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by willyt 13y ago
Heat gain/loss through the roof and other opaque parts of the building shouldn't be an issue because insulation is cheap and about 200mm of modern insulation is all you need before air tightness and AC efficiency become the major
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by willyt 13y ago
I don't know where you are but check your building codes. Vision panels in doors are a requirement in my jurisdiction. If they are required where you are and the building is still in defects liability you may be able to get the contrac
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by willyt 13y ago
App icons in OS X are interpolated between about 4 different sized images. I remember reading about this in the developer docs back in about 2002. I'd be surprised if Apple don't have pretty much the same patent on this already bu
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by willyt 13y ago
There's a whole seperate article in the opinion section on why the law doesn't make sense http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/21/david-came... The 'quality' UK papers gener
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by willyt 13y ago
http://www.shazam.com
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by willyt 13y ago
Further to this, it's a pretty interesting technical problem to think about why the bridge collapsed. A compression member or node at the top of the truss that forms the main span seems to have failed for some reason. The news story linked
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by willyt 13y ago
That's not soot, most lines have always been electric. Its a mixture of iron filings, brake linings and human skin. Only the metropolitan, H&C and some of the Circle were steam.
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by willyt 14y ago
Just to add some more information to your comment, I'm an Architect and I worked on a building with trees growing on top of a structure, but not at high level. I just happen to know that, according to the tree specialist, a 5-8m tall magnol
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by willyt 14y ago
Traffic accidents, railway suicides, stuff like that can be pretty gruesome. You have to be a certain type of person to be prepared to deal with that sort of thing.
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by willyt 14y ago
Heres an example from the UK. Like everywhere in the world we have laws which govern how you construct buildings. In most cases the actual law concerning disabled access just says 'PART M ACCESS TO AND USE OF BUILDINGS Access and use M1. Re
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by willyt 14y ago
J.Lyons and Co.[0] were doing this in 1951. LEO[1], probably the first business computer, was built to collate data from Lyons Tea Houses to calculate how many cakes to bake overnight amongst other things. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by willyt 14y ago
I once sat next to a guy at work whose phone would induce this noise in my speaker about 10 seconds before his phone actually rang. So one day just before his phone rang I said 'Steve, your wife's phoning' and a few seconds later, she was.
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by willyt 14y ago
Anecdote: My kids are preschool age. Obviously we regulate what and how much TV they watch; I don't let them watch violent stuff or stuff that's agressive on TV but occasionally things slip through the net like power rangers or spider man c
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by willyt 14y ago
Maybe I dont understand PGP and this is a stupid question, but if the site is compromised, would it not be possible for them to just put a different key up? One which they knew the private key for? How would you know the public key on the c
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by willyt 14y ago
Nope. When I realised, I thought holy shit, I pretty much speak French already. Learn some glue words then any word ending in 'able' or 'cial' (and a few others i forget) pronounced in a 'Allo 'Allo [0] accent and you are pretty likely to b
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by willyt 14y ago
It's not quite correct to say that Scots law is entirely independent though. It's true that The High Court of Justiciary is the highest court of appeal for Scottish criminal cases, but the Supreme Court of the UK (formerly the House of Lord
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by willyt 14y ago
To reinforce your point, following the herd is not an excuse. To take the most extreme example of this. The Germans have a word, Schreibtischtäter, which roughly means 'desk based murderer'. It was coined during the period when former NAZI
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by willyt 14y ago
Yes but the fiscally prudent thing to do would have been to wait 4-5 years for them to need replacement then replace them with something else. They were just unpopular and prone to fare dodging not dangerous. There were a few reports of cyc
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by willyt 14y ago
Boris Johnson is an opportunist, he'll believe in anything you want if there's a vote in it. He spunked couple hundred million on replacing bendy buses ahead of the renewal cycle because it made good headlines.
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by willyt 14y ago
US from 1870-1910 is much more analogous to China from 1980-2030 than Germany surely. Rapidly industrialising, large untapped low skilled population, abundant natural resources, people generating large personal wealth very quickly. However,
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by willyt 14y ago
Nope, these apply to the design of any building with a sink or a toilet in it. That's just the standards for the drainage pipe sizing, layout and design of pipe bedding and cover. To be fair, for a very simple building you can probably get
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by willyt 14y ago
This is a big problem in Europe as well. In the UK increasingly the building regulations refer you to British and EU standards which are very expensive. Want to know the EU standard methods for designing drains for buildings? Be prepared to
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by willyt 14y ago
Finish dishwasher tabs. £10 for a 39 box in the Co-op. Thats where the real money is if you ask me :-)
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by willyt 14y ago
Especially as most of this demand is absorbed by hydro and pumped storage in the Scottish highlands.
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by willyt 14y ago
When a woman has a Caesarian, it seems pretty typical that the anaesthetic is an epidural which removes feeling from the lower half of the body while the patient retains full consciousness and feeling from the chest upwards. My wife said th
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by willyt 14y ago
I was on my way to school, the train got stuck about 100m out of the station because there were ground up leaves causing adhesion problems. The train sat there for about an hour, no announcements or anything, it was packed, people were jamm
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by willyt 14y ago
Maybe it was suppressed but not for nefarious reasons? Probably part of the reason that these attacks take place is due to the desire of the perpetrator to rip a big hole in peoples comfortable everyday existence. A response to this is to s
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by willyt 14y ago
This doesn't seem to have any advantages over a simple composting toilet which is pretty standard technology. Surely this article is missing something out?. Otherwise this is a massively overcomplicated solution to a problem which could be
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by willyt 14y ago
Public relations. It's obviously an investment in PR to generate public goodwill towards Google and at $5m, much cheaper than a TV advertising campaign.
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by willyt 14y ago
Well the POI data is even worse than Apple's where I am in the UK. Of about 20 shops on the high street, 1 is in the correct location 4 are shown in totally the wrong location but in the town and the rest don't show up at all. On the other

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