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by leoedin 5y ago
Interestingly there does appear to be a plateau or drop just below $100k. I wonder if this is around the transition point between being fairly well off, but still salaried and reliant on the salary, to being independently wealthy (or at lea
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by leoedin 5y ago
I agree - the service Apple are offering for recurring payments is that of a payment processor. In a competitive market that role takes 2-3% at most. And that percentage has been falling year on year as new entrants have entered the market.
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by leoedin 5y ago
Conversely, I lived for a while with a Glaswegian who had moved to the South of England, having lived his whole life in Glasgow. It was interesting watching him realise that he had to moderate his speech, otherwise so much of what he said w
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by leoedin 5y ago
The widely used definition of middle class isn't simply "median income". It's more complicated than that - education, profession etc all play into it. You could probably segment it by income, but even then median isn&#x2
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by leoedin 5y ago
When I was a teenager playing Dr Kawashima's Brain Training on DS, I had to completely change how I drew my 9s in order to get it to recognise them (it turned out I started in the wrong place for it to recognise the number). I only pla
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by leoedin 5y ago
This definitely seems the most feasible. Sure, plants aren't particularly efficient, but they're also self-reproducing and self-maintaining, which is a huge bonus. One interesting approach with plants is to pyrolise them to make b
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by leoedin 6y ago
PCs and even most laptops have been very repairable for decades. You can still run Windows or Linux on a 10+ (20+?) year old laptop without an issue. The idea that a 5 year old laptop would be unusable or not get the latest version of Windo
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by leoedin 6y ago
Every train in London, even the fully automated ones, have at least one person onboard. Maybe at some point that will change, but there's a lot of pressure against it.
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by leoedin 6y ago
This is an area I'd love to see more development - but the existing tools I've used all have quite major drawbacks. OpenSCAD is simple and relatively intuitive once you get your head around 3D space and how every object sits in i
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by leoedin 6y ago
Privately owned escooters in London are everywhere, and mostly ridden by local teenagers and young adults. I don't think they suffer from being uncool. Possibly because they're technically illegal - so owning one is a rebellious a
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by leoedin 6y ago
That's not a problem with scooter and bike sharing, but with that specific app. I've used a whole range of bike and scooter systems, some docked and some dockless, and mostly the apps worked fine. Scan a QR code, unlock and off yo
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by leoedin 6y ago
Are fonts consistently localised? What happens if the pool of people who use a font (eg Arial) contain multiple washing symbol regions? Do you spin up a new, localised font for every country?
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by leoedin 6y ago
In the world of IoT, everything-is-an-app and disposable electronics, I'm increasingly appreciating "appliance" electronics. Things that do one thing well. I recently got a baby monitor - there's plenty of IoT enabled wi
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by leoedin 6y ago
My local makerspace has a really good laser cutter which members can use. It works well for that kind of usage as there's not too many ways you can kill it or yourself. Generally cheap machines have compromises which mean more work for
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by leoedin 6y ago
Can you point out any tutorials or guides on how to set up kubernetes simply? I'm wondering what the best way to deploy my app with minimal effort is - you make it sound like kubernetes is the answer.
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by leoedin 6y ago
Currently grid scale battery storage is often deployed in shipping containers, which has the advantage of providing some level of isolation between packs, and also means they can be spaced out over a bigger area.
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by leoedin 6y ago
Spotify made much of their work model - completely autonomous teams working on whatever they thought was most important. I wouldn't be surprised if many of the reasons their app sucks is because of that. User interfaces don't real
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by leoedin 6y ago
Not every open source project is polished. Fair enough - that's evident. However, that doesn't mean it's not useful. Sometimes a snippet from an abandoned project on GitHub is exactly what you need.
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by leoedin 6y ago
Are you looking at a different world than me? The current rate of technological process in the relevant areas - railways, tunnelling, bridges etc - is incredibly slow. Building a 10 mile tunnel under a city is still a multi-decade affair. T
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by leoedin 6y ago
Trailer parks feel like a symptom of zoning laws rather than the solution. They're a loophole in the rules which mandate low density large housing. Allow higher density prefabricated (but not "mobile") construction and traile
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by leoedin 6y ago
This all goes back to the fact that fossil fuels are too cheap. Their cost doesn't reflect the lifetime cost of extraction + dealing with the carbon. Much like the hidden cost of nuclear is in dealing with the waste. The only viable so
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by leoedin 6y ago
The UK is selling extra power across the channel. There's currently 5.5 GW of interconnect with the EU, with almost 18 GW expected by 2023. Brexit isn't going to change that. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl
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by leoedin 6y ago
The applications can be any process which converts electricity into another usable form of energy. Some we do already, like aluminium smelting and steel manufacture. Some we have the technology to do, but don't currently do because the
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by leoedin 6y ago
One of the main roads near where I live is a Roman road. It's fascinating that the new buildings being built along it have their design constrained, in some way, by a decision made 2000 years ago.
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Should Gig Work Be Government Run?(newyorker.com)
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by leoedin 6y ago
This is exactly why they _should_ be in a knitting club together. To deflate these tribalistic views which are mostly fuelled by isolation from each other.
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by leoedin 6y ago
Why does that user have to reveal any pronouns on the web? The default state of web based communication is ungendered. I have no idea what your pronouns are. If I was referring to you in a comment thread I would have to use "they/
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by leoedin 6y ago
There's all sorts of designs which benefit from being parametrically constrained but need complex curvature. Enclosures for instance. It's so useful to be able to do both in one environment.
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That's what this article is about!
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by leoedin 6y ago
It is a treatment for people with cancer. The mRNA cancer vaccine they're developing is for people who already have cancer. It's targeted based on the specific tumour the patient has, and basically primes the immune system to atta

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