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16,000 homes * 4 people per home = 64,000 customers Could that explain it?
Britain is not doing so strong economically, but we are not at the point of having the kids chip in for the electricity bill yet
It's not the first time a major airport is down because of power failure, and other airports are working to address this type of vulnerability. > The power vulnerability for airports was never made more obvious and painful than in Atlanta seven years ago. An underground electrical system fire in late 2017 damaged two substations and caused a complete outage lasting nearly 12 hours at Hartsfield-Jackson International…
Heathrow's power outage is much worse than Atlanta's, this is really bad. Allow me to make my point: 1. UK’s has one major airport to get out of the country—Heathrow. Gatwick and that lot don’t carry the same weight. When Heathrow goes down, you’re proper stuck. Atlanta has DC, Miami right there. 2. UK allows transit visas, so half the people transiting can’t even step out the terminal, what do they do when the airpo…
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slang for "of course"
Natch, I feared as much. I've been seeing it more and more lately. I've found it's hard for me to look at. I'd say more but I'm already wasting words.
If you happen to see that one, it stands for ‘laughing out loud’.
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What critical thinking? The train from London to Paris is barely above 2 hours. Why on earth would you drive if you’re in hurry?
I was replying to "It is a six hour drive from Heathrow to Paris"
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Why don't you tell us too? For anyone reading: it means "of course"
Technically it means "naturally" which (to me, natural UK English) reads to me as slightly less sarcastic than "of course", especially if you get the "of COURSE" intonation (implies "the little shits" at the end of the sentence to me, if you see what I mean. "Naturally, the BBC has the news" - good job, fellas! "Of COURSE, the BBC has the news" - the little shits, running around wasting our money on this, probably st…
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You don't get disappeared in UK. Stuff goes wrong, Gov does stupid things, so do police - but that's process/people being stupid, not institutionalized disappearances.
laughs in Northern Irish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_techniques
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Heathrow's power outage is much worse than Atlanta's, this is really bad. Allow me to make my point: 1. UK’s has one major airport to get out of the country—Heathrow. Gatwick and that lot don’t carry the same weight. When Heathrow goes down, you’re proper stuck. Atlanta has DC, Miami right there. 2. UK allows transit visas, so half the people transiting can’t even step out the terminal, what do they do when the airpo…
This is laughably poor geography. Both Gatwick [0] and Stansted are busier than either Washington airport [1], and if you're considering Miami as an alternative to Atlanta then why not similarly ridiculous options like Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin for passengers stuck in Heathrow? Miami and DC aren't even close to the nearest major airport cities to Atlanta. Charlotte and Orlando are many hours closer and busier [1] in t…
This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
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This is laughably poor geography. Both Gatwick [0] and Stansted are busier than either Washington airport [1], and if you're considering Miami as an alternative to Atlanta then why not similarly ridiculous options like Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin for passengers stuck in Heathrow? Miami and DC aren't even close to the nearest major airport cities to Atlanta. Charlotte and Orlando are many hours closer and busier [1] in t…
I'm late to this thread, but can you please edit out swipes from your HN comments? Your comment would be excellent without that first bit. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .
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I'm late to this thread, but can you please edit out swipes from your HN comments? Your comment would be excellent without that first bit. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .
Hi dang, did you extend their comments' "editability" or is it already a feature I have been missing all along? I mean ability to edit/delete after a certain time (I guess it's a few hours right now?).
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It's still "right there" overall, you can take a local flight that takes one hour. Most importantly, you're in the same country whereas in the case of LHR closing the number of airports able to handle widebody long haulers...are essentially all in countries with different customs and visas.
> It's still "right there" overall, you can take a local flight that takes one hour. From which airport? The one that is closed because there's no power?