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by beachy 4y ago
> While you can indeed re-grow wood, combusting it at scale maintains an equilibrium level of CO₂ in the atmosphere (which causes climate change. True but meaningless. Sitting in my deck chair also maintains an equilibrium level of CO2,
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by beachy 4y ago
It would take some time to fact check your assertions, so I only looked into the first one. It involved a single reporter, not systemic plagiarism by the paper, and she was fired when it came to light. The Post's ombudsman, who handles
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by beachy 4y ago
Sounds like it was too small at the end of the day. 2 people accepted and 2 others are proceeding with class action suit. They failed in their goal of snuffing out the class action suit. Maybe $30k would have been enough. Though that might
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by beachy 4y ago
> And the brake dust aspect may slightly reduce due to regenerative braking. This might be underselling it. I hardly use the brakes on our EV at all. In a journey yesterday of 180km, I only touched the brakes at the end, when pulling int
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by beachy 4y ago
The dirty secret of recruitment software/processes is that recruiters are dealing with hundreds or thousands of resumes, the vast majority of which they will end up rejecting somewhere along the funnel, and they are eager for better wa
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by beachy 4y ago
> Analytical skills were overrated, for the simple reason that clients usually didn’t know why they had hired us. They sent us vague requests for proposal, we returned vague case proposals, and by the time we were hired, no one was the w
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by beachy 4y ago
My house was built in 1905, all wooden frame. The timber is in perfect shape and as long as there are no leaks, will last for another hundred at least. It becomes very hard though and difficult to nail into. I would imagine wood has more lo
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by beachy 4y ago
Yep agreed! I'm on the Tutukaka coast in Northland NZ. It's an amazing coast for diving, I'm slowly snorkeling my way around the coast where we live, one bit at a time. Here's a typical scene from my GoPro https:/&
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by beachy 4y ago
Perhaps a fair comment about the boats owners or the fishing company's shareholders. Not so much about the poor saps that crew it.
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by beachy 4y ago
Even if it was easy to get things right at the application layer, in a legacy system (and today's modern hotness is tomorrow's legacy system), the database is a constant. Entire generations of application may rise and fall. New la
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by beachy 4y ago
Kind of hard to say that a black elf signifies wokeness isn't it?
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by beachy 4y ago
The comment I was replying to proposed blowing up the boat as an alternative to "having to board a random sample of boats (and there'd be a lot, because a lot of them would be legitimate), check documents"
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by beachy 4y ago
I got into spear fishing last summer. It's an amazing sport/pastime. And if you buy fish from a shop normally, then spearing them instead has no negative environmental consequences, and avoids any bycatch. Just swim out from the s
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by beachy 4y ago
Yes, because blowing up a boat crewed by poor third world sailors trying to make some money to feed their families back home is a truly proportionate response.
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by beachy 4y ago
All sorts of information being shared with a completely unknown and unvetted person somewhere in an unknown part of the world?
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by beachy 4y ago
And now the PM is a "key person" since they are the only one left who was there throughout, and now has absolute job security?
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by beachy 4y ago
Having used retro computers since before they were retro, unless you enjoy the retro vibe you can get much the same benefits - and more useful skills for future life - by just using a microcontroller such as ESP32. Back when retro computers
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by beachy 4y ago
Like turbo pascal, a radically easy to use technology that was wildly successful at the time, but sank without trace in a few years as fashions shifted.
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by beachy 4y ago
Every byte that the end user sees came from Cloudflare's servers. Try making the case that that's not hosting in a court of law.
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by beachy 4y ago
I found the author's honesty fascinating ("I had caused a major stroke"). I wonder if he was practicing in the US whether he could be as forthcoming, with lawyers hovering.
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by beachy 4y ago
In the middle of nowhere, but a game changer for Australia when the team attempting to lay a telegraph line through the Aussie outback found Simpsons gap almost by chance.
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by beachy 4y ago
F1 drivers themselves are just the sharp pointy end of a massive team effort involving hundreds of people and hundreds of millions of dollars. It makes sense that it's not all about them. Badminton players much more a personal endeavou
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by beachy 4y ago
Flak shells are designed to explode into a hail of steel fragments, in order to damage the target. Naturally a rain of steel from the sky is not good if you are standing below. Allegedly at Pearl Harbour 63 American civilians were killed by
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by beachy 4y ago
Be happy that NZ will have plenty of water even under extreme scenarios. What's more, the areas that will fare best for precipitation and temperature rise are also the areas that tend to be sparsely populated and have cheap(er) housing
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by beachy 4y ago
Because of scale. A few bucks value per user adds up when there are billions of users.
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by beachy 4y ago
Really? As a bottom dweller, rather than a master of the universe, I don't see any great harm. Take Uber. A great service, cheaper rides, what's not to like. If investors stop subsidizing then and Uber was wiped from the board, wh
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by beachy 4y ago
Not a panacaea but another benefit of aluminium (the correct term for many of us around the world :) is that the process acts as electricity storage, providing a useful way to soak up excess power when it is cheap.
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by beachy 4y ago
You would be offering a product defined by what it didn't provide, rather than what it did (i.e no internet and no cell reception). I can't think of a similar offer, since it's something you can achieve for yourself (given en
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by beachy 4y ago
There is a place for a middle man, but these guys aren't occupying it yet. Take 100 customers ordering food from 10 different restaurants, and 5 delivery drivers. There's an optimal delivery schedule where everyone gets their food
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by beachy 4y ago
If only every government website I visited was boring and predictable.

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