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This only applies to those passing through international customs, under 4 million arrivals last year, half of them Australian, who bypass customs anyway. Searching for the 540 figure it appears to be mobile phones only, there was another 30
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None of the science disciplines on Earth use imperial, and besides some manufacturing in the US or companies forced to use those products virtually no engineering disciplines use it either.
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It's quite disheartening to ponder solutions to this stuff and yet see that discussion 6 years ago from far more capable people. Perhaps the vast majority of Internet consumers is actually ok with the status quo.
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Was a bit sceptical at first but this seems fairly correct. There's been numerous collision events, only one stands out as intentional and of greater magnitude than all the rest. I do wonder how future generations will judge such actio
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Paywalled. https://outline.com/WGGMtz
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The carbon offset for a ton of emissions was a few dollars on my last flight. How is $94 feasible? Even a tenth of that seems too high
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> US is often in top 10, or at least mid-tier. Yet US govt healthcare spending is absurdly high and far out of line with the rest of the world either per person or by gdp. Seems to suggest that efficiency is terrible and that's stil
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To reach close to the speed of light (~0.9c?) it'll take about 1 year before turning off the engine, and then another year of deceleration if you're planning to do anything else besides travel around at relativistic speeds. Going
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With a constant 1g acceleration up until near the speed of light you can cross the observable universe in a human lifetime. To the other side of the galaxy it would be 12 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel
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Hedging against currency movements is fairly trivial and doesn't cost much, I've gone down this route in Vietnam after getting annoyed at being forced into investments by low interest rates ( putting savings in most western banks
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Intriguing, thanks for this. Really enjoy the topic but find it hard to parse some claims that come out. D-wave a while ago made some bold statements that were shot down by many respected in the field, yet they seem to be progressing still
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The advantages of a single blade over the equivalent 4 smaller blades is efficiency. A tiny part of that is losses from extra motors but mainly its from blade length which dramatically affects power efficiency, up until the point where the
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> mine (i.e., the taxpayer) Allow people to vote on government budgets and you'd get your answer. I'd far prefer to decide what carve up of sectors tax is spent on than choose between politicians.
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> Sure the equipment is specialized but not much more than e.g. the electronics that you need for a mobile baseband station Was under the impression that these computers were supercooled down to near absolute zero otherwise they are over
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I'm quite excited about the different groups trying to reduce manufacturing costs of antimatter and use it for space propulsion. Positron Dynamics is putting up a cube sat in the near future to demonstrate feasibility. Generating antim
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It's not really all that simple, my only relationship with Uber, Netflix and Spotify is one of a regular paying customer and they've all been caught out doing insidious things with my personal data from their apps. Meanwhile I&#x2
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> Eastern Depot [1] style secret police There no link provided but you mean the Eastern Bureau? A historical 600 year old police force? Comes across as a strange reference to make regarding current affairs. Doesn't every country hav
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Wired seems to have an obnoxious popup telling me to subscribe with no way of closing it. Combined with the browser url bar only 30% of my phone screen has content. https://web.archive.org/web/20180914151314/https:
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Which is hilariously dumb because now 3rd party retailers are the go to source if you want to buy a Xiaomi with unlocked bootloader rather than waiting a month . It's creating more business for the people they are supposedly trying to
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>No one significant is predicting a doom/collapse No one significant predicted the biggest economic collapse since the great depression either.
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Given the state of computing, no. I'd be more worried about my brain chip having poorly implemented crypto with legally mandated backdoors from 7 different countries and security updates requiring surgery. A simple radio transceiver wi
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From my experience going from clean shaven to a small beard can throw the whole system off and requires manual intervention rather than going through the automatic gates. Fingerprints surely would be more accurate. Have no idea whether fore
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> you still have a sealed battery, a backdoored baseband, and binary blobs A fair call, but I'm of no importance to China and am betting on lineage lasting. Time will tell. As snarky as my comment came across, I'm entirely keen
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Any Australian with a driver's license or passport most definitely has their facial biometrics stored. Any visitor to the country also is subject to it. This has been in existence for over a decade and I'm astonished people aren&#
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>There's nothing stopping anyone from buying a Purism 5 Apart from the fact that it doesn't actually exist yet. Not to mention it's already a badly specced phone commanding top dollar being made by a small company that cou
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Punycode renders as ascii in chrome (not sure about ff), people will notice the malformed url and that something is wrong.
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Just a guess but remove the dash and read it out loud.
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1. https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/podcast/june14/mw126-garbagepa... 2. NAFTA per capita plastic consumption 139 kg Western Europe 136 kg Japan 108 kg Asia (excluding Japan) 36 kg https://www.statista.com
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Norway's energy generation is 100% renewable, other countries are more than welcome to stop buying their oil and gas.
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You could also ask why they never mention waste heat and the numerous economically useful processes that already generate it everywhere. A whole apartment block could be heated with a GPU cluster. There's no dual use for air conditioni

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