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by defrost 2mo ago
Not whom you questioned, but ... > We can do a simple thought experiment here. Yes, and Yes. > when the degree attainment rate crosses the 50% mark, do you agree that the median income holder must have a degree? No. I don't eve
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Pentagon missile buildup changing the factory floor(spacenews.com)
6 points by defrost 2mo ago|0 comments
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by defrost 2mo ago
Active mines are already ventilated so the miners don't drown in CO2 and other gases. Heat goes up, and mine layout dictates where the air flow is drawn from; best guess is lower cooler air voids, which cycle and reach dynamically stab
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by defrost 2mo ago
and US cronyism, did that enable competition and undermine Don Jr ? You write as if there is only one smoothly homogeneous "Capitalism" and that it's actually practiced.
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by defrost 2mo ago
Please don't fulminate or post snarky comments on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by defrost 2mo ago
More incorrect than relevant - I suspect you parsed the wrong line. I'm seeing: At the end of the first quarter of 2024, there were 87,869 prisoners in England and Wales. and: 76,869 British nationals were recorded in the p
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by defrost 2mo ago
> What does [ 13 ] even mean? It means that it is possible for someone to be wearing a white shirt and yellow pants (say), but the person in green shoes came from the set of a Wes Anderson film.
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by defrost 2mo ago
> violent criminals are being let out after serving only their half term G20 country prison systems that I'm aware of have early release programs, it's almost a requirement to optimise what space there is for those that most d
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by defrost 2mo ago
It's isolated and out of context, at the very least it needs an indication of the proportion of foreign born people in London, a major city with a large international population. At one extreme, if the population of London happened to
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by defrost 2mo ago
Very much my bad, I missed that context - apologies.
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by defrost 2mo ago
I'll just drop: In an interview with Ron Martinetti of American Legends website, Laura Huxley called Island "the finest and final work." In Laura's opinion, "He put everything in that. Brave New World was a war
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by defrost 2mo ago
Not according to those qualified to judge merit: The idea was inspired by existing air traffic controllers who said the hobby influenced their decision to take up the profession — and that gaming helped them sharpen the skills necessary
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by defrost 2mo ago
> attributes everything to China aside from: petro-monarchs in Abu Dhabi and Riyadh [...] Ministers in Washington and Tokyo [...] state-led rationing in poorer countries as listed in the first paragraph.
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Senior detective under investigation over use of AI(bbc.com)
3 points by defrost 2mo ago|0 comments
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by defrost 2mo ago
Colonial edging aka fracking frottage.
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by defrost 2mo ago
The big problem there is they keep wanting to float up to the surface. ~ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-30/nt-world-record-darwi... I dream of a day when you don't have to fill the tyres of your EV with
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by defrost 2mo ago
> Neither Rand nor Graham is educationally equipped to plumb that depth In his defence, Graham does hold a BA (Philosophy) from Cornell University in 1986. Is your distaste here due to BA degrees rather than PhDs, a dislike of Cornell, o
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by defrost 2mo ago
Transmission was stable with no updates for a long time, and a few years back it started adding in more recent bittorrent features. First update went ok (IIRC), next one had a feature that few users spotted - a bug caused it to hammer track
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by defrost 2mo ago
> An em dash does not make the fact that it is written by LLM. Agreed. 100% > Its use alone signals a command of style and precision. Bollocks — utter bollicks — popplecock evon.
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by defrost 2mo ago
Very unlikely? An estimated 2.7 million Australian adults have experienced stalking since the age of 15, according to new results from the 2021-22 Personal Safety Survey (PSS) released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS
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by defrost 2mo ago
Winner winner, chicken dinner. This, and more - device makers and those upstream of the parents need to make "child safe" phones .. and probably (uh, oh) make them that way by default so that tech savvy types can disengage restr
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by defrost 2mo ago
You sniff their clothing for evidence of a porn site or chatting with a predator?
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by defrost 2mo ago
and if they're just old enough to follow instructions from an older cousin, an online predator, or to hand over their phone to a candy waving dubious third party for a "roblox coin hack" ?
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by defrost 2mo ago
> The parents are the ones who should be supervising. Ok. When Alice & Bob come home from school what steps should every parent take to supervise A&B's phone and device usage over the past 48 hours? Internet history, of cour
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by defrost 2mo ago
> Intelligence is the ability to accurately simulate reality with a high degree of accuracy in your head Mathematicians (eg: those that first conceived of non Euclidean geometries) aren't intelligent in your opinion? Everything an
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by defrost 2mo ago
It's not about the past temperatures though, is it? It's about the increasing insulation factor of the atmosphere (unquestionably caused by human fossil fuel extraction) that is trapping more heat. > you start throwing me rese
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by defrost 2mo ago
I guess then if Iran doesn't bomb all the data centres, somebody else will do it? That does seem like a path forward, pity about the wasted resources that could have gone toward more pressing matters like climate.
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by defrost 2mo ago
Viable? Currently the largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project on the planet has failed to meet it's goals. Had it actually met the design goals it would be part of an LNG power source that manages to reclaim only 80% of the CO
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by defrost 2mo ago
Mixed fractions are a curse on humanity and likely only, barely, suitable for everything positive domains. Four and one third is straightforward enough (curse on humanity aside), but ... even that "legal" Test 2: of negative fou
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by defrost 2mo ago
> real word, at scale, in a cost effective manner. - https://web.archive.org/web/20151208232728/http://ing.dk/art... from [2015 - now( ... (still operating) for one example. > Water has a grea

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