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'Merry Christmas': 30 years of the text message(bbc.co.uk)
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Clearview AI fined in UK for illegally storing facial images(bbc.com)
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Latest developments in graphene EV batteries(topcharger.co.uk)
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NFT is Collins Dictionary's word of the year(bbc.com)
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London's Newest Library Has a Copper Lined Room That Blocks Messages and Emails(londonist.com)
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The British Library puts 1M newspaper pages online for free(ianvisits.co.uk)
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BioNTech's P2 Trial of mRNA-Based Vaccine for Advanced Melanoma(bloomberg.com)
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Darktrace Jumps 40% on IPO(sharesmagazine.co.uk)
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What can we learn from the data on the Hungarian victims of Covid-19?(telex.hu)
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Canadian semiconductor firm Alphawave plans $4.5bn London IPO(msn.com)
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New Alan Turing £50 note design is revealed(bbc.co.uk)
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Two more life-saving Covid drugs discovered(bbc.co.uk)
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by aries1980 6y ago
Posting a link from a 240-year-old Western medium that was downvoted to -3 from the default 1 was the last time I wasted my time on commenting a HN post.
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by aries1980 6y ago
> The excerpt speaks for the "quality" of this kind of journalism: headline says I agree, just I couldn't find a better link to the National Grid announcement.
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by aries1980 6y ago
There were couple of days recently when almost zero energy was generated by wind: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/blackouts-fear-forces-pow... (an excerpt without being paywalled: https://www.thegwpf.com&
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by aries1980 6y ago
Afaik green energy has never meant to provide standalone, at least until the surplus energy generated at daily peaks can be reasonably stored for days. This paper is a bit dated, but explains well some of the concerns: http://www
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by aries1980 6y ago
> Anyone who bought the S&P and held it for 10 years made about 14% YoY (more like 10% if you take the last 30 years) Anyone knows a study with other than US markets where they compare local index stock performance with housing cost?
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by aries1980 6y ago
Indeed. In my hometown - Gyula, Hungary - there was a precision mechanics factory, for phones, faxes, communication relays called Integra. It wasn't huge, employed a couple of hundreds people. In '89, Olivetti bought it for peanut
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by aries1980 6y ago
It was rather the result of the genital measuring contest over the fishing rights between France and the UK.
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by aries1980 6y ago
> I think this is one of the reasons Python took off. Python took off for data because the frameworks and libraries around it. Without IPython/Jupyter, dataframes, Scipy, it would have way less marketshare.
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by aries1980 6y ago
Yes, but the point of memorisation is you can much quicker re-learn the subject and you know there is a solution to a problem when you face it. If you have never learnt it, you don't know that there is a solution, or you start to optim
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by aries1980 6y ago
> There are many times that I need to rewrite my code because of non-adequate design. Formal education won't give you the knowledge to get it right every single time. Your design will be always non-adequate because the circumstances
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by aries1980 6y ago
> No ability for British firms to operate in other European countries with equivalent rights as a local company, will have to form subsidiaries instead in many cases. This has never been the case. To enjoy full rights, you have to have a
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by aries1980 6y ago
I hit up Sainsbury's this early morning. Only the expected stuff ran low (turkey, fishes, frozen side dishes), but everything else were on stock.
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by aries1980 6y ago
I wouldn't say healthcare in the UK is free, but rather it has a good balance. If you have an accident or chronic illness, the system won't leave you alone. But they cover zero cost of prevention. E.g. regular check-ups, blood tes
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by aries1980 6y ago
> If you accept that you can’t prove your axioms, then your not accepting that all beliefs about truth are equally valid, you’re only accepting that all beliefs about truth are equally capable of being proven (as in, equally not capable
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by aries1980 6y ago
I'm wondering how families or even just couples cope with relocating for a short while. - What do you do with your belongings? Do you move them around? - Does someone takes care about your home while you are away? - What about pets? -
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by aries1980 6y ago
The Name of the Rose is more creepy. Or the Highlanders.
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by aries1980 6y ago
Thank you for the clarification.
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by aries1980 6y ago
This doesn't stand for many legal cases, including copyright, work rights, taxation, etc. I don't see why this case should be an exception with having an effect outside the US jurisdiction.

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