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by jgamman 12y ago
as far as i can tell the ability to manage financial risk of non-payment is the business driver for smart meters despite the rhetoric of 'smart'. electricity companies hate the fact that you consume energy and then get billed in
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Bubble wrap as test tubes(ceramics.org)
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Better questions for those planning their retirement(theconversation.com)
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by jgamman 12y ago
the web is slowly but surely reducing the young's attention span - disastrous results are predicted. some reference to ivy league colleges.
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by jgamman 12y ago
am i the only person who hates the fact that i have to pay $100 pa for the right to put my own software on my own iPad - language be damned? @#$#@ that. i'm taking my tablet needs somewhere that let's me feel as though i've p
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by jgamman 12y ago
Australia did this back in 2011 or so. last time i looked, i think it was still there and chugging along...
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by jgamman 12y ago
FCs don't operate via the carnot cycle so in theory can be 90+% efficient in electricity generation. in practice, 35-50% electrical efficiency is possible (although this isn't a ceiling, just a current tech benchmark). coal fire
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by jgamman 12y ago
after first year, my lecturers handed out the whole year's worth of notes (photocopy of something they wrote in the 60s...). you revise _before_ class and then listen and try ask just one _good_ question. having the goal of having to
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by jgamman 12y ago
WTF is usenet?
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by jgamman 12y ago
seems downright cheap to me here in Auckland NZ
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by jgamman 13y ago
not even sure if it's off topic but ex-IV senior manager Chris Somogyi is now a GM at NZ's newly created R&D/innovation/commercialisation agency: http://www.callaghaninnovation.govt.nz/about-us/k
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by jgamman 13y ago
got mine in chemistry in the mid-90s at an Australian university. i got it because i wanted to be a 'scientist' and that was how you got started - no-one in my family knew @#$#@ about university. i liked being in the lab and bei
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by jgamman 13y ago
FFS i've seen the problem and it's you
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"ninja" is officially dead(seek.co.nz)
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by jgamman 13y ago
so if i point out that it's really #@#!@# hot all over Australia at the moment, you'll concede that it's true? FFS the weather responds to the energy balance, it's not a nice +2 deg added to everyone's location.
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by jgamman 13y ago
4 states: bad work+not recognised, bw+r, good work+nr, gw+r. you cannot control recognition. pointless to aim for bad work. always aim for good work and let recognition happen or not. ideally, be happy with doing good work and indifferent
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by jgamman 13y ago
HDD + time machine + 2x yearly DVD (one stored offsite at sisters). photos are all we have from years of life - friends don't let friends @#$#@ around with back ups.
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by jgamman 13y ago
make your own from bits of paper? coins? 3D printing a bunch of stylised chess pieces? honestly, they're just symbols with a rule set...
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by jgamman 13y ago
maybe not in britain but the Kenyan Mau Mau rebellion comes pretty close. It is no coindidence that Caroline Elkins' book title is "Britain's Gulag" which describes the end of empire in Kenya in the 1950s.
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by jgamman 13y ago
who would want to dine at a place like this? and i use the word 'dine' vs 'eat' on purpose. if you think of food as fuel then this makes sense. if you enjoy dining out, this is a huge step backwards. bring on the fran
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by jgamman 13y ago
i believe you forgot the /sarcasm and /troll markups in your comment.
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by jgamman 13y ago
i don't know how that happened...
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Ask HN: where are the Amazon headlines in the NSA/Snowden saga?
9 points by jgamman 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: where are the Amazon headlines in the NSA/Snowden saga
2 points by jgamman 13y ago|3 comments
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by jgamman 13y ago
Let's come up with a better name. Howsabout "I built and maintain a personal freedom machine" or maybe "this is an FU business" or perhaps "I am a small business supported craftsman" or maybe just tell th
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by jgamman 13y ago
i know you all hate on mathematica but isn't this what the CDF computable document format is all about? text, systems modelling and dynamic movement all in the one language/system? (NB i'm not a mathematica user but have alwa
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by jgamman 13y ago
Science (management) has lost its way, at a big cost to humanity
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by jgamman 13y ago
I'm sorry but what did you just say? you can't write something on MS Word home edition and sell it for cash? seriously, i had no idea you could restrict something so basic as a word processor - FFS that's absurd!
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by jgamman 13y ago
after Mendeley I'm not going anywhere near something like this. and seriously, isn't the web itself the best publishing mechanism ever invented? why are we trying to fit everything into a single service provider model? academic m
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Dark sky reserves: see the Milky Way as you're supposed to(darksky.org)
1 points by jgamman 13y ago|0 comments

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