ranko

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by ranko 3y ago
Children under 16 already get free travel on buses and trams in London, though they have to pay discounted fares on the tube and they'll need a photocard if they are 11 or over.
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by ranko 3y ago
W B Yeats, born in Dublin in 1865, put it like this: The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-comi...
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by ranko 3y ago
Ironically, it was ignored by the authors in much of their writing, both in "Elements" and other works.
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by ranko 3y ago
"28 times smaller than" (and the like) is one of my bugbears. I think it means "1/28th of the size", but then you get constructions like "three times smaller than" instead of the clearer and more obvious &
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by ranko 4y ago
Tomatoes are vegetables and fruit. "Fruit" is a botanical category, including plenty of things that are inedible for various reasons. "Vegetable" is a culinary category, including many things that are fruit (aubergine&
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by ranko 4y ago
Only if the child in question is male.
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by ranko 4y ago
Calling an election is now back in the hands of the government (not parliament) since the repeal of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act; a PM can ask the monarch to call an election without having to get the agreement of parliament. Neither the
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How to Read a Formal Document(davidallengreen.com)
2 points by ranko 4y ago|0 comments
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by ranko 4y ago
> a party that wins 35% of the vote gets 35% of the seats At the last general election to the UK parliament (2019), the Tories won 44% of the votes, and ended up with 56% of the seats - first past the post strikes again!
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by ranko 4y ago
> It keeps happening because there are no consequences for it happening Worse than that - the consequences are positive for Experian: "For now, Rishi has decided to pay Experian $25.99 a month to more closely monitor his account for
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by ranko 4y ago
I'm struggling to believe this - without informed consent this has to be medical malpractice (enough to end someone's career) and/or a crime.
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by ranko 4y ago
I think OP was suggesting that if you hint (or state explicitly) that men's restrooms are unsuitable for nappy changing, you'll be able to avoid an unpleasant chore (by pushing it onto your partner). Honestly, changing nappies i
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by ranko 4y ago
Take your paternity leave (as much as you can). Drop down to a four day work week, even if you feel like it's a risky question to ask, as soon as you can. Everyone will tell you that you can't get the time with your kids back - an
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by ranko 4y ago
Blame Chorleywood; sounds like the setting for a children's TV programme, actually the name of the process whereby we get a bread-adjacent product that's suitable for mass production. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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Going Critical (2019)(meltingasphalt.com)
63 points by ranko 4y ago|11 comments
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by ranko 4y ago
Miners have a pretty high chance death while on the job - according to https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/osh/os/osar0012.htm , the US death rate in 2007 (because that's the first figure I found) was 24.8
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by ranko 4y ago
Scottish notes are not even legal tender in Scotland. This isn't as bad as it sounds, in fact, as many things (credit cards, for example) are not legal tender but are widely accepted in shops etc. More at https://www.bankofe
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by ranko 4y ago
"Seizing the Means of Production" is a reference to Marx, who had many things to say about class tension, such as "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles".
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by ranko 4y ago
I think that's in "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman". As I recall, he gave up on it because no-one else could understand him - notation is both a tool of thought and of communication with others. A similar idea is Abelso
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by ranko 5y ago
Some data; traffic-related deaths per 100,000 population: US (2018 figures): 12.4 France: (2019): 5 Of course this neglects many confounding variables, but a factor of nearly 2.5 is quite large. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by ranko 5y ago
Unless they were hospital staff, emergency responders, etc, etc...
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by ranko 5y ago
More species of tree, not more trees.
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by ranko 5y ago
A good idea, but unfortunately the author has thought of that - every page starts and ends with a complete sentence!
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by ranko 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that they can't do it without your consent (and cooperation) - they at least have to verify your identity documents (name, address, DOB, etc), get a list of your addresses for the last five years, enter your drivin
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by ranko 5y ago
There's a nice RFC on machine naming - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1178 - but sadly the practice of giving machines memorable and distinctive names has largely died out at workplaces.
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A ‘false solution’? How crypto mining became the oil industry’s new hope(theguardian.com)
2 points by ranko 5y ago|0 comments
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by ranko 5y ago
The sculptures were created approx 440 BCE, and Elgin wasn't involved with them till around 1800 CE, so it's not obvious that "Elgin Marbles" is an old name in this context. It's also not obvious that Elgin removed
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by ranko 5y ago
It's not, in the UK at least, as Orwell died over 70 years ago (1950). It appears in the US (where this work is apparently still under copyright) the rule is 95 years from date of publication for works published before 1978.
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by ranko 5y ago
Who is "they" in your speculation?
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by ranko 5y ago
See also a case where the hardware worked differently due to the moon https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/27/us/moon-is-blamed-for-bli...

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