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4 years ago
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on: A US socialite who gave it all up to become a Carmelite nun
Which bit is rubish? You haven't refuted my points with anything of substance. He's a public figure, if he wants privacy he shouldn't have run in national elections. He had an injunction on the McIntyre child, that sounds like disownment to me. "I love you, child, but nobody can know about you" He has no contact with any of his children apart from the new one, that's a deadbeat dad. We do not know how many children he has. Does he?
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4 years ago
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on: A US socialite who gave it all up to become a Carmelite nun
I'm not sure this is true, the prime minister of the United Kingdom is literally a deadbeat dad. He went to court to disown one of his children and it's not public knowledge how many children he actually has.
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4 years ago
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on: The MiniDisc: the failure of a forgotten format (2020)
Nor in the UK
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4 years ago
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on: Using aligned word vectors for instant translations with Python and Rust
I thought Hello was invented with the telephone. Prior to that, English greetings were good morning/evening. What do Italians and French say when they pick up the phone? Allora?
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4 years ago
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on: The myth of the driverless tube train
> The train driver is the most susceptible to die. You're better assisted by a remote operator
The driver didn't die in any of the recent incidents, so they would still be in place to manage the situation.
Interestingly, 7/7/05 isn't on the list, presumably because it wasn't an accident. That's exactly the kind of incident that is relevant in the context of this parent thread.
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4 years ago
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on: The myth of the driverless tube train
This subthread you are commenting on is about head-on collisions. There have been none since 1975 and I think you will agree that given that passengers on that train were wearing hats and smoking pipes, it's not particularly relevant to any kind of modern railway.
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4 years ago
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on: The myth of the driverless tube train
If there are still strikes then it is the same situation. Your plan solves nothing, for reasons both the article and I have outlined already. If we put you in charge tomorrow to execute your plan of moving from £70k drivers to £30k hi-vis vest-wearers, you would cause weeks of strikes, massive disruption and solve nothing.
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4 years ago
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on: The myth of the driverless tube train
Assuming you've read the list, you will know that the answer is no. No head-on tube collisions in my lifetime or in any other relevant modern era of any definition.
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4 years ago
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on: National Geographic now recognizes The Southern Ocean
When I was a kid in the 90s we were taught that the tongue had specific zones that tasted specific tastes. There was a diagram and everything. I think it was long debunked even then.
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4 years ago
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on: The myth of the driverless tube train
Anything from a more relevant era, perhaps one in which passengers aboard an underground train weren't allowed to smoke a cigar?
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4 years ago
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on: The myth of the driverless tube train
As the article explains, the train managers will strike just the same as drivers do, leaving us in exactly the same situation as before.
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4 years ago
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on: The myth of the driverless tube train
That's in the very narrow situation of a head-on collision, something I don't think has happened on the tube in my lifetime. I'm talking about any kind of general emergency. I remember 7/7/05 like it was yesterday.
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4 years ago
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on: The myth of the driverless tube train
As the article also states, there will be no point at all in moving to onboard attendants because the onboard attendants will strike just the same as drivers do.
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4 years ago
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on: The myth of the driverless tube train
Yes, one of the reasons would be to keep the 1200 people on the train calm. It's important in an emergency for someone to be in charge of the situation. What's wrong with that?
Using a rough number for a yearly travel card, 1200 * £2000 = £2.4m yearly revenue from those passengers aboard that train. I think we can spare £60k for the driver.
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4 years ago
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on: The myth of the driverless tube train
If something goes wrong in the middle of a 120 year old tunnel, 30 metres beneath the city, I want there to be a trained, responsible member of staff in place to manage the situation. It's that simple.
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4 years ago
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on: A Project of One’s Own
I used to work at ASOS in London where they had a 'bring your parents to work' day. At the time (2015ish) more than half the staff were under 30yo.
Mum got a tour of the office, did workshops with the CEO and other leaders. It was pretty cool.
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4 years ago
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on: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
How has he used that newspaper to exert political control over the US?
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4 years ago
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on: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
IMO you have to maintain or exert some control over a nation in order to be an oligarch. So Jeff and Elon are out, but David Koch and Robert Mercer meet the definition for me. These guys have exerted huge control over the US over the last 30-40 years.
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4 years ago
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on: Charlie Bit Me NFT sale: Brothers to pay for university with auction money
Ten grand? The prize for getting featured on the 90s/00s UK home video blooper show You've Been Framed was a whopping £250!
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4 years ago
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on: History of the Nautilus loudspeaker
I once got to listen to a pair of these at Abbey Road studio in London as a teenager. They blew me away. I was already a burgeoning audiophile (working in a branch of Sevenoaks Sound & Vision if anyone knows) but these speakers really started a love affair with audio.
