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601.
by caf 5y ago
Yes - I assume there's a name for this kind of joke in the industry, where you get a laugh, then a beat, then a bigger laugh.
602.
by caf 5y ago
A young man said to his libido-driven wife: "What should we do, darling? Eat or have sex?" She replied: "You can choose. But there's not a crumb in the house." OK, that's quite good. I can easily imagine one
603.
by caf 5y ago
The fallout by mass isn't primarily the direct daughter products of the fission. It's the thousands of tonnes of pulverised dirt and rock (and concrete and steel and...) that has been neutron-activated and ejected high into the a
604.
by caf 5y ago
Yes, they are counted, because it is a perfectly valid vote. This does indeed advantage the candidate who draws the top spot on the ballot (the positions are randomly assigned). In a preferential system it advantages the candidate in the f
605.
by caf 5y ago
There was a surge in minor parties in the Senate about a decade ago. In the (very large) Senate ballot you were able to vote for a single party, and their official preferences registered with the Electoral Commission were automatically app
606.
by caf 5y ago
The continent was home to a very large number of difference language groups and languages prior to settlement. There is not one common demonym - in southeast Australia "Koori" is often used, but more commonly people are referred
607.
by caf 5y ago
You can force someone to vote, but you cannot force them to vote responsibly. How does this not also apply to similar civic obligations, like jury duty? (I've always mentally put compulsory voting in the same box as compulsory jury d
608.
by caf 5y ago
This is an often-overlooked point: if you make it compulsory to vote, you have to make it easy to vote.
609.
by caf 5y ago
A donkey vote isn't a blank ballot. It's a ballot that's just been numbered unthinkingly from top to bottom.
610.
by caf 5y ago
If that were literally true then a sign saying "This door is on the honour system, please don't enter" would work just as well.
611.
by caf 5y ago
That makes sense. It's a little harder to determine where it should go for something like a chat client where the UI changes asynchronously.
612.
by caf 5y ago
Even cheaper just to leave the door unlocked, I suppose.
613.
by caf 5y ago
Yes, but the advantage wind has is that the solar energy gets stored for a while in the surface and atmosphere before you harvest it.
614.
by caf 5y ago
Can you give any more guidance on what might constitute "somewhere useful"? Is the hardware cursor position the default place to start reading from?
615.
by caf 5y ago
I have met some blind users who were using terminal-based IRC clients. I believe they were using the scripting interface to assist in integrating it with their input/output hardware.
616.
by caf 5y ago
When it was just Netflix, piracy was almost dead. Now, it's going to come back, unless content distributors can find some way to work together. Right. They need to swallow their pride and realise there needs to be a way to have one
617.
by caf 5y ago
Frequently with an E13 it's just an item stuck in the pump outlet plumbing.
618.
by caf 5y ago
It should be noted that it's against Standing Orders to brandish a prop in the House.
619.
by caf 5y ago
This was a result of both, though: the same dispatch interval also set a new record low level of coal-fired generation in the NEM (9,365MW - the previous low being 9,507MW in October 2020).
620.
by caf 5y ago
For a slightly more wonky take on this with more speeds & feeds: https://reneweconomy.com.au/solar-exceeds-coal-for-first-tim...
621.
by caf 5y ago
And solar supply chain is heavy on fossil fuel right now, so you may have the same burning of coal behind the scene to make that solar energy. I've read reports where it was actually worse than directly burning the coal. Those report
622.
by caf 5y ago
Generation across the NEM is on par with a year ago. It's more about a combination of long term factors (the slowly achanging generation mix) and short term ones (a slightly more windy than usual August pushing a bit more coal out of t
623.
by caf 5y ago
Early in the sense that we even got the chance to observe galaxies outside of our local group, or the CMB. The age of star formation is mostly over yes, but not completely yet - and I believe it's figured that no red dwarf can have rea
624.
by caf 5y ago
It seems to me that they are using an expected lifetime (in the "expected value" sense) of 200,000 km for both types of vehicles. If those factors apply equally and dominate the reasons vehicles reach EOL, then the expected lifeti
625.
by caf 5y ago
Yes. We are likely living in an early age of the Universe, but a middle-to-later age of the solar system.
626.
by caf 5y ago
If we take as given that "decent quality ICE vehicles are proven to last at least 320k km" , then after accounting for both vehicles that are less than decent quality, and vehicles destroyed due to accident, malicious damage or p
627.
by caf 5y ago
Reminds me a little of If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowi
628.
by caf 5y ago
Yes.
629.
by caf 5y ago
I'd say at some point the cgi-bin/ handling got disabled on the server, so it just started serving the binaries.
630.
by caf 5y ago
Even when gambling, I don't gamble on a crooked table.

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