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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
> Surely when you look at grass and the sky Sometimes maybe. Most of the time, who cares? Grey, clear or dark skies seem most important to distinguish. Do we mean the temperate daybreak blue, midday tropics blue, or depth of full moon ni
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Which I think is a neat summary of current cars all having got over fat and bloated. The Jag F type is similarly too big (for my taste), but is one of a very few that manages to wear it well. An E type it is not, but it manages that "c
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
It's an irrational "feel safer" though. Despite no legislated requirement for mixed size impact tests, enough have been done to see that tiny cars do surprisingly well. Whether the microscopic Smart Car against an max size ol
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
and what prey, does a global pi-hole grid give that an actual RaspPi and pi-hole can't? What does it add? Given they are based in Delaware, USA my starting point is far below zero privacy trust: Nextdns are gathering maximum possible
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Oh dearie me. Hadn't seen one of those before. That over muscled slab fronted steroid abuser is not a patch on a DB5. Or 6. Or even a mid 70s Vantage. It doesn't look deserving of an Aston badge. Actually, that's a really odd
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Using fossil fuel generated electricity is still more efficient than drilling oil, cracking it into petrol, along with lubricant oil to stop your ICE seizing, driving it to a petrol station, filling your car and burning it at awful efficien
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Hmm, as far as I can remember, every gore-tex item I've owned across the decades -- mainly from the better outdoorsy brands -- has needed a refresh, and warned to expect that on the label or leaflet. Some lasted longer than others. One
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
In the same era few cars would see you better off. A Polo or Escort would be similarly totalled, a big Merc or Volvo would often happily demount the engine and punch it back into the cabin taking your legs with it...
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
The whole breathable/gore-tex thing is overrated as they all rely on liberal use of DWR chemicals that tend to be waterproof only for a while. So regular retreatment, which never seems to be as good, or acceptance of wetness is neede
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Europe clear cut most of their trees in the Middle Ages to such an extent that monarchs were forbidding the use of wood for numerous non-naval uses. It was one of those edicts forbidding use of wood in glass production, and a bunch of other
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
At the expense of increasing pedestrian fatalities.
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
That's true, so now it needs all new running gear, and becomes an insane labour of love like the Eagle E type. Still fancy a try though. :)
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
I've only seen a Clubman in the street from the outside, and the estate bit looked like 20cm or so with the seats up. Obviously that's at the windows line so there's probably a bit more room lower down... So with seats up les
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
A coffin that fits 4 adults and a German Shepherd in the estate bit. That's quite snug, but no worse than a Polo, Beetle, Fiesta or 2CV of similar era. But like most cars it spends most of its time carrying just one or two adults, mayb
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
The sad thing is an original Isigonis style 1980s mini estate gives more chance to put a full size dog in the back, with the rear seats up, than the current massive Mini Clubman estate that's cramped for a Yorkie with the back doors cl
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
They sell clicks, but non-tracked, non-invasive keyword clicks. Which of course means a search for iphone 11 will have some paid ads to click on. As they've built their user base on privacy and those unhappy with Google, it's very
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Can't agree. Mild steel and bulk wasn't the strategic industry it was once considered by every nation, and was going as it was predicated on price. That's probably fine unless there's a major war. The hugely expensive de
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
There used to be tens of thousands. In 1979 there was a policy decision to end UK manufacturing and focus on the City and services. No end of highly successful UK export businesses disappeared. Many of them quietly a world leader. Many of t
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Yeah, but it's just not very good. Set the UK tick box and it will still throw a lot of US results into the mix. Adding "UK" and "manchester" or whatever in the search does a much better job than DDG's countr
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
What you really mean in a google search is you want to buy something. You only think you don't want to buy. It doesn't matter that you've lost the leaflet for your Pioneer 10 Subwoofer and want to remember which wire goes whe
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Don't think they were ever cleaned as vigorously as the article describes, but it's not so long since banks used to clean and roll coins. Now they mainly use plastic bags. Not even sure if new coins fresh from the mint are still r
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Better would be to revalue the currency by dividing by ten or twenty. Change would mean something again, and have some useful value.
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Of course if you had quoted the full context of your supposedly damning gas quote: "It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrym
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Not at all. Where you solve the transportation of waste and getting in water through the river, only the most upstream city was getting potable water, downstream was after washing and waste went in. Wells frequently went down to a polluted
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Except it's not a myth. For centuries mead, ale or small (low alcohol) beer were the standard drinks throughout the day, occasionally cider from crab and wild apples for the poorest. Wine for those with a little more means. Tea and cof
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Road to Serfdom is some of the most simplistic empty bilge I've read, bordering on unreadable. I guess it's pushing 35 years ago I read it, while I was still a keen supporter of the mainstream right, after an enthusiastic loan fro
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
You've inverted the meaning though. Actual title is "Socioeconomic Inequalities in Disability-free Life Expectancy in Older People from England and the United States", which may be too long for HN, but presents a very differe
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
You don't seem to have noticed that in concluding "It’s fine for a responsible (read public-sector) technocrat to mine and process your data" you're replying to a quote that explicitly states "and not mining your d
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
I guess Cory Doctorow got no input in what his article said?
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
That's roughly my interpretation too -- there's no way Japan could out-manufacture US industry, and the difference in materiel, ship building and aircraft production wins out, even if Midway had been a catastrophic US loss. I susp

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