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by ctack 7y ago
But the public will be paying retail.
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by ctack 7y ago
Please do. The editorial staff seem like a really well intentioned bunch, but of course there could be something nefarious going on.
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How the UK Security Services neutralised The Guardian(dailymaverick.co.za)
267 points by ctack 7y ago|120 comments
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by ctack 7y ago
It would be interesting to see if there are ghost account numbers in the dataset. Depending on the country or region, would there be grounds for litigation if there were?
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by ctack 7y ago
I wonder how they'd get the data off the ship again. I guess they'd need to mine the data on the ship before exporting it.
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by ctack 7y ago
You can't export the data wholesale from your ship though - you'd need another cable for that :D So you'd need sift and process that data on the ship.
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by ctack 7y ago
And now I want to read his book - “The Poo Bomb: True Tales of Parental Terror”
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by ctack 7y ago
The low air pressure of the high altitude could also play a role.
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by ctack 7y ago
I was hoping the article would touch on that possibility.
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by ctack 7y ago
Maybe the lake is a favourite haunt of vultures who bring sky burial bones there.
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Twitter says China used fake accounts to manipulate Hong Kong(dailymaverick.co.za)
2 points by ctack 7y ago|0 comments
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by ctack 7y ago
It's the farmers trying to raise too many cattle on too little land. Also feedlots.
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by ctack 7y ago
What do the criminals want? Less trees and more grazing? Why?
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Russian Airliner Lands in Corn Field(dailymaverick.co.za)
3 points by ctack 7y ago|0 comments
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by ctack 7y ago
I love them. They're a fruit, but are non-messy, not tart, easy to eat and calorifically denser than most other fruit. Like a healthy mini meal on the run.
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by ctack 7y ago
Great to see the image of the turbines on the plane afterwards.
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by ctack 7y ago
While pretty grim, the animal ones are interesting.
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China says it's own cryptocurrency is close to release(dailymaverick.co.za)
2 points by ctack 7y ago|0 comments
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by ctack 7y ago
You're absolutely right. Have a company MBP for the time being but after this I will absolutely be looking at Xfce again.
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by ctack 7y ago
In hindsight my desktop experience peaked about 10 years ago when I started out as a dev using XFCE. The move away and subsequent desktops; Gnome, Mac, Windows have not touched that golden age of window management.
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by ctack 7y ago
With biomagnification, if you're eating the plant you'll get some exposure to said toxin - and it's unlikely you're eating just that plant, but if you eat a herbivore that eats that plant - and a herbivore can eat a lot
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by ctack 7y ago
More about the metamaterials and sound lens tech here: https://phys.org/news/2019-05-academics-spotlight-lego-like-...
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by ctack 7y ago
Could be but again, from the article: "Whitlock had hoped that he would naturally acquire this type of bacteria simply by stopping washing. He didn’t – and grew quite pongy. So, he harvested bacteria from the soil at a local farm and f
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by ctack 7y ago
The first line of the article: "David Whitlock has not showered or bathed for 15 years, yet he does not have body odour."
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by ctack 7y ago
I imagine that no one with any clout is petitioning for a more equal platform.
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by ctack 7y ago
The remaining trees also get to take advantage of the extra canopy space that the fallen tree leaves behind.
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by ctack 7y ago
Auto correct playing it’s vital part ;) Thank-you
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by ctack 7y ago
Am busy doing the Win Hof method. From what I understand, norepinephrine and particularly epinephrine release are desired goals of the cold exposure part his method as they suppress release of pro inflammatory cytokines.
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by ctack 7y ago
The way I understand it, the aggregators don’t pay at all well. Bands and producers make their money playing gigs these days and try to make it big where there is mega money in everything including the aggregator exclusives. Generally the a
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by ctack 7y ago
Fair enough, that does make sense and sound cheaper. I guess the only thing going it vs your evaluation above would be the environmental impact. You wouldn’t need to affect that barren field, you’d be using already compromised land. But yes

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