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by gns24 10y ago
UK border security. On Eurostar journeys all border checks are done at the departure station, and only Paris, Brussels and Lille have the facilities for that. That said, it should be coming this year.
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by gns24 10y ago
Or maybe the areas where most Christians live were less affected by the war?
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by gns24 10y ago
Personally I don't see that it's that important. We know already that CO2 and other gases cause climate change and we understand the mechanism. I think that most of us would probably also agree that the earth is a sufficiently com
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by gns24 10y ago
Yup. A lot of people are complaining about a lack of exciting updates, but I'd rather start by seeing hardware updates that keep up with the industry. Whereas Apple were once releasing products based on Intel chips before they were eve
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by gns24 10y ago
Okay, my question could be interpreted that way. My intended question was "Other Americans don't make the same good choices; why do you think that is?"
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by gns24 10y ago
Why do you think other people don't make the same good choices?
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by gns24 10y ago
Subsidising other people's unhealthy choices is clearly going to be a controversial topic, but I've come to the conclusion that the only sensible approach is to ignore the choices and threat the condition. Firstly, it's prett
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by gns24 10y ago
I found this article on how jail in the Netherlands is focused on giving prisoners whatever they need to go back into society and not reoffend interesting. They claim that under 10% of prisoners reoffend, compared to about 50% in England an
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by gns24 10y ago
Solar and wind are so different that comparing them doesn't really make any sense. Generally a combination is optimal. The news in this article though is that solar prices have tumbled in the last few years - whereas wind prices have d
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by gns24 10y ago
Trump doesn't necessarily need to believe in climate change; renewables are becoming competitive and make sense from an energy security standpoint. Trump just needs to be convinced that subsidising coal makes no sense. Elon may be able
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by gns24 10y ago
China's power consumption has plateaued and it currently has massive over-capacity - so much so that it's halted the construction of some new coal plants. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-to-ha
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by gns24 10y ago
This very thorough analysis of the potential for wind energy in the US concludes that the great plains have massive potential for fantastically cheap wind power generation, with some sites having potential capacity factors well over 65%. h
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by gns24 10y ago
If they slightly re-branded as a for-profit renewable energy fund would that go down better than apparent altruism? Tesla would be a good model.
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by gns24 10y ago
And yet the Chinese are installing new wind capacity far faster than the US. How does that work?
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by gns24 10y ago
Isn't asking people where they would like a new subway line a case of asking people what they think the solution is rather than what problem they would like to have solved? Wouldn't a survey of what journeys people want to make be
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by gns24 10y ago
A zero sum game would be a huge improvement on the status quo.
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by gns24 10y ago
Similarly, OSX can be configured so that a triple click does a dictionary look-up, which I find extremely useful for reading material online in German.
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by gns24 10y ago
Norway and Switzerland have both signed up to free movement of people in order to access the single market. If the UK votes to leave I think that, given the nature of the campaign, that has to be considered a vote against free movement of p
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by gns24 13y ago
I think this hits the most interesting point. Personally I agree with the article that the best way to develop efficiently is to continually take small steps in the right direction and reevaluate where you are after each one - you save a lo
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by gns24 14y ago
I wouldn't mind a small amount of the money that goes into fusion research heading to liquid fluoride thorium reactors instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor Amongst the many attractive properties of LFTRs i
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by gns24 14y ago
There's clearly a middle position to be had here. By saying NO if you're not completely confident you can do something, you miss out on the best learning opportunities. That said, if you suspect something cannot work, or isn't the right way
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by gns24 14y ago
The animation here irritates me. If you change the date by five years the graph points should scroll vertically (and adjust horizontally as necessary), otherwise it just makes it harder to see how the pyramid changes over time.
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by gns24 14y ago
That's useful to know. Is that daily data? Have you found it to be reliable? When I started testing moving-average based strategies, my blog post about it ended up being largely about data issues, from both Google and Yahoo finance: http:/
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by gns24 14y ago
I think this might be an advantage of pair programming that isn't generally talked about. The time to find a bug with a debugger has a much tighter distribution than the time to find one by thinking about the code. There are some problems t
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by gns24 15y ago
I've found the set of short articles on memory here to be excellent: http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/page-cache-the-affair-b...
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by gns24 15y ago
I have done this successfully in the past; Ubuntu boots very slowly when limited to 5% CPU, but once up it's very usable. Look at vboxmanage --cpuexecutioncap