TheSpiceIsLife

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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
Still, we’ve got a little while to go before star formation can no longer occur. Some estimates put the star formation period from 1 to 100 trillion years. I’d be more concerned about our collision course with the Andromeda Galaxy in four t
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
Australia spans, what, 40 odd degrees of latitude. Where I’m at in Aus it’s day light till 10pm at the summer solstice. No sun to really speak of at the winter solstice though.
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
That’s funny. I’ve made several <5m I call them ‘unstension’ cords and jokingly say “look, this extension lead is so short, when you plug it in the cord actually gets shorter”. Dead appliances have their cords cut off and chucked in a b
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
5G home internet is the preferred in Australia where fibre isn’t present. Even at my house where I have FTTH, my mobile 5G connection is persistently faster and quicker, that is both bandwidth and latency are superior on my phone from my ho
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
Communism ended in Poland 35 years ago (1989). That's one or two generations ago. That's long enough for everyone aged about 50 in 1989 to have aged out of the system. How many decades should pass before we stop blaming present ci
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
> under capitalism wealth and income follow a Pareto distribution. And under the other forms of government thus far tried? Anyway, Capitalism doesn't explain wealth inequality. The ability to accumulate capital and apply it to indu
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
Looks like that should be 13 T 2005?
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
Growth? What growth? Which Western nations have a fertility rate above replacement?
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
And were always one cyclone (hurricane) away from extinction.
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
Centurion - 100m / 330 feet, Eucalyptus regnans, 1.5hr south of Hobart, tallest flowering tree.
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
So you can have thirty percent more not enough! I’m sorry, we’re all out of solar. Perhaps you can have no wind instead.
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
Is there more or less pollen in rural areas?
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
That’s exactly what they are, it says as much on the box.
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
Sometime there’s vehicle from at least three businesses and two government agencies gathered round an inconspicuous looking civil infrastructure element, and I have to wonder who spying on who. And how much that’s costing.
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
You’re right, my mistake.
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
Feed power in through one circuit back to the main board, on a different circuit cause a short, main breaker trips, main board is now isolated from the grid. Technically possible, irresponsible, bad advice, and probably won’t work in most s
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
How does the device handled grid isolation from a single outlet?
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
I didn’t say that.
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
Name a social media site that has diverse and worldwide perspectives that also feels welcoming. Quite the contrary. Welcoming ecosystems are discriminatory because necessarily exclude those who generally aren’t interested, or act in bad fai
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
That's great: I pinball machine is an interactive Rube Goldberg Machine.
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
It's not real helpful to label a bunch of fairly ordinary. useful, and healthy, aspects of work misguided and then offer no alternative suggestions to address your points. You go for a walk, live in a tiny apartment in Manhattan, and
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
This seems wildly overblown. I'm running Windows laptops / desktops these days, and drive an iPhone and the sun hasn't exploded.
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
My HP Elitebook is six years old and has a 4K display. Happy with the build quality.
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
I guess the reasoning goes something like: Tesla / Musk / Broligarcy.
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
That's a very Australian thing to say. I think the smallest macropod is the Tammar Wallaby?
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response. Australia does sort of have a land constraint problem too, insofar as there aren't a lot of places in Australia where anyone would really want to live. Agriculture in Australia accounts for about 55%
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
Here's some more Recreational Statistics (a branch of Recreation Mathematics): There are about 11.1 million residential properties in Australia, 30% of which, some 3.25 million residential properties, are held by investors.[1] There ar
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
Here in Australia, there are 227 sitting Members of Parliament, of those: one in three federal politicians (71) own two properties; one in three (77) own three or more properties, and about one in three (67) own one property. Eleven federal
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
> private sector will not safe guard the public sphere of the environment. In what sense are homes for people to live in not the public sphere of the environment? What do you expect people to do? Go back to freezing in the dark?
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by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
What user data? Telemetry from using their antivirus products? Is that what they’re talking about?

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