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There have been previous threads on HN with some back-of-the-envelope comparisons of Bitcoin's energy consumption vs the global banking systems, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/…

See also "How I Eat for Free in NYC Using Python, Automation, AI, and Instagram"[0] for an indication as to how "easy" it is to write an algorithmic social media "influencer&q…

> Most interesting is the massive outlier in the main graph - Edinburgh. Edinburgh shouldn't really be on a graph of non-capital cities, given it gets a number of economic benefits from being …

See also https://fullfact.org which sponsored an Apache Solr hackathon a couple of years back.

There has been at least one abandoned Portuguese village turned into an apparently successful eco-tourism destination: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2010/jan/31…

Bought in 1950 for "25,000 pounds sterling, the equivalent then of $70,093"[0] and sold in 1989 for "over $5 million"[1]. [0] https://lithub.com/the-quest-to-acquir…

See also the earlier review of this book at https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2018/06/19/the-ascent-of-... . Interesting quote: "One day in December 1893, sh…

It doesn't reach 5000kmh until 26km altitude[0], but the highest geese have been reported is 9km altitude[1], so I would assume it would only be in danger of encountering geese at speeds lower th…

It does seem to have got a lot more evident in recent years. Not really solving the underlying issues leading to there being so many in the first place, but some homeless do accept contactless donatio…

I think its a bit more subtle than that. Imagine on one hand if a printing press was invented that outputs the printed material to anyone in the world for free. At first there could be lots of great m…

> > For all its downsides, Bitcoin is the last exciting open standard I can remember > I get that blockchain tech is an industry nowadays but from my outside perspective 99% of it and the ap…

Personally not a big fan of filter coffee. I have an Aeropress and know lots of people rave about it, but it isn't for me. I was hoping this article would be about a hand (or battery) pumped port…

Or instead of buying with them, you could have bought yourself and rented to them. This is what I did for the first approx 10 years of property ownership. My first place was even just a 1 bed flat, bu…

There was a startup that aimed to "help people buy property together"[0], although it looks like it was dissolved in May 2018[1] (despite the web site still being up). (Side note: I wish com…

Crossrail is also Europe's largest construction project - some of the numbers are incredible, e.g. "Over 3 million tonnes of excavated material from the tunnels was shipped to Wallasea Islan…

Original article says it is £1.7bn for just under 2 miles of tunnel. For comparison, the new Crossrail is £15.4bn for 73 miles including 13 miles of twin tunnels under central London[0]. [0] https:&#…

The dramatic reduction in insects on car windscreens could be "explained away" by technological advances in car design (getting windscreens covered in insects could conceivably have been a p…

They used to do low level flying training in my parts. On at least on occasion I was walking in the hills and got to look down on a stream of jet planes tearing through the valley below, which was qui…

The idea is to evade detection by any automated sentiment analysis they might run on public message boards, just in case they target me for a course of covert "emotion manipulation" or somet…

"A few years ago [early 2010s?], I was invited to join a panel discussion about information and communication in the twenty-first century. One of the panelists, an Internet pioneer, said proudly…

Article mentions the Roof of the World Regatta. It provides a F--ebook link which I'm not clicking on, but an internet search returns e.g. https://caravanistan.com/trip-reports&#x…

> I was younger in the dot-com era so I do not remember much, but I assume there was a similar vibe around that time with everyone getting rich with any website idea The big difference is that wi…

How about "desk utilisation monitoring"? Do an internet search for "occupeye". And then look to see if you've a spy cam under your hot desk.

I've heard that one of the challenges of maintaining fields of solar panels is keeping the vegetation around the panels under control. Solutions include using grazing animals such as sheep or eve…

Not the same as Real Estate Investment Trusts, but in the UK a lot of properties are bought by shell companies registered in tax havens. These aren't necessarily for money laundering, but if not …

That's right - a but and a ben is specifically a two bedroomed house (the but is the outer public room with the kitchen and the ben is the inner room with the beds), and a bothy normally a single…