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by defrost 28d ago
To be fair the towns a North American might be talking about could easily date to 400 to 600 years ago at least - with signs of human occupation in the Great Lakes area going back 10-12,000 years before present, a good deal on the present l
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by defrost 28d ago
Such charts exist - they're the "costs per unit" charts; perhaps broken down into (say) capital upfront plant costs, ongoing running costs per unit generated, and decommissioning costs. It's the decommissioning costs for
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by defrost 28d ago
That's a gross mischaracterisation of the event in which real people died. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555327
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by defrost 28d ago
You might want to review all that you have said, you started (IIRC) with "gore" (ill defined) to be treated as "Child Sexual Abuse Material" is - banned from the internet and a chargeable offence. As an aside: I'm i
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by defrost 28d ago
So pull modern fibre; as should be done.
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by defrost 28d ago
Again: Radio astronomy. > universities spending billions of taxpayer money to carve up mountains in Peru to build telescopes on top Which university and telescope are you talking about? > Those are not cheaper than space telescopes
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by defrost 28d ago
That'd be a point to make to the GP db48x
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by defrost 28d ago
and yet Western Australia, 3x size of Texas with less than a million people in 1980 had a telephone network that covered the population. The "sums are different for rural V urban" doesn't make leaky tin cans a better solution
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by defrost 28d ago
If you're going to go networking in New York, maybe see if anyone is interested in running a study / pilot project on pushing carbonated water into ultramafic rock to kick start self powered (via hydrogen) carbon capture. ~ https
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by defrost 28d ago
Yes, us - maybe scroll down to the part that points out Milankovitch cycles alone predict the earth should be cooling now (it isn't) and that non-orbital effects can be important (for example, the human impact on the environment
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by defrost 28d ago
No worries, we all make mistakes, at least some one is thinking of the bamboo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqX2aqXbwB0
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by defrost 28d ago
Ground constellations (eg: SKA in radio astronomy) are still vastly cheaper than orbiting arrays, also easier wrt incremental upgrade via physical visits, etc.
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by defrost 28d ago
Seems like a case for the US having better fibre deployment than it does for leaking interference from unshielded poorly made tin cans.
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by defrost 28d ago
We had that before Starlink flooded the radio quiet zones with leakage.
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by defrost 28d ago
It's pretty routine. I'm thinking this is more about what you personally find disgusting and seeking to impose that PoV on everyone; butchers, nurses, first responders, farmers, etc. Which is understandable, but wrong headed.
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by defrost 28d ago
So, a picture of someone "sleeping" with no obvious bodily harm isn't gore .. regardless of whether they're sleeping or whether they've been poisoned? Yesterday morning I watched, as I was weeding, a mobile abattoir
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by defrost 28d ago
Yet every culture across the globe has and has always had swearing, profanity, taboo words, fart jokes, and gate keepers decrying such things. While the reasons may elude, the ubiquity speaks to something foundational.
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by defrost 28d ago
> You simply cannot “negotiate” with Iran here. Likely not any more, not since Trump tore up US participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). One bad faith act destroyed concerted effort by multiple countries that wou
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by defrost 29d ago
Franklin was pretty specific, it was a good enough Constitution "for now" with a rickety set of checks and balances that'd do for a while .. until a Despot showed up. He was thinking of "the people" having an ongoin
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by defrost 29d ago
Some Australian electric prime movers (truck that pulls the load on trailers) are using a fork lift in / fork lift out swappable giant battery pack - 10 minute change over from truck to charging station, freshly charged unit back to tr
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by defrost 29d ago
There's a special line crossed by a 100% Chinese owned floating nuclear power plant, as opposed to a 24% Chinese owned fixed in place nuclear power plant like the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station?
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by defrost 1mo ago
Does driving a car ever lead to violence? Are you being obtuse or do you believe this is actually safe?
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by defrost 1mo ago
Here in a metric country (Australia) they use words like cold, cool, warm, hot. Otherwise people turn to BOM (Bureau of Meteorology) hour by hour / day by day records and forecasts of temp. and rain with radar cloud coverage - these ju
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by defrost 1mo ago
The far right Christian evangelist that shot Hortman was a an anti-abortion Trump supporter who shot another Minnesota legislator the same day and had papers indicating he had others targeted in addition to perhaps wanting to shoot up a No
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England's teens outperform peers in most countries in maths, reading and science(theguardian.com)
3 points by defrost 1mo ago|0 comments
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by defrost 1mo ago
- 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes (variety.com) 305 points | 18 hours ago | 268 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596119
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by defrost 1mo ago
Here the expense of the capture is minimal (compared to direct capture from air) as the CO2 is a by-product of industrial ammonia production, the cost is that of some additional pipes and tanks rather than letting the gas vent to the atmos
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by defrost 1mo ago
It hasn't counted when it's "accidental" - eg: pretty much all of the US uranium leach well mining resulted in tainted water in a "yeah we know, but don't care" process. Also radioactive tailings dam col
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by defrost 1mo ago
More accurately, nothing was "faked", the footage shown was of things Trump actually said, with a lot of "weave" (aka Trump waffle) removed. The "apology" (BBC regrets the cut was not obvious to all) included:
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Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium(theregister.com)
3 points by defrost 1mo ago|1 comments

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