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by desas 13d ago
I think the problem is that .co.uk, .gov.uk and so on are very well known in the UK. The .name subdomain rules are not very well known anywhere.
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by desas 6mo ago
HN is owned by Y Combinator. Two of the founders live in the UK.
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by desas 1y ago
Oh thanks for clearing that up, I misunderstood on my previous read.
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by desas 1y ago
The same thing applies in the US doesn't it? There has essentially only been two political parties (three if you squint hard enough) for nearly the entire existence of the country?
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by desas 1y ago
The US constitution is very similar, except in two important regards: amendments require two thirds majority votes in both houses and ratification by 75% of the states. We don't have the state mechanism. You could argue the four nation
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by desas 1y ago
To "fall foul", i.e. be required to add highly effective age assurance, there's a number of tests you have to pass One of the tests is: > Are there a significant number of children using the service or is the service likel
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by desas 1y ago
The childcare voucher scheme closed to new entrants in 2018.
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by desas 1y ago
> Terminating a train and turning it around takes a lot of space, space that is usually unavailable in a city center. This doesn't happen in London in my experience. Trains don't turn around, instead every train is double-ended
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by desas 1y ago
Is there a reason you couldn't build new light rail trains to a higher level of crashworthiness than they are currently? I don't know the full details, but that's how tram-trains in Sheffield, UK were allowed access to the ma
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by desas 1y ago
> We're drunk on the ease of implicitly painting people who can't read as much as us as simply dumb modern westerners. I'm not sure we're doing that. That's certainly not my intention. I know and respect many peo
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by desas 1y ago
This is a ludicrous take. I was on vacation last week and read three books, albeit not weighty novels. I can't remember when I read as few as 10 novels per year. I'm not a CEO, but reading is also far from my only hobby.
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by desas 1y ago
V5Cs have been online for 3-4 years now. You still have to send back your cut up old driver's license, though I have my doubts that someone is sat there checking and cross referencing each one they receive.
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by desas 1y ago
Strong is relative. The regional differences in my generation (40) and younger mostly come from accent and not from the vocabulary, whereas for my parents and grandparents it would be both. There is still local vocabulary: nesh, mardy, cob,
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by desas 1y ago
For perspective, the family - currently headed by the 12th duke, were estimated to be worth £910 million in 2024. They are not out of the top echelon, and are now structured much better for avoiding inheritance tax, which is also at a lower
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by desas 1y ago
There were 100s of Newcomen engines throughout Europe which were mostly used to pump water. They were being deployed ~50 years before Watt improved the design.
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by desas 1y ago
People were doing this in the days of printed phone books. There would be an "AAA Plumbers", "ABC Taxis" and so on. Reputedly, "Apple Computers" coming ahead of "Atari" (Jobs' ex-employer) in the
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by desas 2y ago
Not at all. It means that the UK police can compel you to turn over your decryption keys if it is deemed necessary and proportionate to prevent or investigate a crime.
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by desas 2y ago
> If instead, I would otherwise be wasting time playing video games or watching TV, then it always makes sense to do the job yourself. It depends on how much you value your free time and how much you enjoy fixing your washing machine. I
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by desas 2y ago
You're probably right. I just pulled it from https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/zone-2-93814.html without too much thought. Still, a £1.3m house isn't completely infeasible in London :-).
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by desas 2y ago
> I'd put less blame on London and more on secondary cities > HS2 is cut short because of money that people outside of London demand be spent on making it so expensive on a per-mile basis. I'm not sure that's accurate.
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by desas 2y ago
> the boundaries of the original private railway companies (GWR, LNER, LMS, SR) Minor point, though maybe less minor in context of the original post. They are not the original private railway companies. They are the companies created in
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by desas 2y ago
A £1.3 million house in London on a 10% deposit and a 4.7% interest rate over 30 years would be £6094 per month. The average price for a terraced house in london zone 2 is £1.7 million
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by desas 2y ago
> now it's been found that a majority of Brits receive more in benefits than they contribute in taxes This has been the case for decades. It's not news.
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by desas 2y ago
Octopus are already doing this in the UK,so it does actually happen.
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by desas 2y ago
The new builds are made of brick and block, and are indeed insulated really well. It's the millions of older houses, particularly Victorian ones, that are made of brick, are not usually insulated well, and are often intentionally draug
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by desas 2y ago
> They can't even speak freely about the horrible crimes being committed in their nation by grooming gangs. Unsure what exactly you're referring to, which might be ironic, but there's lots of news reports about grooming ga
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by desas 2y ago
It's not on the UK taxpayers dime, quite the opposite. The higher fees that international students pay are used to subsidise the costs of educating UK students.
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by desas 2y ago
Stack overflows moderation made it, and it will also kill it. There's something about software that attracts people who interpret rules for humans as something to be interpreted by computers rather than people. Absolute word Vs rough g
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by desas 2y ago
Build more bike lanes. To an extent, it's a self-solving problem. If you have great non-car transport options and an increase in traffic makes car driving less appealing, then more people will use those non-car transport options rather
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by desas 2y ago
It's not necessarily the jelly shot, and day drinking is far from unusual in the UK. The idea of an official organised parents weekend where you turn up at uni to party with your kids is a bit cringe. YMCA or not.

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