tomatocracy

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by tomatocracy 8d ago
Worth being aware that one of the potential problems with flooding (at least in the UK) is that it often leads to waste pipes or sewers becoming blocked and/or sewage mixing with flood water. This can still make replacing the building
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by tomatocracy 1mo ago
Both the US and the Soviet Union actually experimented with "nuclear fracking" in oil/gas fields. The Soviet Union also used atomic bombs to put out fires in gas fields as late as 1981.
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by tomatocracy 2mo ago
Yes, I do something similar (with Amazon SES in my case) but only for domains I know are problematic (Microsoft-hosted domains are the main difficulty - I've never had issues with eg Gmail).
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by tomatocracy 2mo ago
That's (mostly) true for "primary legislation" (Acts of Parliament) but "secondary legislation" (regulations, orders, rules and so on) can be challenged and potentially overturned/similar in the courts. This pa
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by tomatocracy 2mo ago
Maybe it's a cultural difference but I remember before smartphones on the tube in London as well and noone talked to each other during the morning/evening commute. I think the biggest difference is actually the lack of newspapers
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by tomatocracy 6mo ago
The idea is that some of the current hereditary peers will be given new life peerages under existing rules which would enable them to stay in the chamber. Granting new life peerages is mostly within the gift of the Prime Minister (although
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by tomatocracy 6mo ago
"Important" is quite a high bar in this case though if the House of Lords is insistent enough to actually vote something down. The cost in terms of parliamentary time for the government these days of using the Parliament Acts is v
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by tomatocracy 6mo ago
The thing is, the reason for the delays and inefficiencies is not really juries. It's mostly much more mundane things like the prison service not sending defendants to court at the right time, translators not turning up when they are s
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by tomatocracy 8mo ago
This is exactly how it works in the UK for purchases worth £135 or less which are shipped directly from outside the UK. The retailer has to charge UK VAT as if it were a domestic sale at the point of sale, and there is then nothing to pay
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by tomatocracy 10mo ago
The partial closure of parts of the criminal justice system during COVID led to a backlog which in turn appears to have pushed the system to a point it has been unable to properly recover from - there are some very interesting statistics he
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by tomatocracy 10mo ago
Driving too fast for the conditions (but within the limit) would usually be considered Driving without Due Care and Attention even if you don't crash (although the likelihood of anyone being around to enforce it on a deserted country r
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by tomatocracy 10mo ago
The slide feeder is good but it's worth being aware that if you have slides mounted on cardboard (I had a lot of old family photos like this I used it for) it will often grab a couple at once. You can fix that by clipping eg a driver&#
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by tomatocracy 10mo ago
All businesses used to get votes in local elections in England and Wales (by virtue of being ratepayers) and boroughs/cities had separate Aldermen and (Common) Councilmen. The City of London (ie the square mile, not the metropolis) ret
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by tomatocracy 11mo ago
Not sure but I think I read a while ago that they were removed due to unreliability (it's a while since I've been there myself). It was very clever how they did the acceleration/deceleration - the "tiles" of the wal
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by tomatocracy 11mo ago
At least some of the problem is the level of costs which are spent on admin activities instead of teaching (research is supposed to be separately funded although in reality it's messy). That's where I'd start.
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
> To work legally currently you need an NI number More than this, employers are already required to verify right to work when they employ someone, either by physically seeing a passport or by means of an existing government system which
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
The physical card is sufficient to prove you have permission to drive. This code is for them to check how many points you have on your licence and what for. There used to be a paper counterpart to the card which showed this which they withd
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
I think you've missed a big part of maths - yes knowing those things is necessary. But then you also need to be able to see how a difficult or complex problem could be restated or broken down in a different way which lets you use those
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
Solar has this problem to a much greater extent though. If you have a market where solar is >100% of demand during the day then it will be dispatching at or below $0/MWh for almost all of its life. But of course the marginal market
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
The article doesn't really explain what the lawsuit was over. It's about rules for private sector investment fund reporting. What the court ruled on is whether nuclear (and gas) can be classified as "sustainable investments&q
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
Run-of-the-river hydro in all but a handful of sites tends to be quite dependent on rainfall levels. This means production levels can vary quite meaningfully both seasonally and more importantly year-to-year. It's definitely reliable i
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
Nuclear can be turned up and down relatively easily. It's on/off that takes a long time. And you can supplement nuclear with pumped storage hydro to steepen its turn up/down curve in extremis.
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
This doesn't measure the cost of providing dispatchable electricity though. If I want 1MWh of electricity at night provided by solar, it's going to cost more than solar's LCoE because I will also need to pay for a way to st
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
I think you're looking at electricity here, not energy. Energy is much more than electricity.
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
The current marginal market price is not the same as the current average price being paid for all electricity delivered. A lot is delivered via fixed price arrangements of one sort or another (CFDs, PPAs, etc) and then there are things like
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
One obvious problem with that is that the UK voted in favour of the UN resolution recognizing the CCP government in the 1970s.
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
This is in part driven in turn by regulations like PSD2 in the EU requiring "Strong Customer Authentication". Most banks seem to have decided that a TOTP-style challenge does not meet the requirements of the regulation (this may e
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
Chase Bank in the UK has no web interface at all. Same for Virgin credit cards.
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
It was also the prevailing attitude to speech in the UK until the past 10-15 years.
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
The biggest problem with giving kids phones is that it opens them up to potential non stop bullying over WhatsApp/iMessage/etc. And yet the online safety act doesn't even claim to try to "do something" about that (n

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