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China’s battery plant rush raises fears of global squeeze(ft.com)
1 points by frereubu 3y ago|1 comments
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by frereubu 3y ago
As I said, this is my hunch too. But there is at least one sibling comment which says they do use it responsibly. Public, hard data would give a clear outline of the reality rather than supposition and insinuation, and it would then be much
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by frereubu 3y ago
It would be fascinating to have a look at the finances of these schemes to see what the proportions are of people who use it to responsibly smooth out payments vs those who use irresponsibly and end up just getting deeper in debt (and all t
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by frereubu 3y ago
I wish I had more time and / or money because this is commonly ignored, and I would love to take all organisations who don't abide by this to court just for the hell of it. Many times it's under the guise of "legitimate
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by frereubu 3y ago
I was a hold-out for quite a while, like the author, because they felt very twee. The one that convinced me though was the thumbs-up emoji, which can be an entire reply to an email or text, that says "I've read this, and we don&#x
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by frereubu 3y ago
The article says that they're "extending the technology so it will also be compatible with LEDs" but as you say it seems to be triggered by heat so I'm not sure how that will work, but it would need to given the phasing
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by frereubu 3y ago
Epictetus would add that you need to act in accordance with "nature", by which he meant the world as it is, including human behaviour, not as we want it to be. In this case "nature" would include the behaviour of the bos
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by frereubu 3y ago
Seems great in princinple, but I'm not sure this would work when coming up against human behaviour. It's as much as the stewards can do to stop some people charging down the aisle the minute the plane comes to a standstill, let al
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by frereubu 3y ago
I got my (physical) copy through ABE Books, but as as a sibling comment has pointed out it's also on Kindle. There are very few pictures and they're all in black and white, so Kindle would be fine.
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by frereubu 3y ago
There's a fascinating book containing short first-person accounts of living through the industrial revolution called Pandaemonium: Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers edited and with notes by Humphrey Jennings. It
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by frereubu 3y ago
Thanks for this. Really interesting.
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by frereubu 3y ago
So write a blog post about how London is hell and post it here...
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by frereubu 3y ago
I read The Brothers Karamazov in my early 20s and after the first 100 / 150 pages or so, which as other have mentioned felt like quite a slog, I was blown away by it. I tried to read it again around 20 years later and it felt wildly ov
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by frereubu 3y ago
This is an enjoyable article from 2017 about the role of Edinburgh in the history of rhubarb in the UK. (I think I may even have originally discovered it on HN). Abstract: Rhubarb was grown and used throughout China for thousands of years.
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by frereubu 3y ago
It was pretty close, hardly "not at all"! You're right that the new format has two numbers - three numbers was from the old ABC 123 A format.
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by frereubu 3y ago
I like these kinds of games for long car drives. My favourite (I'm in the UK, where licence plates generally have the form XX 123 XXX where Xs are letters and 123 is three numbers) is to make the shortest word possible by adding additi
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by frereubu 3y ago
I've written to my MP twice in my life (as you say, non-templated because otherwise it's as meaningless as sending them a photocopy) and got a detailed response twice. If you take the time, they generally do too. (Obvious caveat t
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by frereubu 3y ago
And often the people who end up apologising become loyal, long-term customers with no further issues, if anything more polite than the average.
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by frereubu 3y ago
Income tax in the UK is 45% only on the portion over £125,140 (~ $160,000) a year: https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates
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by frereubu 3y ago
Do you mean taxing revenues?
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by frereubu 3y ago
I normally avoid this kind of legal pseudo-gossip, but love this paragraph: The plan was to “purchase the sovereign nation of Nauru in order to construct a ‘bunker/shelter’ that would be used for ‘some event where 50-99.99% of people d
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Sam Bankman-Fried planned to build apocalypse bunker on Nauru – lawsuit(theguardian.com)
3 points by frereubu 3y ago|2 comments
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by frereubu 3y ago
If the title is confusing, the least someone could do before taking the time to write a comment with a basic question is to read the article. The point of the title is not always "to summarize the article".
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by frereubu 3y ago
There's an enjoyably pessmimistic phrase in Italian - "traduttore, traditore" which translated(!) means "translator, traitor", emphasising the impossibility of an "accurate" translation. I love reading tra
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by frereubu 3y ago
For anyone who wants a "retelling" of the Iliad rather than a translation, I can't recommend highly enough War Music by the British poet Christopher Logue. It made me fall back in love with the classics. (I also read the Fa
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by frereubu 3y ago
In this kind of situation I often think of the government as the primary customer, as that's who effectively purchases the services of the rail operator via their contract. Passenger satisfaction is secondary (although theoretically th
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by frereubu 3y ago
Maybe you should him on try Rab C Nesbitt next :)
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by frereubu 3y ago
I was in a digital agency during the first dotcom era, and TVGoHome was one of the thing that kept me sane. Such a shame it took so long for the TV version of Nathan Barley to arrive - felt like it missed the moment somehow.
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by frereubu 3y ago
One that I absolutely loved, but which rarely comes up, is Mr Don & Mr George by two Scottish comedians Moray Hunter and Jack Docherty. I think there was only one series, but it has a beautifully gentle, slightly surreal, slightly slaps
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by frereubu 3y ago
I didn't (intentionally) say they didn't end up as dangerous, murderous criminals. I said that they were directionless people - they weren't criminal masterminds in a glamorous world of high-tech equiment and fast cars, they

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