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This has plenty to do with the article, you know if you read both. Popped up to explain myself. It appears that certain themes on HN attract down votes rapidly. Such as: 1. Critici…

Interesting stats. I was considering buying a Retina MBP but the battery is glued in. After 3 years, the capacity remaining extrapolated from the 2012 MBA in the article suggests t…

Thanks for a constructive and well thought out reply.

One question to bear in mind when doing this sort of thing: just because it works in SPICE doesn't mean it's going to work as intended when you build it. SPICE is very ideal world.…

Fair points. Regarding your latter points, I assume you have never talked to NHS mental health staff who have to deal with addicts on a regular basis? Not a pretty job and actually…

Doesn't that depend on how far my neighbour is away? Perhaps we have 500m long gardens... The analogy is valid as is "pissing over my fence onto my head", "kicking a football throu…

Isn't prevention better than cure? People keep saying "prohibition didn't work" but I'm hard pressed to find a conclusive paper on the subject. Perhaps you could enlighten me? Edit…

I purposely avoided explaining it to demonstrate a point: the average user doesn't know this or understand it. They understand the outcome only. Sorry, you are 100% correct with th…

Very much so. Isn't public health about reducing avoidable risks and keeping the population healthy?

1. Yes I do think that it should be made illegal on the basis that it causes a number of deep social problems in the UK. If you've ever seen an English town after closing time, you…

You are quite clearly an absolute dire example of a complete fucking moron if you think that smoking weed doesn't affect your driving. It affects your judgement, your motor skills,…

Actually I'm half German and half English so that's a bit of a hard one to answer isn't it? Do I support Europe or do I avoid getting my family killed by the German authorities for…

Well I'll add one more: The physical and mental health problems and associated healthcare burden. This is not insignificant and totally shrugged off by the "pro-legalisation" side …

Yes I know this is idealist. I'd like people to act responsibly and consider others but to be honest this is beyond a not insignificant proportion of the population. I live in the …

Let's use an analogy: What if someone was burning a tyre in my neighbour's garden directly affecting my health?

Anecdotally watching my sister-in-law destroy her life and brain with the stuff and having a car written off because someone was fucked up on it and crashed into me, I'd rather it …

Strangely enough I get the same from £1.75 T-shirts off Amazon and they fit better and last 4 years longer than the expensive Gieves and Hawkes (tailored) shirts I had a few years …

Actually yes it does know I stopped at both of those location. 1. The BP garage has a wireless AP with a known SSID to them. Location services uses this, the cell network and the G…

I admire your stance on this. I too would do the same if drafted for national service. I'd rather sit in a prison than fight because someone told me to. I'd defend my country at th…

No. Small technicality here. How comfortable you are has a real effect on how you perform. How you present yourself is someone else's problem. If it is a problem for someone else t…

It's at the forefront of people's minds at the moment so it is written and posted about frequently and people are interesed in historical articles as a baseline. It's good that we'…

Perhaps not yet but they have amassed all the data the author describes and much more. For example, I just drove half way across the UK. Google knows that because I was using Googl…

No. Use what you are comfortable with. There is a cost incurred for changing (time) that may or may not have a sensible return as an editor is a very personal thing to choose.

My point exactly. To make a rational judgement about a statistic we need statistics (plural) otherwise it's an isolated piece of data.

Inner system effect for you that is. I don't really want masses of extensibility but what I want is something that works out of the box, is understandable and doesn't require masse…