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I've never understood why people pay so much money to live in studio flats in crap areas of a city. We live out in Kent and including a drive to the train station and buying the ticket can be in central London in 40 minutes. That gets us an £1100 mortgage payment on a 4 bed house surrounded by farmland. Sometimes when we meet friends who live in London for dinner it takes them longer to get to the restaurant than it does us.

People have been volunteering their time and they are still raising £200,000 to get the table completed.

Looks very promising. There was some doubt about interferons as they can also help COVID to get into the body but some new research from the University of Southampton has cleared up that there are two kinds of the ACE2 receptor.

I had only heard of Enchroma but then stumbled across and bought some Pilestone glasses last month. I think they cost me around £120 here in the UK.

At first I put them on and they just made everything look tinged with pink so removed them after a minute or two. Then I noticed the instructions. I had assumed glasses didn't need instructions but all it said was to leave them on for at least 15 minutes for your eyes to adjust.

My eyes did 'adjust' after a few minutes more and while it wasn't something that would make me cry like the viral videos, there was definitely an emotional reaction. I wore them on a walk through the countryside and the vivid colours of certain flowers did make me stop and I found I couldn't stop grinning.

I did find that reds look a bit orange - things like the Royal Mail van which is certainly red appeared quite bright and what I would previously have called orange. Who knows if that's wrong or right though? It's hard to know how everyone else sees things.

I don't wear the glasses day-to-day but I do take them with me if we are going somewhere picturesque.

In the UK we have Yodel, which is essentially 'contracted amateurs' delivering in their own vehicles.

There must be some form of this still in practice in the UK, though maybe it doesn't do it while in motion.

I frequently have to get into a particular set of carriages on my journey home from central London, as the train divides en route.

I can hire good local people an hour outside of London for that price.

Was strangely fun answering these. Can't wait to chart some of this data on http://chartblocks.com

We wouldn't want to miss out on a great speaker because they couldn't afford to get to and stay in London.

We just started making one of these for internal use - will probably use this instead now.

We built a site for a Russian supermarket and tried using Yandex maps as that's what they wanted. Was accurate for Russian addresses, as you would expect, but ended up switching for Mapbox so we could heavily customise it.

From 'fourteen nights' - two weeks

'To' is the most common version in British English.

Another Lewis book, The Big Short, is also a good introduction to the events leading up to the 2008 crash.

Google Charts is hosted, like https://app.chartblocks.com - you can download or save the charts that get produced but it's not a charting library that can be used offline. If you want hosted charts you've also got to give someone access to your data.

Someone in our office insists on calling closing a window 'crossing it off'.

We tried NVD3 when we built http://www.chartblocks.com as it would have saved us loads of time. It wasn't great though and had almost no flexibility.

Thanks, needs some improvement according to our metrics - a lot of people don't manage to make a chart, which is pretty fundamental - but it's getting better every day.

Though I'd give it a go but Facebook login on iOS fails for me.

Creator here - would love feedback about what kinds of features would make this a useful tool for you.

I'm on my first Android phone, never installed any mods, and it seemed quite simple to me. Possibly even more simple than using Play.

Proper addicts check HN on Christmas day.

That's an interesting comment - we're building a SaaS 'point and click' style D3-based chart designer (http://chartblocks.com) but hadn't really given much thought so far to people that prefer to self host.