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by dwd 6y ago
There have been ideas for a similar tower for decades. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grollo_Tower
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by dwd 6y ago
Those 120-121F days last January that Port Lincoln round to Port Augusta got would have felt hotter than 130F in Death Valley due to the relative humidity. Just not the same.
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by dwd 6y ago
Rather than spontaneously combusting; in a large bushfire that is generating firestorms, the pressure differential can cause nearby houses to literally explode. My late uncle who was at the Mt Macedon fires during Ash Wednesday told the sto
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by dwd 6y ago
There's a ton of memes where people have skewed photos to look like the statue that are hideously amusing. The statue should have looked like what you produced: I can only guess bronze was hard to work with or redo when it goes horribl
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by dwd 6y ago
Nice, so my typical starting move of clicking top left first was not only safe, but also didn't leave me with a corner guess at the end.
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by dwd 6y ago
You would probably expect the artist to idealise the features to a degree for their health's sake. A Christiano Ronaldo statue would not go down well with any that had delusions of being a deity.
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by dwd 6y ago
It would be interesting to compare the colourisations to where any of the emperors are known to have originated and whether they came from Northern or Southern Italian ancestry. A blued-eyed blonde from Northern Italy would be quite feasibl
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by dwd 6y ago
This where anti-trust kicks in, that you don't allow companies to leverage a monopoly/duopoly position in one market to destroy competition in another. Particularly if they give products away for free to destroy the existing compe
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by dwd 6y ago
I don't suppose this is a NULL issue that combines all the signals that get incorrectly positioned at lat:0, long:0?
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by dwd 6y ago
When I was living in Labuan most food places sold cakes (usually a simpler pattern) and nasi lemak (coconut rice topped with sambal and wrapped in a banana leaf) for breakfast. Maybe an acquired taste but I found the amount of butter and oi
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by dwd 6y ago
Singapore is one of Australia's links to the Internet so additional cables for power would possibly follow the same route.
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by dwd 6y ago
Interesting historical fact was Banks originally envisioned that the Australian colony at Botany Bay should become one big marijuana farm to supply the Brish market demand for hemp.
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by dwd 6y ago
From a film that changed how I viewed American propaganda.
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by dwd 6y ago
NYT can be bypassed using Reader View, but the WSJ seems to be able to disable it.
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by dwd 6y ago
"And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by from this day until the ending of the world but we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, For he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother, Be he n
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by dwd 6y ago
"In Time" - okayish film but led me to start thinking about the time value of what I'm doing at any one moment.
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by dwd 6y ago
Piqued my interest in the idea of reality as a simulation and that what you perceive is just that and reality is something else.
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by dwd 6y ago
The question should be whether the CCP has a long game where the youth potentially being tracked and catalogued today are the leaders, politicians, diplomats, journalists, etc that may be of interest to have influence over in the future. Ge
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by dwd 6y ago
It was interesting to listen to Bret in a podcast talking about whether it was a conspiracy of silence and in describing it as an emergent phenomena rather than being planned he was very much reading from Assange's manifesto on how the
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by dwd 6y ago
Good to see someone acknowledge the Australian states individually for their efforts. Queensland (where I am) by the numbers is roughly the same population as NZ and has managed to keep cases and fatalities to a fraction. With the border cl
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by dwd 6y ago
Everyday Astronaut has a lot of material on aerospike engines. I would question whether NASA didn't think they were still in the game or whether politics and pork-barrelling influenced whether they were in line for funding. Shame they
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by dwd 6y ago
I think that is Eric's facetious term for what Universities are (a play on the military/industrial complex) but the main problem he points to is the inventivisation through market forces to not release non-monitisable research and
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by dwd 6y ago
The podcast he did with his brother Eric (The Portal #19) gives a very good history of the work he did as a grad student in finding that the telomeres of the lab mice supplied to US labs were elongated due the selective breeding process of
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by dwd 6y ago
The reward is just a way to keep score.
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by dwd 6y ago
Rogan needs to do a podcast with Tobi Lutke (Shopify) and talk programming, gaming and Starcraft in particular.
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by dwd 6y ago
The HST125s are impressive when they roar through. They pull at your clothes and rattle all the signs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEdE0VXMlac
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by dwd 6y ago
This is a good point. American exceptionalism is based on the premise of taking the high road (free, open democracy, rule of law, basic freedoms, "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...", et
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by dwd 6y ago
Trump's wish to ban it has nothing to do with China and everything to do with his Tulsa rally. Gov agencies have already put internal bans in place to prevent it being used as for data gathering tool which is appropriate and legal. The
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by dwd 6y ago
I don't believe Trump's banning TikTok because of its Chinese connections. I think this is a retalitory action because of its use to mess with his reelection. Brad Pascale got demoted over the Tulsa debacle and this is Trump'
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Tracking Changes in SARS-CoV-2 Spike: Evidence That D614G Increases Infectivity(doi.org)
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