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by zelos 6y ago
I only just realised that there is an emergency physical key door lock on my Hyundai, but you have to pry a cover off the door handle to get to it.
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by zelos 6y ago
I guess that helps explain stories like this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-56165762 (tl;dr: North Korean man swam/walked round the DMZ and wasn't spotted for hours)
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by zelos 6y ago
Presumably there's a big difference in the level of inflation experienced based on income level as well: someone just scraping by is going to be much more exposed to food and rent inflation than a developer on $100k.
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by zelos 6y ago
I'm not saying it's not complicated, but complaints about expense and overheads for a company that makes something like $40 billion a year in profit ring a little hollow. That's roughly the size of the UK's defence budge
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by zelos 6y ago
I have no real view on public/private provision of services, but education is an area where I'm not sure how private 'efficiency savings' would exist. The bulk of the costs are salaries and the teacher/pupil ratio i
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by zelos 6y ago
The article also claims Pickwick Papers was published in 1936 and refers to the "Great Exposition", which I'm pretty sure is the "Great Exhibition"
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by zelos 6y ago
> graffiti on the walls Romanes eunt domus?
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by zelos 6y ago
That's definitely my sense of it. In normal times I worked from home one day a week and it was (ever so slightly) frowned on. I expect that to shift to most people doing one day a week at home and many doing 2-3 days.
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by zelos 6y ago
But what it means is that they then take up more of the other person’s time as they sit and watch the typing notification. At least have the question ready typed so you can copy paste it into the message box.
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by zelos 6y ago
Could you have the same independent entity decide the total funding for the BBC and then have the government pay for that out of general taxation?
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by zelos 6y ago
I wasn't suggesting that it should be thrown out, but mabe a shift in emphasis is needed. Multiple hours on times tables 2-12 is a lot of time out of the school week. Maybe my own memories of frustration at school, plus having to calm
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by zelos 6y ago
UK primary schools have advanced a lot in recent years, but there seems to be a lot of inertia. They still focus heavily on things like cursive and rote learning of multiplication tables. There's a lot of emphasis on things you can tes
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by zelos 6y ago
My one experience of private health care in the UK was bad enough: the medical care was great, it was relatively minor elective surgery, I verified everything as carefullly as I could, but I accidentally used an out-of-network aneasthetist
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by zelos 6y ago
Just to help set expectations: 1.5 hours a day is a lot for a 7 year old. That's probably not much less than a full school day of actually sitting down and learning. I have taught my oldest son programming via Scratch, Python, a Rasp
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by zelos 6y ago
It would be interesting to determine the effects of things like population density and urbanisation on the death rate. Sweden is a pretty sparsely populated country I think, which presumably acts to reduce the rate of spreading?
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by zelos 6y ago
Yes, the Brussels effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect One could say the UK has given back control...
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by zelos 6y ago
Don't CDPR do this kind of thing for every game they release? You think they'd have learnt by now. I've been getting fed up recently with just how buggy PC games are and regretting not getting a console, but I guess the grass
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by zelos 6y ago
I loved the Dirt series, I think I might have to go buy a recent version. I've been getting into racing games again recently and the sheer number of RPG elements, unlocks, micro-transactions etc. in things like Forza is exhausting. And
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by zelos 6y ago
> New cases reported Monday exceeded 600 for the second day in a row, bringing the total to more than 38,000, with about 550 deaths. South Korea's population is around 50 million. Their total deaths from Covid are similar to the
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by zelos 6y ago
Yes, but they're still software developers: most teams I've worked on have had plenty of contractors. It seems like the more experienced developers either stay permie and move into architecture/management or become contractor
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by zelos 6y ago
The median daily rate for sofware contractors in the UK is apparently around $500, which is probably over $100k/year. I guess that stops counting as Europe fairly soon, though.
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by zelos 6y ago
Also, people get confused with the efficiency of diesels, comparing MPG between petrol and diesel, when they're liquids with different densitites and carbon contents.
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by zelos 6y ago
There's a difference between something like a Prius+ and the PHEVs mentioned in the article though: the BMW X5, Volvo XC60 and Mitsubishi Outlander are big, heavy SUVs, it's hardly surprising that they have poor emissions.
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by zelos 6y ago
But: > no live virus was isolated from culture beyond day 9 of symptoms despite persistently high viral RNA loads. > This finding is supported by several studies demonstrating an association between viral load and viability of virus,
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by zelos 6y ago
Given that the alternative is not having a car at all (unless hydrogen takes off), surely people can adjust?
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by zelos 6y ago
At least they haven't confused the caption text and the alt text like most sites. "For Rachel, diving into this pool would be like swimming in potent bleach" actually adds to the article. It seems like for most sites these da
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by zelos 6y ago
As someone who really doesn't understand economics: if the government prints money to build infrastructure, where does the value they've added come from? I can't follow the logic of it: the government makes some money and pay
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by zelos 6y ago
I guess it's kind of the reverse of the "perfect being the enemy of the good" adage. "Just barely works on a good day being the enemy of the good enough" maybe?
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by zelos 6y ago
Seems like other (slightly) more reputable sources are now reporting that it's Excel: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/covid-testing-technical-i... A Telegraph article mentions a Press Association report.
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by zelos 6y ago
I'm not a backend developer, but isn't that likely to be in the terabytes? This seems to be issues around tens of thousands of rows.

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