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WhyIsItGlowing

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    Comment #34078104

    I've had it happen to me quite literally; I've had two pairs of cheap boots not even last a month before the soles detached. There's always a point of diminishing returns, but it d…

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    Comment #34077755

    The USPS has a bunch of highly-specific requirements that they aren't willing to change, which makes an off-the-shelf van impossible. These are things like: giant unpainted bumpers…

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    Comment #34054346

    Yeah, it's just the culture around it, with the US doing its pricing in $, the UK doing it in p.

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    Comment #33862657

    The emissions weren't the issue; they just kept replacing the engine with newer ones - the Ford one they were using at the end had a Euro VI version so they could have kept using t…

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    Comment #32571973

    The feedback loop has got ever shorter. The approach now is to announce a non-feasible hard-right policy in the right wing tabloids, wait for The Guardian to react the next day, de…

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    Comment #32571930

    It's everywhere in job listings, just largely as a nice-to-have on jobs that are primarily in something else but need the odd script putting together here and there.

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    Comment #32570616

    There's a big problem where social care got moved from the department of health to local government a few years ago. Then, shortly after, the government cut local government fundin…

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    Comment #32570335

    > Back in 2004 when I lived in the UK, the NHS was really good. And I remember hearing at that time that it was nothing compared to the NHS in the 80s and 90s. In a lot of respects…

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    Comment #32570196

    It's worth clarifying that the issue with the government infrastructure is with the regulatory agencies, rather than the water infrastructure itself which is privatised. There's al…