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by m-i-l 10y ago
So are the "threats and intimidation that sometimes get physical" purely due to ice cream sales, or are there illicit goods also being sold from the vans (as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Ice_Cream
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Thanks. That helps with my original question - how portable will this be? If it just needs a very small nuclear reactor with a tiny amount of fuel, then they should be able to have a power source "that generates 25 megawatts" and
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Might a bigger challenge be the power source? If each firing requires 25MW, then 1000 shells would require 25GW, which is equivalent to the output of several large nuclear power stations. Edit: Apologies, basic mistake, mixed up power with
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Hyperloop Technologies is focussing on using it for cargo, at least at first until "the infrastructure is built and the kinks are worked out": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11668414
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Money is a store of value, nothing more. Not quite: "Money's a matter of functions four, A Medium, a Measure, a Standard, a Store"
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Back in the days when escalators were made of wood, often had piles of inflammable litter built up behind them, and still had smokers flicking their smoldering cigarette butts all over the place. There was a huge investigation into the caus
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Crossrail is at 100 million working hours so far, with 10,000 people working across over 40 construction sites, according to http://www.crossrail.co.uk/news/crossrail-in-numbers (which also describes it as "Europe
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by m-i-l 10y ago
If Craig Wright did indeed purchase the supercomputer which was placed at number 17 on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers in November 2015, perhaps its sole purpose was to do a collision attack. Although as with other claim
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by m-i-l 11y ago
There was a big discussion about the relative price of eBooks on HN recently at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11207209 . Points include (i) big publishing houses trying to prevent discounting of eBooks, and (ii) phys
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by m-i-l 11y ago
I grew up in a small town in Scotland, and my mother was always going on about how terrible London was. So much so in fact that when I finished university I was looking for a job anywhere in the world except for London (even had a telephone
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Its not just the salaries, its the opportunities. There are just so many tech jobs available in London. And once you have a job, you have much more flexibility to change jobs without having to move home. This might not be a consideration wh
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Beagle probe 'seen in sharper view'(bbc.co.uk)
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by m-i-l 11y ago
The average time people in the UK spend commuting each day is 55 mins, with more than 3 million spending two or more hours and 880,000 people spending more than 3 hours each day[0]. In London the average is 74 mins a day[1], and from my exp
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Light tubes [0] (or sun pipes) are fairly established ways of transporting natural light, although I suspect they would need modifications to feed multiple destinations. An alternative would be to have the homes built around a central light
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by m-i-l 11y ago
I would think the betting odds should very quickly reflect the match results. In actual fact, the betting odds are sometimes updated before the broadcast results, thanks to bookmakers employing courtsiders[0] to transmit scores direct. [0
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Gareth Thomas, Blake's 7 actor, dies aged 71(bbc.co.uk)
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Hawking backs interstellar travel project(bbc.co.uk)
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by m-i-l 11y ago
There's a link to a replay of the launch event on the Tesla Model 3 product page at https://www.teslamotors.com/model3 (the link is to https://vimeo.com/161138986 ).
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Tesla Model 3(teslamotors.com)
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Is old tech putting banks under threat of extinction?(bbc.co.uk)
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by m-i-l 11y ago
I know someone who had no idea why their surname was being removed from posts to the internal social media system. It was because their surname was on the list of blocked words, but I don't know how far this was explained to them. We w
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Apple Pay is often faster and more convenient There have been several times I've got stuck behind someone using their Apple phone to get through the gates on the London Underground and have noticed two or three people get through the
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by m-i-l 11y ago
The problem with this approach is that you would need a brand new kitchen along with everything in it. Plus, after spending vast amounts of money doing so, you might find that the new kitchen, appliances, utensils etc. are no longer suitabl
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by m-i-l 11y ago
I've never asked about LinkedIn in an interview. However, I do sometimes look up candidates prior to interviewing them, and admit to being slightly curious if I can't find them, although would not let it count against them. Conver
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by m-i-l 11y ago
The article itself does say: "the resulting 'geoprofile' was a good match for an obvious candidate: Robin Gunningham, whom the Mail on Sunday named in 2008 after an investigation into Banksy's identity... 'What I th
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by m-i-l 11y ago
"especially during the Thatcher-Major years, when the British government re-enthroned competition in Britain, the gray was left alone, and it extended its range, at the expense of the red" I've seen Thatcher blamed for pret
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Are billionaires more likely to be graduates?(bbc.co.uk)
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by m-i-l 11y ago
I wonder how much they paid the 1 programmer for the 5 weeks of development time. I'm sure nowhere near the $5m they spent on advertising or $21m on game rights. Also, if they did indeed sell 1.5m copies at $40 per copy, that's $6
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by m-i-l 11y ago
It is an average of £28,000 per year to send two children to nursery in London [0]. In stark contrast, the cheapest house in central Bradford was £29,000 [1], and last year 120 homes in Liverpool were sold (with conditions attached) for £
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by m-i-l 11y ago
> The government is heavily subsidising house purchasing... I'm paying (through high taxes) for homes that I don't live How so? Taxes on property purchases, especially in London, generate significant income for the government -

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