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I found my dad's Psion 5mx in a drawer the other day. They were really fantastic devices

Colour me a bit cynical but we use plastic massively in healthcare and food industries precisely because it is non toxic. Given the massive prevalence of plastic on just about all …

I seem to remember I was on the FBI watch list for subscribing to Linux Journal back in the day.

Strange, I live in the North of England and that has hardly been my experience of late. Most trains have been at least 1 or 2 minutes late.

For me this is also a major failure of poor competition policy. If Google's smart home system were an independent company, it would love or die by its ability to do its job. But Ne…

Theres a really interesting graph showing rail usage under both public and private ownership in GB. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/GB... I'll let you dra…

Fracking for all it's bad press has been immensely helpful in reducing greenhouse emissions. If it weren't for natural gas we would still have massive coal fired power plants. If y…

As far as I know, South Africa hasn't been involved in anything since Angola. The current military probably couldn't find enough working vehicles to even get to a conflict let alon…

That doesn't matter because it's not like you can double renewables to increase redundancy (no wind is no wind no matter how many turbines you have)- you need another more expensiv…

Oh and while we're about it interconnects just increase the systemic risk of multiple regions experiencing Dunkelflaute at the same time. And it's not enough to say that this almos…

Of course and that needs to be factored into renewable supplies which massively increases their cost. When you have periods of Dunkelflaute you potentially need to have full grid r…

Apologies if I misunderstood your post. If I understand you correctly now, then we are in agreement.

Because it is important. The more egalitarian countries show more differentiation across career choices than less egalitarian ones. I.e. men show a greater prefence for thing based…

Yes, but it gets harder the more the odds get stacked against you. The school system and university system is increasingly run by females for females. Critical theories designed to…

Very true, and we are mostly formed by our genetics, and it really helps to keep that in mind. But as parents that doesn't stop us from overly attributing everything bad that our k…

>> You must believe deep down in your core that ordering a human being to do something is a sign you must introspect about your failure as a manager, and commit to fixing the probl…

Or really worrying. I wonder what this is doing to economic productivity.

I'm a principal engineer in a consultancy and can fully associate with this viewpoint. The org wide work but not org wide alignment rings very true and it occupies much of my free …

WordPerfect 6 for Dos was my favourite word processor. Vim keybindings would make WP pretty incredible.

The IMF are notoriously bearish on the UK economy. As the article notes the IMF have already upgraded their outlook for the UK economy once.

I agree with you on this. And yes, rising living standards will hopefully make people care more about their environment. I also agree with you on the individual level with increasi…

You do know that global land use for agriculture has peaked and certainly in the UK energy usage peaked in 2005. All this while the world is greening. Most of the developed world t…

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/features/overlook...

How much of the global greening is occurring naturally due to increased co2? https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...