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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 wa…

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...

The Orange Order marches? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_walk I'm not sure they can be described as "anti Irish".

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

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 countrie…

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 po…

> 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…

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.

> 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? htt…

I'd guess this https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/12/27/why-we-sle...

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). …

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 li…

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 mat…

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.

Links aren't working. No information on front page. 'customer profile data' sounds dodgy

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 th…

Android's 'time picker' sounds very much like the blackberry version you describe. https://i.stack.imgur.com/60z61.png

> 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. Unl…

England has it in some areas [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_school#The_three-tier_mo...

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…

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 jo…

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. Bizar…

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 w…

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.

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 …