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by willyt 15y ago
This initiative is going to drown in poorly reasoned comments. They need some kind of karma system for filtering otherwise it's going nowhere. I read the first 7 or so comments and apart from the first one they seem to be poorly argued whin
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by willyt 15y ago
Rome has(had?) an honour system for public transport too. We didn't realise that no one ever pays unless they see inspectors getting on the bus. Lots of people would leap up and punch their biglietti when we punched ours because they assume
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by willyt 15y ago
In the 1920's my Granny was arrested in Germany when she was a teenager because her father sent her to Berlin from Glasgow without a passport because 'he didn't believe in this modern nonsense'. Even passports are pretty new.
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by willyt 15y ago
All right then, why is there no import duty (which is charged at the same rate as VAT) on a Raspberry PI when there is on a stick of RAM? Genuine question: I'm curious to know how the rules define one item as separate from the other. Edit
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by willyt 15y ago
I don't understand why Raspberry Pi doesn't have to pay VAT on the assembled imported items? Is it because they are a charity? EDIT: added 'assembled'. Does anyone have a link to the IR rules about this?
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by willyt 15y ago
The London Underground drivers and station staff are trained to do that. Suicides happen quite frequently on the tube and the staff are trained to distract people from what's happened and to make people quickly pass the scene and ensure the
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by willyt 15y ago
That's exactly what I did, I used to get the Piccadilly line from Kings Cross going south around the time the bomb went off. The trains on that line at that time are really packed, about 4 to 5 people per m2, I can only imagine what it must
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by willyt 15y ago
Be ready for this when you have kids. Your performance will drop right off for the first 12-18 months or so for each child. They disrupt your sleep and make your day physically and mentally longer and more demanding. The number of crazy thi
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by willyt 15y ago
BT is a state regulated monopoly in the UK for several of the tiers of the telecommunications infrastructure. The vast majority of IP packets from domestic and SME's will pas through their infrastructure at some point. Simplistically, if th
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by willyt 15y ago
I'm not an expert on this but here's my hypothesis. People seem to use twitter for interacting with the outside world: celebs, political causes, trends, memes, etc. People use Facebook for interacting with their friends. Could it be that tw
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by willyt 15y ago
Go stealth yacht: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=wally+yachts&hl=en&...
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by willyt 15y ago
Here's an idea, might be ridiculous: Can you file court papers electronically in the US? What if say youtube, wikipedia, etc had a fully automated SOPA compliance system which automatically filed court papers to have the take down notice 'r
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by willyt 15y ago
What do you mean by very very very bad? Could you give an example.
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by willyt 15y ago
May I suggest you have a look at some of these in google image search: pier luigi nervi centre pompidou paris lloyds of london frei otto gridshell structure norman foster masdar norman foster gherkin zaha hadid bmw factory zaha hadid wolfsb
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by willyt 15y ago
It only works if its an independently funded public service broadcaster like the BBC. Generally, the BBC news is widely accepted in the UK to have more accurate reporting than the press. Especially compared to tabloid newspaper stories, whi
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by willyt 15y ago
Because openCASCADE is the only open source solid modelling kernel approaching the same league as the Parasolid / ACIS / Inventor / Rhino kernels. Imagine the possibilities if more people had easy access to this level of reliable geometry m
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by willyt 15y ago
I just checked and the last few emails I have do have an unsubscribe link. It's right at the bottom in 8 or 9 pt text.
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by willyt 15y ago
No way. A new release of my CAD software always screws something up. Unfortunately, it seems like some software is just too old and complicated to test thoroughly and cost effectivly.
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by willyt 15y ago
What if you deleted the email you sent saying "Please ensure the crane you are using is rated for that load" and you need it when you get prosecuted by health and safety for the horrible accident that just happened. EDIT: Or the email sayin
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by willyt 15y ago
Sorry, I realise I am guilty of over generalising privately educated people. I think your point 2 contradicts point 1 but you are, of course, correct that you have to have the academic excellence to get in. No amount of teaching DJ'ing to g
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by willyt 15y ago
Whoa! Calculators were nowhere near as fancy as that back then. We were allowed programmable graphic calculators but the invigilators pressed the hard reset button on the back as you went in to the exam to make sure you hadn't stored anythi
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by willyt 15y ago
That's the interesting thing, once you 'know the road' you know all the places where you can't see the road surface but because you know where the road is in the terrain ahead you can make optimised judgements about visibility to oncoming t
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by willyt 15y ago
I live in the Scottish Highlands, It's interesting that there are almost no deaths on the single track roads where the speed limit is 60mph and road alignments often allow for travelling at this speed, assuming you have correctly judged the
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by willyt 15y ago
Only equivalent if where you buy lottery tickets they jump over the counter and beat the crap out of you every time you buy a ticket.
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by willyt 15y ago
What age are Americans typically when they take SATS? The geometry stuff is not so bad if you can give visual proofs, pretty hellish otherwise. I think I had to know quite a lot of this stuff for A-level maths as well as Calculus, basic Sta
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by willyt 15y ago
I have heard that the admissions procedure is similar for top UK universities, Oxford, Cambridge etc. Except that they have a policy to openly discriminate against privately educated pupils. You need better exam results to get through the f
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by willyt 15y ago
Heavy lifting on construction sites involves quite a lot of unknowns and is safety critical. Some excavation could possibly be automated on probably on greenfield sites. Depends very much where you are building. In the middle of pretty much
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by willyt 15y ago
> Most of the people who want to learn OpenGL, actually want to learn 3d graphics programming. What 3D engines would you recommend? I've looked at OpenInventor and Coin3d briefly but I'm interested in solid modelling as well, rather tha
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by willyt 15y ago
I just read the first couple of chapters and I find it a bit painful to be honest. I am not a CS grad and I don't write software as my primary job though I do write code to solve problems in my discipline. I have programmed C, Ruby and Obj-
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by willyt 15y ago
If anyone from Twine is reading this, it would be really interesting if, along with twitter etc, these things could easily communicate with sites like https://pachube.com/ . I know it's possible to read the pachube api and configure it to

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