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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
It should be, but I'm not sure it is, considering the use of dedicated weapons like graphite bombs to disable 85% of the grid in the Gulf War. But maybe you have to ratify Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions for that to apply. And we&
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
It's more than hundreds of millions: over 2 billion journeys are made on the network per year. It's roughly 10 times what Japanese HSR does per year (195 million journeys), and 1000 times what the one American HSR route does (2 mi
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Still works better than UK rail: source: use both. Well, I won't use HS2 because they just killed it after getting halfway through and sold the land so no one else could finish it.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Seems to me they're rather better at sticking to a long-term constructive plan then most have been over the last few decades, whether it's long-distance UHVDC lines, high-speed rail, space stations or nuclear reactors.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
This is the Internet. If something isn't a 100% bulletproof solution for literally every person, real or hypothetical, in every situation ever, it's worthless and the person who mentioned it is an idiot for even bringing it up.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Because many people for some reason don't strongly value the derivative of the solar inclination being zero and a local maximum within at most slightly over 30 minutes[1] of an analogue watch having the hands both vertical, on the few
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
I've heard the same flavour of equations from everyone I've ever heard talking about starting a company. One guy was calculating that if he sold his gadget to "just" 10% of people in Africa, he'd make so much money.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
> is not technological it’s because the customs and border requirements Probably why I mentioned political integration in the sentence then. But at this point I'm akchually-ing an akchually to an akchually!
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
> you cant (legally) sell your kidney. If Milei gets his way, you can go to Argentina!
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
No, it's just a random adjective-noun pair used last time I restarted my aaccount!
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
No, it's like writing "Mexico and America". If you're going to add geographic qualifiers like "North", the equivalent would be more like "UK and West Europe". Without such qualifiers, the meaning is c
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
I think even Soylent involved some people at some point, so to be honest there are inefficiencies there that we should aim to scale away from to maintain annual growth.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Always seemed a shame to me that megacities didn't lean into Mail Rail-style[1] logistics. Arterials of goods from depots outside, feeding into local hubs within the city via light rail or narrow-gauge and then last-mile dispatch via s
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
> Regular restaurants are simply too inefficient to scale. Ah, yes, restaurants, that flash-in-the-pan, economically unproven innovation. Dear God, why does everything have to be a ghoulish march to "scale".
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
The picture of that car-snarl leading that article implies it's a lot of cars (lots of scooters and bikes in the UK too - I doubt the cost of fuel and keeping a roadworthy car in general, makes cars economical for it here, not to menti
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
One wonders if people who think it's wasteful to use a car to transport a single person think using a car and a person to transport a sandwich is not.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Scams can be so sophisticated in execution now that I'd quite expect someone to become a victim to one far before they otherwise appear to need the LPA to be used. I have made it extremely clear to my older (not even elderly) relatives
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
This sounds like as much of an defence against internal attacks than against scammers. Though it might be helpful if the customer noticed the attacker didn't ask for the confirmation and became suspicious, but that's probably a sm
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
It's the opposite really, because you're trying to get your rocks on, not off.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
In my opinion, the biggest thing git could do to be easier to learn is make the "git lola" alias what happens by default when you write "git log". Once you see the graph change as you move about, it all makes a lot more
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Git is also really quite good at enabling pretty much any workflow. There's no blessed golden workflow that is completely frictionless, but there're also not many things that are completely impractical. Most "git but better&q
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Dry stone walling is also very common in the UK. It's a complex and now expensive skill, but a properly-built (this bit is key) wall will stay put for well over a hundred years because the rocks can shift a little rather then cracking
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
I don't know about all cables, but Cat 6 has a generally accepted minimum radius of 4 times cable width and there's some standards to back that up. You can also find datasheets for industrial cable that specify it for fixed instal
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
I'm not a particle physicist, but as I understand it, it wouldn't be very exciting to be hit by this because even if it interacted with you, the shower of particles produced would be so energetic that they'd nearly all come r
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Shades of the end of The Website is Down (2009) https://youtu.be/uRGljemfwUE
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
From the official stats, it's about 0-5 cases of MRSA bacteraemia per NHS trust per month. When I was in hospital a few years ago, they swabbed on every admission to test for it so it's definitely a concern. https://www
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
The estate agent special. "They sellers have several options, maybe if you, you know, sweeten the deal you still have a chance?"
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
It (is hypothesised that) wasn't that gamma radiation that directly killed the plankton, it damaged the ozone layer so that normally-blocked solar UV killed the plankton.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
The USB trident logo doesn't need certification. The other, usually coloured, logos do need certification. https://ftdichip.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/TN_114_USB-D... https://www.usb.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
27% of their customers work at OpenAI? Other than a very small number of people directly involved, a handful of Reddit mods and Twitterati with a parasocial obsession with the company specifically, and people who can only sleep when they as

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