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There's a link to a replay of the launch event on the Tesla Model 3 product page at https://www.teslamotors.com/model3 (the link is to https://vimeo.com/161138986…

I know someone who had no idea why their surname was being removed from posts to the internal social media system. It was because their surname was on the list of blocked words, but I don't know …

Apple Pay is often faster and more convenient There have been several times I've got stuck behind someone using their Apple phone to get through the gates on the London Underground and have not…

The problem with this approach is that you would need a brand new kitchen along with everything in it. Plus, after spending vast amounts of money doing so, you might find that the new kitchen, applian…

I've never asked about LinkedIn in an interview. However, I do sometimes look up candidates prior to interviewing them, and admit to being slightly curious if I can't find them, although wou…

The article itself does say: "the resulting 'geoprofile' was a good match for an obvious candidate: Robin Gunningham, whom the Mail on Sunday named in 2008 after an investigation into B…

"especially during the Thatcher-Major years, when the British government re-enthroned competition in Britain, the gray was left alone, and it extended its range, at the expense of the red" …

I wonder how much they paid the 1 programmer for the 5 weeks of development time. I'm sure nowhere near the $5m they spent on advertising or $21m on game rights. Also, if they did indeed sell 1.5…

It is an average of £28,000 per year to send two children to nursery in London [0]. In stark contrast, the cheapest house in central Bradford was £29,000 [1], and last year 120 homes in Liverpool we…

> The government is heavily subsidising house purchasing... I'm paying (through high taxes) for homes that I don't live How so? Taxes on property purchases, especially in London, generate…

I've only used a small number of low budget tools on a very infrequent basis since. A quick search on the internet suggests that safety mechanisms are common nowadays, with keyless chucks and chu…

At my school, one of the teachers had fixed a spring to each chuck key, to make it impossible to leave in by mistake - you had to press the key in to open/close the chuck, and as soon as you stop…

I read many years ago that one of the keys to long term happiness is supposed to be having "achievable goals". By using the word "fantasy" I would assume the article/abstract …

Source link (Desert Island Discs interview): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35442969 …

Charging is currently free, whereas the battery swap was US$60.

Looks good. Feedback from a designer I showed this to: it would be useful to search based on aspect ratio (landscape vs portrait at minimum).

The potential for depreciation was a powerful deterrent for me. Assuming 20% depreciation a year, then a £65K Tesla would be "costing" over £1000 a month just in depreciation alone. However,…

Tesla did have battery swap stations where the battery would be swapped in around 90 seconds (less time than it takes to fill up a tank)[0]. However, uptake was apparently very small so focus was shif…

In the UK there has also been the relatively recent arrival of the "upward inflection", i.e. making statements sound like questions, which may also have arrived from Australia: "in the…

There's some advice in The Manual which I've sometimes wondered could (or should) apply to the startup scene: "having no money sharpens the wits".

The BBC article doesn't say much, and probably raises more questions than it answers. However, it is worth reading the government publication it links to, which was published today. Link is http…

BitFury were apparently spending around $100M on a new mining data centre[0] so I would imagine cost would be in excess of this. There was also a discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com&…

Good article. Although I'm not sure the Bus Analogy is a good name. When I saw the heading I thought it was going to be something related to waiting for ages and then 3 coming at once. In actual …

Indeed. There was a discussion about these on HN last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9936028 .…

To put it into perspective, a bookmaker in the UK offered odds of 14 million to 1 for Elvis Presley crash landing in a UFO on top of the Loch Ness monster[0]. [0] A quick Google returns a number of s…

There's also a blog entry about accessing GPU from Docker at http://marconijr.com/posts/docker-exposing-gpu/ .…