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WHO estimates that 7 million people die every year because of pollution from burning wood and coal. 5 millions die from burning fossil fuels. Particulates kill the lining of your lungs, damage your immune system and gives you cancer. You don't die immediately but you can if you carry on...

There are similar societal causes such as obesity, passive smoking, risky sports etc that are never or only rarely mentioned on death statistics.

Spare a thought for city dwellers. Imagine your life without them. You may have clean air but not necessarily much else, not even supermarkets.

I too use buses in London.

You have a lot of rust coming from the trains and tracks that get deposited everywhere in the tunnels as much as passages and zillions of rooms, cupboards, racks, cable trays etc that cannot be easily kept clean. Sometimes I wish people think first about what they would do if they were in the...

If you were the mayor of London, what would you do to reduce the pollution? Get rid of the tube?

It's been more than a year ago. I can't remember the code but if you use OSF, you can program it exactly how you like.

No, the whole thing is shoddy workmanship, wrong material and useless building inspectors

The installation requires also fire breakers to stop funnels to form under their metal skin.

We discussed the torque to power code in the toseven thread. The sensor's output is analogue. You can find the code in the thread.

It wasn't highly inflatable. The core was flame retardant.

If I remember correctly, we discussed this subject a few years back. The product specifications were clear enough. Those panels should not have been used on building taller than (9m?). The builders, architects, building inspectors, insurance companies etc all missed to read properly.

The article says in pub gardens. I am for it. It's a restricted space most of the time, more so at weekends and you have children around.

The laptop story started when Trump was the president. If they had enough material, they would have charged HB and/or his father for corruption a long time ago. 4 years later, all they found was just a couple of emails from 120,000 and even those two were not smoking guns. For all his crooked...

I am worried about the current loss of confidence. Sales of e-bikes has substantially dropped in the last 12 months to the point that I hate to bring in any new model because of financial risks. Unlike retailers, I have to commit to multi-years (as much as 10 years) support for any bike we sell...

4 years later, the story is pretty much unchanged. Someone gave Mr Issaac a laptop to have his external hard disc recovered. Hunter Biden said that his laptop was stolen. Mr Issaac said that he could not be sure it was HB because he is blind. In this case, the whole thing seems fishy. If all...

Disinormation is already punishable in law, misinformation can usually be moderated by the platform itself. On COVID, the boundary between mis- and disinformation can be very blurred. I know a person suffering long COVID. She is a friend of my family for nearly 50 years, I am certain that what...

This story reminds me the current debate in the USA about whether US government should lean on X to stop misinformation. Biden's government put pressure on FB to stop Covid misinformation. I reckon Musk would not dare coming here.

Bikes are discarded after 10 years. You can do the same year after year and calculate standard deviation and p if you like, the risk is around 0.2% and preventable. 2 per thousand, sorry

To calculate simple statistics, you need to establish first a steady state. Otherwise, you will have to adopt one of the 4 standardised methods. One of those is the bayesian theorem which is most used nowadays but it's complex. The simplest steady state is one year, number of fires / number of...