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by danw1979 4y ago
Yup but you won’t be paying less than £0.30/kWh flat-rate pretty soon. Hinkley is stupidly expensive and I doubt the capacity factor will turn out any better than wind and batteries, but I still think we should build a few more nuclear
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by danw1979 4y ago
Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark (esp Copenhagen) - all modern, safe places to live and cycle. Just not the UK. We don’t meet your test of “run by grown-ups” …
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by danw1979 4y ago
I really hope this fails.
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by danw1979 4y ago
Yup, I’d definitely travel from London to the south of France by train more often if it didn’t mean the Gare du nord - gare de lyon change…
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by danw1979 4y ago
The free market hasn’t been operating and never will operate with the restrained controls on energy usage that you outline though. Besides, there’s so many more useful things to do with that cheap renewable energy at times of low demand - s
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by danw1979 4y ago
The visiting the room at regular intervals works great. I only have two, and left it late with both. 5yo just fell asleep on his own for the first time a few weeks ago, still hates the idea, but doesn’t scream at least, now he knows I’ve
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by danw1979 4y ago
Think of it like this - if you’re driving your car within 50cm of me on my bike, and I swerve to avoid something, or fall off sideways, you’re more likely to hit me than if you’re passing at 1.5m. Context has nothing to do with it. Just ob
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by danw1979 4y ago
Anecdata: as a regular commuter on the east coast main line in the UK for several years, a very common source of service interruption was blamed on overhead cable problems. From an engineering perspective the complication of the track elect
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by danw1979 4y ago
You sir, are a good driver.
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by danw1979 4y ago
> I'm going to cycle like this, you don't have to. Exactly. The law allows a cyclist to “take the lane”, so many of us do. This isn’t “policing” other drivers, it’s simply following the rules of the road and staying safe.
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by danw1979 4y ago
It’s entirely your fault that you feel this way, not the cyclists who are legally using the road.
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by danw1979 4y ago
You didn’t. You gave “strong advise” and an opinion on passing cyclists with a “few feet” of room, which is dangerous and contrary to the highway code, which states a minimum of 1.5m.
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by danw1979 4y ago
Most roads in the UK have two lanes, both of which are wider than a standard cars width, so if there’s no oncoming traffic it’s perfectly safe for a cyclist positioned in the middle of their lane to be overtaken by the driver using most&#x2
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by danw1979 4y ago
I specifically said “at full tilt” to try and avoid an unnecessary debate about capacity factors, but I guess someone couldn’t resist. Would it have helped if I had compared the output of this proposed fusion reactor against a large base lo
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by danw1979 4y ago
1.5 Mega Watts (for the avoidance of doubt) is about a tenth of the output of a single modern wind turbine at full tilt. It’s not a lot of power.
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by danw1979 4y ago
Agreed there’s no point bloating the prison population, but remorse is a poor parameter for sentencing IMHO. We should have fixed penalties for this kind of crime. If someone killed my kid with their car I’d prefer the perpetrator to simpl
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by danw1979 4y ago
I’ve watched Jon’s videos for years now without knowing he added captions… thanks for the tip ! He used to write a blog to go with each video which I really enjoyed.
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by danw1979 4y ago
Underlying the political will to do something would be the implementation of that thing. To continue the running water example, you can imagine many technical challenges to distributing fresh water to the parts of the world that don’t alre
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by danw1979 4y ago
Exactly. As if Uber is some kind of revolutionary invention anyway. It’s an exact example of “no running water” that TFA starts out with.
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by danw1979 4y ago
but interestingly, they might be launching Starlink 2 on F9 now - https://spacenews.com/spacex-adds-falcon-9-back-to-second-ge...
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by danw1979 4y ago
Have these additional globalstar sats actually launched yet ? If so, maybe it’ll work at launch of the iPhone 14 and even though they didn’t beat SpaceX/T-mobile to the announcement, they’ll implement first; I don’t see Starship /
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by danw1979 4y ago
I’ve personally managed several contractors (infra devs) recently who have definitely been running multiple gigs. It’s blindingly obvious because they interview well, start out delivering to expectations, but then performance drops off a c
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by danw1979 4y ago
Just a cursory google for Teflon killing birds yields numerous results including this one … from teflon.com - https://www.teflon.com/en/consumers/teflon-coatings-cookware... When the product itself is actually pub
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by danw1979 4y ago
My gas hob burns at >450C and we’ve had several instances of a forgotten teflon pan that made a terrible smell. I’d say it’s pretty easy to get teflon to degrade at home.
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by danw1979 4y ago
Imagine showing this real product to yourself 15 years ago.
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by danw1979 4y ago
This just in from the eggheads: actions have consequences. I think it’s more likely that what Smart People actually have isn’t some supernatural common sense that allows them to iterate over cause and effect to a greater degree than Joe Stu
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by danw1979 4y ago
Here’s when it make sense: someone is a danger to society and there is no known way to rehabilitate them, but you find the death penalty morally a bit icky.
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by danw1979 4y ago
I’ve got one of their small Play:1 stand-alone speakers from several years ago and it’s almost magical how room filling the sound is from a single little can.
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by danw1979 4y ago
For me, 43m, white skin, not too fair, UK - I gradually tan without sunscreen (15 mins a day) deliberately in early summer (but not face or neck !) and then can use small amounts of sunscreen just on face, neck and forearms for the rest of
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by danw1979 4y ago
MIT could pony up the $4 it would allegedly cost to build the family-sized device and demo it, proving it’s longevity, if it’s that simple ? All I’m seeing here is a petri dish sized experiment wrapped in a press release.

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