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I'll just add a little more explanation here since our site goes pretty in depth and I imagine most here would only be interested in a brief overview: So buildings have what is kno…

Nice savings! Tho no ingenuity is needed to calculate them as there is actually an established process used in the energy saving business. It uses "degree days" that are derived fr…

Coincidentally 2 days ago I tried something similar for the first time - a pea-based powder that you could make burgers out of. It wasn't as good as Beyond Burgers (my favourite of…

It is quite amusing in the context I must say :D In the UK recently we just keep getting more and more new vegan substitutes, and vegan options in restaurants. It's an exciting tim…

I agree! I'm not sure where you live but in the UK we have something called This Isn't Bacon that I find rather delicious :)

So the meat you eat does not come from animals that suffer? They all live happy lives that they are happy to have cut short so they can be slaughtered for your dinner table? I doub…

You seem to be suggesting that cheese is inexorably linked to animals. In my mind it's just a tasty substance that goes well in a sandwich. Nowadays it can very well be made withou…

Well I must say that sounds like some peculiar logic to me! But hey, I spent years performing mental gymnastics to justify the suffering I contributed to by eating meat and dairy, …

Humans suffer from similar things. But I don't think that's a reasonable excuse for us to kill each other.

Good point! Vegan cheeses are so much better now than they used to be, there's never been a better time to have a casein allergy :D Honestly if it weren't for all the amazing fake …

Here's one: because you love cheese but you also love animals and so don't want to contribute to their suffering. In my experience people tend to become vegan: 1. for the animals; …

For anyone else who, like me, is curious about these musical portraits, here's a video I found: https://youtu.be/iVsWELIJ96o

Interesting article. I work in the field of heating/cooling energy consumption and I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I had never heard of the clo before. > Precisely how much ene…

Excellent! Good luck with it :)

I'm lucky that I was taught how to read music as a kid... I'm still rubbish at it, it's slow and painful for anything vaguely complex, but at least I can do it badly when I put min…

It sounds great to me - sight reading is difficult, and frustratingly hard work too, so assistance in mastering that skill is welcome. I am without MIDI keyboard at present as I pl…

Good points! The beauty of a piece doesn't depend on its technical difficulty. Back when I used to play classical music more I loved playing a few of Chopin's Nocturnes repeatedly …

I've not tried anything of his myself, but Facebook keeps showing me his ads and it looks good. Good luck with it!

Keith Jarrett is one of my piano heroes :) The conventional way of learning piano has a student learning sheet-music pieces that get increasingly difficult as the student improves.…

I can imagine this being really useful for improving sight-reading. However, for me what made piano a whole lot more fun was ditching the sheet music and opting to learn about chor…

My wife has been running a somewhat-related twitter account for a few years: https://twitter.com/happyanimalnews I am, of course, a big fan :)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00689HXI4/ref=oh_aui_se... This one (Ergotron LX Desk Mount LCD Monitor Arm, Tall Pole) has been working well for me for the last couple of yea…

I wonder if you feel that you ought to be at your desk for at least the bulk of the traditional working day... Other people are working 8+ hours a day, so I should be too. I strugg…

Agreed. The copier should not be getting the traffic or the link juice that this HN submission is sending them. I would love to see HN editors update the URL in cases like this.

The media doesn't generally show as much interest in B2B companies as they do in B2C companies.