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by hkt 3y ago
A prime example of how metrics of inflation are absolutely and utterly absurd, and generalises to domestic housing as well as commercial property.
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by hkt 3y ago
I know this is nuts, but I recently bought a thinkpad x230t from 2012 when my StarBook died after a year, and it is the best laptop I've ever used.
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by hkt 3y ago
Goodness I hope so, that'll be easy money
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by hkt 3y ago
Small fry, I saved a public sector body $1m/year by doing this and rightsizing the kubernetes hosts. :D
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by hkt 3y ago
That's exactly right. It is just the variety of new ways in which common people get fucked that is dispiriting, with seemingly nothing capable of moving in the opposite direction.
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by hkt 3y ago
Thanks for the reply! I was thinking that the greenhouses would be arranged in a circle, so there'd be a sweet spot in a ring at the very least. But it does sound rather.. difficult. I suppose that sweet spot would also not be in a fix
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by hkt 3y ago
One assumes the greenhouse collectors can also be used for food production - if so, this becomes more space efficient than PV by a long way, potentially.
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by hkt 3y ago
It is a great shame that we have come to a no-win situation for artists when VCs are virtually unable to lose.
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by hkt 3y ago
Same, it was a good era of Labour policy, regardless of what people say. I don't think "experts" are always what they're cracked up to be. Partisan writers funded by anonymous third parties etc try to put themselves on a
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by hkt 3y ago
True - the UK's NHS was a product of people realising there would never be universal health care if it was left to the market.
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by hkt 3y ago
Opex is a valid form of public spending. Paying people properly ensures they remain as public servants.
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by hkt 3y ago
Back in the day this stuff was recognised. In 1983 Labour's manifesto pledged to abolish the secret services and that was part of the reasoning.
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by hkt 3y ago
No, they have always been the party of the elite. They pander to the "bread and circuses" crowd because they'd never get elected otherwise. The ingress into politics has a vicious filter that works against working class peopl
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by hkt 3y ago
Whatever can be measured can be managed, but not everything that counts can be counted. I'd be interested to see international comparisons and closer attention paid to more subjects than English and maths, as well as psychosocial devel
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by hkt 3y ago
Maybe an IRC channel would be good. Libera (nee freenode) would seem like a natural home.
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by hkt 3y ago
I'd ask if they now feel it would've been better spent on public services
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by hkt 3y ago
Unfortunately Labour (with the exception of when they had Corbyn in charge) are habitually authoritarian. The mark of a party of lawyers, perhaps. So, no real opposition.
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by hkt 3y ago
It seems administrations vary somewhat. Cuba, for instance, has six unesco biosphere reserves that are pretty pristine: https://cubaniatravel.com/stories/discover-cubas-six-unesco-... Edit: there are economic models th
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by hkt 3y ago
What I immediately thought was "seasons 8 to 100 of deep space 9" Strange what we can learn about ourselves through association
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by hkt 3y ago
Still good if you want zoning etc, but point taken
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by hkt 3y ago
The joys of mandatory obsolescence. Forcing handset churn is environmentally irresponsible. Maybe it is time for landlines to get SMS so people don't have to rely on mobile infrastructure? 5am sentiment but it'd be nice.
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by hkt 3y ago
Marine plywood is a thing that obviates the problem somewhat. Admittedly though, a very very expensive thing. When that's factored in, you may as well build with straw bales. (really, it is great, and much cheaper)
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by hkt 3y ago
Not so. If you want high thermal performance in a building, insulation (therefore thickness) is crucial in the entire building envelope. As the beardier building retrofit types say, your house needs a hat (loft insulation) boots (floor insu
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by hkt 3y ago
> Had Gina Miller's case been say 10-15 years earlier, the HoL would have heard and decided the case too - she did not need the existence of a "new" "Supreme Court". The system of appointment to the SC is rather
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by hkt 3y ago
The whole point of their enterprise is that they're attempting to clarify the law, often in particular directions. That can only be done by bringing test cases. A "positive result" comes in several forms there, namely that a)
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by hkt 3y ago
> Ideally the NHS would just build it in house, but sadly it's a slow and bloated organisation unable to innovate (as most government managed things usually become). Several government departments have robust in-house data platforms
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by hkt 3y ago
The UK has very large amounts of offshore wind, unfortunately it isn't enough and we're not developing more capacity fast enough. It doesn't help that the government has utterly screwed the incentives: https://www.
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by hkt 3y ago
This is genius tbh
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by hkt 3y ago
This would be hilarious were it not for the fact that the authors are so clearly trying to prey on people who are suffering.
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by hkt 3y ago
Where climate change is concerned, there's not a cycle, just a massive decline. The problems and solutions have been known since the 1970s. Here's an example: a 1977 report detailing how the UK could satisfy its energy needs with

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