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You could do, but might be caught as 2 were in 2016 https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/commuters-ordered-to-repa...

There's an excellent book just out about this and how the US has taken over the UK business world: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199503848-vassal-state

Self-checkouts, like many problems, seemed to be solved when I visited Japan. They have 3 stations, 1 where an employee scans your items and then puts them back into a new basket. …

Balanced out by the centripetal force of the plane turning!

I've seen swimming googles with the same idea around (virtually in adverts, not in real life) https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2021/09...

This is an excellent podcast around the Dunning-Kruger effect, how we can all be afflicted by it, and what it actually means. Setup around a (true) airline hijacking. https://timha…

The demand for a Tesla at $25K is going to be huge. Given previous manufacturing delays, I wouldn't expect them to anywhere near keep up. Therefore although they could sell at $25K…

It's suspected that this mutation arose from a single patient who had a long case of COVID-19. Here's an interesting pre-print study on an individual (not the one from this mutatio…

Page 8 of https://www.cogconsortium.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Repo... hints towards this. The short answer is that 'The extent to which SARS-CoV-2 may evolve to escape immunity…

For those (like me) who are looking for some more details of this new strain, I found 2 papers from the `COVID-19 Genomics Consortium UK (CoG-UK)` of great interest. It seems like …

They didn’t reject the bidders because of the materials, they were rejected due to the overall bid price. They had a budget (£8 million iirc), most came in at ~£11 million except t…

There certainly is! Initial architecture selections were based around appearance and price, and in fact specified a zinc fire-resistant cladding. But due to ‘value engineering’ (re…

Corporate witnesses who do testify are immune from having their own admissions used against them in a criminal proceeding. Though it’s worth noting things said about others can be …

I would highly highly recommend this podcast. I've listened to every single episode from phase 2 (from episode 114), and a large majority of those from phase 1. I believe listening…

I went to a talk by one of the head researchers from Bristol. They usually use fixed wing drones ( https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/porta... ) and then any de…

Because in a traffic scenario people do act selfishly!

Where they always have, as an all online supermarket, betting on the fact that their technology can make them cheaper and with a side hustle of selling their technology and experti…

A common trick the universities use is to tell candidates that they'll upgrade them from a conditional (e.g. AAB offer) to an unconditional offer if they make that university their…

It does look at all Harvard students, however the analysis is done from a racial point of view, in-line with the original law suit.

Use what works for you. Personally I frequently switch between the two as I find that light mode works better in the day for me, while dark mode is better in the evenings/night.

Apparently it became law in Scotland in July 2019, and will become opt-out in Scotland in March 2021 https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/uk-laws/organ-donation-law-...

This is just a tool used to explore the data. There's a link to the actual screening paper at the top of the page ( https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E... …

In the UK we have similar questions of plotting and describing geometric functions, however we were simply taught how to plot them by hand, or just directly interrogate the equatio…