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by detritus 5y ago
Fascinating, thank you! The graded tungsten particulate cloud idea is particularly clever.
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by detritus 5y ago
Sort of, but in the EU law came in a few years back that made it illegal to charge extra to cover CC processing fees over - say - payments by cash. This meant that companies either swallow the cost or increase prices across the board to cat
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by detritus 5y ago
...go on?
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by detritus 5y ago
Yea, I've been seeing this more and more on what seem from the outside like fairly innocuous vides and was yesterday accomanied by a prompt on my mobile that I 'need' to add my age. Nope. Go away, Google.
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by detritus 5y ago
. o O ( How do they go literally deeper than geology? )
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by detritus 5y ago
This has made me genuinely very irritated. They take up so much space now! Why the f- do Mozilla insist upon making these fundamental but completely pointless changes? I have this software staring me in the face ALL the time, I don't n
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by detritus 5y ago
I hate to be the one to say it - but if it was first tested on IE5, that's over two decades old. I really wish it were just the one!
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by detritus 5y ago
I think more than their own BBC researchers, Bragg uses the notes made by the guests themselves to guide the discussion, sort of like a circusmaster. The role necessarily comes with a bit of ego, actual or incidental. I get what you mean th
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by detritus 5y ago
Well, in the context of the linked article and hence the comments here, it seems relevant to mention the fact - 5 years after the article's publication - and to consider whether the reliance on comprehensive digital modelling might be
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by detritus 5y ago
About $100k losses per week? Is your wife hiring?
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by detritus 5y ago
I have it as a default ohrwurm, with ot regularly popping into mind as a background theme for hours on end, but I don't mind - it's better than the other wurms... My young daughter will grow up with a vague knowledge of it as it -
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by detritus 5y ago
Just for clarity - my last line there was me being facetious! I was under the impression that even boiling or bleaching did little to kill prions? I seem to recall that even autoclaving surgey equipment did nothing to them, so they had to b
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by detritus 5y ago
This coming so close after the announcement by DeepMind that they're releasing the data on hundreds of thousands of protein folding structures has me with a growing knot in my stomach. As generous and useful on a human-scale an announc
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by detritus 5y ago
So, not an Export Ban. Gotcha. Thanks.
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by detritus 5y ago
Please provide a source for this, then. ed- One thing is organising contracts in a certain way another thing entirely is setting in place an export ban - which, you may recall, is exactly what the EU DID threaten to do when the Dutch-run AZ
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by detritus 5y ago
The UK did NOT have vaccine export bans in place. Why is this a recurring meme on HN? Or, more pointedly - why are some people so eager to gleefully regurgitate such misinformation?
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by detritus 5y ago
I'm assuming that at 550 miles up, the beneath-the-horizon range will be quite broad, but as equally, I'd assume further-off satellites to be slower and more conflicted, given the density and interference presumably increases. I j
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by detritus 5y ago
Mm, i appreciate the basics there, but if you look at the spread of satellites against latitude (eg https://satellitemap.space/ ), it's pretty consistent so without any outside reason, I'd expect the Starlink dish
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by detritus 5y ago
Huh. I had no idea, but makes a lot of sense, thinking about it. Thanks!
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by detritus 5y ago
huh. perhaps I'm exhibiting my total ignorance here, but why do they have to point North? I know that our Satellite TV dish when I was a kid had to point to a specific angle southwards, to match the geostationary position, but I'd
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by detritus 5y ago
A bathtub that significantly evaporates over its suface, yes, sort of. - ed. Less bubbles.
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by detritus 5y ago
The Straits of Gibraltar has a strong net inflow current, which might make drone submersibles a bit prone to getting lost. Also, the prior art for smuggling across the straits were fast launches which would bump upon to beaches and be quick
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by detritus 5y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted - for sure, we have alert systems these days so that test ICBMs and rocket launches aren't misinterpreted by foreign actors, and we would in any future where there were tens, hundreds, thousands of launc
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by detritus 5y ago
I must admit, that's the usage scenario for Starship that I don't particularly see much benefit in. I may well be short-sighted, but given how far away from cities the launch centres for these things would need to be, it strikes m
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by detritus 5y ago
The thing that amuses me is that if SpaceX can make Starship and the Heavy booster work, they could actually come up with a tourism/joyride that would blow these piffling jumps by Branson and Bezos into irrelevance. If you can send 50-
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by detritus 5y ago
Reading my response back now, I didn't mean to sound cynical or abrasive when I quoted 'helped build' from your profile. I could have as easily said "I see you were involved in.." or whatever and that would not have
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by detritus 5y ago
I see you 'helped build' Digital Ocean, so I can understand your personal reasoning, but really - it's not at all important to anyone else. Also, wasn't that a bit of a fad back in the late 90s early 00s? I know my wee b
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by detritus 5y ago
I've always meant to read up on acrylamide studies and check whether they're 'in mice' or 'in humans' as I suspect that our evolutionary path might have made us a bit less susceptible to the carcinogenic effect
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by detritus 5y ago
I thought liberty caps needed a cold shock to get them fruiting, which is why we don't see them until Mid-late Autumn? Yet here it's suggesting now is a good time to pick across broad swathes of the North of England - when it&#x27
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by detritus 5y ago
I had "Hullo, it's Scott Manley here.." going around my head before the YouTube page opened, confirming as much :)

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