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by willyt 10y ago
I read about this idea once as a case study. I think it was first tried at a manufacturing company[0] in Brazil where everyone from the CEO down to the packers in the dispatch shed has their salary decided by a consensus employees. It'
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Elizabethan not Victorian.
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I really like python, I use it all the time now and I don't start any new stuff in Ruby. But it was a struggle to get over the hump. I pretty much never use the Python docs, for the author's example, I would just google 'pyth
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by willyt 10y ago
( population * gdp ) / number of medals Would be more interesting. Medals cost money. The UK has invested something like £5m per medal won.
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Adaptive structures [video](vimeo.com)
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Monorails and maglev both have the disadvantage that they don't do junctions very well. You have to swap a massive peice of straight structure for a massive piece of curved structure to form a junction.
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Good power to weight ratio and high speed running with low torque would be excellent for Hovercraft racing! (and light aircraft) http://www.hovercraft.org.uk
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People keep saying 'unelected bureaucracy', but this is a meme spread by the tabloid media. There is the council of ministers which is made up of representatives appointed by each country's democratically elected government.
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It's standard practice for out of court settlements to be in full and final settlement and require confidentiality.
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You can usually tell whether an airport is state funded or private sector by how confusing it is. Privately funded airports are optimised to get you past the maximum number of shop fronts with other distractions minimised. The tend to be la
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by willyt 10y ago
I'm not a lawyer but I have a basic understanding. In the UK case law is probably more applicable to what we call civil law than criminal law. Most things are criminalised by legislation (like French law) these days but civil law matte
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They could make it out of this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_foam
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Correlation is not causation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau...
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It's a culture clash, in Britain the only time you would be in a room full of people chanting like that is either a football match or a far right gathering. For us, and possibly other European countries, that kind of patriotic expressi
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by willyt 11y ago
IANAL and not in the US but legally 'Negligence' is a tort; it's a civil law matter not typically criminal unless it's Criminal Negligence because you actually kill or injure someone, I think. Someone would have to show
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Facebook tip jar proposed(theguardian.com)
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I slightly raised my eyebrows when you called the guardian 'activist' because all papers are political in the UK. I would have said that the their news pieces (not the comment pieces obviously), while not free of bias, are amongst
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The officer of the watch would be expected to plot the position on the chart every 15-20 mins so even a DR position would probably have been accurate to within ~10 miles.
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It's not unheard of for ships to be overwhelmed by heavy seas. Here's an accident investigation report into the loss of a large freezer trawler in storm in the Barents Sea. The ship was thought to have lost steering, went beam on
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In the UK we have the OSGB36 datum which OS maps and the national grid are projected from. OS maps are based on data surveyed by early Victorians with measuring chains climbing hills and triangulating with theodolites and therefore has some
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Lego Paper Airplane Factory(popularmechanics.com)
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This is really useful. I'm going to dump billings and use this to record time for invoicing to clients in a .yaml file and add a nice little preprocessor for creating a csv file for importing invoices into xero.
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That's interesting because 'back in the day' the IT department accidentally installed safari on my win XP box and as a long time mac user I thought 'finally some font rendering done right'. I guess it's down to
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Scottish police teach US cops how to avoid gun use(news.sky.com)
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Snowden files reveal US and UK spied on feeds from Israeli drones and jets(theguardian.com)
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Exactly, and to expand on this: Apart from major backhaul routes and a little bit of privately owner fiber in a few cities, the main telecoms infrastructure provider in the UK is BT openreach a subsidiary of BT which is a privately owned bu
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Very interesting. It appears to generate a voroni mesh to resolve the structural forces. I can't tell from looking at this to what extent the overall shape is predefined by the requirements or generated by aerodynamic effects though. T
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I'm not an expert, but isn't the advice in this article wrong?
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Security v usability: cracking the workplace password problem(theguardian.com)
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A little bit of feedback: Quite large parts of the UK still have patchy 2G reception so this would not be practical for here. People on HN have been saying don't worry the network will catch up for years, but where I live the network c

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