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by willyt 8y ago
Just on the point of simulations and not specifically being down on your suggestion of using them but thought people would be interested. I listened to a great podcast from Sean Brady, a forensic structural engineer, who said that if you ca
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by willyt 8y ago
But virgin rents that train from a company that was directed by the state to buy it and given a grant to do so. They had some influence over the design styling, but the decision to run 10 coaches at 140mph between London and Glasgow at spec
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by willyt 8y ago
Correlation is not causation though. It is just as likely that road congestion and land values have more to do with this than privatisation. Rural services are still underused. Many more families now own two cars. Services in South East Eng
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by willyt 8y ago
It’s also UK slang for peadophile, so be careful that everyone understands you are talking about cryptography not sex offenders if you use the word in public as there could be a nasty misunderstanding!
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by willyt 8y ago
I think it depends how busy the network is. If there are lots of free slots for new services and it’s possible to run faster by just buying new trains then maybe. But in the UK it’s saturated and many services have been running to pretty mu
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by willyt 8y ago
Privatisation was tried in the UK and it hasn’t worked. Our trains are just as unreliable as they always were. The food is still shit. Only difference is that the fares have been going up way faster than inflation for years now because we n
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by willyt 8y ago
Steel structures deflect a lot more than glass and buildings are built to relatively loose tolerances. E.g. skyscrapers have flexible neoprene gaskets between glass cladding panels to allow for a few mm of structural deflection due loads ca
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by willyt 8y ago
I oversimplified. It was understood in specific academic circles and to an extent by leading designers, but not widely by others. The cracks actually started at a hatch on the bottom of the plane which was added to the design without going
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by willyt 8y ago
Yes but AF447 was caused by the pilot flying forgetting the basic rule of fly the correct "pitch and power" when you lose situational awareness. If he had left the controls alone nothing would have happened and the errors would ha
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by willyt 8y ago
Yes but that was 65 years ago and the context is completely different. Planes crashed all the time back then and our safety culture and technology has changed massively. These steam locomotives[0], that look like they were built by a farmer
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by willyt 8y ago
Massively politically skewed source you are referencing there. Multiple problems, like typically no attempt at separation of opinion from fact.
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by willyt 8y ago
The RAT is not an engine and doesn’t deploy unless all other engines have shutdown in flight, and it induces drag because it’s a kind of ‘wind turbine’ that drops into the airstream and generates electrical power (and maybe hydraulic pressu
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by willyt 8y ago
Fuselage, Empennage, Ailerons...
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by willyt 8y ago
If you want to get pedantic then you and the article are both wrong! Navigation, marine and aeronautical, is done in Nautical Miles, called Knots when used to measure speed. 1NM used to be exactly 1 minute of latitude but is now defined as
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by willyt 8y ago
Do we need a trust system of some kind? Maybe journalists should be held accountable in the same way that doctors, structural engineers, architects etc. An article should be cryptographically signed by the journalist. If a journalist publis
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by willyt 8y ago
It's an amazing opportunity for guerrilla typographers though.
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by willyt 8y ago
They are licensed market pitches, the fee includes cleanup and the local council will come in the night and clear away all the debris and hose it down. There are many markets like this in London, Ridley road market in Hackney is infamous fo
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by willyt 8y ago
Assuming you are not an EU citizen, you are don't get free healthcare in the UK anyway. They probably told you to go to the private doctor because if you are non-EU you would have health insurance which would cover this no?
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by willyt 8y ago
I thought this ship sailed? I heard of CCTV control centres in London doing this about 15 years ago? I can’t find a link, has anyone else heard of that?
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by willyt 8y ago
Yes true, but if there's no instability then there is no opportunity; there are no losers, but also no winners. EDIT: Also by analysing FX market movements in relation to polling in the weeks and months leading up, it wouldn't be
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by willyt 8y ago
But surely if it's possible to make £500 million in one day, that's quite a big incentive to artificially 'twang' the markets because hedge funds profit from instability no? If you throw a rock in a pond there are lots o
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by willyt 8y ago
I wonder if they continue to make money on the currency markets by getting advance inside information on what politicians will announce next? Quite a few Conservative party politicians either own hedge funds, have worked for them, or have f
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by willyt 8y ago
There are myriad ways for ex-politicians to make money afterwards that are easier than becoming an EU bureaucrat. Tony Blair supposedly makes over a million a year from speaking engagements. Boris Johnson earns £150k p/a (double his MP
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by willyt 8y ago
I'm not sure I understand, they are all paid an MP's salary which is something like £75k per year. So I'm not sure that their government jobs are all that valuable compared to the amount of money that could be made by gaming
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by willyt 8y ago
It's interesting how many of the lead Brexiters have such strong connections to financial services. I do wonder sometimes if the whole thing is a play on the markets because I haven't seen any cogent explanation for why Brexit is
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by willyt 8y ago
Burger pass. $30 for a burger pass. Gets you burgers for $4 for the rest of the year. or pay $20 for a burger now. You can secretly give out burger passes to locals when the tourists aren't looking.
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by willyt 8y ago
Also Paramedics on motorbikes and in cars. Paramedic on a bike gets there quickly and triages/delivers critical care, cars and ambulances are stood down or dispatched as needed.
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by willyt 8y ago
The final artwork was a bigger time commitment so you would stop and think about the message for much longer before you committed to the final rendering. I think now we go straight to modelling and graphics programs which speed up the proce
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by willyt 8y ago
English is not easy: Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dr
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by willyt 8y ago
I'm really surprised it still exists. I've actually tried to use a few of these services on OS X server at various points in the past. It never worked very well behind NAT; anyone that can afford their own IP space is not going to

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