marksbrown

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by marksbrown 3mo ago
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 ever in government they would abolish tuition fees. A cynic
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by marksbrown 3mo ago
Collective self interest does not require active organisation.
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by marksbrown 8mo ago
https://archive.is/pbT6z
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by marksbrown 11mo ago
For the moment "yesterday for old reddit" on firefox android works quite well.
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by marksbrown 1y ago
I'm a huge fan of Bandcamp
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by marksbrown 1y ago
In the UK we allow it for various national infrastructure projects. This approach would allow for far better estimates of costs.
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by marksbrown 1y ago
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 fluff.
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by marksbrown 1y ago
There are extensions that redirect to old.reddit.com with mobile friendly CSS.
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by marksbrown 1y ago
Funnily enough, a common idea! What would Feynman do? | Fabulous adventures in coding https://share.google/iSEhAqL9NhAstSlRE
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by marksbrown 1y ago
For mobile, the firefox extension 'yesterday for old reddit' works nicely to modify css.
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by marksbrown 1y ago
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 value.
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by marksbrown 2y ago
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 against a wall at times. Finally School IT staff are not judge
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by marksbrown 2y ago
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 usually have no choice over their teachers.
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by marksbrown 2y ago
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 loads dozens of dependencies. Dependencies that shift over
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by marksbrown 2y ago
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 expand say (ax2+bx+c)(dx+e). Many schools here focus on suc
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by marksbrown 2y ago
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 and draw, students can gain a tangible grasp of oop conce
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by marksbrown 2y ago
A developer, a wireshark installation & a great deal of patience later. Still, yet another argument for right to repair.
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by marksbrown 2y ago
Microsoft failed to capture the internet. IE6 can still cause sane minds to crack.
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by marksbrown 2y ago
Embrace, extend, extinguish.
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by marksbrown 3y ago
Or a tiny portion of a railway! Do you have a citation for that 16 billion?
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by marksbrown 3y ago
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.
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by marksbrown 3y ago
We're using Trojan t105 6 V ones. I agree that they help but they do watering with regularity.
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by marksbrown 3y ago
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.
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by marksbrown 3y ago
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 in reality has a capacity of half that and in the 6 years of
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by marksbrown 3y ago
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 pithy phrases we could engage with the topic at hand?
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by marksbrown 4y ago
For a small business expense and the annoyance of having to extend effort to change something that just works, it was a pretty sensible decision. Now I've got to go down the rabbit hole of playing the free market game for what should j
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by marksbrown 4y ago
What is an SME supposed to do? I need static web-hosting and an email server that will not get blocked by Google!
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by marksbrown 4y ago
I honestly cannot believe the hubris. A 20% price hike and removal of features mid-term. If I don't pay for the email accounts I apparently didn't pay for, I will lose my business email accounts. I get the impression I should ju
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by marksbrown 4y ago
SimpleGraph might be worth a look. I've found it useful. https://github.com/dpapathanasiou/simple-graph
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by marksbrown 4y ago
I won't deny the UK doesn't have issues with race but it is not the US. Here class politics matter far more. Electing a multimillionaire married to a billionaire was never going to end well electorally.

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