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by awjr 11y ago
Sugar is an odd substance. It's made up of glucose and fructose. Glucose tells your body to store fat and "use me" while your liver is converting the fructose to fat.
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by awjr 11y ago
Note that our environment has changed significantly since the 1970s, with a propensity for many people to go from A to B by car and generally exercise less. I see a sugar tax as a way of creating a fund to enable councils to implement healt
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by awjr 11y ago
A "sugar tax" is not a bad idea if it is ringfenced to creating a healthier environment and funding NHS obesity-related treatments. The problem is that this type of tax will be subsumed within general taxation.
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by awjr 11y ago
"Actions to take" section: 1. Reduce and rebalance the number and type of price promotions in all retail outlets including supermarkets and convenience stores and the out of home sector (including restaurants, cafes and takeaways)
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by awjr 11y ago
There is a slight issue with this library in that it is "gimped" to one CPU. You can licence a multi-cpu version http://www.openalpr.com/ but the open source one would be a lot cooler.
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Tech Billionaires Team Up to Take on Climate Change(wired.com)
2 points by awjr 11y ago|0 comments
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by awjr 11y ago
I can see pretty much why FUBAR was switched to -----. I'm more curious as to what ----- stands for. [Edit removed the secret message to keep the suspense ;)]
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by awjr 11y ago
I've found Deborah Kurata's course content good https://www.pluralsight.com/authors/deborah-kurata in particular https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/angularjs-line-of-busine... My only i
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by awjr 11y ago
Weight is irrelevant when looking at on-site storage. Cost per KW storage and battery fade performance are more important factors. This is why they are saying this could be a game-changer for renewables. Being able to store energy cheaply i
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by awjr 11y ago
2000 recharge cycle vs 1000 recharge cycle is significant.
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by awjr 11y ago
Lithium-ion life is about 1000 cycles (80% capacity by 500 cycles). So we have a battery that has better charge cycle life expectancy and uses a more readily available "cheaper" resource.
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by awjr 11y ago
https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts The github repo.
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by awjr 11y ago
This completely goes against the point the article is making. The premise that building more roads creates more congestion. Road diets enable modal shift. Oslo and Berlin are planning to ban the car from the city centre. It is about recogni
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by awjr 11y ago
Honestly, the only way I see this ever being taken seriously is when the DfT has to ringfence 10% of their budget to the development of high-quality cycle infrastructure. When a road can be identified as a major "arterial route" a
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by awjr 11y ago
This is the streetview of London Road, Bath. https://goo.gl/maps/BF8dHyqetow Local cycling groups campaigned for a 2 way protected track along here, but were over-ruled by a council officer who chose a design, where yo
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by awjr 11y ago
I have to disagree here. Various Council Highways departments are absolutely focused on traffic flow. I would go as far as to say that the two top priorities are traffic flow and not affecting on-street parking. It's changing. This tab
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by awjr 11y ago
That's the point, "induced demand" is simply the fact of making it easier to travel by car, encourages more people to choose to travel by car. It is not that the trip takes three times as long, it's the fact, they built
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Anatomy of a large Angular application(medium.com)
2 points by awjr 11y ago|0 comments
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by awjr 11y ago
So we need to drop a metaphorical bomb on the financial institutions that support these regimes?
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by awjr 11y ago
Anyone else have a problem with the way this is worded? Isn't this just a case of Microsoft having to do this to operate within Germany?
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by awjr 11y ago
I can remember one day rate contract I was arranging, where all the replies from the manager appeared to be happening after 6-7pm at night and became slightly concerned that their idea of a day was not the normal 9-5ish. Turns out he answer
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by awjr 11y ago
Depends on if the bull eats grass from a pesticide-free pasture ;)
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Stop Calling My Daughter's Death a Car Accident(wired.com)
7 points by awjr 11y ago|2 comments
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by awjr 11y ago
So is the issue here one of investors wanting to maximise their returns?
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by awjr 11y ago
As do high-carb diets. The issue is one of keeping to the strict dieting requirements. The article states the issue being that diets, on average, enable you to lose 5kg over a year. This is not successful weight loss.
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Airbnb has become its own worst enemy(sfexaminer.com)
13 points by awjr 11y ago|2 comments
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by awjr 11y ago
In summary, diets do not work (low fat or high fat). If you actually want to reduce your weight it really does comes down to permanent lifestyle changes.
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by awjr 11y ago
The UK no longer issues car tax discs. They simply use ALPR on all major roads. This idea that driving on public roads affords you any privacy is an illusion.
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by awjr 11y ago
Yes I have seen schemes like this used, but the analysis is at most done on one day only and can be exceptionally expensive (labour costs). To reduce costs local authorities use the simpler and poorer cable counts. ALPR gives full visibilit
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by awjr 11y ago
Admittedly transport behaviour through the scheme could be measured with cable vehicle counters, however determining the exact speed at which a vehicle travels through the scheme could not be done without ALPR. In the UK, there is a push to

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