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So when will it launch in Poland and or Europe?

One question is does it work over Wifi when there is no wireless coverage?

Also what would roaming costs do when you travel?

Do you know when it will launch in Poland or Europe? I want one.

I often have to deal with communicating with people in other languages this would save me so much time.

What shoe materials are good at generating static electricity and which shoe materials are poor?

Does anybody know how this happens?

Too spot on to make any comment :)

There is very little logistics in Sudan. The roads are often unpaved. The cost of road hauling the wheat will probably double the cost.

But on the other hand there is lots of sunlight for solar.

This would not be the case if you where growing the wheat in a tropical climate where wheat would not normally grow.

For example think of Sudan. Most of the current supplies need to be shipped by ship and then expensively transported inland.

But Sudan has lots of sunlight.

Why are they using AirBnb rather than hotels, is it just price or is there something hotels don’t offer?

I am doing a restoration of an old palace in Poland, the biggest issue is often the contractors do not understand the architect’s drawings.

The drawings are more for the regulators such as building control than actually for the people working on site.

Talking to the constructors it is normal for architects to specify the impossible, leaving it to the constructor to actually make it up on the job.

Somebody said to me that over 30% of construction costs is waste.

It looks like there is an opportunity to implement lean methods in construction. And weirdly implement Alexander’s ideas patterns and anti patterns.

I thought the same, but No, as the original hypothesis was the bacteria came from the vaginia, but this study shows it comes from gut. It maybe because during delivery women often have anal fissures.

Yes, before it was believed that the bacteria came from the vaginia, but now it looks like it comes from the gut.

I think he points it out in the article how it is mainly foreigners that are both leading the work, and are interested in Egyptology.

I don't know if you have read Edward Said work, Orientalism, but this explains the article. What interests the readers of HN, and the Guardian is the romanticized past rather than the reality of now. But Peter Hessler in a way brings this up.

Is Orientalism that bad ? If it gets people interested in a geographic region. We have many more conflicts which are just ignored like West Papa, or even Sudan now.

Link to the forum post explaining how to execute the yo-yo manoeuvre, mentioned in the article. What is interesting was one pilot mentioned that the yo-yo procedure dates all the way back to the 707 for a runaway trim. The 737 was derived from the 707 and 727. The 707 was the first Jet Airliner.

Edited for links : referance to 737-200 Manuel https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/619326-boeing-advice-aerodyn...

https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/619326-boeing-advice-aerodyn...

This is a better link: https://asunow.asu.edu/20190405-discoveries-asu-bioarchaeolo...

Primary source and more detail.

I wonder if the productivity is maintained as we can only think for so many hours a day. If you look at famous writers such as Hemingway they only worked for a few hours a day. So the question is how does this translate to work that has a less cognitive load ? Has anybody done experiments with programing and hours worked ?

For anybody who is interested here is the bio of Chris Niedenthal. He is one of the most respected photojournalists covering the Eastern Bloc in the 1970 to 90's. https://culture.pl/en/artist/chris-niedenthal

Facebook has changed people's behaviour. The amount of people that wish me well on my birthday has greatly increased due to Facebook making it is easier to do so. On the other hand Facebook has made it easier to spread information. With this increase in power does the platform have an extra responsibility ?

The key question is what responsibility does facebook have ? If it is just a platform, or does it carry the same responsibility a newspaper would have to a reader's letter ?

So when I was a kid I when visiting my family in Australia I tamed a Cockatoo. A Cockatoo is an Australian Parrot, After I left back for the UK, my aunt never forgave me. Joe, the Cockatoo became very dependent on the family.

I grew up on the Kings Road in London and a local shop has a pet lion called Christian. A film was made about Christian been returned to the wild. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btuxO-C2IzE

In my 30's I tried to tame some foxes, using dog food as a sign of peace. They would enter my cottage when I had the TV on, but would never go closer than about 5 feet.

But it was quite cool having foxes in one's own house. It used to scare quests, who would normally think they were wild dogs.

BUT I know belive wild animals should be wild. We project meaning on them, that is our interpretation.

This is really important. I caught Malaria in Ghana, but the symptoms did not develop until I was in the UK. The hospital wanted to identify the type of Malaria I had before treating me, which I think was a mistake. In Ghana they take a blood sample and then immediately start treatment. The treatment can always be altered if the strand is different from the best course of action.

But the issue was they had a hard time identifying the type because I did not have one type of Malaria but two. In a hospital in the temperate world they do not have the cases to gather the skills to be able to quickly identify the strand.

Marshall Mcluhan would say that we have moved from hot to a cool media. Going from the mainly text based internet of old to one that is very visual. Hot media is a media of words and sounds and a cool one is that of rich media. Somebody who is good at projecting an image does well in a cool media.

It is interesting how the web has become about portraying oneself rather than new ideas. In a way it has become a massive propaganda machine in how wonderful the world is.

Future Shock by Alvin Toffler in 1972 narrated by Orson Welles is well worth adding to the list of documentaries to watch. Much of what Toffler/Welles touch is very relevant now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkUwXenBokU

A friend was turned down for a B-1 visa, as they said that she did not provide enough evidence that she was settled in Budapest. She applied under B-1 as she was attending a 3 day conference inside a 3 week holiday.

She is from an ex-soviet state but was working for a major US investment bank at the time as a programer. She earns way above the local salary, but does rent an apartment, rather than own one. She was only 23 at the time.

What should she do next she time she applies? Or is it even worth her applying again?

Having lived in Ghana in mid 2000's this story does not surprise me. The team that I worked with went on to work for Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. Another colleague built up the Internet in Africa, building 15 Internet Exchanges in different countries for under 200,000 dollars.

In 1974 the literacy rate in Ghana was the same as in Portugal. Things diverged. Portugal became a democracy, Ghana went through many years of dictatorship and misguided help from the west.

I remember once interviewing one person sent from the States to help the software company I was working with. His expertises was 'Network Streamlining', that turned out to be sorting out cables. If you take the expense of sending somebody from the states, versus sending from Ghana to the West for training versus the payback. We should be sending more people to the west for training rather than the other way round.

This must be a new virus. It is hitting Spanish and Portugese Telecoms.https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2017-05-12/s...

http://sicnoticias.sapo.pt/pais/2017-05-12-PT-Vodafone-EDP-e... (Portuguese)

The worrying part is distribution and essencial companies and services

One issue not mentioned in the article is mono cultures and foreign plant species. With forign plant species the issue is that there are no insects that have evolved off them, and with mono-cultures the issue is that they may only support a small subset of insets. One thing people can do is plant native plants in their gardens. This creates an island of bio diversity.

Yes. The booking code is called the PNR. The passenger name record.

This did happen in Europe with a RyanAir and EasyJet. They used a system called OpenSkies that was far cheaper to operate. It lacked lots of the of connectivity that the old systems have to Travel Agents and other Airlines.

In the early systems and I think that has changed the PNR used to be the hash of physical memory location of the booking.

Even back in 2002 most of the software used to deal with reservations was written in Assembler. I don't know if that has changed.