My dad is 90, and has been doing change ringing in churches for eighty years. He was encouraged to start by his father when he was 10 as there weren't enough people to ring church bells as so many had gone to fight in the war. Change ringing is very much a branch of combinatorics!
You really think that an issue as important as basic food supplies is going to be bumped out of the headlines by a tedious government consultation on internet governance?
You picked about the most expensive option, there’s quite a few that are fine for commuter bikes, but cost substantially less. The Shimano Alfine series for example.
But except for the Rohloff, they all have a smaller gear range than a derailleur, so there are tradeoffs.
Bikes in the $15k plus range are probably targeted at professional sport cyclists, who need to adhere to UCI equipment regulations, which include the requirement for a chain-derailleur drive.
If you want to know what's premium for everyday utility cycling, look at the ebike space, where people are shelling out thousands for bicycles just to use them a vehicles. Hub gears are not dominant, but are very well represented on price points over $2k.
There are also triathlon bikes in the $15k plus range which don't comply with UCI rules. But the efficiency loss makes hub gears useless for that market.
The $15k+ bikes are race bikes, which are probably never going to have internally geared hubs because they're too heavy and add too much drivetrain loss. Rohloff hubs are fairly common on high end ($5k+) bikepacking and touring bikes.
I've mostly heard of them being used for people doing giant international tours where they want something that just will not break. Seems like a very niche market though!
There's whole pages of explanation about understandability in the Meaningful Names chapter preceding that distilled rule. Specifically it explains about making meaningful distinctions by avoiding vague words like Data or Manager or Info.
Vinyl records. I still have records that are perfectly good which I bought when I first got a record player for my 15th (I think) birthday, 35 years ago now.
This author sets up a lot of his own personal standards for scientific reporting, and then calls outlets "dishonest" for failing to meet them.
Its fair enough if he doesn't like their reporting, but pretending that they are deliberately and dishonestly subverting standards that he alone has invented is nonsense.
Most people have the notion that journalists build some level of expertise in a topic and interview multiple relevant experts before offering their honest take which, although as vulnerable to human error as anything, has incorporated feedback from principal sources.
The fact that most journalism is aggregating snippets from press releases and recombining them into a particular favored narrative stance is surprising to many and takes away from the imagined value that journalists add.
You're lucky he was referred to as Robert Smith. In my company they'd just have said 'Robert', and I wouldn't even be able to look him up in the directory to find out what the hell his job is.
This is interesting. Is the internet completely cut off? Do they have internal libraries of documentation for third party stuff they are using (paper? digital?) Do you have any example institutions, or what domain they are working in? Thanks.
A concern, which I think is legit, is that it is quite easy for someone with a strong presence in search, web advertising, analytics and mobile to puzzle together what a company is investing in based on the aggregated research and web access from known locations
