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by robga 4y ago
> I think I share support for this argument and might have even posted it on HN previously. It’s hard to tell. Your account was created only 20 hours ago. Maybe you posted it with a different handle?
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by robga 4y ago
Actually I was thinking of my local situation in the UK where about a third of the population live in medium density terraced housing. Some streets have minimal charging but with parking hard to find locals often resist their installation.
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> Why is this a major concern? There's no possibility for me to plug in at home and my EV works just fine. It’s not a major concern. It’s just a buying factor. For those who can plug in at home it’s a plus. It’s a weak con for me. I
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by robga 4y ago
“Not the only answer” is right. Elsewhere on the internet, BEV vs FCEV arguments descend into typical slanging matches. But it’s not A vs B. The world and market can have A and B and C and D. Many of us will never be able to plug in at home
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by robga 4y ago
High recommend for The Flaneur - A Stroll Through The Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White.
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by robga 4y ago
Here is a positive 4.6/5 review of it being used on a motorbike https://www.webbikeworld.com/iasus-stealth-throat-microphone...
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by robga 4y ago
+1 to the Ask. I had a trawl across HN for this just yesterday without great success. There are a couple of podcast-popular mics which sound good but not if you are more than a foot away.
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by robga 4y ago
> my hope is some day crypto will be known as a Nakamoto Scheme It’s called this in various places. See https://salbayat.org/the-strange-case-of-nakamotos-bitcoin/
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by robga 4y ago
Press Release https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-data-laws-to-boost-br... Consultation https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/data-a-new-direc... Includes nuggets like the gov p
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by robga 4y ago
UK -1500 Portugal +1300 Many UK citizens migrated to Portugal upon retirement. They have one of the best regimes re tax etc. for HMWI. Meanwhile, UK has inheritance taxes, high tax on pensions over £1m, etc. Immigration rules play a major r
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by robga 4y ago
Chicken feed.
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Yes, the private sector IS often more capable of iterating and implementing working systems at lower cost than governments. Government and the private sector can work together on large scale core national infrastructure projects where the a
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by robga 4y ago
I don’t doubt your sincerity and commitment but I find PKB a real problem. I don’t want this 3rd party to hold my information. I found it difficult to de-register on attempt 1 through my GP. I see now you can email PKB support to do it dire
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by robga 4y ago
A bit better is the BBC interview with the inventor upon which the article is based. There isn’t much more detail but at least it is slightly more engaging. You can hear it at this location, from 2:41:00-2:45:00, though being the BBC it’s h
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by robga 4y ago
Right, the article doesn't argue for fusion funding. But elsewhere the author has advocated it with "fusion power is a goal worth spending billions on". And in his "Why Particle Colliders Will Go Extinct" article, h
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by robga 4y ago
Replace annealing with backprop / sgd, integrate over the loss function with a nn and you'd arrive at something like the many ai palette generators that swarm the web. I suppose the takeaway here is designing a loss function that
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My local hydrogen station electrolyses water onsite using excess grid energy.
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(with the disclaimer that it has been 30 months since travelling widely) It's still possible. 99% of travellers proceed along narrow planks of tourist hotspots that represent 1% of what is interesting in the world. Once it was lonely p
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> countries that have good exchange rates What does this mean? I equate “good exchange rate” with “low exchange commission/fee” and “low volatility”.
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by robga 4y ago
> Coming soon: Chris Pratt using a team of sauropods to farm in the next Jurassic Park movie. The Good Dinosaur (2015) - Argo and his family worked the farm like champs. No “T wrecks” there!
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by robga 4y ago
Neighsayer.
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by robga 4y ago
Cheese and Trackers. A timeless match.
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In the early 90s a practise at my university was to “finger some.edu” and subsequently “talk [or ytalk] randomperson@some.edu” half way around the world. IIRC we could have 4 people ytalking. We had IRC but it lacked variety. In another ter
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by robga 4y ago
Not only that, it’s popular to get “tracker” mortgages. It’s the Bank of England base rate plus a fixed rate. So it’s never actually fixed. My “Lifetime Tracker” is BOE+1.29% for 25 years. So it’s varied from 1.39% to 2.04% total charge in
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by robga 4y ago
I’ve always wondered why it’s called a head transplant not a full body transplant. I suppose it’s described from the surgeon’s POV not the patient’s POV.
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Autopilot envy?
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> Can we pedantic about … I tend to agree. The country in which it was invented, or the nationalities of those who invented it, are not relevant at all. You might include the country if it was newsworthy. Such as new evidence that “The R
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EU legislation is that best before dates are at most 28 days from date of lay. Has the UK changed its law after Brexit? Not to my knowledge. Red Lion stamped eggs still advertise the 28 day best before date. “For Lion eggs this must be show
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Local apian friends prefer the AirBnB.
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It’s a pretty good list. However, having the following as “red flags” is a “red flag” to me. Although I’d pass them, they seem more like cultural biases than appropriate measures of quality. - “Has never worked with a previous teammate in a

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