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Not only for a surprisingly long time, but also in surprisingly good condition. For example at Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall archeologists have found not one or two, or even ten but…

I lived on 2nd Ave NYC for a while which matched your observations on interacting with neighbours. However there's an interesting urbanist video [1] that suggests that even in a hi…

So really we should be asking when a car is going to break the mythical 500 km/h barrier and not some also-ran number ;-) Although apparently that barrier was broken in 1937 by Thu…

Second this approach. If someone interrupts, just keep talking. Do not back down before the interrupter stops. Think of it as a conversational filibuster :-) If both parties keep t…

Your comment is interesting because it hadn't even occurred to me that the parent comment might be being sarcastic. I thought the emphasis on love was being serious. My experience …

Agreed, I've read you get about 4g peak deceleration going down stairs. But people seem to survive that process on a regular basis. So a temporary 10g is not a problem, and the eff…

I think you've got a fair point. But democracy is the least worst system of government that we know of. This idea has been around for a long time. I know the Churchill quote 'Democ…

I'm a kiwi and did the reverse and moved to Scotland. I do know a number of people who were offered jobs in NZ while still abroad. Technical sales, developer, psychiatrist. That's …

One funny thing I've realized is that I like the smell of coal fires. It must have been horrible back when cities were choking on it, but coal is so completely phased out now that …

I did some work for an electricity utility and they wanted to get the pole IDs described in the article into our database, alongside the GIS data. The client explained that getting…

Generally yes, weather is less of an impact on rail, but occasionally you can get the Wrong Type of Snow ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_wrong_type_of_snow )

I live in Edinburgh, and I've personally counted half a dozen of these little, one or two person IBS type shops open up round town in the last couple of years. They have a small re…

I have a Macbook Pro (2015 15") at work and a Dell XPS 15 (9550) at home, and personally feel that I'm a very lucky lad to have the two best laptops in the world. My previous job I…

The SpatiaLite extension ( https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index ) handles spatial data and includes indexing. It's solid and we've been using it in production for yea…

I wonder where those 9 people are though. Locally, for a given job opening, that could perhaps be true. Nationally however, unemployment is at historically low levels in many Weste…

I don't know what the actual rules were regarding eligibility, but I am a permanent resident of the UK and not a British citizen, and I voted yesterday. So some non British citizen…

I'm also not convinced on the OP's idea, although I found it very interesting how the street cross section diagrams highlighted just how much space is consumed by streets. By it's …

He is likely saying that he interviewed 300 people to fill about six engineer positions, given he states a 1-in-50 hire rate from interviews. Still, that means 500 applicants per o…

And further to this: which top companies? In TrialPay's case he lists his dozen elite companies. But what happens if you're hiring in a market where none of those companies have an…

Yup, that's what people usually really mean when they ask "Where are you from?" I went NZ -> New York, NY -> Scotland and if I'm say on holiday somewhere, doesn't really matter whe…

Yeah, same for me with Chrome. Irritating, isn't it. The site seems poorly designed. I can see a Flashblock icon in the top left so I know what's broken, but I can't click on the F…

When my wee boys stand on their Lego I see it as a wonderful teachable moment. Lego is a great company to provide me with so many educational opportunities.

The parable about the elephant and the goldfish was wonderful. I imagined, when the time is right, telling it to my little boys as I tucked them in to bed at night. And then imagin…

There's a very large Windows developer community. And some of those developers have thought about " working individually, in smaller companies, or in startups, building consumer-fa…

In Scotland there's an interesting situation like you mention where children born in Jan and Feb are able to choose which school year they start, either when they're 4.5 or 5.5. Ch…