willyt

37 ms·

421.
by willyt 6y ago
I don't know who statista are but their figures seem to be wrong. However I also must have misremembered. So it seems we were both wrong: The UK government says it is similar now (256983 GWh) compared to 1970. (214426 GWh) having peake
422.
by willyt 6y ago
Yep but you'll need a time machine as you will need to contact BT for the new phone line 5 years before you know you are going to start building the house to be on the safe side. I know of plenty of people who tried to organise their p
423.
by willyt 6y ago
I once read a statistic that the Saturn V rocket had a higher instantaneous power than the whole of the UK electrical grid. I did a bit of googling to discover if that was true and I was surprised to discover that the UK used about 3-4 time
424.
by willyt 6y ago
Thanks, I read it in a newspaper article once and I should probably have checked but I was lazy and I knew someone else would do it for me! So I just wrote 'supposedly' and waited... I just remembered that this is a great site for
425.
by willyt 6y ago
Supposedly Concorde used more fuel taxiing from the stand to line up on the runway than a 737 flying London-Paris, but the fuel consumption PPM was comparable with a 747 once the plane was at super cruise. The problem is an building an engi
426.
by willyt 6y ago
There’s various rights of appeal, they are very slow. Also any government decision can be challenged by a judicial review in the U.K although it would be very expensive and would take years. In India, if no-one signs the paper, can you take
427.
by willyt 6y ago
TBH, apart from the bribes it mostly sounds pretty similar to the UK. Perhaps this person would have had an easier time if they had hired a professional to deal with it for them. I often visit sites with potential clients and I have to tell
428.
by willyt 6y ago
In most common law jurisdictions there are two branches of law, very approximately the differences are: Criminal law, crimes like murder, rape, theft in breach of rules enforced by the state against all citizens, judgements result in punish
429.
by willyt 6y ago
Supposedly the a average life of a building in Tokyo back then was 20 years, I wonder how many are still there?
430.
by willyt 6y ago
I remember when I lived in London there was a time when it seemed like there were more and more police sirens everywhere, this made me feel like there had been a big increase in bad people doing bad stuff. But, it turns out, what had actual
431.
by willyt 6y ago
There was no statistically significant difference between Swiss regions that did use the predictive software and those that didn't. All regions saw a broadly equivalent drop in crime.
432.
by willyt 6y ago
Get some brightly coloured spray-paint. Neon pink, gold or whatever. Paint the whole bike with it, obviously try not to get it in the mechanically sensitive parts but otherwise coat the whole thing. No-one is going to steal that, it will st
433.
by willyt 6y ago
In the sense that the country flip flops between two political ideologies at huge expense in changes to procedures and physical infrastructure rather than agreeing a course to steer and sticking to it with occasional course corrections at e
434.
by willyt 6y ago
The U.K. doesn’t use coalitions. They are an anomaly in the U.K. There has only been one since WW2. U.K. is typically a de facto two party state. If anything, our recent problems are due to both parties consistently failing to supply an eff
435.
by willyt 6y ago
The recent coalition government in Britain was much more stable than the following Conservative government. E.g Only one prime minister in 5 years and no major chaos. The two party system fails when both parties consistently fail to supply
436.
by willyt 6y ago
Prime Minister Thatcher was strongly advised to seek a diplomatic solution by the UK military leadership at them time and there was considerable international pressure to do so. It was militarily a very risky operation at the very limit of
437.
by willyt 6y ago
> The Falklands can be defended against Argentina. Barely. The Falklands was touch and go, Britain was only one or two Exocets away from losing. To bomb the runway at Port Stanley, the Vulcan bombers required in flight refuelling 4 times
438.
by willyt 6y ago
PFI started under the leadership of Conservative PM John Major. I don't agree with it, but the reason Labour carried on with it is because it's a neat accounting trick for hiding capital spending. Tories have criticised Labour cap
439.
by willyt 6y ago
Did you ever check to see if they filtered UV correctly?
440.
by willyt 6y ago
Doesn't that just mean that the lenses are popped into the frames by someone in Italy?
441.
by willyt 6y ago
You used to be able to have multiple keychain files in keychain so you could create another one which doesn't unlock at login which you keep for more securerer stuff?
442.
by willyt 6y ago
It doesn’t protect you from vulnerabilities in things like, say the code in the system API which paints video frames to the screen, which is where a lot of these vulns seem to be. It wouldn’t have been 2008, didn’t safari and chrome mostly
443.
by willyt 6y ago
Yep, there are lots of weird clunky little windows only apps for doing calculations for things in my industry as well, usually stuff thats required for regulatory compliance. But I can't think of any that use really any processing powe
444.
by willyt 6y ago
The standard contracts don't specify what you will provide, they specify how much it will cost and when it will be provided. Exactly what will be provided is different each time and is generally covered by a written specification and a
445.
by willyt 6y ago
Construction is pretty different now. Supply chains are much more complicated and can be multi national even for a domestic house whereas in 1920, you would probably be able to source all the materials for a house from within 20 miles. Legi
446.
by willyt 6y ago
It surprises me that standard form contracts are not more common in other industries, as they are very common in construction, in the UK at least. You literally buy a copy of the contract, fill in the blanks and there are endless textbooks
447.
by willyt 6y ago
But 95% of computers sold ran windows then. 10% of computers run MacOS now and maybe 20% of phones. Just buy a different computer, or don't... Or if you are a developer, make software for Windows or Android instead.
448.
by willyt 6y ago
Most of the increases were during the tenure of a government that wanted to privatise the railways and believed they should be self funded and obviously would not want these price rises to occur once the railways were privatised.
449.
by willyt 6y ago
Increased car ownership causes congestion which makes travelling by car impractical for long journeys and increased house prices force people to commute from further out?
450.
by willyt 6y ago
What is different now compared to before? Fares have increased faster than inflation, trains are overcrowded, the seats are a lot more cramped, just as worn and dirty, no faster than before and the sandwiches are still as bad as the ones yo

More ›