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by patrickk 10y ago
This is extraordinary. Thanks for sharing. It's amazing that BMW aren't shouting about this from the rooftops. They mention something about social media on the page for the i3 (at least on my local site) but nothing about the manu
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by patrickk 10y ago
Yes, the private/public system depends on your income level and I'm lucky that I have the choice. So far I'm fortunate that I don't need much dental work beyond the standard stuff. I've heard stories from my home co
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by patrickk 10y ago
They're trying to simply buy their way in: http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-deal-makers-have-germany-...
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A friend worked for the market leader in "rivets and rivet punching machines", and they did very little/no marketing from what he said. They didn't seem to understand the web at all, or maybe it simply didn't matter
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> Naturally, I asked him why there weren't people flocking from Europe (it's about 100 euros round trip from here). He said that even if dental care is cheap, everything around it sucks. He said that neighboring countries built
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> But the reason for it is that EU countries are giving extremely generous tax breaks for EV buyers. All the more reason the German car giants should've been in the game all along. They are just to tied to their internal combustion
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> What you can do away is with the whole mining thing You could have a "proof of stake" algorithm to power this proposed private blockchain, with the four originating banks (for example) given 25% "mining" power. The
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by patrickk 10y ago
Wow this is great, thanks so much again! I'll definitely look into these.
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A few off the top of my head: - Not everyone wants to lock themselves into long term mortgages, renting keeps their future options open - Getting a deposit together for some is tricky - Risk-adverse attitudes to getting mortgages after 2008
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Thanks for that! I had a quick look at your website linked from your profile, you've got quite an interesting, varied career. I'm thinking of self-publishing a book on a somewhat technical topic that's trending upwards at the
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by patrickk 10y ago
Points 1-3, are those figures per month, per year...? Are your estimates from personal experience or from people you know?
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TV Overlord- Python-based command line tool to download and manage TV shows(tvoverlord.com)
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Inertia most likely. ABP was around earlier.
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by patrickk 10y ago
Anecdotal, I was like you, extremely skeptical of meditation. Seriously, try it, it's free! Immediate benefits: * Clear, focused mind. I stop hopping from topic to topic in my mind "oh should I tidy the apartment, work on my websi
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by patrickk 10y ago
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say they are now longer relevant in the sense they are not at the cutting edge. IBM like you mentioned is a good example. They earn billions still, and will for the foreseeable future, but they're h
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Interesting that you omitted Apple. You could view the stalling iPhone sales as analogous to Windows reaching market penetration...maybe Apple will come up with a revolutionary new blockbuster (maybe the car), but post-Steve Jobs that won&#
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by patrickk 10y ago
When I flew into Heathrow last year, I was amazed by how visible the pollution was- over central London, there were no clouds (there were clouds around the outskirts) but this vague, blue haze was quite noticeable. Although compared to Shan
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Battery powered forklifts swapping batteries on trucks. It's a nice image of the future. Perhaps there's even infrastructure commonalities to reduce costs.
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Ok that article is a bad example. Here is a better example (ignore the cheesy setup, the actual analysis is very insightful into Trump's media manipulation tactics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55NxKENplG4 If you l
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by patrickk 10y ago
I'm not assuming anything, I'm saying it's a possibility. The Russian hacker story just seems bizarre and made up, just like the Sony North Korea story. Here's an interview with Julian Assange when asked about the source
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Scott Adams, the Dilbert guy, has some amazing analysis of why he thinks Trump will win: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/136818042136/trump-and-climate-...
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by patrickk 10y ago
Since you are Dutch, here's a wonderful act of public service done by your countrymen, getting voting machines to play chess: http://hackaday.com/2006/10/06/voting-machine-chess/ My country, Ireland
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by patrickk 10y ago
> Though I'd say you can have a single market without much of the current EU-bureaucracy. Having common legislation makes it easier to trade though. If you are (for example) a UK company, you can trade with 27 other countries under
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Very impressive. In a similar vein, here's a DIY Ambilght clone, which you can customise to fit different sizes of screen via software and a raspberry pi: http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Ambilight-with-Hyperion
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The catapult is a proven technology for aircraft though, with decades of development.
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> Wales (who seem to have a better grasp on the costs of needing to balance the books alone). Ahem. Wales is a net beneficiary of the EU to the tune of hundred of millions of pounds per year and they voted for Brexit. Something tells m
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Additionally, the EU likely wouldn't want the UK to have no border with ROI. Otherwise you could simply fly from (say) Romania to Dublin, travel up to Belfast, and move freely within the UK from there. This would create further tension
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Another stupid idea: use aircraft catapults[1] to reduce the onboard energy requirements. Takeoff seems to be the most energy demanding stage of the flight. Obviously a drawback is that existing airfields' or airports' runways wou
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by patrickk 10y ago
I recently visited an abbey in Killarney, Kerry in Ireland. The monks build an enclosed walkway around a very old yew tree, it was fascinating: http://www.killarney.co/muckross-abbey-killarney.html Perhaps inspired by a sim
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I think blockchains and so-called "smart contracts" should be added to the list of exciting areas to watch. Companies like Paypal are begging to be disrupted, we've all seen the problems of Too Big to Fail banks and the havoc

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