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by daddylonglegs 7y ago
I think German industry is a good example, it is strongly unionised and the unions have representatives in the board that supervises the running of companies. Apparently the result has been better cooperation between employers and workers:
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by daddylonglegs 7y ago
Rather like the City of London then [1] - not the only similarity between the two places. I think the system dates to British rule in Hong Kong, which became partly democratic rather late in the day. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by daddylonglegs 7y ago
I believe the paper that lead to all of those articles blaming the plastics in the ocean on Asian rivers was one that was specifically looking looking at plastics carried by major river systems [1]. This was to complement a previous study o
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by daddylonglegs 7y ago
The claim I've heard is that any one (or a few) species of mosquito is not important. There are thousands of species of mosquito and plenty of other biting insects. A few species are responsible for almost all of the mosquito-borne tra
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by daddylonglegs 7y ago
This seems... OK? Solar PV panels have come down in price a lot and so the main challenge is installation. You need to manufacture mounts, fit them to a suitable surface and then hook them up so as to deliver the power at a time and place w
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by daddylonglegs 7y ago
Traditional academic publishing fails Scalzi's corollary to Yog's law as well: the academic publishers take everyone else's work and lock it away. The academics, their university, external funders and the editors and reviewer
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Why has the hearing aid industry gone completely digital?(slate.com)
50 points by daddylonglegs 7y ago|72 comments
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Yog’s Law and Self-Publishing(whatever.scalzi.com)
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by daddylonglegs 7y ago
Dogs are very good at reading people and if the handler wants an indication they will get it; they may not even realise that they're influencing the dogs. As others have said, this has been known for a long, long time. There was even a
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by daddylonglegs 7y ago
As well as the large number of existing installations that others have mentioned, VGA has a couple of advantages: You can send VGA signals over long cable runs (I installed a 50m run 20 years ago for example) and it's simpler than mode
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The $20bn plan to power Singapore with Australian solar(theguardian.com)
12 points by daddylonglegs 7y ago|2 comments
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Neoliner: Pilot for trans-atlantic cargo transport by sailing ship(neoline.eu)
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CO₂ and Other Greenhouse Gas Emissions(ourworldindata.org)
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by daddylonglegs 7y ago
Martin Winterkorn (CEO of VW at the time) was charged by prosecutors in Germany in April. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-wint...
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Japanese drill ship fails to reach the earthquake-generating zone(nature.com)
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
Thank you for that. Putting hundreds of aircraft into service before the simulators were available to airline pilots looks rather bad in hindsight. I would hope that Boeing internally had simulators for the MAX while they were testing it -
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
> > They must cut it at a moment where the stabilizer isn't grossly mistrimmed with respect to level flight, OR they may well need to re-engage it and race the MCAS to get into a close-to-proper trim setup prior to cutting out th
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
The reading from the pitot tubes (pressure sensors) for a particular airspeed varies with the sensors angle to the airstream so the airspeed value is adjusted based on the angle of attack (AoA). If the AoA sensor is on the fritz on one side
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India’s strike on Balakot: a precise miss?(aspistrategist.org.au)
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
It's true that both Airbus and Boeing have a huge backlog of orders for aircraft at the moment, with a lot of growth in air travel in Asia. However, the airline industry is cyclical and the current boom might be particularly big becaus
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
Well, the Martian solar day is a directly relevant measure for a mission that depends on charging batteries each day by solar power. I could see that being used for a lot of planning and operations. UTC (and international atomic time - TAI)
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
Honda will be able to fall back to production in Japan thanks to a trade deal with the EU that has just come into force. That trade deal was agreed in 2017 after the UK had formally started it's withdrawal, so the UK was no longer able
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
There will be two main mechanisms: The first is the direct effects of nicotine (and possibly the vaping mechanism). The figure being bandied about on this thread is that vaping is probably 5% as directly dangerous as tobacco. The second is
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
Having lots of people take up e-cigarettes is not a bad thing if they are moving away from smoking tobacco. On the other hand, if lots of teenagers take up e-cigarettes (with nicotine) then that is a public health disaster; and will cost mi
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Those unforgettable scenes in Count Zero where they all stand around eating soup(boingboing.net)
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
About $100 apparently: > Over the past decade, Kiev-based Enamine Ltd has innovated an efficient pipeline to produce any of over a billion never-before-made drug-like compounds on demand — at a cost of about $100 per molecule — by combin
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
I thought the point of the library of molecules used was the supplier (Enamine) has a systematic method of synthesizing the molecules they've listed. It appears that, in practice, they can supply 90% of the molecules they offer, synthe
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
When I see a paper like this one of my first thoughts is "What will Derek Lowe say about this?" He is a chemist in the drug industry and excellent writer. On his blog he regularly tears apart overhyped claims for how software sear
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by daddylonglegs 8y ago
I'm not sure that MIPS and RISC-V represent the same threat. In their heyday MIPS Technologies enthusiastically used the patent system to drive differences between their product and open systems. The company has since been through the
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New high-altitude drone announced by Ordnance Survey(ordnancesurvey.co.uk)
1 points by daddylonglegs 8y ago|0 comments

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