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Alternative Vote is not Proportional Representation. And to be very clear, liberal democrat MPs, including Nick Clegg, were photographed with signed papers saying that if they were…

Collective self interest does not require active organisation.

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For the moment "yesterday for old reddit" on firefox android works quite well.

I'm a huge fan of Bandcamp

In the UK we allow it for various national infrastructure projects. This approach would allow for far better estimates of costs.

The 'simplest' method is to allow landowners to declare the value of the land they own. Tax based on this value and let governments buy at the stated land value. Everything else is…

There are extensions that redirect to old.reddit.com with mobile friendly CSS.

Funnily enough, a common idea! What would Feynman do? | Fabulous adventures in coding https://share.google/iSEhAqL9NhAstSlRE

For mobile, the firefox extension 'yesterday for old reddit' works nicely to modify css.

A master blacksmith can shoe a horse an' all. Laser alignment is also a solved problem with a machine. Just because something can be done by hand does not mean it has any intrinsic…

Sure but here in the UK schools will use what is cheapest, free or part of a wider package of software already used. RM web filtering or smoothwall make me want to bash my skull ag…

Well I won't reiterate all of 'bad education' by Bryan Caplan but to my mind exams are imperfect because: 1. Schools are not equal. It's not fair to compare students when they usua…

Unfortunately the internet has been corrupted by JavaScript. A website is rarely loading a single site anymore. Try noscript and you'll quickly see that, even a trivial website loa…

A good example in the UK is teaching students the FOIL technique for algebraic expansion. Students typically can expand (ax+b)(cx+d) because they've learnt a recipe but cannot expa…

An absolutely fantastic engine in my experience. I've used it with students (rather than pygame) due to its bare bones nature. I love how with a simple class structure of update an…

A developer, a wireshark installation & a great deal of patience later. Still, yet another argument for right to repair.

Microsoft failed to capture the internet. IE6 can still cause sane minds to crack.

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

Or a tiny portion of a railway! Do you have a citation for that 16 billion?

Their output is fairly low due to surrounding trees and housing. I did consider wind for heating water however. That might be feasible with a large enough savonius turbine.

We're using Trojan t105 6 V ones. I agree that they help but they do watering with regularity.

Yes. But the engine is at least fifty years old and so I'm not inclined to run it just for electricity. Plus it doesn't do it any good to run in idle without any change in revs.

So living on a narrowboat in the UK this is something I have experience with. We have a 335 W panel with an MPPT connected to a 200 Ah 12 V flooded lead acid battery. The battery i…

This from a lousy novel about the impossibility of divorce. The phrase you're uttering is from a flighty aristocrat who in the novel sees virtue in poverty. Perhaps in stead of pit…