emilyfm
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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
Various sources for day-length estimates are available, see for example https://design-of-time.com/slowing.htm (appendix A).
Comment · 9 years ago
The province of Alberta, Canada (more than twice the land area of New Zealand) is free of rats.
In their case, it was largely by stopping rats entering from the east (Saskatchewan) in the 1950's - there are natural barriers on the other three sides.
History: http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agd...
Still, NZ could be divided into areas that have natural barriers, and peninulas (plenty of them), and start intensive poisoning barriers in those areas, expanding towards the sea.
Doesn't need gene editing, which certainly has unknown risks.
Comment · 9 years ago
Interesting that there are no current transpacific cables at all landing in western Canada. Makes the area very dependent on the neighbour to the south (which is an earthquake risk, as well as a political risk).
Comment · 9 years ago
I've had domains registered for over 20 years already, much longer than gmail has existed.
You can renew a domain for ten years in advance and easily transfer between registrars (and email providers, I use Fastmail), so it's a lot more reliable for the (very) long term than a third-party service.
Comment · 9 years ago
I didn't realise that road was so nearly finished. Should be open by end of this year.
That's 3750 km (2400 miles) by road from Vancouver BC to the Arctic Ocean. Longer than Melbourne to Perth across Australia.
Comment · 9 years ago
You can drive a further 1200km+ road distance north of Whitehorse, Yukon on the Dempster Highway to Inuvik in the Northwest Territories.
End of the road appears to be just north of town: https://goo.gl/maps/shD9UoxTtK42
Western Canada is big. If you drive from Inuvik to San Diego over 60% of the entire road distance is within Canada.
Comment · 9 years ago
Unfortunately very few people have their own domain for email (although they should!).
When companies have kindly sent me their entire customer list (by using CC in place of BCC) I see there are very few domains in it outside of the major free email providers, and those that remain are mostly for their work or small business. A personal or family domain is very rare.
Comment · 9 years ago
The fad peaked back in May:
Comment · 9 years ago
An interesting one for London is Train Times vs House Prices [1]. Shows how prices are affected by commute times (and the raw data is downloadable if you want to plot the times on a map).
[1] http://anna.ps/blog/train-times-v-house-prices-graphing-the-...
Comment · 9 years ago
It was the only number that could not be dialled by accident by letting go of the dial too early. The aim wasn't to dial quickly, it was to avoid accidental calls.
Rotary dials in New Zealand were the other way around (sending ten minus the number dialled pulses) so the emergency number there was (and still is) 111 for the same reason: the hardest to dial by accident.
In turn, Dragon's Den was based on a Japanese show (The Tigers of Money).