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by m-i-l 10y ago
> Most UK roofs are tile, slate if older, and asphalt shingles reserved for sheds, garden structures etc. Tile lifespan should be 60+ years. Asphalt for the better quality sheds, corrugated iron for the lower quality sheds:-) Typical UK
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London’s phone boxes are being transformed into tiny offices(podworks.global)
3 points by m-i-l 10y ago|0 comments
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OK, Google – who will win the AI wars?(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by m-i-l 10y ago|0 comments
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Good to see they've automated this (beyond the initial classification of training data). In the early days of the web, such filters were typically based on manually maintained lists of sites. I actually met someone at a party once whos
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Tech Talent: How the UK lost six potential titans(bbc.co.uk)
73 points by m-i-l 10y ago|114 comments
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by m-i-l 10y ago
This is essentially what happened to eBay, for example - at first it was a marketplace to connect individual buyers and sellers, but over time shifted to favour the bulk sellers. When the internet was young there was a lot of excitement abo
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by m-i-l 10y ago
There are floating wind farms. The world's largest (according to [0]) is due to be built off the north east coast of Scotland next year. Incidentally, this is not far from the site of another offshore wind farm which a certain Donald T
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by m-i-l 10y ago
When the author says "add QR codes on bills so that consumers can easily extract their consumption data and make better choices", I think they mean "bill" as in a printed or written statement of the money owed for goods
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How John Hersey's Hiroshima revealed the horror of the bomb(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by m-i-l 10y ago|0 comments
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by m-i-l 10y ago
"Nigel gave me a drawing that said six inches ... Now, whether he knows the difference between feet and inches is not my problem. I do what I'm told."
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Most of the examples of company towns in this article are from the late nineteenth century onwards, when working and living conditions were already starting to improve. But it is worth looking at the earlier history of model villages[0], st
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Exhaustion might have become a status symbol for workers, but according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11821629 ( http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/01/sleep-ha...
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by m-i-l 10y ago
According to the reference in [0]: "As at the end of June 2013, there are 197,800 ATMs in use on the [Chinese] mainland, of which 100,700 or 55.28% have been upgraded with the serial number enquiry function. According to schedule, by l
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by m-i-l 10y ago
I'd have thought that what the article refers to as "coding architect" would be a dev lead in many organisations, and the role of "knowledge-sharing architect" is the traditional software architect role, i.e. someon
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So you think you chose to read this article?(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by m-i-l 10y ago|0 comments
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Brexit should have been a decision about policy, but appears not to have been - that is one of the points of the article. The EU appears to have been too complex a subject for many voters to fully understand, and there was allegedly widespr
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Pokemon Go: Trailblazer that could redefine mobile games(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by m-i-l 10y ago|0 comments
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by m-i-l 10y ago
I think that was the point of the original article - the mistrust of "authority" following the financial crisis is leading to irrational behaviour such as blind faith in charismatic leaders (who are typically reactionary rather th
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Like there was plenty of "political innovation", especially in Europe, after the Great Depression in the 1930s? I'd argue that didn't work out too well. Hopefully this time its different.
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Like in Philip K Dick's 1969 book Galactic Pot Healer.
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Firstly, if you don't like Facebook, don't use it. I know I don't. Secondly, you can still find alternative views on the internet if you look. I know I looked prior to the referendum. Unfortunately, relatively speaking, I fou
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by m-i-l 10y ago
"There have been a number of EU nationals quoted in the media as being aggrieved by this, but in many cases they have lived here more than long enough to become citizens and not chosen to do so." It costs £1588 [0], which is a l
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by m-i-l 10y ago
See also "EU Referendum Rules Triggering a 2nd EU Referendum (petition.parliament.uk)" at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11975680
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Apparently the Leave supporters were so distrustful of authority that they were taking pens to mark the ballot papers[0], so retrospectively changing the rules would be like trying to put out a fire by throwing on petrol. Unfortunately the
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Here's my cold brew recipe. Note that this does create a very caffeinated brew, perhaps twice as strong as a normal espresso, so it is very easy to overdo it (one of the few times I've ever felt the effects of caffeine was with on
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by m-i-l 10y ago
In my case I did see good examples set by my parents - although their frugality was a little too severe for my liking (they had come from poor backgrounds and grown up during wartime rationing), they did have plenty of good advice like neve
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by m-i-l 10y ago
If the DAO is "too big to fail", are Vitalik and the core dev team the equivalent of a "lender of last resort"[0]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lender_of_last_resort
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by m-i-l 10y ago
I toyed with an idea a bit like that a few years back. The tokens would be denominated in your national currency (so no exchange rate volatility), could be bought or sold (in batches) for free (depending on mechanism), and were for online p
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Why do they love electric cars in Norway?(bbc.co.uk)
78 points by m-i-l 10y ago|77 comments
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by m-i-l 10y ago
As a child I very much enjoyed watching Project Blue Book (called Project UFO in the US) [0]. As I remember the episodes, the investigators would often come up with a rational explanation for the events by the end of the episode, but then j

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