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SolarCity Announces a 22% Module-Level Efficient Solar Panel(techcrunch.com)
5 points by awjr 11y ago|0 comments
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by awjr 11y ago
That's a personal choice and you are mixing the sport of cycling with the activity of biking from A to B. In the Netherlands (massive biking culture) 96% of people do not wear helmets yet they have the least head trauma in the world. F
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Wide range of cars emit more pollution in realistic driving tests, data shows(theguardian.com)
1 points by awjr 11y ago|0 comments
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by awjr 11y ago
Also you'll note that when you push the button as a pedestrian it can take up to 3 minutes for it to change. I find this exceptionally inefficient. You get pedestrians chancing to cross and then the lights change.
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by awjr 11y ago
Try an e-bike. It should let you coast into work at 15-20mph without working a sweat. Rent one if you can to try it out.
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by awjr 11y ago
Because it is not about "removing" the car, but making it the most difficult thing to use vs any other type of transport. For example, you can make the most direct route to a place via bike or walking, but if you use a car you hav
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by awjr 11y ago
Cycle Lanes have a similar impact. Cars go from A to B. Walking/Cycling goes via A to B via CDEF. Some studies have shown significant (150%) increases in business when they have been introduced.
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by awjr 11y ago
Ok let's be real here, if we put the "pollution" taxes onto fuel and not on the design of the car, this problem, in effect, goes away. There is still the issue that high efficiency, usually means running the engine at high te
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by awjr 11y ago
I had planned to spend August working in a side-project, however the council I was going to do it with, pulled out. I spent it doing nothing. Just chilling, pottering around, avoiding any development orientated activities. It was surprising
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by awjr 11y ago
Roll on self-drive cars!
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by awjr 11y ago
That's the thing. In the UK the cost to the NHS (UK Free Healthcare) is not costed into the price people pay at the fuel pump. I believe revenue from Car Tax/Fuel/VAT is about £48 billion, however the cost to the country is c
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by awjr 11y ago
Rats didn't get this in fast enough. Look at the explosion of helmet debate comments below :O
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by awjr 11y ago
That's ok, scientific analysis of the impact of mandatory helmets has been done demonstrating that it would increase mortality rates. http://www.cycle-helmets.com/england_helmets.html
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by awjr 11y ago
Or more precisely that you do not need to own a car to live in the city. That does not mean you should not have access to one through a car share programme or cheap car rental.
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by awjr 11y ago
iOS8 release completely blew any confidence I had in Apple. They broke so much in Safari and caused an immense amount of work. IIRC web workers broke after sleeping the screen. That one was a huge problem.
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by awjr 11y ago
The issue is one of persuasion. By having these days it gives local authorities the ability to demonstrate what is possible and makes actual implementation of smaller leaps (e.g. segregated cycle tracks) easier to swallow.
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by awjr 11y ago
Hat tip to this link http://road.cc/content/forum/165819-whats-wrong-bicycle-helm... but let me quote a comment from there: Just to save everyone else the time and effort as well as repetitive strain injury I am g
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by awjr 11y ago
What I think this demonstrates is something that a lot of cities are waking up to. The car is not a friend of the urban landscape. A lot of cities are now prioritising walking/cycling/public transport over the ability to drive any
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by awjr 11y ago
Do people buy camper vans and live in these? I've did a contract over a 6 month period in a camper van but was able to come home every weekend and recharge the leisure batteries. It definitely needs a sport centre membership to really
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by awjr 11y ago
I would qualify this better. Most people take a day off for an interview. If you explained to the interviewee that they were to turn up at 9am, would be given a small project using X technologies, to be completed within the day to be ready
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by awjr 11y ago
This is one of these articles that has changed my thoughts on recruitment and makes sense when hiring mid/senior talent. Not sure the approach works if you are recruiting junior/graduates but even then I see this as just a case of
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by awjr 11y ago
10 miles on a electric bike could be 40 minutes. (In Europe they are limited to 15.5mph). Depending on your physical fitness you could get it down to 30 minutes but you'd need a shower at the other end ;)
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by awjr 11y ago
Well this probably has to do with Groupon deals being "bad" for many restaurants/local businesses and not wanting to be burnt by them. I used to take the restaurant ones, and ensure I bought drinks etc and tip appropriately f
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by awjr 11y ago
I think the problem is that there is local buy-in. People want to engage locally and the paper sites offer them a medium to do it. So people struggle with the site even though it's a horrendous experience.
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by awjr 11y ago
I was quite happy with ads, then our local paper www.bathchronicle.co.uk became impossible to use and I "chose" to install adblock specifically because of their 45+ ads on one page. I noticed a similar issue with other www.localwo
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by awjr 11y ago
Good luck with this! Really simple neat idea and one that YouTube or Pinterest should talk to you about.
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by awjr 11y ago
The medium is different. Sound travels 4 times further and faster in water than air. Dolphins even use sound to stun their prey. Sound in water is a more effective weapon. The ping of a sonar is a weapon within the medium of water. A quick
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by awjr 11y ago
> Sonar is not a weapon; it's a sensor system intended to discover enemy submarines. When a friend was working on sonar software they had extremely rigorous safety controls in place when working in the same room as a test rig. Pings
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Forms done awesomely(typeform.com)
3 points by awjr 11y ago|0 comments
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by awjr 11y ago
This happened to a friend of mine. I warned him when he was 2k in the red that he should get out, by 7k I'd absolved responsibility, at 10k when he got out and was subsequently "blamed" when the business failed for not being

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