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What the article refers to as golf cart technology has been around for decades. In the UK, for example, we used to have large numbers of electric milk floats delivering milk in most towns[0]. So I…

The article quotes Michael Bloomberg as saying "If we can find a bunch of billionaires around the world to move here, that would be a godsend". But is attracting billionaires to your city a …

> I'm becoming more and more convinced that it's impossible to profitably mine bitcoins I suspect that's been the case for a few years - at each time I investigated, in the pre-ASIC …

No I'm not - when I say "tenants do not own the property" I'm referring to the definition of "own" rather than "home". Of course tenants have a right to call so…

1.24 million deaths caused by traffic accidents in 2010 according to http://www.who.int/gho/road_safety/mortality/en/ . But isn't reducing fatalities one of t…

Ah yes, now I remember Zardoz, with the Apathetics who have grown weary of immortality.

This only really touches upon the financial implications of increased lifespan. Immortality in particular I feel isn't feasible for everyone, given a growing population with finite resources. In …

> Solr, last I check was a bit complicated to cluster SolrCloud, with Zookeeper, is relatively new and not too difficult to set up.

Yes, wanting to put money in a physical asset which has utility value (like a property people can live in), especially when it is in genuine (rather than artificial) and difficult-to-reverse short sup…

> you can be kicked out of your own home Tenants do not own the property - the landlord does (or the bank that provides the landlord's mortgage).

Home: Ubuntu 14.04 for both desktop and HTPC (MythTV). Both are custom builds. Became exclusively Linux at home around 12 years ago, when I built a cheap PC for £160, then had to pay £200 for a Window…

> the kids there that want to be rocket scientists study what they need to become rocket scientists I wonder if there is any pattern to the further education and career choices of alumini from thes…

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8486324 about similar schools in the UK in the 1970s. I believe the only one left in the UK is https://en.wikipedia.org/w…

I do believe this. I live in the UK where there is regional variance in the taste of milk. I believe this is due to factors such as the breed of cattle, the type of cattle feed (which is sometimes sea…

Microsoft Announces Its Own Linux OS: http://itsfoss.com/microsoft-announces-linux-os/ …

April Fool's Day: 10 stories that look like pranks but aren't: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32144005 …

The adjustable Ikea Bekant sit/stand desk is "only" about three times the price of the non-adjustable Bekant desk. (I don't have one but have been tempted.)

It is the umlauts (or technically in this case diaeresis), on e.g. preëxisting, that bothers me more - hasn't everyone else been using hyphens for decades?

According to many sources (e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-31082941 ) the population of London has recently reached a record high and predicted to rise by 25-30%…

"Luck" is based on probability and chance, which are definitely not things that you have direct control over. Yes, you can make decisions based upon a good understanding of probability and c…