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811.
by defrost 5mo ago
> I know an eye doctor at a major London clinic who is leaving this country .. To go to the USofA or to, say, Australia?
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by defrost 5mo ago
There is a lot of concern , yes, and no shortage of correlational type anecdata, sure. Caution is well advised ... but hard drug equivalent causal effect? Not so much. Scientists pour cold water on claims phones are rewiring kids' b
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by defrost 5mo ago
> just going to embed the ads into the video itself. This has already happened, and a counter measure for this first iteration has already been developed - SponserBlock: https://smarttubenext.com/sponsorblock/ Next
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by defrost 5mo ago
> and not a single one of those people in my circle is against what the US did and is doing in Iran .. Interestingly the Iranians I've talked to (Eg: a married couple both with nuclear physics degrees from Iran who bailed out long
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by defrost 5mo ago
Likely varies by industry - a peer Australian (probably in private IT ?) stated it's uncommon to take a break, whereas I'd say in mining, oil, gas, civil service, police and a good number of structured contract employment its more
816.
by defrost 5mo ago
I guess our experiences vary - our family had month long adventure vacations most years since the 1970s, and growing up we did a half year tour about the whole country when dad got cumulative long service year.
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by defrost 5mo ago
It's been very good for encouraging teens to learn more about networking and using AI tools to fake IDs etc. It's not yet reached threshold levels that would actually likely see teen usage drop dramatically: A separate piece o
818.
by defrost 5mo ago
> a christian nation not that long ago? Gosh .. Leaving aside a history of human occupation going back to 5,000 BC or so and looking just at more recent history, Lebanon came under Ottoman rule in the early 16th century and that "pr
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by defrost 5mo ago
Ditto Australia: https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/annual-leave Full-time and part-time employees get 4 weeks of annual leave, based on their ordinary hours of work.
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by defrost 5mo ago
The US, under Trump, has moved from a state in which * regular checks kept HEU processing in Iran under agreed limits, * tunnels were traversed and inertially mapped, * leaders were known, and communicated with to a state in whi
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by defrost 5mo ago
> Even assuming It did. > at the same time it enriched the nation It returned some of that nations own money. > allowed Iran to finance terrorism and ballistic missiles. Like Russia, Israel, the UsofA, North Korea, et al ? Balanc
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by defrost 5mo ago
If not for this one, then surely for the 21 prior ‘imminent’ ceasefire deals or perhaps for one of the upcoming ceasefire deals. So many deals.
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by defrost 5mo ago
Jarrah, one of the hardest of the hard woods burns hot and long and (well ventilated) leaves almost no ash behind. If you want hot coals in the morning, throw in a log or two of river gum / softer ashy woods before bedtime and the Jarr
824.
by defrost 5mo ago
For unrelated reasons I personally don't believe Iran was ever pursuing a nuclear weapon, just edging enrichment for leverage. That said, this: The US has had two National Intelligence Estimates, which consists of all 18 agencies i
825.
by defrost 5mo ago
Chronologically wrong. During the time of JCPOA (original, between Iran and the P5+1) inspectors had access to where they wanted to go (sometimes with friction, sure) and were able to place tamper resistant / tamper revealing instrumen
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by defrost 5mo ago
Unless agreements are renegotiated and extended, of course. What matters is ongoing engagement and monitoring, it's a far more tractable position than standoffs with zero knowledge or interaction.
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by defrost 5mo ago
Just for interest .. that doesn't always follow, a neighbour recently installed a screw lift elevator from garage sub level to their living floor level - no pulleys! (But good use of an inclined plane wound about a column.)
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by defrost 5mo ago
> Highly unlikely. Just the energy cost of running centrifuges, let alone manufacturing them is impossible to hide. And yet that has happened twice already. Eg: NUCLEAR ANXIETY: THE BLUNDERS; U.S. Blundered On Intelligence, Officials Ad
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Iran- draft US deal has oil sanctions waiver, nuclear limits and asset release(reuters.com)
4 points by defrost 5mo ago|0 comments
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by defrost 5mo ago
To optimally crack a district to bias in one parties favour it is often required to literally run a boundary down a street to separate one side (close to a university, say) from the other. Once you've table voter preferences to actual
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by defrost 5mo ago
> mining enough yellow cake and then purifying it is an industrial scale operation, out of reach unless you are a nation state or a transnational (or even national scale) energy and or minerals company. Might be hard to slip past the sha
832.
by defrost 5mo ago
The Spice must flow.
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by defrost 5mo ago
First thing I tried, typing "Australia" in the search box, which completed with recommendations for "Australia-Sud, France" and "Australia-Nord, France". Needless to say, it struggled to find anything to say a
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by defrost 5mo ago
"You are old, father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head — Do you think, at your age, it is right?" "In my youth," fa
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by defrost 5mo ago
Murdoch's News Corp, owner of the NY Post, has always hated political figures cut from the same "for the people" cloth as Mandani. It's a pattern going back to humble origins in Australia, continued forward in the UK w
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by defrost 5mo ago
It's because you're making a big deal out of a percentage change. Stinks of Lying with Statistics and people tend to assume you're either ignorant or being deliberately deceptive. See: https://xkcd.com/110
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Trial of 12mph bike lane speed limit grinds gears of Dutch cyclists(theguardian.com)
31 points by defrost 5mo ago|62 comments
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by defrost 5mo ago
They're out there, recommending scam investments / crypto coins more often than major world events. Meta, for one, is keen to bury such things and avoid responsibility for ad contents: https://www.abc.net.au/news&#
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by defrost 5mo ago
Levers and the inclined plane .. especially those wound in a spiral about a core.
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by defrost 5mo ago
They're relatively big players in geodesy with fleets of ships, aircraft, land vehicles gathering all manner of multi channel and spectral data at, above, and below surface level (for all the surfaces, geodetic, gravitational, magnetic

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