyt 4y ago
Anecdata: I pretty much never go on Facebook anymore and now my phone battery comfortably lasts all day. The current worst app on my phone is Duolingo, it guzzles 15% in about 15 mins and makes the phone noticeably hot. The most impressive
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by willyt 4y ago
UK examples: A friend of mine had to wait 1.5 years for the paperwork to come through from the home office for his wife’s visa before she was allowed to move here. Dealing with utilities is a total pain in the arse e.g A new electricity con
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Is it fast though? I’d rather fill out 10 forms and get a definitive answer in two weeks than fill out one form and wait up to a year for the definitive answer like in the UK.

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