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Yes, looks like the spot just north of the East Heath Road car park. I vaguely recall it being cordoned off for a while, but assumed it must have been related to the Hampstead Heath Ponds Project or s…

Is there any particular reason the US is testing so few people? They've only tested 445 people in the entire country so far[0], which is a tiny number for such a large country (contrast e.g. with…

This is mostly about the heat absorption properties of walls. Another property of walls, which they do allude to, is the protection from wind, which can be even more important in more hostile environm…

If you really need WORM, e.g. for compliance with SEC Rule 17a-4, it is sufficient to copy your data to non-eraseable media, not master your data on non-eraseable media. And you don't need bloc…

> Does anyone know of any sizable examples of this ownership-model in tech? There is a tech-aligned version of the worker co-op called a platform co-op, with some examples at https://e…

I've come to the conclusion that anything sold as collectable, won't be. It'll be produced with such a massive supply that there'll be zero rarity value, so when demand dries up in…

That sounds right. Using the latest figures I can find online, the lowest Premium Bond prize (£25) was £75,665,750 of the total £88,099,800 prizes[0], i.e. over 85%, whereas lowest National Lottery pr…

Its a bit more hassle to do that, and I think you're likely to be worse off for your efforts. The UK 10Y Government Bond currently has a 0.525% yield[0], and the UK National Lottery prize fund is…

They've also got the prototype ERNIE mark 1 at the National Museum of Computing[0], next to the Colossus[1] (the first programmable digital computer) given it was designed by some of the same tea…

Yes, I'd imagine a hotel in central London would also have more incentive to keep it going. Maybe in the past 10 years the technology and/or understanding has improved too. There's a mu…

Great idea, but I hope they have provisioned for a lot of expensive care and maintenance to keep the living walls alive, otherwise they'll end up with a dead living wall like the one in Paradise …

I can kind-of see why some people think that more and more people coming to more and more jobs in bigger and bigger buildings is unsettling. But I think it is better than the opposite, which many insi…

Same here. Long ago I realised that I have a tendency to procrastinate when faced with having to do things I don't want to do (while conversely being quite good at being focussed on the things I …

"In August 1967, the UK Electric Vehicle Association put out a press release stating that Britain had more battery-electric vehicles on its roads than the rest of the world put together... closer…

If you're going all in on automation, at least try and do it well. In this case I don't see any technical reason why you couldn't have automated monitoring of the screenings, automated …

I've noticed exactly the same experience in recent years with common colds (which I've had slightly more often than normal thanks to young children). Like the parent post, the day before I f…

> google provides computing resources for demo purposes for free, which can be exploited for non-intended use by clever automation ...and there are some issues with this free model (Colab noteboo…

For more secure apps we use single use tokens and expire within a very short period of issuance, i.e. invalidated upon use, and exp (expiry) set a few seconds after iat (issued at). Not optimum for pe…

How about using battery powered aeroplanes for shorter trips, and solar powered airships for longer distances? Bear in mind that the first electricity powered flight was an airship: "In 1883 the …

Logan Air are also planning on "the the world's first electric–powered commercial passenger flights" in 2021[0] using a converted Britten-Norman Islander. It is similarly for an island …

> The whole "carbon neutral" think is a crock. Coal is, after all, just dead trees, so coal plants run on "biofuel" and are "carbon neutral". The difference is in th…

> "cash isn’t affected by water, freezing, bending, pressure, moderate temperatures above whatever the 70C limit is on these ICs, static electricity, ionizing radiation and microwaves." …

Also happened in London until 1871, although technically it wasn't theft as it was from common land which had the right to dig confirmed in 1780: "During the 19th century, there was an incre…

buymeacoffee.com has a single use coffee cup in their logo, while ko-fi.com has an environmentally friendly reusable cup. Might sound trivial because it is just virtual, but some may argue it is an in…

If the Washington Post featured nothing other than articles about Amazon, and those articles only ever painted Amazon in an unreasonably positive light, then I would question the value of having those…

This article is attempting to put an extremely positive spin ("new law makes Germany 'crypto[currency] heaven'", "leads to institutional investors", "major breakthro…

There was a throwaway line in that film that stuck with me - something along the lines of "at that time anyone who could configure a modem could make a million dollars".