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by benpanter 2y ago
Yeup. Interesting how the older LED bulbs are particularly bad for this (and in the UK, at 50Hz). More modern high quality ones seem significantly better.
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by benpanter 4y ago
I wonder whether they have an external broker, or just self insure? With so many staff, it seems they could quite sensibly operate this internally.
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by benpanter 6y ago
In my case, I founded a company based on the algorithmic approaches I developed as an academic - www.blackfordanalysis.com Folks who did their PhDs about the same time as me, and progressed through a couple of postdoc positions, are various
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by benpanter 6y ago
The "paper" is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06090 but its analysis is not really something that you'd get published in an astronomy journal [speaking as a former professional astronomer]
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by benpanter 9y ago
Not quite the same, but if you were interested in this story you might be interested in reading "Last Man Off" by Matt Lewis. It's the story of how he survived a fishing boat sinking in the Antarctic. Basically came down to l
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by benpanter 12y ago
From a business perspective I think it's important to move from thinking about "elapsed time" to "value created", especially when considering co-founders with different skill sets. In my experience the two are only
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by benpanter 12y ago
We (Scotland / UK) are metric for almost everything - science/engineering, medicine, quantities of food etc. There are a few exceptions in more human measurements - beer is measured in pints, burgers and steaks in ounces, distanc
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