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I'm sorry, do all 5's look the same to you!! /s aka, one item in I is missing in your output.
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It's not the no job part that troubles them, it's the question of where basic levels of food, clothing, shelter are going to come from, and the means to have objects of desire and the freedom to travel. Maybe you can't see th
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> wanted to charge Harding and Reay with manslaughter .. but the legal system felt it would be impossible to prove that the building was not built to the code that it should have been - a code that was likely insufficient in the face of
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I can't speak to what former US vice presidents and UN politicians may or may not have said, I've not seen Gore's movie, I don't watch UN speeches. I have spent a few decades in exploration geophysics at world scale; gra
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2mo ago
Near as I can parse that question, I'd suggest you start with intro calculus and physics, look into heat equations, springs and pendulums. Level up into delayed oscillators, then look into those models with added noise. It's a big
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Professor Heather Cox Richardson (US History) has a blunt near daily summary with frequent call backs to significant high and low points of the past two and a half centuries: eg: August 15, 2026 - https://heathercoxrichardson.sub
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My local co-op is nearly a hundred years old now and has a combined members land area larger than the United Kingdom: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGjGsyMe_F8 * https://www.cbh.com.au/about-cbh/wha
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If you care to get analytic, it's related to the insulation factor of the atmosphere, fairly consistent amounts of sunlight in (subject to know solar variation and orbit) that heats land and sea surface radiating thermal energy out to
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Nobody in planet modelling has ever suggested that the 3 phase El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) exists because of fossil fuel usage. An extreme swing, here and there, has always been part of its nature. The observed change is more and mo
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It's about the slow acceptance of what many saw as an entirely predictable and already foreseen outcome before the US dropped the first bomb on Iran :/
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> why do people keep talking about landmines? I, a person, singular, mention landmines as they are a hardware device that are designed to trigger action on a threshold. Felixers are computer vision based devices that are designed to tri
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> moral and ethical to use AI that targets autonomously? First point, vision systems have been used in industry to look for misaligned labels, incorrectly folded papers (in high speed paper presses), wrong items on high speed conveyor be
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Is this distinct from the hardware in a land mine making the decision to explode shrapnel through a human being without any human in the chain except the dead guy. Worth noting that both cases indirectly involve the humans that designed dev
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The Christchurch CTV building was supposedly built to the code standard of the early 1980s, it was a non-ductile reinforced concrete structure. Supposedly is heavily stressed, the Royal Commission investigating found a lack of communica
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Is it though? Does prison work as a deterrence to others?
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Your linked figure confirms that 2018 was cooler than things are today. The chapter 11 temperature over view is concerning for the consequences: The frequency and intensity of hot extremes will continue to increase and those of cold ext
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Fear of nuclear weapons was backed in as part of the Cold War Mutually Assured Destruction stand off doctrine - rather hard to achieve when pushing the Atoms For Peace warm fuzzy alternative. Didn't help that nukes didn't make goo
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The majority of modern software engineering doesn't have human illness and or death as a consequence of failure. That's front and centre as a concern in Food, Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical etc. engineering disciplines.
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> a bunch of people spreading lies about it for 100 years or so. To be fair to past humans the deliberate lies and misinformation didn't really start until the 1970s, the oil crisis of that decade, the coming together of the UN to r
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I'd suggest you sleep on that comment and come back with fresh eyes and a clear head; as is, the logic isn't as joined up as you might think.
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Apropos of nothing, live theatre musicians and live voice over artists during movies made a solid comeback in the 1980s in several countries as part of what some described as the "dub parody" genre ala What's Up, Tiger Lily?
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Multiple distinct sets of such things would be better.
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It's not the uBlock Origin extension that needs saving for "better" adblocking, it's the capabilities of the now discontinued by Google / Chrome extension supporting framework known as Manifest V2. The 'newer&
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> Who's to say there aren't 1000 or 10k year cycles of earthquakes? The Stratigraphy department of the International Union of Geological Sciences would be the obvious first port of call. Follow that up with an off book chat wit
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Nyrstar Port Pirie isn't 100% renewable, it should be now be recovering blast furnace heat as electricity to reduce demand and that demand is partly met by South Australia's renewable generation which covers the non industrial dem
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If it helps, I regard early Facebook as Version 2.0 of the original Stalk That Girl and an example of asocial media that should have been culled at an early stage. I can't speak to events depicted in films I haven't watched, so
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No drama, gave me a chuckle, we all make mistaks ... :-) as the Dalek said, climbing down off the dustbin
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Almost ten years ago, in February 2017, the then Treasurer and now former Prime Minister of Australia literally brought a lump of coal into Parliament and metaphorically started licking it while telling all to not be afraid of coal. * http
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Australia has always been big on workers rights and respecting trade work as much as any other, if not more. Healthcare isn't tied to to an employer and the base level of "free" healthcare (supported by across the board taxat
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A mirror world in which Zuckerberg's Hot or Not site was taken down this quickly? Now there's a Star Trek:SNW proto plotline.
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