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I think its like WW2, loads of amazing tech came from war. Covid was a bit like that for bioTech.

I worked for a very old school manufacturing company based in Switzerland. We wanted to roll our own IoT platform for sensors in the factory. We spoke to MS, what they had was a load of garbage, so we decided to carry on as we were. I later found out that the MS CEO called the CEO of this company and from then on we were fighting every day as to why we weren’t using MS. This was a private company, not even a big spend, yet they got the CEO involved on sales calls? That’s when I realised how corrupt it was an org.

It reads like someone’s daddy got them a summer job writing “a few bits for gen z”

It doesn’t really work like that in the UK. I doubt you’d get anyone to take it on, let alone for feee. Proving the material impact would be hard. She’s not been named publicly, no lost earnings etc. I would like to think this sort of thing means we get better regulation, but who am I kidding.

Parkinsons law of triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

This is amazing: https://beeline.co/pages/beeline-moto E-ink display so works in very bright light Very small Multiple methods of navigation

FYI This is GB news, think fox but more right wing.

Thanks for ruining my productivity this afternoon. I love HN for interesting small projects like this.

It’s also the heavy manipulation of the free and social press by Murdoch, Paul Darce and state actors.

After 4 years of EV ownership this is exactly how it works for me and my friends, in the UK at least.

I come to hacker news for this kind of well written content. As a person who works in a non engineering role (although I started out there) this is brilliantly written and explained. Thank-you.

Is the answer not because the world was at war and throwing all it's resources into beating the other side? Surely the GDP spend per capita on science and research was far what it has been since.

The Saudi fund that has invested in them has also invested in uber.

Not everyone works at your pace, and sometimes matching someone else's cadence can be a healthy exercise and an opportunity for growth.

This is why big incumbent car companies will lose against people like Tesla. The amount of organisational energy and capital required for a project like this is huge, and it's pay off..? Not so sure.

Interesting relationship between another front-page article: https://www.foodandwine.com/news/borden-dairy-bankruptcy

I also struggled with books. Despite being an avid WW2 and science fiction fan I avoided lengthy texts and just got my information online. As has been said many times over that information is often, although not always, low quality. For me I never connected my dyslexia with my inability to read (obvious I know) then I discovered audio books and my world changed.

I’d recommend also trying audio books. The format is not for everyone, but quality stories, be they fiction or non-fiction expand the mind.

Someone here recommended the Count of monte cristo as an amazing read, and I'm currently half way though, its thrilling! Thank you to that person btw.

This is an amazing Show HN. The best bit was “I did this because I'm lazy” I suspect not somehow. I did wonder why those chips were so expensive? I have a super limited knowledge of hardware so I was unable to figure it out exactly. Thanks again and I can’t wait for more write ups.

When I worked at GDS the aim was to use PDF’s they were considered to have a long shelf life, where as HTML and the web in general can evolve and leave some people without a way to read it. I wonder whats changed?

This is why hacker news, despite all its problems, is such a joy. There are people doing some amazing stuff that I can learn so much from (while trying not to think to hard about how lazy I am). Its not only a cool project, but is really well photographed and documented. Thanks for posting.

Because the thing people generally put in a car is a liquid, called petrol, not a gas.

I listened to a great pod cast about Amazon recently. On it they talk to the CEO of Birkenstock and he discusses about how they no longer sell on amazon and why. Its a great listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/land-of-the-giants/id1...

I’d love a link but this argument makes total common sense. Learning where your boundaries are, and pushing them a bit, is such an important developmental step.

My mother wrote her master thesis on the correlation between risk in early years children and success later in life (a long time ago now) It turns out if you allow children to take (reasonable) risks, then they go on to be more successful in their careers. This is now a relatively well known correlation. I loved doing ‘dangerous’ stuff as a child and this utopian playground makes me sad that most of today’s kids are shielded from it.

Sadly it was an internal consultation that, unsurprisingly, wasn’t published. I think there could be good grounds for an FOI request though.

This project was doomed from the start, and was yet another vanity project for Boris. Great Gaurdian article which references the design flaws from the get-go: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design...

As I understand, from a friend at TFL, they could have replaced the whole fleet of buses with electric ones for the same price as this vanity disaster.

I left my laptop (£2,000+ MBP) on a train in the UK (South eastern rail). Some amazing human handed it in, yay! The rail company charged me £30 to collect it as an admin fee.

Now, when I find things, and this happens relatively often (I've no idea why) I find the individual using social channels like LinkedIn or waiting them to call the phone.

Why is alibaba not in there?

I think its both. Insurers are by nature risk averse. I suspect, from your comment you also have no claims years? Still £900 is a lot.

I am a new model 3 owner in the UK and the insurance is astronomical. Despite having a license for more than 9 years (usually the maximum for UK insurers), having no convictions, it being stored on a driveway with CCTV my quote was £2,600 p.a. I do live in London and haven't owned a car for a few years so(no claims discount not being applicable). While I was expecting an expensive premium, I wasn’t expecting something so outrageous! For context I owned a sporty car when I was 19 and had just passed my test my insurance was £1200p.a. I consider myself, and the car, considerably safer and this expected something around this mark. I am hoping next year I will see a significant drop in price. I wonder how ‘real word’ their calculations where?