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by m-i-l 11y ago
1. No, startups aren't the only way to "significant wealth". In fact, in my experience, startups are something of a lottery, i.e. you only a very small chance of making a lot of money. For every success story you read there w
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by m-i-l 11y ago
There was a case last year in England where a religious school removed questions on evolution from exam papers: "The examinations body, OCR, says it was satisfied that the girls did not have an unfair advantage. It now plans to allow t
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by m-i-l 11y ago
See also "Heating houses with 'nerd power'" from last week at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9581588 .
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by m-i-l 11y ago
> I really wish there was a resource that would collect pieces like this There was the The Memory Hole (web site) [0]. I remember an article by the Scottish Nationalist Party saying they would model an independent Scotland's economy
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by m-i-l 11y ago
"Society should place an initial emphasis on abundance," Mr. Buffett argued, but "then should continuously strive" to redistribute the abundance more equitably. This is both succinct and extraordinarily perspicacious.
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Yes - from today's news at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32897388 "Some 20,000 people in the German city of Cologne have been forced to leave their homes as authorities defuse a one-tonne bomb from W
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by m-i-l 11y ago
From "Why Wasn't Big Ben Bombed During World War II?" [0]: "Luck. Sheer luck. At the time of the Blitz, the Germans, like every air power, did not have the ability to specifically target key buildings through high-altitu
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Also worth noting that unexploded bombs from the Second World War still turn up in London every now and again, e.g. 21 May in Wembley [0], 14 May in Bromley [1], 23 March in Bermondsey [2], 20 February in New Malden [3]. [0] http:/&#x
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Also a discussion on HN about Japanese balloon bombs a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8922927
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Strangely enough I was just showing the visiting inlaws this site last night, after their trip to the Imperial War Museum yesterday. I now live in a part of London which is a conservation area, which has lots of nice old houses and streets.
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Some points: 1. It is not uncommon for some of the most expensive properties in London to have "mostly absentee owners, hiding behind offshore corporations based in tax havens". [0] 2. Highgate does have associations with wealthy
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by m-i-l 11y ago
I remember wanting to train a neural net for my MSc thesis more than 20 years ago, but my tutor recommended against doing so for precisely this reason, i.e. he said it is very difficult to prove your results. While not being able to prove y
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Interesting to see open source called "slow computing" (not quite what I expected when I clicked on the link). I've never been a big fan of the use of the word "slow" in the various slow movements though. I know the
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by m-i-l 11y ago
A quick search on e.g. rightmove.co.uk suggests there are multiple studio flats and one beds in the Shoreditch / "Tech City" area (some in zone 1) in the £14K-£15K pa range. Still not great I know especially on a £30K-£60K pa
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by m-i-l 11y ago
"it is difficult to know whether a mother who worked caused her daughter to work, or whether other factors were more influential" - reminds me of the "An Eleanor is 100 times more likely to go to Oxford than a Jade" stud
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by m-i-l 11y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8738646 from December
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by m-i-l 11y ago
What the article refers to as golf cart technology has been around for decades. In the UK, for example, we used to have large numbers of electric milk floats delivering milk in most towns[0]. So I'm not clear on what the authors think
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by m-i-l 11y ago
The article quotes Michael Bloomberg as saying "If we can find a bunch of billionaires around the world to move here, that would be a godsend". But is attracting billionaires to your city a good thing? I can imagine it would be if
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by m-i-l 11y ago
> I'm becoming more and more convinced that it's impossible to profitably mine bitcoins I suspect that's been the case for a few years - at each time I investigated, in the pre-ASIC days starting from 2011, the electricity
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by m-i-l 11y ago
No I'm not - when I say "tenants do not own the property" I'm referring to the definition of "own" rather than "home". Of course tenants have a right to call somewhere home, but owning and renting are
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Could a UK politician ever vow to bring down house prices?(bbc.co.uk)
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1.24 million deaths caused by traffic accidents in 2010 according to http://www.who.int/gho/road_safety/mortality/en/ . But isn't reducing fatalities one of the main benefits of self-driving cars?
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Ah yes, now I remember Zardoz, with the Apathetics who have grown weary of immortality.
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This only really touches upon the financial implications of increased lifespan. Immortality in particular I feel isn't feasible for everyone, given a growing population with finite resources. In which case we'd either need some ra
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by m-i-l 12y ago
> Solr, last I check was a bit complicated to cluster SolrCloud, with Zookeeper, is relatively new and not too difficult to set up.
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by m-i-l 12y ago
Yes, wanting to put money in a physical asset which has utility value (like a property people can live in), especially when it is in genuine (rather than artificial) and difficult-to-reverse short supply (like property in London), does make
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by m-i-l 12y ago
> you can be kicked out of your own home Tenants do not own the property - the landlord does (or the bank that provides the landlord's mortgage).
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Beautiful knowledge: Complicated numbers made simple(bbc.co.uk)
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The 20,000 fake [UK] phone numbers used on film and television(bbc.co.uk)
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by m-i-l 12y ago
Home: Ubuntu 14.04 for both desktop and HTPC (MythTV). Both are custom builds. Became exclusively Linux at home around 12 years ago, when I built a cheap PC for £160, then had to pay £200 for a Windows XP licence, but couldn't install

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