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by treerock 2y ago
I was out for a walk yesterday, and kids were throwing sticks up trees trying to knock the chestnuts down, so I don't think it's dead completely. I never really played it when I was a kid, but knew all about it from The Beano and
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by treerock 3y ago
Not sure it fits, but I like The Gods of Copy Book Headings https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_of_the_Copybook_Hea...
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by treerock 4y ago
The Orange Order marches? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_walk I'm not sure they can be described as "anti Irish".
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by treerock 4y ago
Maybe at a smaller scale, but that sounds like a storage heater I had in an old flat. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_heater
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by treerock 5y ago
Amazon still has to abide by the laws and regulations of countries they work in. So I wouldn't be surprised if workers in Germany are treated a lot better than they are in countries with weaker laws (not talking about Poland here, I do
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by treerock 6y ago
Randal Munroe tried to answer that in the book 'What If?' Basic conclusion is no. Virus would linger in a few hosts long enough to restart. Also it would destroy the economy and potentially damage our health. 'It's possi
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by treerock 6y ago
> Royal mail will charge you another £8 Something similar happened to me. On top of the £8 charge, I had to drive 30 miles to the depot to pay the charge. The Royal Mail refused to deliver it.
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by treerock 6y ago
I'd imagine they'd then have to deal with a lot of returns/chargebacks, from customers refusing to pay to accept the goods. Simpler to just refuse to deal with the UK.
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by treerock 6y ago
> socialist view of an exploited proletariat is one of...a powerful force May be mistaken, but historically didn't socialist view proles as a 'lumpen mass', with no real power? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi
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by treerock 6y ago
I'd guess this https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/12/27/why-we-sle...
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by treerock 6y ago
I'm curious if anyone has numbers on how much a homemade sourdough loaf costs on average. My experience is that flour is quite expensive (and currently not available in UK shops). I've also noticed a spike in electricity costs sin
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by treerock 7y ago
Sounds like SRE are fixing bugs and introducing tools and processes that improve reliability. > There are two main types of reliability work. The first is mitigation, which is a linear fix that’s often referred to as firefighting...The
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by treerock 7y ago
High-income countries...have very effective waste management infrastructure and systems; this means discarded plastic waste is stored in secure, closed landfills. How does this match up to the estimates that "Roughly two-thirds of pl
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by treerock 7y ago
I could only replicate that by setting the activity level to 'very active' (hard exercise 6-7 days per week). At 'lightly active' it recommends closer to 2400. Seems reasonable.
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by treerock 7y ago
Links aren't working. No information on front page. 'customer profile data' sounds dodgy
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by treerock 7y ago
Yeah I wish I could find a better picture bit this gives a sense of Edinburgh centre. https://www.nfpplanning.com/uploads/2/4/0/5/24056719/taxi-tr... Queues of buses, and during the day they wi
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by treerock 7y ago
Android's 'time picker' sounds very much like the blackberry version you describe. https://i.stack.imgur.com/60z61.png
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by treerock 7y ago
> Find something that is of value to society and pays enough, then work everyday to be better and better at it until you reach your maximum potential, and you will be rewarded. Unless society changes what it values, at which point you ar
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by treerock 7y ago
England has it in some areas [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_school#The_three-tier_mo...
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by treerock 7y ago
That's got to be offset by the increasing pension age? Apparently accelerating the changes saved around £215bn (between 2011 and 2026). https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49917315
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by treerock 7y ago
So the plan is for Parliament to be suspended between 10th September and 14th October. But they were already due a recess between 13th September and 8th October for their yearly jolly at the seaside[1]. Having just returned from their summe
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by treerock 7y ago
I tried opening Chromium on Linux yesterday (I use it sometimes for testing) and it prompted me to log in. I had to hit Cancel four or five times before being able to browse. Bizarre behaviour for a browser.
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by treerock 7y ago
Tried that. Top message: Diana Wilde @rulesObeyer 16h16 hours ago Replying to @AmazonFCRafael are you a robot, did they make a bunch of ai to lie for them instead of helping real workers So still diving into the middle of a conversation.
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by treerock 7y ago
Except perhaps Google is actually better at search because it knows so much about you. In that case a Google without the privacy issues is basically the same as duckduckgo.
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by treerock 7y ago
in theory[1], yes. [1]: https://www.xkcd.com/1319/ (I may have been doing a lot of automation recently because, I think, bosses have paid a lot of money for an automation tool and feel the need to use it, and therefore
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by treerock 7y ago
I don't know. I first heard of the 'Turing Test' at school, long before I knew about his conviction. And his work during WWII gives him a bit of a hero status, even for people who aren't interested in computers.
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by treerock 7y ago
> decrease of probability that a particular individual will act, with decrease in group size I believe the study did show that. I heard an interview with one of the authors on the radio (so my memory may be faulty). So I don't think
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by treerock 7y ago
Could possibly have the opposite effect? I believe the study showed that the probability of any individual getting involved increases if there is no-one else present. i.e. they are the only one who can help. Surveillance cameras might make
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by treerock 7y ago
Trillion is 10^12 in both British and US English.
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by treerock 7y ago
I've seen advertising boards on trailers parked by the side of roads in public parking spaces. Angled to face into the traffic, so probably not parked temporarily.

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