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I have one from a British garden centre. It’s in sight but I haven’t looked to see who’s in it.

tobylaneon Crossrail update on the Elizabeth line’s opening plans

The low level is buried 34m underground. https://www.crossrail.co.uk/route/stations/liverpool-street/

tobylaneon Crossrail update on the Elizabeth line’s opening plans

The current service is to Liverpool Street high level, staying on one signalling communication system. The problem is about changing to a different one for the core (which includes Whitechapel before Liv St). They had a similar problem on the other side but it was resolved easier.

tobylaneon Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Immediately Sick (2016)

You suggest a level of potential embarrassment that I don’t think would happen. Being wrong is hand waved away in an instant. I don’t think they share your motivations even if they understood. Good luck, I’d like to see it happen.

tobylaneon Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Immediately Sick (2016)

Oat milk is great as milk, especially if you’re having porridge. The enriched oat milk I get has vitamins but not calcium.

My dad can tell the difference between oat and lactose free dairy milks in tea, so he has both in a day.

tobylaneon Brain implant lets man with complete paralysis spell out thoughts

Morse code, where dot is ‘think about tennis’ and dash is ‘think about home’?

https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2010/feb/03/vegetative-s...

tobylaneon Kodak factory tour: How does Kodak make film? [video]

Video title: How Does Kodak Make Film? (Kodak Factory Tour Part 1 of 3) - Smarter Every Day 271

It's a good video, Kodak are open and answer questions. The chemicals later might be more of a trade secret.

tobylaneon Apple acquires UK open banking startup Credit Kudos

When HSBC bought the Midland Bank, the UK government required HSBC to legally relocate here. The current cabinet are craven, but I expect they’d still require this, a deal breaker for Apple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_Bank

tobylaneon OneWeb will resume satellite launches with SpaceX as the launch provider

Perhaps the government are using it as a cheaper way to provide super fast internet (flexibly defined) to the last 1% or so who can’t be affordably reached by standard exchange - green cabinet - premises measures.

tobylaneon To avoid Finland’s tax a 1,000HP imported Hennessey RAM is limited to 55MPH

Cities that promote cycling can often be better for the remaining drivers.

tobylaneon Launch HN: Optery (YC W22) – Remove your personal info from the internet

Are you able to use the internal processes these companies made in response to gdpr? I wonder what happens if you copy a “delete/send your data on me according to your responsibilities in the EU” form letter and send it from a US address to an international company.

tobylaneon Why trucking can’t deliver the goods

I wonder if the rail line is under used therefore investment can’t be justified therefore it’s not all that capable. I don’t know the geography on the ground, probably a lot of level crossings, but what of it could be sped up, run trains closer together?

tobylaneon Lavish Roman mosaic is biggest found in London for 50 years

The site is a few hundred metres away from a bridge built five times, first by the Romans. Those who want to avoid the risk of a minor national treasure on their plot should build further away from an area the Romans were clearly active in. I think it was known about before, buried under the previous building. It was always going to be looked at in redevelopment.

tobylaneon Show HN: Check if your website violates GDPR

If you speak in your country and someone hears it where it's illegal then that's of no interest to you. But if you visit someone's home and they add your name to their guestbook you may care that you're in the records. Yes, it's reaching beyond borders, but I like this one more than any of the other examples of that.

I could repetitively make up new analogies to explain my opinion (and subsequent actions in democracy), but after a moment's consideration that would be ridiculous.

tobylaneon Show HN: Check if your website violates GDPR

I'm sure they wouldn't, as it's not a US law. But a local company may be small enough not to have to bother, just as they don't have to provide certain US law based employer benefits.

> The second exception is for organizations with fewer than 250 employees. Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are not totally exempt from the GDPR, but the regulation does free them from record-keeping obligations in most cases (see Article 30.5).

tobylaneon Show HN: Check if your website violates GDPR

The law applies to websites, not businesses. If your website has European visitors, then it is making the relevant interaction even without business happening. I’ve come across websites that simply deny me access, guaranteeing they don’t have any European visitors. US law spreads in a few ways, eg licence to use the dollar, though that may be broader than the exact wording.

tobylaneon Why not hire part-time developers?

On your last paragraph: It would be the people who failed at, or weren’t interested in, entrepreneurship. That might be like minded people, who just want the challenge of the job and not the company. It could be full of people who want to climb the ladder you describe but not jump to the next one.

tobylaneon A quick breakdown of what SWIFT is and why it matters

That applies to a lot of known future sanctions. Eg clearly Germany would like to not need any gas pipeline, and Russia will aim to build more pipelines to China before German governments can say no more Russian gas. However, could excluding them from Swift at some point between 2014 and this week be justified?

tobylaneon Caloric restriction in humans reveals immunometabolic regulators of health span

My expectations are what I get from a base metabolic calculator. For a 30 year old man with your measurements, that is 1700 cal.

tobylaneon Estonia, allies to trigger NATO Article 4

Russia cares in the short and medium term, while their gas setup is nearer to and pointed towards Europe.

tobylaneon EU to mandate public salary information for all job postings [pdf]

It doesn’t fit in. This is employee protections.

tobylaneon Ask HN: Is there VC appetite for defense related startups?

Not just civilian VCs, but mixed country of origin? Somewhere along the line it will matter if you have a British board member, or maybe angel investor.

tobylaneon Ask HN: Why should I trust password managers?

Because it’s a crime for them to make use of the passwords, and I’d be able to claim back any financial loss.

I picked Bitwarden because it’s widely trusted, it’s trusted because it’s open source and widely assumed to be casually audited by many _other_ people. There’s a weak point here in how many of us are relying on others to do the audit, in a bystander effect sense. I don’t think either of these are BW specific, which just shows there’s a large family of wise options.

tobylaneon U.S. posts $119B budget surplus in January; first in over 2 years

Or a decrease in the previous years. With how predictable US politics is, I would expect accountants to suggest holding these things until a Republican government, which will be no more than 8 years away. But looking back or forward there’s also the other effects of government on their income to confound spotting it.

tobylaneon An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking

I agree with you, but note that NYC (a frequent point of comparison with London, despite stats incompatibilities) has more knife murders than London, ie their second biggest category is bigger than our first category of murders by weapon. https://www.euronews.com/2019/06/18/deadly-knife-crime-how-d...

tobylaneon An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking

> And since most lost items turn into stolen items after a few hours

Is that a feeling or something you can source?

tobylaneon UK.gov to make adults give credit card details for access to Facebook or TikTok

I don’t know if a debit card counts, because they are 16+. Many of us took a while to move onto credit cards but still had access to cashless, online and overseas payment.

tobylaneon Facebook says Apple iOS privacy change will result in $10B revenue hit this year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAd

They had this mobile advertising platform then closed it, or reduced it to the ads GP mentioned.

tobylaneon Why are semi trucks in the US and Europe so different? (2018)

Almost every other episode of Grand Designs has some smart lorry driver reversing down a tiny access road.

tobylaneon Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta

If someone does that, I hope they find a newer version of bash. The old (3.27?) GPL2 bash should give a warning like that.