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by oldcynic 9y ago
To me that does not give enough to contradict, they don't break down the figures any further to reveal properly. "Approximately 40% of all serious and fatal motorcycle crashes in the Netherlands are single vehicle crashes (a cras
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by oldcynic 9y ago
I understand, at least according to numerous speed campaigns by govt here, that accidents at speeds of 30mph or less are unlikely to kill. As speed limits in town are 30 with some areas 20mph, risk of death to either is low.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Not at all true, unless you add an illegal straight through or race pipe. Or remove the baffles. Motorcycles are comparatively loud, especially big V twins, because a) a surprising percentage is intake noise - there's a huge intake p
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by oldcynic 9y ago
It's a myth. They will prevent some accidents with pedestrians or bicycles in town because they haven't looked properly. That accident won't kill you anyway. A loud pipe will make bugger all difference when you're doing
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Techcrunch don't understand motorcycles do they? Trouble with motorcycles is, at least in the EU, too many years of governments putting the fix for bad car drivers onto the motorcycle license. The capacity limits and multi-part test et
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Making and selling shovels seems to be still the best way to go then.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Would they? The few times I've had a conversation with people in software on the topic, the conclusion has been they shouldn't exist. At all. I'd venture to suggest that most software patents are the obvious way of doing some
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Generally we encourage the dogs to keep the bones outside, or in the kitchen, and mop the floor after. Not that it needs much - they usually munch wherever it lands! The sound of a couple of German Shepherds crunching up their bones means y
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Only if cooked first, as they become brittle. So cooked chicken bones would be especially risky. Raw bones are generally fine - they break into small pieces. Larger marrow bones they can only gnaw at of course.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
The big food conglomerates have been buying up pet food makers for decades. Gives a convenient place to dump all the leftovers from their human food production. Best option is to find a maker that still only makes pet food, or take the old
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by oldcynic 9y ago
> I told him I thought my friend (whom I've mentioned here before) was predisposed to addiction on account of her being adopted How on earth does that follow? Adoption, in and of itself, is not an "adverse childhood experienc
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Probably multiple accounts, and/or rate limits, coming from a single IP which is likely on a VPN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html (Last item)
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Thanks! That's one I hadn't encountered! :)
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by oldcynic 9y ago
I was hoping to find all the unlisted URLs some of which I can never remember, like /leaders etc. Interesting nonetheless. There does seem to be some attempts to game HN lately that I don't remember in the past - like a recent t
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by oldcynic 9y ago
That's broadly where I'd go with plastic bottles - £1 deposit, rising to £5 and compel supermarkets and manufacturers to take the returns. I'm old enough to remember the 20p(?) deposit on glass bottles of fizzy pop. Also when
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by oldcynic 9y ago
You're right, I conflated too far.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
> Put companies out of business that produce or import said goods Tough. Don't go into business ruining the environment. Similar closures would have happened in asbestos, coal, tetraethyl lead additives and plenty of other things
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by oldcynic 9y ago
12 years? 12 months seems plenty. It's not like they need decades of research to reintroduce paper straws, paper bags and reusable bags. Edit: I'm confused now. "As of next year, food and beverage stores such as fast foo
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by oldcynic 9y ago
eBay has become actively hostile for individuals selling. All their policies now heavily favour the buyer, and the scope for getting scammed is too high to make it worth the bother. Little wonder it's becoming more a marketplace. Oh an
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by oldcynic 9y ago
The surprising omission from this post is that it doesn't conclude with them migrating away from 101domains. Comically bad support and not paying registry fees. I'd have pulled domains the moment it was live again.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Pet hate of mine is using more space to replace a border or other distinction between elements. Most of the time I want to see more playlists, or email subjects, in preference to delighting in your use of whitespace. Information density mat
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by oldcynic 9y ago
I completely forget its name but wasn't there was a Mozilla project to do basically this a dozen or more years back? Obviously without the benefits of HTML 5 etc.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Google should be penalising the actual problem - page weight, not building their walled garden. So encouraging speed is ok to a point. Do they stop there and create AMP because Google is so invested in their ad ecosystem? Serious question
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by oldcynic 9y ago
France is about to try this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/11/france-to-ban-... Yes I'd support this.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Hmm, perhaps it's a UK/EU difference to the US. Judges here are perfectly happy to strike clauses in contracts or terms they think unreasonable or at variance to law or custom. Agreed to or not. Whether it comes down to UK/EU
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by oldcynic 9y ago
> but then two years later the manufacturer pushes and update that adds 24/7 tracking and mandatory banner ads. What do you suggest doing in that case? Return your car to the dealer for a refund? I expect, well more hope, someone to
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by oldcynic 9y ago
> "Telenav Inc., a company developing in-car advertising software, is betting you won’t mind much" That's not a bet I'd put £5 on. Will they be giving dealers a "magic remote" to make sure no ads pop up duri
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by oldcynic 9y ago
I did spend a few mins in the history on both pages trying to find a reference to what I had in mind. Perhaps it was copyright or a see-also to something more notable - I doubt I'd have a positive memory of defamation. It's long e
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by oldcynic 9y ago
That's OK, farmers using Monsanto product are sorting out those pirates^H^H^H bees too.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
See also Cox's Clock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox's_timepiece I'm sure Wikipedia used to have a much better write up, and more info on other clocks of a similar type. It's a shame they started

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