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by Gare 5y ago
It is hypothesised that Kuru (and vCJD) in some individuals (due to genetics) might take 40-50 years to develop if introduced through intestine. Well after the individual had a chance to reproduce.
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by Gare 5y ago
If I recall correctly, heating up the atmosphere to scorching temperatures is a major concern. It's better to heat up one spot than half of the globe.
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by Gare 5y ago
Austria comes to mind - they built the fully functional nuclear power plant, and never had it started - because the public referendum was narrowly (50.47%) against it. Billions of dollars down the drain, hundreds of careers derailed. https
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by Gare 5y ago
Using heat pumps also makes it almost on par with the cost of natural gas.
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by Gare 5y ago
And when the author passes away, the final version will become exactly π, and all the remaining bugs (if there are any) will become features.
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by Gare 5y ago
In Croatia, the owner of the vehicle is responsible to identify the person driving. Otherwise, he pays a fixed fine.
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by Gare 5y ago
Yes, but the small area is also windowless.
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by Gare 5y ago
Most people don't live in an office, only spend there 8-ish hours per day.
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by Gare 5y ago
I count 64 bedrooms per "house". That's a lot of people for a single common area that doesn't seem that big.
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by Gare 5y ago
Or we could build a cheaper telescope that is less redundant more quickly, and launch a new one every 5 years. Launch prices are falling, so this could be more economical than building expensive long-lasting telescopes.
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by Gare 6y ago
So called "Swiss cheese model": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
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by Gare 6y ago
A quote from the report: > Related problems were found in the Therac-20 software. These were not recognized until after the Therac-25 accidents because the Therac-20 included hardware safety interlocks and thus no injuries resulted. The
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by Gare 6y ago
They load the image URL and observe the loading time. If it's fetched quickly, they know it was from cache. The server (controlled by the advertisers) can intentionally add delay to those image requests that makes detection reliable.
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by Gare 6y ago
> (I'm not sure /tʃm/ is valid in any language - words or names that start with "chm" seem to be Polish/Russian words transliterating /xm/.) Oh it sure is in Croatian (and other Slavic languages),