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by willyt 13y ago
Im not a lawyer so there may be subtle details I don't understand, but broadly in England and Wales, you can be sued within either 6 years or 12 years from the date of a breach of contract depending on type of contract, in Scotland 15
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by willyt 13y ago
This is really just an Amazon PR stunt at this stage, but are there interesting solutions to the list of problems posed though? Navigation: Well I suppose you could do this with an app that makes you stand in a spot where you think the dron
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by willyt 13y ago
I suggest you ask a Russian to make you a salad. It would break you in gently to the world of salad eating, I think you would enjoy it :]
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by willyt 13y ago
My friend could do this in after effects. I can't remember how. I too was hoping this would some kind of interesting compositing thing...
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by willyt 13y ago
You are missing quite a few vegetarian only restaurants. There are three I thought of immediately: The Gate in Hammersmith. or that place on Drummond St near Euston station (Diwani?) Rasa in Stoke Newington. All are well known enough to hav
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by willyt 13y ago
They have, in the UK when you have your first appointment with the midwife they encourage you to consider it as an option. If you decide to do this you will then be assigned an experienced midwife who will attend the birth at your house, wi
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by willyt 13y ago
I think you are mistaken. In Britain, the term 'midwife' means specifically a postgraduate qualification on a general nursing degree. They are certified medical professionals and have a level of specialised knowledge akin to a ICU
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by willyt 13y ago
Safety is not the same as feeling safe. In Britain, about 10-15 years ago, they changed all the emergency services sirens to the same sound as the police have always used. You used to be able to tell the difference between an ambulance, a f
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by willyt 13y ago
Student accommodation is subsidised by the university.
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A lot of the discussion on this thread has descended into a slanging match about French regulation and work life balance vs US libertarianism and customer service. This is mostly missing the main point which is that Amazon has an unfair adv
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I noticed that my MacBook does this as well. If I touch the case then touch my ear while it's charging I hear a buzzing sound and feel my fingers tingling where they touch the laptop. I always wondered how the buzzing was transmitted.
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by willyt 13y ago
The whole series was great. Worth watching for sure.
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by willyt 13y ago
I'm fine. The practice I used to work for treated people very well compared to other 'names', the big boss was very nice and would listen to your opinions in a design discussion, they're not all bad. I do my own thing no
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by willyt 13y ago
I'm an Architect and I have worked on large projects in London, although not this one thankfully[0], so I thought people might like to know how the process of designing a building like this works. A developer hires an international &#x
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by willyt 13y ago
Yes, in fact the cladding system will have been designed by specialist facade engineers, so they are probably at least partly to blame for this.
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by willyt 13y ago
What, you mean like the civil engineer who designed the wobbly bridge? [0] Even though the phenomenon of synchronised footsteps causing large oscillations due to positive feedback is well enough known that there is another bridge in London
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by willyt 13y ago
Exactly. But it's obviously not just the accent thats at issue here. If you think about it, and try to do a good impersonation of someone talking in a different accent it has to include a bit of dialect and local grammatical idioms to
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by willyt 13y ago
Cockney is relatively easy compared to some other local UK dialects/accents. My wife's family is from Stirlingshire in Scotland and they say stuff like: 'yer wain's greetin' -> 'the baby's crying'.
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by willyt 13y ago
It's already done. The docklands light railway in London is more complicated than the metro systems of most cities and it's been driverless since the 1980's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Ra
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by willyt 13y ago
Why would you put solar panels up there? Why couldn't you just focus the energy into a beam and point it towards earth like space based mirrors for one of these solar power stations[0] where sunlight is focused on a 'boiler'
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by willyt 13y ago
There's masses of DIY information on dealing with all these problems in yachts. Power, water, sewerage, heating etc are all solved easily with off the shelf parts available for this market. Practical boat owner is good magazine to find
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by willyt 13y ago
Back of the envelope, SI units. 13 × 10^-6 thermal expansion coefficient of steel 45 - -40 max temp difference 570k length of tube in meters line1 × line2 × line3 = 629m (~1890') of thermal expansion over a 570 km tube. Did I read it r
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by willyt 13y ago
It's a convention of building physics to convert all energy useage to kW (sometimes BTU in the US) regardless of whether its gas, electric, oil, biomass etc. For example, Passivhaus calcs are done this way.
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by willyt 13y ago
That's a pretty basic checklist that a good architect with experience of office design would go through. Those are all design problems an architect will be able to solve for you and often in ways you wouldn't have thought of. Don&
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by willyt 13y ago
Sweet, so just hang around pubs in Cheltenham till you find the spook pub, then pal up with them, find out who would most likely take a bribe (I don't know, maybe one who plays the puggies[0] a lot would be a good place to start) offer
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You're right, research shows that about 10 people is the best number of people in a team and therefore if it was just a question of doing a good design you would design spaces around these units. But, as I explained in my other comment
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As an architect and as a human that has had to work in these kind of offices, I completely agree. But the spec of offices is usually decided by a developer to maximise rental income, not the convenience of the end user. It's pretty unu
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The reason why open plan offices are here to stay is because they are much more space efficient than traditional offices and therefore cheaper. Traditional offices use up lots of space for corridors, door swings and duplicated circulation r
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He's saying just one of those columns will support 100 tons. The self weight is probably something like 20 tons. 100 tons is not a very big load in construction terms.
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And make sure it's properly insulated to keep the heat that is not reflected outside

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