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by willyt 4y ago
I agree. I might need to take a train to London from a regional city on Monday. Cheapest ticket is £150. Even with the high fuel prices currently it will cost me £60 to drive instead.
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Most rail investment in the UK is ultimately paid for by the government. E.g HS2, line upgrades etc. Train companies might make a contribution to the cost of buying new trains through the cost of leasing them from the government regulated m
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And the least generous seat pitch and the slowest journey times on trunk routes.
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A union is just a way to make a multilateral contract negotiation between one huge party and hundreds of thousands of very small parties into a bi-lateral contract negotiation between two equals, it’s a completely rational negotiating tacti
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Cheapest makita 18v driver doesn’t have this.
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UK: pretty sure you dont get charged for anything execpt possibly ambulance/hospital if you are not from UK or EU, but I suspect it’s so unusual most NHS staff wouldn’t know how to bill you. Definitely no charge for sea rescue by the
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by willyt 4y ago
I find that for smallish construction screws like M5x60mm typically used a lot in GB Posidriv is better than Torx because an impact driver will destroy any Torx bit smaller than T25 the first time you use it. For bigger screws, Torx is the
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by willyt 4y ago
Safety can be solved with a parachute that lands the whole aircraft in the event of a catastrophic failure. These are already fitted to high end GA aircraft like Cirrus.
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RS components https://uk.rs-online.com/web/ is the British equivalent. Also used to have an epic paper catalogue that came in 5 volumes.
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The underground gets quite a lot hotter than the legal temperature limit for transporting livestock in the UK. Supposedly the record is 47°C
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by willyt 4y ago
Outlanders (iOS) Sim city (pc/mac) Transport fever (pc/mac)
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by willyt 4y ago
This is my experience in the UK. If you are party to a contract and due to the failure of the other party to adhere to the terms of the contract you are out of pocket the other party needs to put you back in the position you would have been
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by willyt 4y ago
Yes, or a little superscript like ™ but fr for French, lt for latin, db for German, gr for Greek etc. then we would get some clues about what set of pronunciation rules we might be using when saying the word in English. Reading out written
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by willyt 4y ago
Back to the old days when you had to learn from working in the industry what the best equipment is and how to use it. We used to have to read trade magazines to find out about new developments. Probably you need to subscribe to whatever the
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by willyt 4y ago
All the affinity stuff is great. They could triple their prices and I'd still be happy to buy all three apps.
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by willyt 4y ago
A little bit Off-topic... I just googled for it, and I couldn't find the answer anywhere. Does anyone know, what is the minimum that a developer can charge as a yearly subscription on the apple App Store? Can you have multiple in-app s
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by willyt 4y ago
Vodafone is a mess. I bought a 24Gb pre-paid sim which was supposed to last 2 years but they 'lost' my plan after 6months and 2Gb of data use. Spent an hour on chat with them telling me that no such plan had ever existed until I t
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by willyt 4y ago
I think the innovation is the removal of manual handling involved in transferring goods to a train or between trucks at a logistics hub. By making the modules small enough that they will ultimately be able to trundle autonomously at low spe
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Important also to remember that after the FO, who was pilot flying, first expressed surprise that something didn’t seem right, the period of confusion lasted only about ~45 seconds before the captain confirmed that he/she had taken com
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by willyt 4y ago
The economics of fixing cars must be quite different in the US maybe parts are a lot cheaper but new cars are more expensive? I had a 10 year old Toyota estate car that was basically worth the scrap value of the metal but it ran ok. In year
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by willyt 5y ago
I don’t understand the map. If an area is zoned commercial can you build shops on the ground floor with flats above or is that not allowed?
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by willyt 5y ago
I don’t think Britain was very successful in our public health mesures. We were far too slow to lock down and recommend masks and as a result we had twice as many deaths as comparable countries like Germany and France. Our health care syste
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by willyt 5y ago
5. Is true for British people as well. (I am British and I have realised that I only speak a little French)
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by willyt 5y ago
I do marine search and rescue. We use the Bowline, Clove hitch, Rolling hitch, and Sheet bend in nearly all situations. We have to know how to tie a Reef knot as we are likely to come across them on casualty vessels, but we always use a sh
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by willyt 5y ago
Really? In the UK they provide free legal advice and accompany you to every meeting with your employer in any kind of HR dispute. Not sure about every union but definitely transport, teachers and actors.
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by willyt 5y ago
<pedantic nasal voice> Actually as a Royal Navy ship, she would fly a white ensign, not a red ensign. </> (Sorry, couldn't resist)
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I looks like they tether it to the ground with tension cables to weights or piles when they are lifting very heavy loads. If this was replacing a standard construction crane that would be economic as these things often have their own signif
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by willyt 5y ago
600 days to build a semiconductor plant seems quite quick! In my part of Britain just now it is not uncommon for it to take over 250 days to get permissions in place to build a 3 bedroom house.
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by willyt 5y ago
A lot of old fashioned nursery rhymes and children's stories are about evil step-parents?
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Also a mac mini is £700 which is the equivalent of ~3 days work for most trades here in Britain. I you value your time as much as a joiner and if it’s going to take you more than 3 days to get your environment setup and keep it maintained t

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