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Reductio ad absurdum: everything is meaningless, so why do intelligent, educated people do anything?

I find views like this pointlessly cynical. The man has been done something good for society, why on earth shouldn't he accept the acknowledgement?
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A very touristy, and one dimensional view of London, and very different to my impressions of London.

The author has clearly only really tried to experience the food and culture of the very centre, and likely only lived there as well. The only thing that they've got spot on is that london is essentially a collection of loosely linked villages. For a permanent resident, that means that where you live (probably one of the "village" areas) is a world away from what the centre of London is like.
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What I'd like to know is how to move there with 0 experience and without knowing anyone who lives there.
> .. winter is cold, rainy, and grey

Last winter wasn't. We barely had the heating on at all. Year before wasn't that bad.

I always find the people who care a lot about the weather to be rather idle-minded. Unless your main intellectual past time is playing golf i'm not sure how it can affect you. If you are busy doing something awesome the last thing you are going to care about is the rain.
> Maybe I don't care if my degree (philosophy) has questionable utility in the work force. Maybe I don't want to be "employable".

This is a perfectly valid position and stands in no contradiction to the parent post. I think the parent post was tacitly referring to people who want to have the cake and eat it too: study subjects of questionable market utility and be employable at the same time.
London gets a terrible rep. I come from Wales and the difference in the weather is quite dramatic. Back home in Wales, it probably rains 150 more days than it does in London. I have a leather trench that kept me warm in the winters in Wales, it now has me boiling during London winters.

Yes i agree London can get pretty grey, but it's nowhere near as miserable as people make out.
A suprisingly common question on r/london
Also, regarding English, there's some chance you could find people learning your native language who'd love to have a conversation with a native-speaker; in my city we have such weekly meetings organized in some café. Similarly, we do also have some websites where people are offering "help in exchange for help", you might again find someone wanting to practice your language in exchange for e.g. teaching/talking with you in English; or as you you're firstly into relations at all, you could just find someone you could help in something, and you can also "hide" it behind a request that he/she helps you in something else (again, could be just learning English).
I did the same. The top of the thermometer exploded as the mercury inside got too large. Apparently, the thermometer was not designed to measure freshly made tea.
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Agreed - the time it takes to do anything is very frustrating.

There's an easy solution though: get a bike, and try and pursuade your friends to cycle too. It's rare that it takes me more than 30 minutes to meet up now (which equates to travelling around 7 miles on a bike).
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Perhaps they detest building snowmen, cuddling up in bed when it's cold, drying off in front of an open fire after walking through the rain, that awesome thunderstorm with cool rain after a boiling hot day, the neighbourly camaraderie assessing the damage after a storm etc etc

I've never understood people who don't like the variety of weather and seasons. It must be so so boring to not experience, or enjoy weather.
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> Have you run into this?

Yes. I have two examples. One glaring, and one subtle.

First the glaring one: the word "cunt." In the US it's quite offensive to call someone a cunt, and even using the word in conversation is considered quite "low." Here it's also an offensive thing to call somebody, but it's not quite as ghastly as we'd make it out to be back home. You certainly wouldn't use the word in a professional setting, but were you in a pub you might not be too surprised to overhear someone using it. Also there are degrees to this word here. In the states someone either is a cunt or they are not. Here you might be "a bit of a cunt." For whatever reason I find that difference amusing.

Second, the subtle one - the word "average." In the states it has no connotation. We typically use it in a very mathematical sense. If we call something "average" we mean it's close to the mean/median of our experience of that thing. Here it has a very negative connotation. It seems to mean "the absolute minimum necessary to be passable."
Were you intending to publish a link to your Ansible playbooks hosted somewhere, if not could you do so and and a link in the post so we can feedback on those too?
Any source of heat, such as radiator, would do the same job.
I'm pretty sure they are doing image tracking. They speak about being able to frame the image you want before, and the drone keeping that framed:

We have designed our drone specifically for action sport, on the tracking mode we offer framing is more than just follow me: it allows you to set drone position relative to you (altitude, distance, orientation), so that you can get perfect aerial shots.
Why not just go to meetups?
Hackathons
Language learning meetups
Board Games

Is there an app for "never eat alone" - meet people over lunch?

It's still not easy, I know... I tend to make at most one or two new friends per year. And these days, most people end up watching TV or surfing the net after work, so it requires real effort to motivate people to meet.
How about actually paying for music instead of committing a crime?
People like recognition for their work. This is one way to receive such recognition.
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> winter is cold, rainy, and grey

If you're comparing a British winter to a southern hemisphere "winter", sure it's not a great place to be. But for the mostpart, London is actually pretty good for it's winter. Yes you occasionaly get snow which is great for a day or two and then it turns to slush and ice and ends up being annoying, but really London is mild compared to the rest of the UK.

It is a big adjustment going from a southern hemisphere country to northern, so I don't blame you if you can't take it, but really it's not that bad here.
If a company ends up being the only one providing a product or service on a market, there is nothing wrong with that, as long as other companies are not prohibited to enter the market if they are capable to. And I repeat : you have no right to prevent people from working together if they want to. It's none of your business.

If you're upset with a company dominating a market, just create your own company to compete with it.
Out curiousity of the process: why wouldnt something like this show up in a earlier release?
Found out about this today, you can prepend any GitHub username with .keys to fetch their public keys.
Some info for those who can't read Dutch:

- The thing weighs 350kg including battery pack.
- Sells starting €22k, each car custom-built.
- No info about range. Combustion range extender is an option.
- No roof. Only a rain cover.

My take: an electric car that does not publish its range probably means that the range is ridiculous, and the car is really just intended as a fancy toy. A drone for non-nerds.

Nevertheless, pretty affordable, compared to the usual designer car brands, for something very special. I hope this company succeeds and becomes some sort of ridiculous fancypants Thelma&Louise-alternative for Tesla.
Obviously, you want to change somthing in your live - therefore you have to start doing new things. Start doing things you always wanted to try and are social and enforce human contact in real life. Skype, MMORPG etc are not a complete interaction as they lack body language and don't develope a lot of subtle communication skill.

Look for hobbies which can be done on a regular basis in clubs ("Hi there! -smile- I am new here, explain me how you are doing xyz) or surprise your coworkers with a random idea ("guys a always wanted to play paintball, who's in? ... Common its a one-off")

Be decisive. Tell people about your decisions and passions.

It seems to me, that you are VERY grounded (calm, sophisticated in the way you do things). You should develop a certain volume of aggressivity and begin to take a risk.

Concerning woman, checkout [1]. However, things they say can be applied to every human interaction!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPCU03Dp8Zw
Yes, I remember that as well, great book by the way.
As much as I'd like to attribute clairvoyance to Olaf Stapledon also with regard to his fictional(?) mystical out of body experience, I'm skeptic. There already was a big bang theory and the red- and blueshift of starlight was already discovered. So I'd think speculation that some galaxies are speeding away from us faster then the speed of light was not impossible in 1936, am I right?
Another vote for How to Win Friends and Influence People. It's a very positive book (without being annoyingly positive) and has lots of great advice in the form of anecdotes or backstories of famous people.
Greatly recommended, see also [1] if you need more convincing.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/38227/181497
This is more to harass people (walking and) smoking away from the designated zones in general. Serves two purposes - enforces a pretty big change in habit, and creates jobs for older people.
Being a Londoner born-and-bred who "escaped" 15 years ago, I wouldn't say that but I do sincerely empathise with your sarcasm as it surely doesn't fall far off the mark, sadly..
> It is a big adjustment going from a southern hemisphere country to northern, so I don't blame you if you can't take it, but really it's not that bad here.

Bangkok is not in the Southern Hemisphere. It's in the N. Hemisphere, though relatively close to the equator.
People who complain about it have never lived in miserable weather. From what i've experienced, its actually rather nice and varied. Live up north, or even further up both then you'll get to experience miserable weather.
The question is, as in security, trustworthiness. Trust and/but/then Verify you say? If I have to verify, what's the point of trusting, might as well read amazon reviews and do my own research via google, fb, twitter etc. For a completely new user, a site that even 'smells' of shenanigans is hard to trust. First impressions and all that. If a site invites guest writers, who then shill for their own site, in the main copy of their post, rather than, say, the footnote or sub-title, it starts smelling fishy pretty fast.
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Dude, don't tell anyone! The real estate pressure is bad enough already!
Are you necessarily an introvert, or do you find it difficult to interact with people because of language/cultural barriers? I say this because extreme introverts enjoy being alone. I used to think I leaned toward introversion, but gradually between high school and college I realized that I enjoyed having a big circle of friends--what I didn't enjoy was the social context of school. I'm a drinks in a nice lounge kinda guy, and the social scene in college was more house parties, tail gates, and/or video game tournaments. One of the nice things about post-graduation is that you have a range of social settings to choose from.

My advice would be to stop thinking of yourself as an "introvert" and understand that you're probably somewhere in the middle, like most people. Figure out what kind of social context you like and gravitate to that. Don't assume because you're an "asian engineer" that the best fit for you is that stereotypical social context. I'm a first generation immigrant, went to math/science high school, went to engineering school, but half my friends are public interest lawyers. I gravitate to that personality type. Your words suggest that you put yourself in a box, but that doesn't have to be the case.

Also, don't assume you're "awkward." Maybe you are, but here's a secret: a lot of the people you think of as "socially normal" simply have a head start by virtue of having grown up in this culture. There's a lot of forced childhood socialization that immigrants miss out on: church, block parties, etc. My wife used to go to cornfield parties as a kid in Iowa. That kind of low-key, parentally-supervised, non-threatening socialization helps build basic skills, but its something immigrant kids often miss out on because their families don't feel comfortable participating in the community.
Start by never apologizing in advance.

Proceed by talking to people about topics you are familiar with or have common grounds. E.g. if you are a ruby guy go to ruby meetups. To make things even easier you could try finding people speaking your mother tongue in these areas.
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Britain is a small island in the middle of a shallow sea with a warm current flowing roughly South to North and a cold jet stream flowing West to East at high altitude. Our weather depends on which way the wind is blowing and how wet the air is. Those from continental climates may find the variability refreshing!

PS: I live in the bit of the UK that isn't London. There is quite a lot of that.
Looks like he won the BBQ championship by being on the team of people with some serious chops:

http://modernistcuisine.com/2012/05/my-first-memphis-in-may/

Still, a pretty cool story. Here are my recent BBQ efforts.... not going to win any championships, but lots of people in Italy have never had any BBQ and it tastes pretty good:

https://plus.google.com/+DavidWelton/posts/g73Vno46dDA
I wanted to add, among all the advice here, that you should consider improving your body. Work on getting as fit as you can reasonably become to attain your ideal self. That's something you can work on alone, it'll give you a great conversational piece when talking to someone (e.g. about diet and self hacking), it'll improve your energy and mental clarity so that you can carry an interesting conversation, you'll have more self confidence, and people will be in general more attracted to you.
They can do better - they just don't show you them, unless the page pays to promote it.
What a pejorative statement. If those awesome things involve being outdoors, then you care a lot about the weather. If you grew up in a country with an outdoors lifestyle, expect that to be severely curtailed when you come to London (or the UK for that matter). If you have kids, expect them to be playing indoors for a disproportionate amount of time.

For someone who grew up in a much sunnier climate (South Africa), it can be crushingly oppressive at times.
Having lived in London 14 years by now have led me to think that "actual Londoners" are about as mythical as unicorns.
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I need a brand new friend who doesn't bother me

I need a brand new friend who doesn't trouble me

I need someone, yeah, who doesn't need me
> It is not the same as recycling aluminum. The aluminum is turned back into alumina by the reaction.

I agree. Recycling an aluminum can use much less energy than converting the aluminum oxide to metallic aluminum (perhaps only a 10%). To convert the aluminum salts of one of these used batteries to a new battery you need to reduce again the aluminum to the metallic state, so you need almost all the original energy (perhaps only the 90% because you may skip a few purifying steps).

> It's a cheat to say the smelters use hydropower [...]

I disagree here. To move any car you need energy. The energy can come form gasoline, gas, a battery, ... In all the electric cars the battery have to be recharged. In a normal electric car (for example a Tesla) you charge the battery every night at home. This aluminum battery is “recharged” in the smelters only a few times in a year. In both cases the energy from the recharge comes from oil, gas, solar, wind turbines, nuclear, hydroelectric or whatever is cheaper there. If both model have the same efficiency, then doing a lot of small recharges is as green as doing one big “recharge”.
Too expensive. Try buying your way to a thousand song library that rotates about a quarter of the songs per year. When that becomes cheap enough for a minimum wager like me without having to weigh the tradeoffs against necessities, I'll be a buyer.
I could be wrong, but I understood this to be a way of getting yourself in the door. Bonds created by the "indebtedness" are I think starting points to spending time with people and getting to know them, rather than a friendship in and of themselves.
Unless you're extremely enterprising and know you can meet people quickly, the general advice is don't.

This sounds negative, but framing it the opposite way has worked for me and many of my friends: visit London first to make some contacts, then move here once you've got a job offer.
haha d'oh. I should know better since my partner is from that neck of the woods.
Thanks for this. Currently living in Oxford and my experience has been similar. Have put off a move to London because I was worried that what everyone told me is true: it takes an hour to see anyone. It takes me only just over an hour to get to London from Oxford! (Though granted, there's always onward travel once there.)

Now I find people I hoped to see regularly if I moved to centralish London are moving out anyway. They are moving further away into Kent, Surrey, so on.
You can make salmon sous vide in a kitchen sink with a zip lock bag and a thermometer.
Hello!

First, it's normal that people don't want to be with someone that is lonely and desperate. Being lonely and desperate is very unattractive, thus leading to more loneliness. It's a vicious cycle. If you want to break out of it, here is my advice: Work on yourself. Develop your skills, take up new hobbies, new challenges in life, travel, learn to take care of yourself,.. etc. Become someone you respect. Then you won't have to do anything special, people will feel attracted to you.
It just seems to be a bunch of ads/demos for themeforest themes with your affiliate id - or am I missing something?
oh, cool! I'll take a look then. =)
go to a language meetup in your native language (Chinese, Japanese). You will have a connection with Americans that want to learn your language.
I've lived here for 5, and maybe its just that most of my friends live fairly close to me, and that I used to live in Devon when I was growing up (where trying to meet friends without parental support was nigh-on impossible - no buses, couldn't drive, everyone lives miles away from each other), but I've not really encountered those problems at all.

Granted I tend to meet people centrally after work, since its convenient for everyone, but its not been too bad.
There isn't sex identification technology.

Mosquitoes eat nectar from plants. They only use blood for mating purposes (and the female is the one that has to get it).

So if there are mosquitos around humans, they are almost all female anyway (and the ones that aren't don't bite).
I'm from Dublin and it pains me to say it but London is the best city in the world. I've lived here for over ten years at various times and my god do I love this place.
He did something to help promote computer science to people who could not afford a computer. Accepting OBE, on the other hand, is equal to becoming a member of a caste system. You either believe that all people deserve equal rights, or you don't.
A lot of people can't stand him, but I found Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes' autobiography, Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, a big mental change in how i perceived weather as an inconvenience when I was younger. Clearly as an adventurer you have to learn to live with whatever weather there is. It is just an inconvenience to experience on the way to your end goal.

I think the obsession with "good weather" is very very unhealthy. Just think about the kind of people who move to the south of Spain to live in disgusting British ex-pat filled towns. Largely feeble minded grotesques you couldn't have anything more than a polite conversation with. Look at Florida for an american equivalent.

Further it would be interesting to see how productivity intersects with climate. A historical view on Europe's changing climate would be most interesting from a historical perspective.
Weather is one of those things that everyone complains about, everywhere.

The only way to properly evaluate weather is to (a) figure out what you like, and (b) check the data on Weatherspark. Unless you're talking about the summit of Mt. Washington or Ben Nevis, the complaints will always be scarier than the reality. Take Seattle's notorious cloud cover and rain. Reality: 80% cloud cover in the winter, meaning 15-20 hours of sunlight per week-- not great, but not "constant overcast"-- and an hour or two of light rain on most days. Complaint: "you never see the sun in January and it always rains".

It's unpredictable how someone will react to climate (especially because even specific locales have good and bad summers and winters from year to year). I've lived in Minnesota and New York City, and I always had worse winter SAD issues in New York, not because of anything to do with the weather itself, but for the damn buildings. "Urban sunset" is 2:30 in some neighborhoods, in the winter. (That said, the benefits of living in New York more than make up for it.)

London's definition of "hot" is 20-25 C and mostly sunny. Personally, that's all the heat I need, but there are people in the US who hate the lack of a "real" summer (30+) in places like Seattle, London, or Paris. Most of the US, even in the North (Chicago, New York) gets summers that are very hot by European standards, and so some people get bothered when it's July and they have to wear a jacket in the morning. I don't. When I was in L.A. a year ago people were complaining about "June Gloom" because it was 22 C and cloudy. I couldn't believe it; I was like, "June is still spring, this is awesome!" It was probably a bummer to people who thought LA had year-round "beach weather", though.
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