EdwardDiego

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by EdwardDiego 3mo ago
You went straight to conspiracy?
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by EdwardDiego 3mo ago
Yeah, it's a problem a lot of those subs are grappling with.
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by EdwardDiego 3mo ago
AI psychosis is real mate, maybe take one of those weekends, go for a walk, no screens, maybe see some trees.
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by EdwardDiego 3mo ago
It's warrantless location tracking that they value more than direct interception.
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by EdwardDiego 3mo ago
> $11.5B mining giant Mineral Resources That made $154 million profit on $5.3 billion revenue in 2024. So about 1.1% (rounding up) return on capital. While Fortescue (FMG), still not the largest Aussie mining outfit, made a profit of $5.
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by EdwardDiego 3mo ago
Yep. * Unloading fish on a wharf during a violent snowstorm, at night. * Doing the stop/go signs on roadworks for 12 hours in the rain. * Carrying heavy boxes of government records up 5 flights of stairs from a basement for eight hours
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by EdwardDiego 3mo ago
I also highly recommend the book written by the team that found the wreck of the Endurance, and Fienne's biography of Shackleton.
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by EdwardDiego 3mo ago
I have a photo on my wall taken by Frank Hurley, the photographer on the Endurance, of some of the first sea ice they encountered on the last journey. Fienne's biography of Shackleton is a great read, it captures the complexity of the
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by EdwardDiego 3mo ago
You're sweet as mate, we're used to it eh. Hell, it's why one of our former PMs had a referendum to try to replace our flag. He got seated under an Aussie flag once at an international big important meeting, thus he decided t
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by EdwardDiego 3mo ago
It's got white stars, it has the seven pointed "Commonwealth star", and astronomically, it's more correct as it includes Epsilon Crucis. Our flag has red stars, no bonus commonwealth star, and for some reason, whoever de
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by EdwardDiego 3mo ago
Australian flag. * Their Southern Cross is more astronomically accurate (it includes Epsilon Crucis) our one omits it * They have an additional seven pointed star to represent the six territories/states of Australia, the seventh point
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by EdwardDiego 3mo ago
That they're well aware of the well-attested and evidenced prejudices within society in the wide, and law enforcement in the narrow, that are sadly still prevalent in the USA? What does your oddly aggressive reply say about you? Other
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by EdwardDiego 3mo ago
Yet.
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by EdwardDiego 3mo ago
Oh and they just shipped Grok in Cursor. Yay.
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by EdwardDiego 3mo ago
A teenager in Australia died due to this after eating a dog slug as a dare.
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by EdwardDiego 3mo ago
Then all the scientists who study apiary are wrong and someone in the HN comments knows better than all of them. Congratulations, I look forward to your Nobel prize.
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by EdwardDiego 3mo ago
Big Ag was already using those poisons before varroa, so if it was the cause, you would've seen it manifest before varroa.
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by EdwardDiego 3mo ago
Native bees. Apis mellifera are introduced bees across most of the world. But yes, there are other pollinators like butterflies, moths, flies, birds, etc.
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by EdwardDiego 4mo ago
Plant variety rights / plant patents exist for the same reason that regular patents do, it's believed that it encourages people to innovate. Whether or not that's the case, I'll leave to others to argue.
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by EdwardDiego 4mo ago
They do. These days generally the main prohibition is pig derived products, but plenty of SDAs still choose to be vegetarian. I'm not an SDA, but my daughter is.
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by EdwardDiego 4mo ago
Yes, but typically not handguns, the prevalence of them in the US is unusual compared to other Western countries.
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by EdwardDiego 4mo ago
Not handguns though. Well, not legally.
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by EdwardDiego 4mo ago
> an island runs its servers on volcanoes and waterfalls Going out on a limb, the word "volcanoes" may be part of why, I know I was particularly perturbed when I found out my bank's failover data centre was about 20km away
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by EdwardDiego 4mo ago
There's probably 10 in Russian apartments already, next door to the ocelots.
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by EdwardDiego 4mo ago
The faux outrage is odd.
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by EdwardDiego 4mo ago
Yep, that's the alcohol talking, in the morning you'll be sober and you might.
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by EdwardDiego 4mo ago
> But sosus was not really about listening. Being able to hear and identify any and all Russian submarines sortieing into the North Atlantic through the GIUK gap was invaluable even without triangulation.
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by EdwardDiego 4mo ago
I suspect that ringing up the Kremlin and saying "A Seawolf attack sub right now has an excellent firing solution on your rather expensive ballistic missile submarine, no, I'm not bluffing, these are the co-ordinates, and we would
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by EdwardDiego 4mo ago
That reminds me of when a friend convinced me to try to get into Falcon BMS. The community has created thousands of pages of documentation on flying the Falcon, operating the various weapon systems, as well as things like energy management,
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by EdwardDiego 4mo ago
A friend and I did this with Privateer II (the one with incessant FMV starring a young Clive Owen) - pilot on the gamepad, navigator / weapons officer on the keyboard.

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