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by defrost 3mo ago
One major issue is the extreme difficulty of being precise about tipping points. Eg: Have you seen a train derail? A couple of degrees of tilt - nothing .. and then .. whoops. The global climate has been 'stable' about mean values
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by defrost 3mo ago
Raises the question of whether browsers should have a [Replace Page, Erase Domain from History] button and hotkey. This is a good idea that deserves to be across all Police, Help, Domestic Violence, 911, Suicide Hotline, etc sites across al
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by defrost 3mo ago
There's no other tool for extracting wasps from stings in flight.
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Australia to become the first country to introduce landmark AI framework(sbs.com.au)
4 points by defrost 3mo ago|1 comments
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by defrost 3mo ago
That would suggest you read the two thirds of Guardian and Financial Times articles on the heat wave that also mention climate (or some equivalent blend) The ECIU used the Factiva media database to analyse the output, in print and onlin
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by defrost 3mo ago
The Australian scientific body, the CSIRO, did an extensive report on the full life costs of various energy strategies and concluded that nuclear made little to no economic sense in Australia. Perhaps had they used a napkin they would have
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by defrost 3mo ago
I'm not convinced Beethoven had contemporary groupies tossing him their muffs. Liszt, however ... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisztomania * (NSFW?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peJ_ncxXung
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by defrost 3mo ago
FIFA World Cup finals Founded 1930; 96 years ago Current champions Argentina (3rd title) Most championships Brazil (5 titles) ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_finals
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by defrost 3mo ago
From elsewhere: this applies to NSW, South Australia and part of Queensland. so NSW and South Australia will be staggered in real time as they are in different time zones. As for everybody in the same time zone .. they are all see
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by defrost 3mo ago
Fact? <cough> Australia will sell the raw resource ( hard-rock spodumene ) to anyone that wants a X-year contract - it's on them to process the concentrate (although we are currently building out spodumene processing). Austra
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by defrost 3mo ago
If they're in a rural / industrial area setting it could quite literally be a fire break around the battery area (bare dirt and no overhanging trees). Fire control in Australia is first and foremost about limiting spread - the bus
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by defrost 3mo ago
To be fair, in a modern Maslow’s Aussie Hierarchy of Needs energy is a foundational Physiological Need, whereas energy for crypto mining is a luxury item best placed out past the outhouse of the main pyramid.
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by defrost 3mo ago
Earthly Powers Anthony Burgess · 1980
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by defrost 3mo ago
> I can't wait to be kept in agistment by my overlords, fed on treacle and oats, ridden in circles once a fortnight, and shot when I break a leg. Luxury horse living during the heyday of working horses and pit ponies, "horse po
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Musk's Starlink Socks Customers with $1500 'High Demand' Surcharge(techdirt.com)
15 points by defrost 3mo ago|0 comments
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by defrost 3mo ago
He's better described as a self serving political populist with this being one of several interesting chapters: After the publication of The Skeptical Environmentalist, Lomborg was formally accused of scientific dishonesty by a gro
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by defrost 3mo ago
> Does any country care? China ostensibly cares, their five year plans drawn up by committees of Engineers (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical) and Scientists are on an arc to minimise reliance on fossil fuels and transition to renewables (wi
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by defrost 3mo ago
> crows have evolved to speak and are undergoing their own industrial revolution That's all very well and good, but what of the Caws of Art ?!
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by defrost 3mo ago
> Farage said the funds are required for his personal security Nope. If he had declared that then there would be no issue what so ever. There is no restriction on gifted money, no requirement on what to use it for - simply a common cod
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by defrost 3mo ago
It was a good deal that constrained enrichment, allowed human inspectors to roam and legitimately raise complaint if kept from chasing leads, permitted installation of tamper resistant / tamper revealing fixed monitoring instruments. I
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by defrost 3mo ago
The first word in the two word phrase "Boris Johnson" is indeed Boris. The full birth certificate name of the former "born American" PM is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, so arguably that person's "first na
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by defrost 3mo ago
Personally, I've seen two - both ones that I emailed about (and I really disliked the stance taken on one of those, but they were debating at a level that was polite, addressed objections raised, acknowledged other PoVs etc.) Vouch,
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by defrost 3mo ago
> I figure the mods are seeing the same HN I am. It's a rare individual that reads all the comments .. my impression is they appreciate on point heads up emails about accidentally auto-binned comments and are happy to reverse fla
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by defrost 3mo ago
> comments that don't violate any guidelines, but are flagged to dead. Vouch them and/or email to hn@ycombinator.com and say why you think they deserve to be [undead]. I see that a lot, some have been erroneously caught by the
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by defrost 3mo ago
And a wrong justifies a wrong? These are the times we make.
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by defrost 3mo ago
I can see that you're old and that I'm older, but I fail to see the justification for being snarky about that. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by defrost 3mo ago
> People can drive a car without an expert Not every person can drive a car. > but they can't build a car. Not every person is unable to build a car. Eg: my father, born 1935, still alive, has built double axle trailers, cars an
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Want to own a real T. rex?(npr.org)
2 points by defrost 3mo ago|0 comments
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by defrost 3mo ago
Miller repeatedly stressed that the MM: Fury Road stunts were real and the physics was real world - that got turned into a false "quote" about less than 10% CGI .. and that became mythical when the MM: Furiosa trailer had obvi
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by defrost 3mo ago
So, you want a different article then. This article reports that Irish data centres use a particular percentage of the countries power. > What they need is expertise in energy generation. Okay, so an actual Electrical Engineer with gr

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