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by bromley 5y ago
I'll just add a little more explanation here since our site goes pretty in depth and I imagine most here would only be interested in a brief overview: So buildings have what is known as a heating base temperature, which is the outside
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by bromley 5y ago
Nice savings! Tho no ingenuity is needed to calculate them as there is actually an established process used in the energy saving business. It uses "degree days" that are derived from temperature measurements, rather than using t
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by bromley 5y ago
Coincidentally 2 days ago I tried something similar for the first time - a pea-based powder that you could make burgers out of. It wasn't as good as Beyond Burgers (my favourite of all the frankenmeats I can get here) but, considering
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by bromley 5y ago
It is quite amusing in the context I must say :D In the UK recently we just keep getting more and more new vegan substitutes, and vegan options in restaurants. It's an exciting time!
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by bromley 5y ago
I agree! I'm not sure where you live but in the UK we have something called This Isn't Bacon that I find rather delicious :)
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by bromley 5y ago
So the meat you eat does not come from animals that suffer? They all live happy lives that they are happy to have cut short so they can be slaughtered for your dinner table? I doubt it. Curious to find out more about where you might be com
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by bromley 5y ago
You seem to be suggesting that cheese is inexorably linked to animals. In my mind it's just a tasty substance that goes well in a sandwich. Nowadays it can very well be made without causing animal suffering. Piano keys were tradition
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by bromley 5y ago
Well I must say that sounds like some peculiar logic to me! But hey, I spent years performing mental gymnastics to justify the suffering I contributed to by eating meat and dairy, so I can see where you are coming from ;) I used to love st
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by bromley 5y ago
Humans suffer from similar things. But I don't think that's a reasonable excuse for us to kill each other.
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by bromley 5y ago
Good point! Vegan cheeses are so much better now than they used to be, there's never been a better time to have a casein allergy :D Honestly if it weren't for all the amazing fake meats, milks, and cheeses, I would find it a lot
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by bromley 5y ago
Here's one: because you love cheese but you also love animals and so don't want to contribute to their suffering. In my experience people tend to become vegan: 1. for the animals; and/or 2. for the planet; and/or 3. for
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by bromley 6y ago
For anyone else who, like me, is curious about these musical portraits, here's a video I found: https://youtu.be/iVsWELIJ96o
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by bromley 6y ago
Interesting article. I work in the field of heating/cooling energy consumption and I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I had never heard of the clo before. > Precisely how much energy can be saved by lowering the thermostat de
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by bromley 6y ago
Excellent! Good luck with it :)
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by bromley 6y ago
I'm lucky that I was taught how to read music as a kid... I'm still rubbish at it, it's slow and painful for anything vaguely complex, but at least I can do it badly when I put mind to it. I find complex rhythms particularly
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by bromley 6y ago
It sounds great to me - sight reading is difficult, and frustratingly hard work too, so assistance in mastering that skill is welcome. I am without MIDI keyboard at present as I play an acoustic upright, but I will look out for an opportun
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by bromley 6y ago
Good points! The beauty of a piece doesn't depend on its technical difficulty. Back when I used to play classical music more I loved playing a few of Chopin's Nocturnes repeatedly - they were about the right level for me so it wa
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by bromley 6y ago
I've not tried anything of his myself, but Facebook keeps showing me his ads and it looks good. Good luck with it!
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by bromley 6y ago
Keith Jarrett is one of my piano heroes :) The conventional way of learning piano has a student learning sheet-music pieces that get increasingly difficult as the student improves. It's a fairly linear path, and the vast majority of s
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by bromley 6y ago
I can imagine this being really useful for improving sight-reading. However, for me what made piano a whole lot more fun was ditching the sheet music and opting to learn about chords, all the different ways to voice them, and the various sc
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by bromley 8y ago
My wife has been running a somewhat-related twitter account for a few years: https://twitter.com/happyanimalnews I am, of course, a big fan :)
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by bromley 10y ago
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00689HXI4/ref=oh_aui_se... This one (Ergotron LX Desk Mount LCD Monitor Arm, Tall Pole) has been working well for me for the last couple of years, in conjunction with a Co
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by bromley 12y ago
I wonder if you feel that you ought to be at your desk for at least the bulk of the traditional working day... Other people are working 8+ hours a day, so I should be too. I struggle with that feeling. I've been bootstrapping my own
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by bromley 13y ago
Agreed. The copier should not be getting the traffic or the link juice that this HN submission is sending them. I would love to see HN editors update the URL in cases like this.
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by bromley 13y ago
The media doesn't generally show as much interest in B2B companies as they do in B2C companies.
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by bromley 13y ago
I missed your show HN thread, sorry. But for what it's worth I think your service looks cool. Your pricing looks too low to me - perhaps a sign of your lack of confidence in the idea - I think you could do with some higher-volume pack
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by bromley 13y ago
The closest my company has come to mainstream fame was in the Wall Street Journal. It was a half page article on page 2 - not about us but more the data from our system (a specialist kind of weather data for energy-data analysis). I don't t
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by bromley 13y ago
You could think of takeaway as a separate business. If sit-in wasn't meant to be profitable, coffee shops would occupy much smaller premises to save on rent.
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by bromley 13y ago
A simple thought experiment: what if everyone did like me...? Say there are 20 tables, and it's open for 12 hours a day. Every customer spends $1.50 and hogs a table for 4 hours. Assuming constant full capacity (a very optimistic assumption
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by bromley 14y ago
Better still cloudflare-status.com or similar: separate domain, separate registrar, separate DNS, separate hosting.

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