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by defrost 4mo ago
There are many guns in Australia (the country that, according to the US NRA, "banned" guns) where they are tools with an application that require a licence to use (just like explosives, dangerous chemicals, lasers above a certain
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by defrost 4mo ago
(28th June 2021) .. and I didn't find a Mistakes: Long Gun Edition.
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England literally supplied the early American (and later Australian) colonies with slaves "indentured for the term of their natural lives". The "American colonies" were, of course, not limited to the modern USofA; Sir J
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Like everything, it all depends on your metric. Again, same freight tonnages as the US .. and with fewer people == vastly greater rail performance per capita , and similar tonnages in absolute numbers. The US is just another G20 country, a
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by defrost 4mo ago
US annual freight tonnage per annum is much the same as Australia's (1.5 billion tonne /annum, IIRC). Australia has longer, more control complex trains (leading, trailing and midway locomotives). To the best of my knowledge the US
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by defrost 4mo ago
And yet actual farmers veer toward Ag-bots - autonomous "tractors" that have no human driver and pull the same farming trailer that already exist - ploughs, seeding bars, spray bars, etc. The greater question centres about who wil
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by defrost 4mo ago
Inflation adjusted reference to one of the great "Gotcha's" of US history. * https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/01/12/376781165...
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by defrost 4mo ago
Anyone can report anything there and it is meaningless in any single specific case what the after affects of single vaccine applied to a specific person might be when extending to the population wide results of that vaccine. There was a par
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by defrost 4mo ago
If you've got the $$'s for the media and a reader there are plenty of SEG geophysics data storage bunkers that can expedite that request.
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The current specific Pope is blessed to be "the single least corruptible person on earth" in your own opinion? The position of Pope itself is certainly no guarantee of ethical behaviour, as three time Pope Benedict IX and byword
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by defrost 4mo ago
Can you please link to these prior two occasions you've asked me this question? I have no recollection of ever having addressed you or being addressed by you before this interaction. (EDIT: we have had zero intersection in HN comments
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by defrost 4mo ago
The paper linked shows a reduced rate of COVID in the pool of people that received a vaccine candidate compared to the pool that received a placebo: A total of 43,548 participants underwent randomization, of whom 43,448 received injecti
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by defrost 4mo ago
Give it a year, we may have GrapheneOS/Motorola then ... * (March 2026) Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation - https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at...
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by defrost 4mo ago
Leaving aside the linked study is looking at vaccine effectiveness WRT infection rather than transmission , ... Low effectiveness still agrees with the point made above about reducing chances of spread and transmission. A reduction is
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by defrost 4mo ago
First up, for clarity, I have no issues with COVID vaccines and how they were used in Australia - the very few cases of myocarditis were mild and resulted in no deaths. Second up, I'm confused by your use of "mandate" and how
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by defrost 4mo ago
Your government refuses to let you leave the country? That aside, they also command you to own both a car and a gun?
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by defrost 4mo ago
Is this a general complaint about the lack of causality inherent in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)? It suffers many of the shortfalls of, say, a Haircut Adverse Event Reporting System (HAERS)
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by defrost 4mo ago
> the ugly environmental and human rights abuses around the lithium sourcing. Be specific, please, and for completeness compare to the impacts of fossil fuel extraction and production for ICE vehicles. Lithium supply chains: Environmen
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by defrost 4mo ago
> the attitude of medical practitioners and the media that refuse to acknowledge a vaccine could have caused an adverse effect. In what alternative group think echo chamber did that happen within? Here, in the real world, it was acknowl
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_heimdall provides one here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755933
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The issue specifically is: early claims of vaccines preventing infection or even spread weren't supported by the trials. Who made such stupid claims and __why__? My own recollection, from Australia watching the US, was the the
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by defrost 4mo ago
Yes. Its aim is to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think". ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize
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The orbital family of ICE engine of 1972 has seen a lot of ongoing innovation and crossover variations with other rotary engines (like the Wankel) in past decades - such engine variants have had a major place in UAV (and other) drones. *
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It's not dissimilar to oil & gas (energy) and mineral resources ... the outgoings on exploration are a cash bloodletting that often has no return. The "win" is occasionally getting a steadily profitable field or lode for
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by defrost 4mo ago
Well, they don't read all the emails -or- respond to @dang, @mod, etc. Your approaches are, ride a comment (as you did, 9 hours, no response, likely didn't read) or lean on a frequent flyer (the only privilege I have is increase
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by defrost 4mo ago
https://freedium-mirror.cfd/https://michalmalewicz.medium.co...
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by defrost 4mo ago
This has been an ongoing concern (internal surveillance of children and drivers, external of other traffic) for at least two months now: * They're Putting AI Cameras In School Buses (April 7th 2026) - https://www.usermag.c
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by defrost 4mo ago
In that specific case, handle the job time by making it compliant. The reason I posed a leading rhetorical question was that not all cron jobs are equal and how each is handled depends on the nature of each.
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Your options are: * quick email to HN@ycombinator.com with a "Help Me please!! and link ( mods can edit link in and sideline (hide) these comments ) * Just live with the rotting fish head of public boo boo (we've all made mistakes
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For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides(quantamagazine.org)
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