PoachedSausage

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by PoachedSausage 9y ago
The best sports and social clubs I've been a member of generally try to avoid too many political games although they are nominally democratic. Club politics is generally tiresome, few people join a tennis club or hackerspace to play po
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by PoachedSausage 9y ago
Maybe we're a bit more varied here in the UK and this is anecdata but I'm a member of a running club that has at one end of the spectrum members of the Conservative party through to anarcho-vegans.
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by PoachedSausage 9y ago
Even some of the expensive EDA packages can be rather user unfriendly. I've just started a new job where we use Cadence Orcad so I'm having to learn that. It's not exactly intuitive.
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by PoachedSausage 9y ago
That's a relatively recent development though. Obesity used to be heavily correlated with being a member of the aristocracy. Gout used to be a disease of the rich. Now everyone has the opportunity.
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by PoachedSausage 9y ago
I'm learning to inline roller skate, in my late thirties. I fell over again today, also humbling.
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by PoachedSausage 9y ago
It is true that information is playing a greater role. However economic activity remains a good proxy for energy consumption, even whilst mainstream economics denies it.
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by PoachedSausage 9y ago
I also had success growing mushrooms at around that age. I just followed the instructions and did try to take extra care with cleanliness, my guess is that as we're both here on HN we're probably predisposed to be better at follo
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by PoachedSausage 9y ago
Wow, what a synchronicity. I was just thinking how the images from Charlottesville could almost have come straight out of Illuminatus Trilogy.
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by PoachedSausage 9y ago
It seems intelligence is more of a 'master key' that unlocks reproductive success in a variety of environments and at large scale. The jury is still out on whether it's a given that intelligence ultimately destroys itself.
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I don't think it's just cycle infrastructure. In the UK we seem unable to do all infrastructure, it's not an engineering problem because as another comment has pointed out we have world class scientists and engineers, it must
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by PoachedSausage 9y ago
Most of the actual radio transmitters are no longer operated directly by the BBC. As far as I know the only site still under their operation is BBC World Service Atlantic Relay Station on Ascension Island. Whilst the BBC still produces the