9,795 karma · joined January 10, 2020
Data Science, Rocks & Te Wai Pounamu, New Zealand.
Important: If you are looking at this profile because you thought something I posted was wrong, dismissive or disrespectful I would really like to hear from you so that I could understand how you got that impression. I will not get angry. It is important to me to communicate clearly and if something I said struck you that way then I failed and I would like to correct it. [Mostly borrowed from another profile].
Contact user name a t g mail
A wicket has the same function as a catcher in baseball.
The Norse raiders were given land and in exchange they would stop raiding. Paying off the aggressors.
These Norse became known as the Normans, took the English crown only a few generations after settling and then claimed the French crown.
Taking England gave them enough power to war with France for hundreds of years.
Paying off raiders, time and time again, cost France and never ended the threat. William The Conqueror’s descendants didn’t stop claiming France until around 1800.
But I totally do give you that by the 100 year war they were now English not Norse.
But in the modern West we have a very short 24 hour attention span. In other cultures and other time periods people had long memories. I could imagine Rollo telling his son to finish what his ancestors started. And eventually William telling his sons.
That’s my perspective.
> The pre-french kings paid off The tribes who eventually became the Normans.
Probably the worst decision any French leader, possibly any European leader, ever made. It could be argued that this lead to at least 600 years of pain until the Normans aristocracy (now English) gave up trying to take France.
There is no evidence for example that protoceratops, whose skulls are pictured in the article, had feathers.
Non-avian theropods had feathers, but even then were not necessarily covered with them, it could be a few feathers under the arms. We are talking about species over a 200 million year time period.
[1] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/march/the-first-din...
That said, many of the claimed improvements in this model were are efficiency related.
Have you had your hearing checked out by an audiologist? Any hearing loss?
Hearing loss (age) and damage (loud noise) are the most likely culprits.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-06-16/22-year...
When performance is measured in productivity it absolutely does.
In New Zealand we get a minimum of 10 sick working days per year but some companies offer more and allow unused sick leave to accumulate.
Many companies force staff to take vacation days during this time, and there are four (yes four!) public holidays during this period.
This is absolutely common in New Zealand.
I think treating people with dignity, respect and part of the community is as important as state financial support.
Our government will also subsidise wages in certain industries for people with certain disabilities. So it’s common for people with intellectual disabilities to be working at supermarkets.
Your depiction of a person with downs is not representative of the majority.
No matter how short his life, or how much his suffering, Owen did get to experience being held by parents who loved him.
Can you explain this concept?
If I was in Brazil and invited to a bbq at 8pm, how would the host respond if I asked “so what time do you actually want me to arrive”?
It’s like an entrepreneur with social media marketing skills came across a container full of really cheap small eink displays, then designed a product and marketing around it.
An odd laptop ($0) with free software ($0) makes more sense than buying another electronic device.
Satellite radio probably contributed to the demise of AM radio in countries where its available. It offers the benefits of AM (range) without the major downside (quality) with both being infrastructure heavy.
Should I be looking Amazon.jp and then buying on buyee?
I am sorry to tell you but the perfect timing was 8 - 12 months ago before the price of components shot up.
A third runner in this space would make the browser market a lot healthier than the current chrome/webkit and Firefox duopoly.