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Posting a link from a 240-year-old Western medium that was downvoted to -3 from the default 1 was the last time I wasted my time on commenting a HN post.

> The excerpt speaks for the "quality" of this kind of journalism: headline says I agree, just I couldn't find a better link to the National Grid announcement.

There were couple of days recently when almost zero energy was generated by wind: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/blackouts-fear-forces-pow... (an excerpt without being paywalle…

Afaik green energy has never meant to provide standalone, at least until the surplus energy generated at daily peaks can be reasonably stored for days. This paper is a bit dated, b…

> Anyone who bought the S&P and held it for 10 years made about 14% YoY (more like 10% if you take the last 30 years) Anyone knows a study with other than US markets where they com…

Indeed. In my hometown - Gyula, Hungary - there was a precision mechanics factory, for phones, faxes, communication relays called Integra. It wasn't huge, employed a couple of hund…

It was rather the result of the genital measuring contest over the fishing rights between France and the UK.

> I think this is one of the reasons Python took off. Python took off for data because the frameworks and libraries around it. Without IPython/Jupyter, dataframes, Scipy, it would …

Yes, but the point of memorisation is you can much quicker re-learn the subject and you know there is a solution to a problem when you face it. If you have never learnt it, you don…

> There are many times that I need to rewrite my code because of non-adequate design. Formal education won't give you the knowledge to get it right every single time. Your design w…

> No ability for British firms to operate in other European countries with equivalent rights as a local company, will have to form subsidiaries instead in many cases. This has neve…

I hit up Sainsbury's this early morning. Only the expected stuff ran low (turkey, fishes, frozen side dishes), but everything else were on stock.

I wouldn't say healthcare in the UK is free, but rather it has a good balance. If you have an accident or chronic illness, the system won't leave you alone. But they cover zero cos…