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by m-i-l 7y ago
This is mostly about the heat absorption properties of walls. Another property of walls, which they do allude to, is the protection from wind, which can be even more important in more hostile environments. When wind hits a wall (or obstacle
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Wardian cases and the process of transporting plants(bbc.com)
108 points by m-i-l 7y ago|20 comments
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by m-i-l 7y ago
If you really need WORM, e.g. for compliance with SEC Rule 17a-4, it is sufficient to copy your data to non-eraseable media, not master your data on non-eraseable media. And you don't need blockchain.
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by m-i-l 7y ago
> Does anyone know of any sizable examples of this ownership-model in tech? There is a tech-aligned version of the worker co-op called a platform co-op, with some examples at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_
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by m-i-l 7y ago
I've come to the conclusion that anything sold as collectable, won't be. It'll be produced with such a massive supply that there'll be zero rarity value, so when demand dries up in later years it'll be worth much le
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by m-i-l 7y ago
That sounds right. Using the latest figures I can find online, the lowest Premium Bond prize (£25) was £75,665,750 of the total £88,099,800 prizes[0], i.e. over 85%, whereas lowest National Lottery prize (free ticket worth £2) was £2,306,73
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by m-i-l 7y ago
Its a bit more hassle to do that, and I think you're likely to be worse off for your efforts. The UK 10Y Government Bond currently has a 0.525% yield[0], and the UK National Lottery prize fund is 47.5%[1], meaning in the exceptionally
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by m-i-l 7y ago
They've also got the prototype ERNIE mark 1 at the National Museum of Computing[0], next to the Colossus[1] (the first programmable digital computer) given it was designed by some of the same team very shortly afterwards. [0] https:&#
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by m-i-l 7y ago
Yes, I'd imagine a hotel in central London would also have more incentive to keep it going. Maybe in the past 10 years the technology and/or understanding has improved too. There's a much smaller scale one on a private reside
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by m-i-l 7y ago
Great idea, but I hope they have provisioned for a lot of expensive care and maintenance to keep the living walls alive, otherwise they'll end up with a dead living wall like the one in Paradise Park in London[0]. [0] https:/&#x2
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by m-i-l 7y ago
I can kind-of see why some people think that more and more people coming to more and more jobs in bigger and bigger buildings is unsettling. But I think it is better than the opposite, which many inside London's prosperity bubble often
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by m-i-l 7y ago
Same here. Long ago I realised that I have a tendency to procrastinate when faced with having to do things I don't want to do (while conversely being quite good at being focussed on the things I do want to do). Time management only com
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by m-i-l 7y ago
"In August 1967, the UK Electric Vehicle Association put out a press release stating that Britain had more battery-electric vehicles on its roads than the rest of the world put together... closer inspection disclosed that almost all of
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Researchers: Are we on the cusp of an ‘AI winter’?(bbc.co.uk)
110 points by m-i-l 7y ago|117 comments
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by m-i-l 7y ago
If you're going all in on automation, at least try and do it well. In this case I don't see any technical reason why you couldn't have automated monitoring of the screenings, automated raising of alerts if there are issues, r
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Researchers: Are we on the cusp of an ‘AI winter’?(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by m-i-l 7y ago|2 comments
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by m-i-l 7y ago
I've noticed exactly the same experience in recent years with common colds (which I've had slightly more often than normal thanks to young children). Like the parent post, the day before I feel "unusually well—almost high&qu
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by m-i-l 7y ago
> google provides computing resources for demo purposes for free, which can be exploited for non-intended use by clever automation ...and there are some issues with this free model (Colab notebook timeouts and TPUs sometimes being unav
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by m-i-l 7y ago
For more secure apps we use single use tokens and expire within a very short period of issuance, i.e. invalidated upon use, and exp (expiry) set a few seconds after iat (issued at). Not optimum for performance because you need to get a new
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by m-i-l 7y ago
How about using battery powered aeroplanes for shorter trips, and solar powered airships for longer distances? Bear in mind that the first electricity powered flight was an airship: "In 1883 the first electric-powered flight was made b
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by m-i-l 7y ago
Logan Air are also planning on "the the world's first electric–powered commercial passenger flights" in 2021[0] using a converted Britten-Norman Islander. It is similarly for an island hopping service, with the shortest fligh
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by m-i-l 7y ago
> The whole "carbon neutral" think is a crock. Coal is, after all, just dead trees, so coal plants run on "biofuel" and are "carbon neutral". The difference is in the timeframes for capture and replacement
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by m-i-l 7y ago
> "cash isn’t affected by water, freezing, bending, pressure, moderate temperatures above whatever the 70C limit is on these ICs, static electricity, ionizing radiation and microwaves." And if your physical banknotes do someh
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by m-i-l 7y ago
Also happened in London until 1871, although technically it wasn't theft as it was from common land which had the right to dig confirmed in 1780: "During the 19th century, there was an increasing demand for the high quality Bagsho
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by m-i-l 7y ago
buymeacoffee.com has a single use coffee cup in their logo, while ko-fi.com has an environmentally friendly reusable cup. Might sound trivial because it is just virtual, but some may argue it is an indication of thought processes and values
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by m-i-l 7y ago
If the Washington Post featured nothing other than articles about Amazon, and those articles only ever painted Amazon in an unreasonably positive light, then I would question the value of having those featured repeatedly on HN too.
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by m-i-l 7y ago
This article is attempting to put an extremely positive spin ("new law makes Germany 'crypto[currency] heaven'", "leads to institutional investors", "major breakthrough", "massive for adoption&qu
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by m-i-l 7y ago
There was a throwaway line in that film that stuck with me - something along the lines of "at that time anyone who could configure a modem could make a million dollars".
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by m-i-l 7y ago
Or the Lewis–Mogridge Position[0] which is that "traffic expands to meet the available road space", i.e. building more roads (thinking it will improve traffic congestion) usually ends up making the traffic congestion worse. [0] h
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by m-i-l 7y ago
The ones where the old and new windows don't line up always seem a bit dumb. Must be a horrible experience for the people inside the new buildings, looking out of their windows onto a brick wall a few centimeters away. Both cited examp

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