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High speed 1 in the UK Section 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_1 Section 2 finished in 2007 (just within your 20 year cutoff!) It links the channel tunnel with London S…

Are you thinking of the Shanghai maglev? It is pretty impressive and they're looking at building an extension. however oddly its operation speed has been significantly reduced from…

ArsTechnica has an article (from 2020) on the topic which seems somewhat balanced and seems to have interviewed some legal experts: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/publ…

Uranium is a mineral and can be purchased from many places and stored then used as needed. 15 countries mining it currently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uran…

I think the closest US equivalent in this case is chapter 7 bankruptcy. If I've got it right chapter 11 is more a reorganzation and restructuring, while chapter 7 is disposing of t…

Yes, I'm in the Uk and it sounds the same as you describe in the US. Inflation rates are very variable depending on the product. From memory, in my local supermarket for example, t…

I think this is the current developer page: https://developer.android.com/topic/google-play-instant/over... Now renamed to Google Play Instant, but still ok for apps (I think?)

Yes definitely agree. Overall the UK grid is probably too dependent on wind energy, with all the variability that involves. Right now gridwatch.org.uk is showing about 13.5GW from …

Unfortunately the government (of all stripes) tends to reject predictions it doesn't like: try this one from 20 years ago: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3034088.stm (it's on this t…

:-) Very broad indeed, though I think it's just qualification for asking, not grounds for acceptance, (thankfully) One thing I'm curious to know is what it's like on the distributi…

This appears to be a contingency plan 'in the "unlikely" event supplies of gas fall short of demand.' The report showed, under a base case scenario, that margins between peak deman…

Do you mean that you had to buy the same book 3 times? (or otherwise copy) That's astonishingly bad.

I like it. Personally I've always preferred HTML tags to markdown, primarily because I can usually understand simple HTML by looking at it, while the markdown needs a cheatsheet if…

The whole package has now been deprecated by the maintainer: 'PyPI wants me to enable 2FA just because I maintain this package, and both that and the mess resulting from a stunt of…

So I've read through this, but the docs seem to assume you already know what it does. (Which I'm still not sure that I do) It seems to be a way of generating a website from a share…

Yes they would do that wouldn't they? Difficult. hmmm. I guess it would need to be a standard wording only. A specific sentence with 'fill in the blanks' only for the changed items…

If it was really transparent maybe... I would think that means that if the number of washing tablets went from 12 to 9, then packaging would display in prominent letters "Same pric…

We could look at historical laws that did exactly this. Set standard sizes and only allow sales in those size on penalty of prosecution. For an example from the uk, until a few yea…

Also size and population though? Bath, being a major city, has far more residents and visitors than Maerdy, a small rural village. My guess in Maerdy is that the residents probably…

More likely covid was the issue (assuming you went in 2021?) A lot of unavoidable staff sickness has caused major troubles in manufacturing and delivery of goods. Plus some real st…

I once wrote a software release checklist system with custom values in php which worked quite well, if you have a server to run it on. But I'm not sure thats the best bet for new w…

I'd say the UK situation has some good, some bad. A lot of the rail replacement currently is due to staff sickness ... Covid has hit a lot of things very badly. Positively, the gov…

I can't help thinking the usage model you want is more like a router or network appliance than a normal web server. Have you considered running your software on a synology box or s…

Although it looks like Dyson was not actually paid anything and covered the £20m development cost themselves: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52409359

I'm not sure it can be properly judged as a success or failure until the situation returns to normal. (Covid19, etc) This is only dates to May 2021 after all. I don't think I would…