daviddumenil

In the case of the BMW i3, European legislation was introduced that made manufacturers accountable for the recyclability of their cars.

Something the article completely sidesteps when talking about metals versus composites :-)

Cost versus steel may well have been a factor as well.

Portugal's +1500 makes most sense in the context of Brazil's -2500.

I'd love to know if that's a longer term trend for Brazil or if their wealthy are spooked by something.

The GDA process for for the Chinese-developed reactor planned for the UK [1] took four and a half years [2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradwell_B_nuclear_power_stati...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hualong_One

Related: Have an Enemy

https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/02.5-have-an-enemy

> It seems that FIFA isn't exactly free of corruption

John Oliver has made a great summary of FIFA's darker side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJEt2KU33I

This is a misleading title.

The UK government gave access to US companies. There's currently no suggestion that the data moved to the US.

More details here: https://euobserver.com/justice/145530

After privatisation people flocked back to UK rail. Volumes that had been largely static for more than fifty years have doubled since privatisation.

A Virgin Pendolino is a far more pleasant experience than the old British Rail equivalent.

I agree on the fare rises but rail remains subsidised while road and air travel are taxed.

RF tracking was even more sophisticated in WWII.

The Gestapo developed a man-portable set worn under a trenchcoat:

https://www.cryptomuseum.com/df/gurtelpeiler/index.htm

A better phrase might be 'multinational partnership'.

Big accountancy and legal firms have good historical reasons for those corporate structures.

Could this approach be applied to a metric monitoring framework to give earlier/more accurate notifications if when a threshold would be crossed?

Typically these are triggered when e.g. 90% of a threshold has been crossed.

I think it was more a case that Google had a large existing investment in CPU-based compute.

A lot of Dean's initial work was getting models effectively training on that kind of hardware using distributed SGD.

Can someone shed some light on why Apple would release this with only Apple Music as a music source?

A gentle contradiction in the article: "a full-scale break-up would cripple the platforms’ economies of scale"

but later:

"Trustbusters should scrutinise mergers to gauge whether a deal is likely to neutralise a potential long-term threat"

There also seems to be plenty of middle ground there. Like forcing a sell-off of Waze and Instagram without breaking up the whole parent company.

One option that other TV rights offerings have taken up is to split the package into tiered offerings.

That would allow the NFL to maintain ESPN as potentially the top tier while introducing new suitors with lower tiers and maintaining their revenue in aggregate.

The losers in this scenario are the fans: forced to purchase several subscriptions if they want to watch every game.

The containerised terminal toolset is really nice idea.

There's some value in using a hybrid approach with a lightweight laptop though the iPad Pro offers a pencil and probably better battery life.

Olivetti were quite unusual in their corporate patronage of Giovani Pintori.

They effectively brought him on as an employee and let him create art that doubled as adverts for their products.

Does anyone else know of similar examples where companies supported art beyond the usual exhibition sponsorship and board room art?

The image results here give you an idea if how much closer to art than advert they were:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=giovanni+pintori

Alas, they don't offer scissor switches.

This article reads like a thinly veiled attempt by MGM to encourage two more bidders into the race.

Can I ask what you thought of the k8s roles in Ansible Galaxy?

NASA might offer a more salient comparison.

That's interesting in that it suggests why more blogs don't follow Daring Fireball's style.

This has been offered by their competitor Incapsula for some time under the name 'Global Server Load Balancing'

https://www.incapsula.com/load-balancing-failover.html

Presumably this has been leaked to draw out competitive bids.

I think by Direct Democracy the parent means where every vote is put to the people rather than via an elected proxy like an MP.

My first thought was that an electricity cost at maybe 20% of what it is now would be result in a good economic uplift but not a seismic change.

But the interesting cases are those where much cheaper electricity unlocks new opportunities. Imagine the coast of sub-Saharan Africa transformed by the agriculture enabled by cheap desalinated water.

"I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming in Scala book by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I'd probably have never created Groovy."

http://macstrac.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-re...

A related approach that identified suspects based on their banking history was outlined in SuperFreakonomics. The chapter is reproduced in this review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/90622011

I've never seen any artifacts in the ~50hrs on content I've watched in 4K across Netflix and Amazon.

The biggest picture quality issue is possibly the cameras themselves: a lot of TV looks uncomfortably real - like it was shot on a security camera. Though I did get the same impression from Breaking Bad in 4K, even though it was shot on 35mm.

I'm not saying it's a like for like replacement, I'm saying they stopped working on JobDSL because they were working on Spinnaker.

This feels like a Jenkins replacement rather than a Jenkins plugin replacement or at least something that sits atop Jenkins in driving your build and deployment activities (it's got support to call and watch Jenkins jobs so it's sensible to assume they use both).

I'm interested to hear that JobDSL is painful for Jenkins masters do you know what the pain points are?

A replacement for Jenkins as the CI Pipeline management tool is my understanding.

It now makes sense why they stepped away from the Job DSL Jenkins plugin that they helped create a while back (though there's still support for Jenkins steps in there which'll be a great help with porting existing pipelines).