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nllewellyn | 4 years ago | on: A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people

There is an Android app I found called Regularly.

I don't use it any more, but it might suit your needs...

[Check out "Regularly"](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ugglynoodl... )

nllewellyn | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Booking.com shows different price for different users

I was always told to access these sites from incognito or a fresh disposable browser session without any anti advertising add-ons, to find the place I wanted to stay, then check the same place against as many browsers (one time only) and friends browsers as I could until I saw the price I wanted, keeping the sessions open. Don't close the window, you may never see the price again.

It's complex, as far as I understand, many sessions on the same place can put the price up as there is elevated interest in the booking, but some users can be gifted an excellent discount for many reasons.

Without tracking cookies or an account, you won't necessarily see the beat deals, but if you spend too long looking and being tracked, the price can go up.

I don't filly understand it and would love to hear if there were any other methods, especially anything more scientific...

nllewellyn | 4 years ago | on: British cloud computing company used by Government rescued from collapse

Mr Thomas, the founder of data centre company Ark, has acquired a majority stake in UKCloud through his investment company Hadston 2. Existing investors, the venture capital firm BGF and US investor Digital Alpha, have also put more money in.

The company did not reveal a price, although it is believed to be around the £30m needed to keep operating and fund its investments.

Mr Hansford said "You want a vibrant British tech industry, we are the people that are spending money in the UK, creating jobs, social value. I'm employing and paying taxes and my staff are paying their money here. That's not the case necessarily with one of the big American [companies].”

nllewellyn | 4 years ago | on: The Fireless Cooker That Feeds

We used to cook up a stew or a joint in a casserole dish with a lid (like a dutch oven), and put it in a haybox for the day so we had a hot hearty meal at the end of a day outdoors.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_oven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haybox

But I've just found this and it looks excellent! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_cooking

nllewellyn | 4 years ago | on: The Mystery of the Giant Clams of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean (2020)

I don't know why I read all of this but it was fascinating.

nllewellyn | 4 years ago | on: Dishwasher Salmon

This was a Christmas preparation in our household one year in the 90s. It worked.

nllewellyn | 4 years ago | on: France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes

All sales of beef on the bone was banned too. Even Bovril had to change their recipe for a few years.

The ban was introduced on December 16, 1997, after government advisers reported small risks that small nerve endings near beef bones and bone marrow might be infective. The ban included cuts such rib roasts and oxtail, as well as soups and stock cubes made in Britain from beef bones.

The ban was lifted Tue 29 Nov 1999, but other bans on using as food more risky parts of cattle - brain, eyes, tonsils, spinal cord, spleen and intestines - remained in force, as did ban on use of bones in manufactured food and cattle more than 30 months old are banned from the food chain.

Things have been eased further since 1999 but I'm not sure we can get brain on the menu in the UK...