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by willyt 8y ago
Yep. I had no idea until now that it was an actual cooking thing either.
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by willyt 8y ago
This is maybe a stupid question, but why don’t violins have markings to indicate the notes. Obviously you wouldn’t have physical frets like a guitar because that would alter the sound, but one of the reasons beginners sound so awful is beca
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BIG U – proposed sea wall around Lower Manhattan(rebuildbydesign.org)
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by willyt 8y ago
Bah those IS dudes are total amateurs. Check out what the IRA and UVF were able to achieve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles#Chronological_lis...
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by willyt 8y ago
They could mine contaminants from the WW! battlefields in the Zone Rouge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge
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by willyt 8y ago
Quite a large area of France is still so heavily contaminated from WW1 that there is still an exclusion zone in place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge
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by willyt 8y ago
Better architects of the period understood the effects of soot and played to them. Because houses were heated with coal it was a problem even before the industrial revolution. As such, some architectural historians believe that buildings sh
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Airbnb and the so-called sharing economy is hollowing out our cities(theguardian.com)
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by willyt 8y ago
Norwegian is ~$200 single New York - London
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by willyt 8y ago
Ironically, considering all the anti socialist rants in the discussion so far, Norway's oil industry is state owned and the government has taken the profits and invested in creating one of the largest sovereign wealth funds and in a lo
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by willyt 8y ago
Or it might not have been built to specification. I know of an instance of contractors having the rebar inspected by the engineer and then moving the reinforcement to the next part in the sequence to be constructed. The engineer caught them
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by willyt 8y ago
I think the Air conditioning is powered by the APU (gas turbine in the tail of the aircraft) on the ground or Fixed Electric Ground Power. Inoperative APU is not safety critical so airlines are allowed to fly with this defect. I'm gues
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by willyt 8y ago
I remember my grandfather complaining about mm, but he then went on to tell me a story about how he was surveying a medieval building with his assistant with an old tape measure and they were getting all sorts of awkward dimensions, when th
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by willyt 8y ago
> Having an art director "tear apart" your work is generally the best scenario. They can usually back up the critique with helpful insights. Regardless of tone. Definitely, and in my professional career I have never had my work
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by willyt 8y ago
Welcome to the creative industry, it's not unusual for businesses with a design culture to operate like this. It would be pretty similar working for any big name architect anywhere. Likewise in graphic design, product design etc... If
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by willyt 8y ago
This thing has a 2km long fibre optic tether and is battery powered. Been in use since 2001. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafox_drone
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How to make a Nixie tube [video](youtube.com)
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by willyt 8y ago
Tommy Roaster is the translation from German for their nickname for British tanks. The German tanks were much better than the British tanks according to this primary source[0]. I don't know about Sherman tanks. [0] https://s
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by willyt 8y ago
Doesn't seem to be all that reliable or is it just me? I have it on a fire stick and it regularly stalls at 20%, the only reliable way to get it going again is to reboot the whole stick. About once every two weeks the cache gets corrup
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by willyt 8y ago
That’s roughly how the Cuban system works although I think representatives are chosen by groups much smaller thank 10k and there are more of them.
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by willyt 8y ago
No-one is suggesting having no market forces anywhere. Market forces are an excellent way of ensuring a good selection of high quality fruit in a fruit market. And they may well be a good way for deciding who manufactures, supplies and oper
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by willyt 8y ago
Pretty much most of Western Europe. Uk train services are expensive and unreliable, but they are run by private companies.
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by willyt 8y ago
The market does take care of this. No one builds the second sewerage system or railway on the same route, it’s a terrible investment. The first mover gets a monopoly, price gouging happens, public complains and the government steps in. Curr
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by willyt 9y ago
That's not strictly true, the rules [0] on what fire tests a cladding material must conform to are quite complicated and depend on how close adjoining buildings are and whether there are any windows in them. [0] http://www.g
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by willyt 9y ago
Timber framed houses are common in Scandinavia. They are also pretty common in the UK, but you wouldn't know it because they often have a non-loadbearing brick or blockwork outer skin which relies on the timber frame for stability, i.e
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by willyt 9y ago
I don't know about Canada/US, but I think the equivalent OSHA / H&S stuff only applies to employees typically over here, what you get up to as a self employed person is your own lookout.
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by willyt 9y ago
Nope thats not it. Many houses built in the UK now have a timber structure with a (mostly) non load bearing brick or blockwork skin on the outside. Most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a new build house that is t
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Use Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for real time collaboration with Box(support.apple.com)
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by willyt 9y ago
Sorry I was confused when you said “if not for the heat then to at least remove the moisture”. When your insulation is being used to keep heat out, your heat exchanger would operate in reverse to use extract air to cool incoming air, some M
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by willyt 9y ago
MVHR dehumidifies the air inside, I explained in another comment above. We have used units which are 96% efficient.

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