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by captain_coffee 1y ago
And how would you "generate electricity directly", specifically? Let's talk physics and engineering, not vague statements. How would that energy generated from nuclear fusion be transformed into electricity "directly&quo
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by captain_coffee 1y ago
Not sure if that reply is intentional trolling or schizophrenia to be honest.
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by captain_coffee 1y ago
Do they even have the design of an actually working fusion reactor? This seems like a crucial detail that is suspiciously ommitted. "but said it remains on track to deliver power by 2028" - so casually written! I HIGHLY doubt t
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by captain_coffee 1y ago
believe me a LOT more than 1% of people hate you if you indeed are MAGA, don't fool yourself
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by captain_coffee 1y ago
The UK is not fundamentally incapable of building anything at the moment. It is absolutely astonishing to see this once great superopower in a slowly but steady collapse.
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by captain_coffee 1y ago
Meta is pretty much the only big tech company that I actively boycott. Nuked all of my account years ago and I have never looked back. Amazon is the other big tech that I refuse to work for, regardless of role / department / locat
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by captain_coffee 1y ago
Very applicable to the UK as well
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by captain_coffee 1y ago
"Amazon sucks to work at" is the conclusion that I have reached about 8 years ago after reading testemonial after testemonial from current or former employees at the company.
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by captain_coffee 1y ago
Any realistic strategies that you have considered in order to try achieving that? Genuine question.
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by captain_coffee 1y ago
It literally is - your brain chemistry changes and you basically enjoying having children despite the fact that it is objectively unpleasant and net drain on all of your resources. Subjectively you will feel good about it despite that due t
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by captain_coffee 1y ago
This cannot be stresses enough. I genuinely do not understand how people can use the free version of YouTube without an adblocker.
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by captain_coffee 1y ago
Ah no - literally everyone absolutely * DOES* mind the ads, let's get this clear. Not sure if you're trolling or not.
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by captain_coffee 2y ago
Hard disagree to literally every thing that you have said in your reply above.
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by captain_coffee 2y ago
Literally quite a significant number of EU countries describe themselves as Eastern European, what you said is factually wrong. At this point I am considering your replies as either trolling or interacting in bad faith.
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by captain_coffee 2y ago
I was referring to EU [European Union] countries. Albania is not in the EU so I am not sure what the point of your comment was besides trolling
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by captain_coffee 2y ago
Yes - that is my impression as well as someone currently living in London. Literally ever single system that I have to interact with seems to be somewhere on the spectrum between barely functioning and complete disfunctionality, with almost
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by captain_coffee 2y ago
Lately Reddit has been having major issues - catastrophic failures spanning even multiple hours every few weeks ands it seems to get worse from what I have personally experienced. No idea if that is a reflection of how things are going insi
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by captain_coffee 2y ago
In the vast majority of cases the answer is more money. Employers will do literally anything besides offering that, even when explicitly told by the top performing employees that they only want more money and nothing else.
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by captain_coffee 2y ago
Correct! In the vast majority of cases we're talking about base salary or daily rate increases exclusively. Money. Now. End of story.
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by captain_coffee 2y ago
That one guy definitely did not have a single light beer if he ended up at the hospital for oesophageal bleeding.
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by captain_coffee 2y ago
what did you take - specifically?
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by captain_coffee 4y ago
Yes, people with a lot of intra-abdominal fat but very small amounts of subcutaneous fat are referred to as TOFI. Thin on the Outside, Fat on the Inside (Dr. Robert Lustig)
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by captain_coffee 4y ago
what does one have to do to be able to downvote comments on HN?