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Completely unusable here in Singapore. No response in new chats, unable to list previous chats. Let us spare a thought for those on pager duty right now.

What an excellent idea. This will surely make the protesters go away.

I'd echo the gp's thoughts. There are parts of the City and the West End that are basically devoid of trees. My biggest bugbear in London is the number of developments that have a …

Why exactly? Isn't the primary reason for having public markets that companies can sell equity to fund growth? The stock market has companies from massive to tiny. Each investor ha…

It won't be expedited into S&P.

I find some joy in historical street naming. It's nice that you can take a 1746 map of London and pretty much still be able to get around.[1] Would certainly make life easier for t…

You could just pay for premium. No ads, you can play content in the background on mobile and the creators get more money out of it. There is so much good stuff on YouTube in pretty…

You mean the poor who disproportionately take transit into Manhattan rather than drive and/or suffer the adverse consequences of traffic?

If by "screwed" you mean having to pay a modest fee to access one of the most valuable pieces of land on the entire planet, sure.

Businesses may benefit from this move. People driving past in cars are unlikely to stop by a local business in Manhattan. People passing by on foot are much more likely to. The art…

As much as I love the Internet Archive, is it really that crazy? The four factors used for determining fair use are: * the purpose and character of the use * the nature of the copy…

One of my favourite releases of 2023 was a well restored edition of Laurel & Hardy's first year (1927) of films[1]. The copyright holder had neglected them somewhat with them only …

You might be in luck here! In the US, patents last for only 20 years. Since, the Game Boy was released in 1989, any patents are long since expired. Using the Nintendo logo might (N…

What is electronic music? How is it produced? Desmond Briscoe - the head of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - enlists the help of Daphne Oram, David Cain and John Baker to explain the…

Both Dell and Lenovo will sell you laptops with Ubuntu. The selection is admittedly (significantly) smaller than for Windows laptops, but it certainly removes uncertainty over whet…

There's a lot wrong in that for such a short sentence. The Beatles were not at all renowned for lip syncing. They grew up playing live in Hamburg and played countless live shows, b…

My understanding is whipper is more paranoid than abcde. whipper does a couple things to ensure a perfect rip: * Rips tracks twice and ensures the checksums match (retrying if they…

The UK uses hand-counted paper ballots and often has multiple elections on the same day. You just have a separate ballot paper for each election. It's not unusual to have votes for…

The UK has a similar system. You are required to go to a specific place to vote but these are normally very local and just for your neighbourhood, e.g. in the local school or churc…

I was searching for a good ARM board for tinkering a while back and settled on the Odroid N2+. That has a pretty good trade-off between performance and price. It retails for less t…

The Raspberry Pi optimises more for lower cost. For not that much more you can get something like the Odroid N2+ which has 6 cores total, 4 Cortex A73 cores @ 2.4 GHz for performan…

The official word from TV Licensing is quite misleading (which admittedly is in their interest). You do not require any exemption nor to correspond with them at all. Their "officer…

I highly recommend "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing" by Jack Bogle. It's a super short book full of great advice from the inventor of the Index Fund: https://www.amazon.c…