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Comment · 12 hours ago
Although I suspect they would have got richer anyway just being able to trade with the EU and not being controlled by Russia,
Comment · 16 hours ago
No it is not an alternative to a colonoscopy it is a different test.

If this test finds something then the next step is not treatment it is you need a colonoscopy.

It is a test that cuts down on the number of colonoscopies needed and is cheap enough to find problems earlier than everyone having a colonoscopy which is just unaffordable,

Comment · 1 day ago
That is not a colonoscopy. That is a stool sample and as other replies noted this gets sent out every two years to every one. In the UK from age 60 Australia seems to be from 50.

If that tests positive then you get a colonoscopy to check more things. If you have had colon cancer then you get a full colonscopy evry two years and an MRI every year.

Comment · 2 days ago
In the UK whichj has the highest electricity prices in Europe all parts of the electricity supply chain are owned by companies.
Comment · 2 days ago
Yes they do.

Most UK large companies had cafeterias in the 1980s now they don't and you have to go out to get lunch.

Training always costs thousands a year.

If you train a person you have to pay their salary and overheads. whilst they are being trained and are not fully productive. Plus you need to pain for the people and machinery needed to provide the training. Much cheaper to do non of these.

Comment · 2 days ago
Also in BCPL from late 1960s
Comment · 3 days ago
Apple has pretty well always got users to do things via the GUI – look at the Lisa and Classic MacOS.

CLI is just a thing that NeXT had and even that made it easy to use GUI tools.

Xcode is a GUI tool – it happens to expose some cli tools but they could be covered up – however some developers would complain a lot so I don't see that happeneing.

Comment · 3 days ago
It is much cheaper for a company to do NO training.

It does not matter if Education/Training is done by the government or another company all that matters is that the company does not have any training in its accounts. If it has that is an obvious cost to cut.

Long term this is not good for a company but for the next year or two at least it is better and that is all that their shareholders will look at,

Comment · 6 days ago
No that will not happen as the company has to pay and it shows in their accounts.

Much cheaper not to train anyone and let the state or pupil pay for training.

See lack of apprenticeships for a case of this.

Comment · 6 days ago
Yes there are economic reasons to back Trump.

If you don't then actions might be taken against you see CBS and other media having to pay.

DoJ choosing who to look at.

Comment · 6 days ago
Comment · 9 days ago
Only a decade ?

Perl python tcl have been around for over 30 years. Anyone writing in bash/sh etc is producing unmaintainable line noise (and I was a perl and APL programmer)

Comment · 12 days ago
Yes then you know the problem is not in your set up and so do not have to waste time looking into that possibility.
Comment · 15 days ago
I had the Withings sleep monitor – it never managed to sync with Apple Health anyway.

Looking at the support forums many others had issues with their then new app replacing a working one.

So I don't think this will have much effect as it didn't work anyway.

Comment · 19 days ago
In Europe a small city car will drive to the next town and in much of Europe to the beach.

"In Europe 100 miles is a long way in USA/Australia 100 years is long ago"

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