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by dwd 5y ago
Radon buildup is also a potential concern if you have your house sealed up. Opening the windows is the best way to clear it, but activated carbon filters should capture it. Just make sure you're masked when you clean or replace any of
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by dwd 5y ago
There was a number of BBC articles years back on the tracking of cats. The maps of their ranges is quite fascinating: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-22567526 https://www.bbc.com/news/
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by dwd 5y ago
Simply substitute Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, etc for soma and you're there. Also in the end we didn't need eugenics, the lack of social mobility has achieved that stratification it set out to achieve.
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by dwd 5y ago
Was this article generated by AI?
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by dwd 5y ago
That's a little confusing. The red (Labor) states are the more progressive ones (both are very centrist and tend to steal each others policies). In Australia the conservative party is "blue". NSW is a conservative-leaning sta
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by dwd 5y ago
Being able to manufacture locally was still a good idea but the thrombosis issue (and the overreaction) turned people off taking AstraZeneca, and there was no Plan B or C. Governments don't have a lot of credibility to start with, so n
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by dwd 5y ago
Also that Facebook's response was that NSO is misrepresenting the conversations, rather than denying that they occurred. Unless NSO reached out to Facebook to try and sell them something, that is highly suspect.
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by dwd 5y ago
Once upon a time Eric A Meyer's CSS: The Definitive Guide was the book to own. These days, as mentioned in the OP, MDN is the best point of call for checking syntax or learning how to implement something new the right way.
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by dwd 5y ago
I would highly recommend this video as a good starter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SuvO4Gi7uY
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by dwd 5y ago
You can also tie your laces with a reef knot which has no loops to catch on anything and untie. If you're wearing hiking boots, you can go once around the back to reduce the lace lengths and then make the knot.
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by dwd 5y ago
New Zealand company, a guy I used to work with in Brisbane is a software architect for them these days in Auckland. They had a good incentive program for accountants to bring on clients. My account was super disappointed I already had an ac
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by dwd 5y ago
At the very least you might given enough independents are elected, hand them the balance of power where the governing party has to deal with them to get bills passed rather than the increasingly difficult task of skimming votes from the riv
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by dwd 5y ago
Most don't understand the upper house (Senate) system as it applies weighting on the redistribution of votes and there is a choice between above the line (party preference) and below the line (tick every box): but the lower house syst
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by dwd 5y ago
The one good point in the article (apart from not paying for insurance you don't need) is to always look for a better deal, and this goes for anything like your phone/Internet, electricity, mortgage. Insurers assume you are lazy a
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by dwd 5y ago
There was a property in a neighbouring suburb to where I live that is on a main road about 500m downwind from the city wastewater plant and bordering an industrial estate with a concrete plant that sold recently for 1.4m AUD. I'm assum
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by dwd 5y ago
Can't agree more, as a Warrnambool native* there nothing barmy or Indian about that Sou'Westerly wind that never stops blowing down that way. *Currently living on the Pacific coast - or is it the Coral Sea?
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by dwd 5y ago
Growing up in Warrnambool we were taught that the only thing separating us from Antarctica was the Southern Ocean. Bass Strait and the Tasman Sea began a bit further east and the Great Australian Bight wrapped the coast from WA to SA: The S
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by dwd 5y ago
QAnon's claims were targeted at the left, but I could be conflating that with Pizzagate which was a "Democrat" pedo ring. Maxwell/Epstein would not have had any bias as far as who they targeted.
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by dwd 5y ago
I found their approach to be more like the difference between a digitally filmed movie (that can look too crisp) and one shot on cellulose that has a kind of softness to it. Where it noticeably fell short was displaying red lights (tail lig
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by dwd 5y ago
Would have been the early 80's typing in BASIC games on BBC Micros at school, followed by a VIC-20 my aunt owned that led to getting my own C64 in '85 when I seriously started programming.
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by dwd 5y ago
Sam Harris very recently published a podcast where he updated his stance on free will - worth a listen as he explored in depth the direct quote towards the end of the article: "If one pays sufficient attention, one can notice that ther
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by dwd 6y ago
You can possible expect them to do the same as with Tesla https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
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by dwd 6y ago
Maybe conjecture, but they are little pieces of information that seem to be common across many parts of the world at that time. The summer 2019/20 spike in hospitalised pneumonia cases in the southern hemisphere that were a non-flu vir
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by dwd 6y ago
We seem to keep circling on how it started, but the reality is that something happened in Wuhan. Viruses don't spring from nowhere, or jump from caves 1000km away to an urban population that just happens to have a lab studying them. I
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by dwd 6y ago
I think someone just needs to confiscate his other computer so he can stop getting new ideas and finish those books. Problem is possibly that the TV show finished them for him making it more difficult to get his version how he wanted it - h
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by dwd 6y ago
Raid on Bungling Bay was a fantastic game for anyone who never played it back in the 80s. Spent a lot of hours finishing it - had just the right amount of difficulty as you progressed.
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by dwd 6y ago
The nostalgia hit me like a wall. For an instant I could smell the house I lived in during the mid 80s and played The Hobbit.
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by dwd 6y ago
The problem with social media is that it is very easy to find many "like-minded" people throughout the world, regardless of how insane their collective opinion is. The fact that we have flat-earth groups and so many anti-vaxxers i
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by dwd 6y ago
Cancelling is an exercise of power. What we're seeing these days it how social media can be used to easily create a large angry mob and focus it upon someone by attacking their family, their friends, their employer and anyone associate
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by dwd 6y ago
I've been ferreting for rabbits and the nets do most of the work, with the ferrets popping out later looking bemused after not catching anything. But those minks are insanely fast and brutal.

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