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2281.
by defrost 11mo ago
Being pushed about on trolleys and puppeteered by gentiles every Shabbat?
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by defrost 11mo ago
Bullocks. That's what Sandy over the road (born 1932, died last year), used to hitch up every morning at 4am, when he was ten, to sled a tank of water back to the farm from the local spring.
2283.
by defrost 11mo ago
Roughly how many Paul Erdős's to every Oswald Teichmüller though?
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by defrost 11mo ago
Depends where you live - Australia has a lot of FiFo work, Fly In Fly Out on minesites and for various kinds of office work. There's certainly people I know that live several hundred km away from a capital city, work remote, and come
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by defrost 11mo ago
The quietly released (no fanfare) 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America that dropped a few days ago explicitly steers the US away from traditional European allies and embraces Russia. So Putin will have Ame
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by defrost 11mo ago
Unsuprisingly less experienced coders benefit from exposure to more experienced coders. Interesting questions raised by this, for myself at least, * how do hybrid schemes work out: some home, some office, less commute overall? A HN submissi
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Canadian traditional owners fear Australian-style LNG development(abc.net.au)
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by defrost 11mo ago
For contrast (and with no AI involved) the dot points from a Sept 2024 BHP copper report are roughly: * Total global copper demand has grown at a 3.1% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the last 75 years – but this growth rate has been
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by defrost 11mo ago
The mining majors, BHP, Rio Tinto, et al have petabytes of surface geochemistry, samples, near surface magnetic maps that penetrate into the crust, 3D seismic maps, drill cores, technical reports on every mine ever, surrounding geology, and
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by defrost 11mo ago
Hybrid: All the focus of at home work coupled with a few days talking smack around the office cooler . . . "The most important finding of the study is that of hybrid work," Jan Kabatek, a researcher at the University of Melbou
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Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner(theregister.com)
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by defrost 11mo ago
Singapore started earlier with national pension schemes - the caning laws and extreme policing aside, the financials of Singapore and support for the population through jobs and life is worth a serious look. Australia has the 1907 Harvester
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Australia wants to be critical minerals superpower- processing is dangerous(theconversation.com)
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by defrost 11mo ago
You seem woefully misinformed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Agreement The Quebec Agreement was a secret agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States outlining the terms for the coordinated dev
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Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation(science.org)
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New Device Generates Power by Beaming Heat to Space(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by defrost 11mo ago
Some hunters have elders rather than dedicated full time priests, and they can veer more rabbinical; they've got the stories and pass down the classics as food for thought and discussion. On a superstition v superstition basis it'
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by defrost 11mo ago
> You are making the same two errors again. Are you stating that no hunter gathers ever turned their backs on modern society despite antibiotics, dishwashers, and iPhones? The claim I made in my comment https://news.ycombinato
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by defrost 11mo ago
> But But? > you've selected one particular group. I used as examples some specific individuals of one named group, yes. I also had in mind other specific individuals of a few other families - all these groups share the same majo
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by defrost 11mo ago
Alternatively they grew up with a foot in both worlds, eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gmCX7R-W4c Many people that have lived side by side with indigenous people across northern australia, the islands, PNG, et al have
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by defrost 11mo ago
If I if enough hypothetical if's that's just a giant empty if, right? It'd be useful if commenters view this from the pragmatic real world track maintainance PoV. Verifiable calls from the public about blocked lines made to o
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by defrost 11mo ago
You might as well ask why a sea of humanity should tolerate a toll gate keeping robotically enhanced micro brotopia that is net value extracting. Traditionally these motte and bailey fiefdoms were laid siege to and undermined.
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by defrost 11mo ago
A lack of antibiotics wasn't sufficient reason to stay in western society for those members of the Pintupi Nine and other hunter gather families that came in, looked about, and left again. Some can't imagine life without antibioti
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by defrost 11mo ago
Seems to have some promise: * Whatever legitimate places AI has, in zebrafish isn't one - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46120733 * ‘CEO is my blood type’: a chilling new novel nails narcissistic tech culture
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by defrost 11mo ago
A phone call to railway management claiming stone fall on a track, a dead cow, a stalled car, etc will trigger a slowdown on that line, a call to the driver, and an inspection. If that's not happening then management is playing fast an
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by defrost 11mo ago
It's not a new story, nor has it highlighted a new weakness - people have had the ability to claim tracks are covered in stone or by a dead cow for a good many years now. Tracks have cameras to rapidly discount big claims, in this spec
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by defrost 11mo ago
plausibly correlated with what? This correlated with an earthquake - this is the event that should have triggered an inspection regardless. > But when someone can generate plausible disaster photos of every inch of every line of a countr
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by defrost 11mo ago
> They should already be able to detect line breaks using old technology. Yes. That doesn't do much to detect a stone from a parapet rolling onto the line though. Hence the need for inspection. > runbooks for hoax responses nee
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by defrost 11mo ago
It's a bit of a non story, even with the fake image. From the article: Trains were halted after a suspected AI-generated picture that seemed to show major damage to a bridge appeared on social media following an earthquake. ...
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by defrost 11mo ago
MAUD made repeated paper approaches to the US to convince them of the feasibility of a weapons program, these were ignored. Mark Oliphant made several advances and presentations in person before the US were convinced. It's on record th

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