jonathanp88

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by jonathanp88 3y ago
Increasing the number of teams will reduce the revenue shared out to all of the existing teams. So most likely all existing teams lobbied hard to prevent it from happening.
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by jonathanp88 7y ago
You are thinking of nuclear submarines. Submarines of this era would have a bank of batteries, using 1940's technology, which they could use to run the boat whilst submerged. Once they were flat, they would have to stay at or near the
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by jonathanp88 7y ago
In the UK there was a massive scare about Salmonella in eggs in the 80's, which resulted in many people believing it was unsafe to eat raw eggs. In reality the risk was tiny, and is now non-existent: https://www.bbc.com&#x2F
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by jonathanp88 7y ago
The static gallery generator sigal( http://sigal.saimon.org ) supports this. You can configure it to include the original images in the file tree it builds, but instead of copying the images just make a symlink.
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by jonathanp88 7y ago
> The SNCF is a nationalized train system, and it arguably works well It SO doesn't!. Apart from the flashy TGV Network, Frances Railways are a total mess. Try taking a Train in a rural area and you'll most likely find it'
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by jonathanp88 8y ago
It has an incredibly impressive feature set for an open source application, but it seems to me too much effort has gone into bells and whistles at the expense of the basic functionality. The thing that killed it for me is that unlike every
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by jonathanp88 8y ago
>> It is the remit of the British people to hold our government to account, not an even higher, more abstracted government that is even less accountable to the people. Why does it stop exactly there in the multiple layers of goverment
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by jonathanp88 8y ago
There used to be 2 operators of these things in Britain. After a series of incidents(fires at sea, sinking) due to shoddy maintainence by poorly resourced bus mechanics and questionable modifications made in a desperate attempt to make them