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by defrost 5mo ago
Shrimp running treadmills, specifically, wasn't idle curiosity driven blue sky research though - it was tied to creating real metrics for measuring impact of change in marine environments on the health of the food we eat. It's a g
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by defrost 5mo ago
I'm a sucker for drive by snark also - it mostly fails <shrug>. As a netizen of forums across decades stretching back to pre-WWW Usenet days .. cheap shots in US centric Capitalism V Communism territory rank high as surely the le
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by defrost 5mo ago
Sure, but effectively what became synonymous with communism just about everywhere is a cultural association, not an actual real "always happens" coupling Curiously enough none of the Communist states sorry, what actu
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by defrost 5mo ago
A lot of political appointees struggled with Why should we pay for shrimp running on treadmills? (The case for curiosity-driven research) ~ https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/basic-science-curiosity-... So
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by defrost 5mo ago
More substance, less cheap shot uTub clips if you please. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by defrost 5mo ago
With the aside that most of this bored me stupid 40 years past and still does today ... Marx's "dictatorship" as used by Marx back in the days of late nights in the British Libraries wasn't the authoritarian "dictat
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by defrost 5mo ago
> The problem with that is it cannot be used towards people outside of this tech bubble and would just confuse them. Doubtful ... where did that odd notion spring from? > It would even fail many profanity filters in chats and forums.
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by defrost 5mo ago
Unwillingness to engage with social policy for fear of reds under the bed (ginned up by cynical self serving robber barons).
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by defrost 5mo ago
dickovers are a subset of popups, they are not interchangeable terms. The derogatory term is for practices that rightfully deserve contempt.
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by defrost 5mo ago
There weren't a lot of drugs stashed in the fish coming up fresh in the nets: Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’ https://www.theguardian.com/global-d
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by defrost 5mo ago
Egypt in Africa? Mesopotamia aka modern Iraq? India? China? Looking at that you'd have to wonder how ever it ended with Whitey on the Moon . Maybe there are other factors at play.
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by defrost 5mo ago
Reddit benefits from ankle deep snark, unlike HN.
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by defrost 5mo ago
As the poser of the obviously rhetorical question in question ... for many speakers of English as a first language seeped in the conventions of English conversation, storytelling, and literature it was a clear juxtaposition intended to si
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Key chemistry question answered, no quantum computer required(quantamagazine.org)
32 points by defrost 5mo ago|2 comments
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by defrost 5mo ago
.. save decisions about cycling w/out lights around Perry Lakes at night.
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by defrost 5mo ago
Gotta love 600 mile long roll clouds ... * https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/MorningG... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Glory_cloud
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by defrost 5mo ago
Our? Oh, your ? Our Government has a PM raised in a public housing estate# and we've mostly avoided political dynasties .. (few want to get caught again* ... ) # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Albanese#E
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by defrost 5mo ago
LLM or human, World War II did what it always does to materials technology: it accelerated it by decades. is a clunker of a sentence. (NB: didn't say 'clanker') Is it war in general that accelerates material technology
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by defrost 5mo ago
I'm fairly certain there will be more German cooking and ingredients used in Germany than traditional Australian bush tucker and preparation methods..
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by defrost 5mo ago
Upper class carries a heavy implication of nepotism with minimal social class mobility. This is quite distinct from, say, a government of elected policy debaters submitting bills to a body of elected law passers that are part of a silo se
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by defrost 5mo ago
Locally we do a lot of stripping back and rebuilding, we (W.Australians) aren't that fond of being tracked on desert jollies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYfI3Qo9dNc
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by defrost 5mo ago
> but at what point it make sense to share the data automatically without consent? At the point a third party offers $$$ to car company, or a state entity leverages some state power to coerce car company.
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by defrost 5mo ago
At the same scope and scale? Can you see a problem here, a failure of the intended system of checks and balances?
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by defrost 5mo ago
They also totally missed India's second round of nuclear weapon development and were blindsided by the tests: U.S. Intelligence and India's Nuclear Tests: Lessons Learned August 11, 1998 98-672 The U.S. Intelligence Com
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by defrost 5mo ago
Oh, please. They're on record as happy to barter guns and drugs also.
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by defrost 5mo ago
As pointed out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304293 Less than half of the actual voted citizens voted for him (or, for those that prefer, almost half of the actually voted citizens voted for him)
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by defrost 5mo ago
Does that have any bearing on the experiences of those in the lower four wealth quintiles though ? The trouble with averages is they don't always say much that is accurate about most people .. it all rests on distributions.
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by defrost 5mo ago
Trump's base is looking more and more like a cracked pot that can no longer hold together if moved or even poked that hard. Original Trump or Die types like MTG and Tucker Carlson have split hard, others are raising concerns where prev
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by defrost 5mo ago
Aikido, B-Jiu-Jitsu, Ballet, and running laps all have their place in training for "real combat" - the stamina, the reflexes, the flexibility, the locks, being able to roll all help to come through with minimal damage. Still, the
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by defrost 5mo ago
See: Borromean rings.

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