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Freewheeling / Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Last post by PeeJay on Today at 11:03:15 am »
I'm naturally concerned about this as my data is public on VV but followers only on strava. 
I've just checked by looking at someone I follow on Strava and who's VV data is public.   Their rides on veloviewer are shown to start and stop at the boundary of their privacy zone, just as they do in Strava . 
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OT Knowledge / Re: Mould and condensation
« Last post by HTFB on Today at 10:58:34 am »
Insulation helps, but "cold bridges" can get you. Cold spots in insulation get locally colder than in uninsulated walls (because that little uninsulated bit gets to leak heat to a larger area of the outside than it did before: it's no longer competing against the insulated bits to dump its heat) and if that brings the uninsulated spot below the new dew point (indoor air is warmer after insulation so may be carrying more moisture) you get localised problems where there weren't any problems before. Similarly inside corners get a lot of outside surface opposite them and the junctions are the hardest bits to insulate.

In our previous flat, a cross-wall 1960s building single-block skin under wooden boards with a barely-insulated solid concrete roof,  I spent a lot of the winters bleaching window frames and the corners of the ceiling. It was plenty draughty, too, especially after we removed most of the badly-conceived secondary glazing which was trapping moisture between itself and the windows, though that didn't really help. We just ran dehumidifiers constantly during the winter. The years with washable nappies were particularly bad.

And then we moved out to a house we could insulate and ventilate properly. It's so nice.
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I used these  people https://electric-bike-conversions.co.uk/
in 2016 so far so good
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The Pub / Re: Tune Association
« Last post by CAMRAMan on Today at 10:49:32 am »
Birdhouse in Your Soul - They Might Be Giants
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Freewheeling / Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Last post by fimm on Today at 10:35:11 am »
VeloViewer privacy settings do not respect your Strava privacy zones. Someone on another forum PMed me my address from my VeloViewer data when it was public (in a "this is what I have discovered from your public data, you might want to change that" manner, not a creepy manner). So my VV data is staying private, while my Strava data is public (I'm fortunate to never have had any issues with this).
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The Pub / Re: Tune Association
« Last post by JefO on Today at 10:28:28 am »
Giant - The The
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Arts and Entertainment / Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Last post by Woofage on Today at 10:28:04 am »
Went to see Wicked Little Letters on Sunday. Fantstic film, which depends on good old fashined characters and acting, not BOOM special effects.

Saw this last night at our new Everyman cinema (very posh!). Loved it from start to finish.
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The Pub / Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Last post by Basil on Today at 10:21:25 am »
I've put a fold kink into the tube of one of my hearing aids.
Rather than post it, I have brought it in myself to save time.

If you want to get a parking space at Glangwili Hospital, you have to arrive at sparrow fart.
I you arrive at sparrow fart, Audiology reception is not yet open.
So I'm now sitting with a foul coffee.

[ungrumble]
Wow. Hearing aids arrived in the post early this morning.  New tubes, plus spares so that I can do the job myself next time.
Great service.
[/ungrumble]
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The Pub / Re: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.
« Last post by Beardy on Today at 10:20:33 am »
Outsourcing is a great idea for small to medium enterprises where they don’t have sufficient work to keep various specialist fully employed. Even then, the calculations are not as clear cut as they might first seem. Outsourcing in larger organisations will ALWAYS result in reduced service or reduced pay for those delivering it (and thus probably reduced service) because outsourcing companies have a legal requirement to make a profit from the reduced costs they will be charging to have got the work in the first place. Why this is not clearly evident to all involved is beyond me.

<fx/ climbs off soapbox>

There is no legal requirement for a company to make a profit.  In fact, there are such things as ‘not for profit’ companies.

In quoted companies there may be pressure from shareholders to create a profit - but it’s still not a legal requirement. 


There are a number of outsourcing companies that are ‘not for profit’, particularly in health and social care.
Whether a company is legally required to make a profit or not wasn’t really the thrust of my rant and even a not for profit is going to lead to a reduction of service due to a reduction of revenue within a sub sector while duplicating overheads. Unless you are suggesting that some health organisations pay more than their internal costs to bring in not for profit outsourcing partners.

It used to be argued that specialist organisations could be more efficient due to economies of scale and less less waste because they understood their sub sectors better than others. This may have been true once, but my 40 years of watching outsources reduce service levels AND the pay and conditions of the TUPEd employees would suggest this has always been, at best, a false dream.
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The Pub / Re: The "I'm Such a Fecking Div" Thread
« Last post by mrcharly-YHT on Today at 10:14:55 am »
Committed myself to a club outing tomorrow without really looking at the circuit. It turns out to include a bunch of useless climbs including a 14% that we reach via a gravel track, and the descent takes us back 5k further along the road we deviated from to take it.  Brainless shite.
Flat route designed by Deano?
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