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by willyt 7y ago
Different failure modes. Mild steel becomes ductile at relatively low temperatures, way before it actually melts, hence why you sometimes see steel beams deform and drape over timber beams in a fire. The ductile transformation happens relat
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Play this in the right place in a British or Irish seaside village and about 5 people will immediately jump up and run out the door! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EYfOxeBV7M
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by willyt 7y ago
Why would a union want more prisons? Surely the whole point of a union is to lobby for better pay and conditions for its individual members, I don't see what the incentive is for the union to create more prisons, to get more union memb
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by willyt 7y ago
Used to be common in Scotland too, not sure about England so much. Me and my brother were put out in the front garden by my granny!
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I agree, of all the different kinds of UK notes the latest Royal Bank of Scotland notes are my favourite designs [0] [1]. Make sure to look at both sides. One of the confusing things about bank notes in the UK is that there are 5 totally di
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by willyt 7y ago
LGV Mediterranean has to negotiate the hilly terrain in southern France. Plenty of tunnels and viaducts. €20m/km. Way less than us. The problem is with how we manage construction projects in the UK.
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Construction costs haven’t changed all that much since then. A significant proportion of the costs are in project management and contractual arrangements designed to shift risk away from politicians and managers. If you look at costs in Fra
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by willyt 7y ago
Most expensive TGV route so far €15m/km. ~200km London-Birmingham. Therefore ~€3bn for the high speed line itself. €5bn each end for stations? €10bn for tunnels into London? The rest spent on typical British dicking around with procure
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by willyt 7y ago
In France the equivalent of London to Glasgow takes two hours by train. E.g Paris-Bordeaux Edit: and the fare is about €70 if you don’t book in advance. Pretty favourable compared to the current walk up fare to Glasgow.
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by willyt 7y ago
I'm imagining a zeppelin that looks like a starfruit, an evacuated structural fabric over a compression frame.
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by willyt 7y ago
I can't find a source for it, but I'm fairly sure at least two prime ministers have, in their later years, gone on record saying that their instructions were to paraphrase 'don't retaliate'. Edit: Also, Britains nuc
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by willyt 7y ago
The design inconsistency makes it looks like the machine has been hacked, would make me nervous about putting my card in it.
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by willyt 7y ago
Not really to do with old english, it comes from the fact that there are loads of borrowed French words in English (and loads of words from other languages). For example the french word for 'appointment' -> 'rendezvous&#x2
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This strategy could backfire if it causes EASA the EU safety regulator to distrust the integrity of the investigation.
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by willyt 7y ago
Interesting so land area of world / 8000 gives 1 Glensanda per 18600km2. Area of UK is 242000km2 so we would need about 13 Glensanda sizes quarries in the UK. Of course it would be fairer if were weighted by amount of harm done to the
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by willyt 7y ago
I thought one of the big problems with Australian politicians doing anything about climate change was that the ruling conservatives are in hock to the big open cast mining companies. Seems like this could be a great opportunity to get these
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by willyt 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glensanda This super quarry is in a very scenic area of the west coast of Scotland and supplies 6M tons of granite aggregate yearly and apart from the quay you would not know it is there,
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by willyt 7y ago
They could be cut down and turned into cross laminated timber buildings. If the trees are left to grow old and die naturally, does the stored carbon get re-emitted as a bi-product of decomposition? EDIT: According to the discussion below, y
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by willyt 7y ago
I’m guessing that it’s considered a strategically important business to US defence? The US government would presumably be unwilling to allow all those teams of specialist engineers and technicians to be disbanded and all the facilities and
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by willyt 7y ago
I’ve worked on airport design. €5bn is not that much and 10 years is not a particularly long build time. Heathrow’s T5 building was about £4bn and the design work started in the 1980’s and it had loads of teething problems also. What’s the
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by willyt 7y ago
I am not an expert, you are strongly advised to take legal advice in your own jurisdiction. You need to have a lawyer review all the text on your website not just the terms and conditions as it all forms part of the ‘invitation to treat’ an
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by willyt 7y ago
Most of my Python/Ruby stuff requires additional packages to be installed and so would need to be bundled anyway if I wanted it to be easily transferred to a vanilla machine so I don’t see what the big deal is. I got into programming t
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by willyt 7y ago
Swift is open and available on other platforms. I can install it on a raspberry pi if I want. https://swiftreviewer.com/2018/12/21/swift-programming-on-ra...
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by willyt 7y ago
I never understood how ‘good brakes’ make a difference as every car has brakes powerful enough to lock the wheels. Why isn’t it the ratio of the mass of the car to the size of the contact patch for the tires that is the overriding factor?
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by willyt 7y ago
Perhaps there is an inherent problem with Anglo-Saxon, legal and contracting culture, which causes the management structure of projects to be over complicated and wasteful? After all, London is still a lot more expensive to build in that ot
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Once you have more than about 150mm (6”) of insulation a typical building will be losing more energy through air leakage than through conduction. CLT in particular is excellent for airtightness because it is pretty airtight in of itself and
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Roman concrete doesn’t have the same chemistry as modern concrete.
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Technically he was fined for swearing at the police, not for covering his face. If he had said nothing he would not have been fined but might have been searched as the police have the power to stop and search anyone who they have reasonable
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by willyt 7y ago
Another article said 20% as loud as a helicopter. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/16/electric-fly... Edit: Also this article says they expect to be integrated with existing transport hubs wi
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It’s hard to make a comparison because it’s purchasing power that counts not dollar income. It’s much cheaper to eat better quality food from Waitrose in London than from Wholefoods in New York. I felt that food shopping in New York State i

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