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In the case of the BMW i3, European legislation was introduced that made manufacturers accountable for the recyclability of their cars. Something the article completely sidesteps w…

Portugal's +1500 makes most sense in the context of Brazil's -2500. I'd love to know if that's a longer term trend for Brazil or if their wealthy are spooked by something.

The GDA process for for the Chinese-developed reactor planned for the UK [1] took four and a half years [2] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradwell_B_nuclear_power_stati... 2. ht…

Related: Have an Enemy https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/02.5-have-an-enemy

> It seems that FIFA isn't exactly free of corruption John Oliver has made a great summary of FIFA's darker side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJEt2KU33I

This is a misleading title. The UK government gave access to US companies. There's currently no suggestion that the data moved to the US. More details here: https://euobserver.com/…

After privatisation people flocked back to UK rail. Volumes that had been largely static for more than fifty years have doubled since privatisation. A Virgin Pendolino is a far mor…

RF tracking was even more sophisticated in WWII. The Gestapo developed a man-portable set worn under a trenchcoat: https://www.cryptomuseum.com/df/gurtelpeiler/index.htm

A better phrase might be 'multinational partnership'. Big accountancy and legal firms have good historical reasons for those corporate structures.

Could this approach be applied to a metric monitoring framework to give earlier/more accurate notifications if when a threshold would be crossed? Typically these are triggered when…

I think it was more a case that Google had a large existing investment in CPU-based compute. A lot of Dean's initial work was getting models effectively training on that kind of ha…