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> Dettol has pine oil mainly for the scent; its main active ingredient is Chloroxylenol which is toxic to cats in addition to being disastrous for marine life.

In fact, chloroxylenol is the precursor to the proposed safer alternative, according to the article.


Ah, that's too bad. I only just found out about this project a few weeks ago, on this site.


> There is commuting to and from work - but we can't optimise that one out ...

Remote work, building housing that's closer to the office, high-speed public transit, etc.


Interesting that they avoided mentioning the term "spreadsheet" entirely.


yeah, i'd think the way to write this page would be to lead off with how exactly it's similar to and different from libreoffice calc or some other spreadsheet people are familiar with. instead they explain the similarities as if it's 01977 and the audience has never used a spreadsheet. if there are differences, i gave up on reading before i got to them


I’m glad you posted this because I assumed they were using Excel or LibreOffice. Because of the way they’d written that article, it hadn’t even occurred to me they weren’t using a spreadsheet.


i think they are, it's just that the spreadsheet they're using is one they wrote themselves


It's not about the values, but the units of measurement. g is in units of meter/second^2. The article discusses the dependency of the meter's original definition on the value of pi.


You forgot to include the links.


If taxes and CoL end up being more than 20% less, then it can be profitable to move.


They would have to be much more than 20% less. Taxes and living costs are typically far lower than income for the types of jobs that people would consider moving for. 20% higher income is 20% more of a larger number than the 20% higher costs, making it more profitable to live in the high cost of living area.


I always thought this was just a joke: https://xkcd.com/1172/


LongtimeUser4 is clearly on to something here. :)


(2020)


Added. Thanks!


Some of the pre-IoT home automation system did use powerline for communication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_(industry_standard)


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