Netherlands??? Did I mentioned Netherlands?

What are you talking about? The Netherlands has nothing to do with Biden (and Putin doesn’t care much about elections either). The Netherlands is still mourning the many Dutch civilians killed when Russia shot down MH17. Now there are thousands more Russian SAMs threatening the same region, and the Netherlands would…

This 6x6 Soviet Military Truck RV Would Be Fun To Take Into A Forest, But It Burns €5 Of Fuel Per Km, So You’re Not Going Very Far Into The Forest.

G-wagen.

Wait, so you’re going to pretend that “bulk transfers” between institutions, “in the same way gold was”, actually means transactions for poor individuals who don’t have bank accounts?

In the previous comment, you talked about bitcoin for transfers between big institutions. I pointed out that it’s crap for transfers between big institutions. Now you reckon I’m wrong because of poor people who don’t have bank accounts...?

sirslud is wise.

This Lifehacker article is going to generate a lot of replies!

The rationale is that some Bitcoin proponents have pivoted to claiming that instead of using Bitcoin as an everyday currency, it will instead be used as an asset to facilitate bulk transfers of value in between institutions (both centralized and decentralized) in the same way gold was, while smaller, everyday…

If you look into a rusty wing-mirror and say “Mediocre” three times, you can summon The Opels straight from the 1990s. Astra! Corsa! Omega! Vectra! Senator! Frontera!

They chose a good location for camouflage. Within days, that white Rover will turn to a rust-brown colour which neatly matches the leaves.

By the way, anybody who’s interested in using short trains and new tech to disrupt railfreight should have a look at Cargosprinter. It was made by a mature business and had support from key stakeholders, but it failed. (Although short cargo trains found new uses in very small niches like track maintenance, they’re…

Lots of people have already debunked the tech, but I want to add that rail unions have leverage over the rest of the economy (they can definitely have a big influence on the decisionmakers who want to get stuff delivered), and they really, really hate the idea of self-driving trains, so there’s an extra obstacle to…

Go for it! I sailed a boat with a Gardner 4LK once; it could do 9 knots indefinitely. Shouldn’t take you long to get home from Skye.

Turning food into a guilty secret never harmed anyone!

It’s an abomination. A glorious abomination.

We all like a bit of aspirational photoshop, but most countries have railway safety agencies that require months of paperwork before you can use your rolling stock on their track, and endless combinations of lights and signalling and loading gauge, and even after that what can you do? You can’t just roll into Rome for…

Do these things actually get used? They’re in movies all the time, but in the real world, if you need a big office there’s probably an FBI office already set up in most big cities (and they even have toilets). Is there anything that can’t be done with (a) agents on the scene who can get there much quicker in a normal…

What are you going to do with it? It’s pretty old and worn-out, but rust won’t form in space, so David Tracy’s not interested.