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by caf 3y ago
Ahh, that makes sense - in fact I just used a credit card to pick up linked online Shinkansen bookings from the JR-West ticket machines. (Those systems all seem to use either magstripe or chip though, so maybe the wireless transaction could
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by caf 3y ago
The CBA Android app supports contactless, or you can add your card to the Google wallet. It seems to work equivalently well (although the enrolling bit has less friction in CBAs own app).
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by caf 3y ago
Do the chip / paywave payments with the physical card also use a DPAN generated for that card, or do they use the FPAN that's embossed on the plastic?
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by caf 3y ago
Worms was already a remake of Scorched Earth, wasn't it?
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by caf 3y ago
That is not how I read it at all. To me, it reads as "there are likely many reasons these markets aren't operating efficiently". The time value of money and fees certainly are part of it, but they don't explain things l
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by caf 3y ago
Bet limits are also mentioned as one of the factors in the article.
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by caf 3y ago
The author didn't fail to realise any of that, because he pointed all of those things out (and more) in the article.
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by caf 3y ago
The article does mention the time-to-settle problem in footnote 9.
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by caf 3y ago
You can only measure the speed of those transverse ones in angular units though, so I don't think it helps.
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by caf 3y ago
Presumably the sealed housing of the pressure transducers had to be pressurised to some reference standard?
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by caf 3y ago
(If you find this surprising and want to read a little more, try this: https://www.stevemunden.com/friction.html )
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by caf 3y ago
That friction equation comes originally from empirical experiments, not from idealised models. The explanation in fact relies on deformable surfaces. If you imagine keeping the normal force constant and reducing the apparent contact area,
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by caf 3y ago
That's only if you're able to deploy it in a way that the human drivers you replace have the same risk distribution as the human driver population as a whole. If your deployment instead skews away from replacing the high-risk huma
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by caf 3y ago
For the same reason, we'll likely be absolutely fine with them driving a bit slower as well once there's no driver to pay by the hour - that'll save money not just on the automation but on fuel cost as well.
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by caf 3y ago
You misplaced a zero, $15/MWh is $0.015/kWh.
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by caf 3y ago
In the recent ruling case (Amalia/Wildgrowth Walker), neither decision (mill cards or leave the same card on top of the deck) ends the loop, though. The loop will still continue with an empty library. The idea is that making the mill
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by caf 3y ago
There was recently a ruling/clarification on exactly this kind of loop that has become relevant in competitive Pioneer format: https://mtgrocks.com/mtg-ruling-may-cause-problematic-turn-t...
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by caf 3y ago
In 2022, coal-fired electricity was 55.9% of the combined NEM and SWIS generation (and it is trending down).
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by caf 3y ago
This I suspect nails the question of "why doesn't natural silica-containing stone cause the same problems?" asked several times elsethread.
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by caf 3y ago
Industrial manslaughter laws are a fine incentive to correctly manage the risks of CO₂ asphyxiation, because it is immediately apparent when your worker has been asphyxiated and the proximal cause is readily determined. Silicosis takes year
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by caf 3y ago
They do have multiple kill switches to stop the engines, up to dumping a bunch of flame retardant into it which makes it impossible to restart. The problem was that all these systems for the #1 engine were rendered inoperable by the damage
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Incorrect candidates declared elected due to buggy software(ecsa.sa.gov.au)
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by caf 3y ago
Australia and New Zealand: https://anytrip.com.au/ (although it also includes some buses and ferries, and you can only look at one region at a time)
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by caf 3y ago
It's a different case, because one compares two very different harms: "guilty man goes free" vs "innocent man imprisoned" , and the other compares two very similar harms: "person dies" . The whole poi
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by caf 3y ago
This feels like programming an 8088 like it's a 6502. The 8088 has a lot more general purpose registers than the 6502, so variables would tend to be kept in registers while they were being worked on. The encoding for ROR reg, 1
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by caf 3y ago
I don't think this is right. The segment registers are significantly more ergonomic than bank switching: the separate CS and DS registers means it's very easy to work with an independent 64k of code and 64k of data (if you're
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by caf 3y ago
base64 is older than URLs, though.
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by caf 3y ago
The report in question points the finger at hospital prescribing rather than GPs, though.
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by caf 3y ago
Call first thing when the office opens (often 8am) and you often get something because they tend to save a couple of slots for same-day appointments.
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by caf 3y ago
Yes, back before the rise of credit cards, restaurants used to be common targets for armed robberies - they'd always have a full till at closing time.

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