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The UK's most stressed cities, ages and professions(openaccessgovernment.org)
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There has been at least one abandoned Portuguese village turned into an apparently successful eco-tourism destination: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2010/jan/31/algarve-villa... .
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Bought in 1950 for "25,000 pounds sterling, the equivalent then of $70,093"[0] and sold in 1989 for "over $5 million"[1]. [0] https://lithub.com/the-quest-to-acquire-the-oldest-most-expe... [1] https:&#
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by m-i-l 8y ago
See also the earlier review of this book at https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2018/06/19/the-ascent-of-... . Interesting quote: "One day in December 1893, she [his wife] confused his chloral [sleep
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by m-i-l 8y ago
It doesn't reach 5000kmh until 26km altitude[0], but the highest geese have been reported is 9km altitude[1], so I would assume it would only be in danger of encountering geese at speeds lower than 5000kmh. (Still likely to be at prett
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by m-i-l 8y ago
It does seem to have got a lot more evident in recent years. Not really solving the underlying issues leading to there being so many in the first place, but some homeless do accept contactless donations[0] and there is a city-wide contactle
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by m-i-l 8y ago
I think its a bit more subtle than that. Imagine on one hand if a printing press was invented that outputs the printed material to anyone in the world for free. At first there could be lots of great materials printed with it, but then the q
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by m-i-l 8y ago
> > For all its downsides, Bitcoin is the last exciting open standard I can remember > I get that blockchain tech is an industry nowadays but from my outside perspective 99% of it and the applications they promote seem rather, for
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Mansa Musa: The richest man who ever lived(bbc.co.uk)
124 points by m-i-l 8y ago|105 comments
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Personally not a big fan of filter coffee. I have an Aeropress and know lots of people rave about it, but it isn't for me. I was hoping this article would be about a hand (or battery) pumped portable espresso device, e.g. Handpresso, w
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Or instead of buying with them, you could have bought yourself and rented to them. This is what I did for the first approx 10 years of property ownership. My first place was even just a 1 bed flat, but had a separate kitchen, so I was able
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by m-i-l 8y ago
There was a startup that aimed to "help people buy property together"[0], although it looks like it was dissolved in May 2018[1] (despite the web site still being up). (Side note: I wish companies that were no longer operating wou
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Crossrail is also Europe's largest construction project - some of the numbers are incredible, e.g. "Over 3 million tonnes of excavated material from the tunnels was shipped to Wallasea Island in Essex to create a new 1,500 acre RS
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Original article says it is £1.7bn for just under 2 miles of tunnel. For comparison, the new Crossrail is £15.4bn for 73 miles including 13 miles of twin tunnels under central London[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by m-i-l 8y ago
The dramatic reduction in insects on car windscreens could be "explained away" by technological advances in car design (getting windscreens covered in insects could conceivably have been a problem great enough for someone to have
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by m-i-l 8y ago
They used to do low level flying training in my parts. On at least on occasion I was walking in the hills and got to look down on a stream of jet planes tearing through the valley below, which was quite something to behold (especially as a
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by m-i-l 8y ago
The idea is to evade detection by any automated sentiment analysis they might run on public message boards, just in case they target me for a course of covert "emotion manipulation" or something of that nature. (Not 100% serious B
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by m-i-l 8y ago
"A few years ago [early 2010s?], I was invited to join a panel discussion about information and communication in the twenty-first century. One of the panelists, an Internet pioneer, said proudly that his young daughter surfed the Web
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Article mentions the Roof of the World Regatta. It provides a F--ebook link which I'm not clicking on, but an internet search returns e.g. https://caravanistan.com/trip-reports/roof-world-regatta/ . Short sum
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by m-i-l 8y ago
> I was younger in the dot-com era so I do not remember much, but I assume there was a similar vibe around that time with everyone getting rich with any website idea The big difference is that with dot-coms the scams and shady characte
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by m-i-l 8y ago
How about "desk utilisation monitoring"? Do an internet search for "occupeye". And then look to see if you've a spy cam under your hot desk.
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If Silicon Valley’s unicorn bubble bursts, what legacy will it leave?(theguardian.com)
33 points by m-i-l 8y ago|11 comments
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I've heard that one of the challenges of maintaining fields of solar panels is keeping the vegetation around the panels under control. Solutions include using grazing animals such as sheep or even guinea pigs[0]. It sounds like this do
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Not the same as Real Estate Investment Trusts, but in the UK a lot of properties are bought by shell companies registered in tax havens. These aren't necessarily for money laundering, but if not they're for tax avoidance or evasio
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That's right - a but and a ben is specifically a two bedroomed house (the but is the outer public room with the kitchen and the ben is the inner room with the beds), and a bothy normally a single roomed shelter. I'd normally assoc
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by m-i-l 8y ago
"... on a busy summer day, Kris didn't show up to open the park ... I ultimately caused the shutdown of the water park" Am I the only one concerned about the lack of respect this shows to customers? Some families might have
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Nurses used to take plants out of hospital wards overnight because photosynthesis (input CO2 output oxygen) only happens in the daytime, leaving just respiration (input oxygen and output CO2) at night.
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by m-i-l 8y ago
See also "Lego a 'better investment than shares and gold'" on HN 3 years ago[0] and the various Lego investment websites[1]. Not something I engage in myself, but have been aware of. Like the people who "invest&quot
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by m-i-l 8y ago
'The people I hung out with while there were bitter towards the required TV licenses and "religion" for NHS in public discourse. Curious how widespread this attitude is.' I think its fair to say that a person's vi
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Yes, e.g. for UK: "Most people can make enough vitamin D from being out in the sun daily for short periods with their forearms, hands or lower legs uncovered and without sunscreen ... you should be careful not to burn in the sun, so ta

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