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by Nursie 1y ago
> we're going to need a backup of some sort. Something you can turn up late at night in the middle of winter. AFAICT this is not really nuclear. They excel at constant production, not switch ability to fill in around renewables.
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by Nursie 1y ago
It won’t be competitive with anything. But that’s OK, Theresa May signed a guarantee that they’d get paid an uncompetitive price by the taxpayer, regardless.
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by Nursie 1y ago
In the video he mentions that he also feeds in a screenshot so that it could include live location clues.
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by Nursie 1y ago
There are some 90-degree adapters that would probably minimise that. I can dual-SIM my iphone by using one e-Sim and one physical. The only thing it is not, is small...
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by Nursie 1y ago
Not sure Gen X are in love with office work, the X'ers I know (and I am one) loooove working from home. We're at the stage in life where we've settled, got spacious-enough houses where we can dedicate some office space, and w
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by Nursie 1y ago
Wasn't that one of the (many) dodgy things about wework under the original founder? Something about him buying the buildings and then having wework lease them from him? How that guy didn't end up on the receiving end of a load of
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by Nursie 1y ago
Honest question here - is there a situation where you need to be able to use the headphone jack and USB-C at the same time? Because there are very cheap, lightweight adaptors to headphone jack from USB-C.
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by Nursie 1y ago
I’m not trying to convince anyone, I’m poking holes in your silly hyperbole and lazy catastrophising.
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by Nursie 1y ago
It's my understanding, though don't take it as 100% gospel truth. I can see that the model does incentivise both cheaper energy sources (more over-pay leads to greate investment possibilities) and pricing honestly. If the scheme c
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by Nursie 1y ago
It does, AFAICT, there is no competition in infrastructure or supply. There are only targets to meet on service standard and agreed price levels with the state. The companies seem to operate on a model of doing as little maintenance as they
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by Nursie 1y ago
I’m not sure “works fine” is a great descriptor of the UK energy sector… people do get the energy they need, at least, but they have to be on the watch for better deals all the time and make sure not to become a ‘profitable customer’ aka su
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by Nursie 1y ago
> Forecasts indicate that by 2055 England’s public water supply could be short by 5bn litres a day > Water companies in England and Wales lose about 1tn litres of water through leaky pipes each year. Seems like there's most of a
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by Nursie 1y ago
The point is that things can be bad without being melodramatically the end of democracy. Is this an authoritarian move that ought to be spoken against by those who know and care? Absolutely. Does it mean that there's no more democracy
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by Nursie 1y ago
Why? Democracy is being served. People want this stuff. HN people maybe not, but let's not pretend we represent anything but a noisy minority. It's entirely democratic AFAICT, "think of the children" and "think of t
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by Nursie 1y ago
People have been selectively "banning math" for decades - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
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by Nursie 1y ago
I mean, not just the UK - it eventually changed in the US, but anything deemed too strong to crack was classified as a munition for a while in the 90s and 00s, and some things are still banned from being shipped to some places - https:&#x2
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by Nursie 1y ago
Add to that - most normal, everyday people are entirely in favour of invasive government monitoring if it can be painted as being 'for the children' or 'to catch terrorists'. So it's not a case that convenience beat
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by Nursie 1y ago
It’s certainly stopped here in Aus too, and there was a UK documentary about it a while ago implying it’s known there as well. Beyond that, no clue.
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by Nursie 1y ago
That’s thankfully no longer really a thing - the world has realised that there is no such thing as asbestos-free talc, so baby powder is now mostly corn-starch AFAICT.
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by Nursie 1y ago
It works ok for me in Perth :shrug: I use the spf 50 ‘sport’ version on my legs and arms (not the face, too greasy) and it seems to do the job OK. I guess if it’s 35 in testing that’s still OK-ish for general use. I do really plaster it on.
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by Nursie 1y ago
True, so the important factor is - how does this map to your chances of getting skin-cancer?
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by Nursie 1y ago
I mean, that’s a whole separate question really. Alongside which constituents may be long-lasting and harmful to (for example) marine life.
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by Nursie 1y ago
Yeah it’s not really enough. The actual difference between (say) SPF 30 and 50 is not a lot, 96.7% UV filtering vs 98% but I’m not 100% sure how that translates to actual rates of cancer. However the worst offenders in the testing advertise
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by Nursie 1y ago
> pirating of the books is the issue I have an author friend who felt like this was just adding insult to injury. So not only had his work been consumed into this machine that is being used to threaten his day job as a court reporter, no
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by Nursie 1y ago
> remind them that they don't have to take days to process a transaction And in a lot of places, they don’t. I haven’t had to wait days for a transaction for… more years than I can remember, in the UK or Australia.
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by Nursie 1y ago
That sounds to me like it used to be quite a good thing. Chromebooks certainly used to do that too. The device would wipe and restart in ‘dev’ mode if you wanted it unlocked. It seems like a good level of protection.
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by Nursie 1y ago
I disagree. There’s nowhere near a billion who give a crap, if there were that many it would be a market that is served and could be highly profitable. As it is there have always been phones that are open to greater or lesser extent and the
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by Nursie 1y ago
> Majority of people are capable of understanding warnings just fine I think you overestimate the level of tech competency in the world, significantly, and this colours your entire take on this area. I think people who want open devices
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by Nursie 1y ago
> They do. Categorically. I’m amused by the idea you might know my family better than me, but fun as that is, you don’t. > If you want apple go apple. This is the whole point - I do want Apple. I want Apple for my far less capable fam
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by Nursie 1y ago
This is just facile and childish.

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