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tobylane··on Aviation industry tries to go green
The carbon equivalent output of cleanly burning one gallon of gas/petrol at sea level? A bit like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_gallon_equivalent
tobylane··on YaCy: Decentralized Web Search
The winner will be the vertical integrator, not the best quality. People will pick the quantitative measure (speed) over anything qualitative.
tobylane··on What happened to Mint?
Try a European bank, but I get the impression that they firmly wait until local regulation allows what they’ve built for elsewhere.
tobylane··on DeepSpeech 0.6
I'm starting to look into the MycroftAI. It sounds like with this release I could use Mycroft+DeepSpeech on a new RaspberryPi for a completely offline smart speaker, do I understand that right?
tobylane··on The Billionaires Are Getting Nervous
Bezos sells some Amazon stock to fund his space company. He sold nearly $2b in July.
tobylane··on Those odd-looking security barriers
At the sort of speeds that can be achieved in that area (Victoria) the engine might get dented. At motorway speeds it could do what you describe.
tobylane··on Those odd-looking security barriers
I’m not sure it’s paranoia, it’s pedestrian protection. Various attacks in London, Berlin and other places have been trucks driven onto pedestrian areas. Sometimes they can be minor, for instance the road going north from Covent Garden.
tobylane··on Letting Bird’s scooters fly free
Not always. Some London boroughs were collecting one of the early dockless bikes on sight, because permission was never asked.
tobylane··on Internet Exchange Map
Some of the London ones surprise me. Several on one road in Slough (a town built around one of the largest trading estates, the location of The Office UK), a few in south-east Canary Wharf but none at the BT office directly north of St Pauls and not more in this business park https://www.internetexchangemap.com/#/building/8075
tobylane··on Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home
Public interest is a defence for not having obtained permission.
tobylane··on UK drops plans for online pornography age verification system
I’m still surprised how much art is made of Lot and his daughters. Much of it is great, if it wasn’t for the subject and the burning towns in the background I’d buy a print or two.
tobylane··on Ask HN: What are your arguments in favor of end-to-end encryption?
(Don’t) Try to use the sole function of a gun on yourself without harming yourself. Now use WhatsApp on yourself and see what happens. Do you do nothing because you have to think up something to write? The act of writing up the auction is the first part of the crime. Even if you don’t go through with selling a human you may or may not have, you may still be charged for having written that message and sharing it somehow.
tobylane··on Ask HN: What are your arguments in favor of end-to-end encryption?
Guns are directly linked to the actions of those bad actors. A private tunnel of communication is not so directly linked to the actions of child abusers (nor the images they share on these platforms).
tobylane··on France Set to Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Program
That’s only a problem if you are a terrorist. Or have been classed by the government as someone to catch, in which case that is the step you want to avoid. Trying to throw away every chair or step a child drags towards the countertop is silly when all you need to do is keep the knife off the surface and safely hidden away.
tobylane··on A rise in vegetarian options leads customers to embrace meat-free meals
It shows people pick interesting sounding options from a range with little care to whether it has meat in or not. We’re in such a meat dominated society that the current change is showing how flexible we actually are to fitting in with more eco ways of eating.
tobylane··on New research questions the evidence for health benefits of eating less red meat
I’d like to see lower carbon cost become an important goal of keto dieters. Eggs, fish, etc count for keto as I understand it. I don’t like the fetishisation of red meat.
tobylane··on An erroneous paper on religion and generosity is retracted
That didn’t work for the AOL research several years ago. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/your-secrets-liv...
tobylane··on Edward Snowden says he would like to return home
That seems related to the US. Is there anything where he leaked memos between other countries, etc? I faintly remember something like ambassador of A stationed in country B reporting that the government of B had a problem with country C.
tobylane··on Edward Snowden says he would like to return home
There was a mild fuss at the time that some undercover agents had to be pulled out of the field, and were outed. I don’t recall anyone being named before returning home.
tobylane··on The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving
That’s the same process, the lungs are only collecting oxygen and returning waste carbon dioxide for the muscles doing said work.
tobylane··on Elevating original reporting in Search
I wonder how this will deal with content that evolves over time. Some breaking news was published to BBC News with only a sentence and was fleshed out within the hour, so the original publication time and the possible originality of content are disconnected. In theory Wikipedia is meant to be summarising other sites so it couldn’t be first.
tobylane··on A critique of the claim that passive investing is a bubble
>isn’t there a well known price premium for stocks included in major index funds?

Maybe the premium is for being in the index, which the index fund dutifully reacts to. There are only 100 places in the FTSE100 so it is seen as significant. The current news about a major UK high street retailer is that it dropped out of this index, implying it's the beginning of its end. https://www.google.com/search?q=marks+and+spencers&tbm=nws

tobylane··on Bugatti has broken the 300mph barrier
I recognise James May's delivery of those numbers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO0PgyPWE3o
tobylane··on A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station
It will be reliable and fast because it's on its own tracks. It'll be comfortable because those tracks are new, and the high ticket price requires decent seats. I'm surprised by your concerns. Try out HS1.

Like with Hinckley and various other grand projects I'd rather we taught ourselves how to do it. Only HS2a has passed into law, b&c, HS3 and Crossrail2 are still to come.

tobylane··on Why Does Infrastructure Cost So Much?
UK has decent disability law that I’m sure is comparable to the US’s, where both have exceptions for difficult to adapt buildings. Whether that be the protected and iconic British Museum or the hundred year old Tube stations.
tobylane··on Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone
>transform your fund into a family office

What does this mean?

tobylane··on Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note
No, we would usually take/be given a stack of twenties. If it’s too much to be in that then it would be a cheque or bank transfer. We’ve paid most handymen recently by agreeing to transfer money later.
tobylane··on Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note
It’s said she carries cash. She gives money to the collection plate at Sandringhams church at Christmas.
tobylane··on Interstellar Probe, a Mission Concept for NASA
5.7 days

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1000+au+in+light+days

tobylane··on Launch HN: Cloosiv (YC S19) – Order ahead from local coffee shops
Sorry if it’s a detail not connected to you, but how easy is it to order a drink to be put in the customers reusable container?
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