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by eesmith 4mo ago
Ahh, so you want to lock down the border between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, because if you drop 1 million citizens of Ireland into London they also don't simply become British but are just Irish living in London. T
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by eesmith 4mo ago
I think "that's AI" has acquired the more general meaning "that's fake looking", rather than specifically the use of some generative method.
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by eesmith 4mo ago
Looks like the Norway tunnel is through hard gneiss. That rock formed 100s of millions or a billion years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveconorwegian_orogeny Norwegians know how to tunnel through it, like https:
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by eesmith 4mo ago
There isn't a single, fixed definition of "ship". From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_nautical_terms_(M%... , "2, More generally, any medium or larger seagoing vessel. Smaller vessels or
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by eesmith 4mo ago
Previous HN postings which had comments are: "A plan to build a ship tunnel" (2017), at http://newatlas.com/stad-ship-tunnel-interview-terje-andreas... with 29 comments at https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by eesmith 4mo ago
And they've been around for years. You can see a copy of that last image (3rd in the gallery) from 2017 at https://web.archive.org/web/20170707052808/https://www.ship-... and at https://n
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by eesmith 4mo ago
When interpreted literally, "Only poor people pay taxes." is wrong because even rich people end up paying, for example, sales tax. Instead, phrases like "won’t pay a single cent" are meant to mean "pay very little&q
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by eesmith 4mo ago
Okay, but dgallow at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48589728 asked "Have we actually forgotten how to land to the moon?", not "can we build a Saturn V rocket which is fundamentally the same as the ones
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by eesmith 4mo ago
Saying that modern car-centered suburbia did not occur until the post-war highway construction and mainstream car adoption is rather tautological. By that time suburbs had been around for over 70 years. Here's an American writing in 18
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> dramatically quieter than helicopters Cars are already contribute far too much noise to urban living. There is no way a flying car will be quieter than cars, so will be rejected from most urban places, just like how jake brake use is o
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by eesmith 4mo ago
The UK is talking about regulating and banning their consumption. The UK does not have that ability to regulate and ban their production. The US regards such attempts as illegal foreign censorship. Ban the sale or use of personalized inform
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by eesmith 4mo ago
"Parental controls? What parental controls?", a.k.a. "Parental controls are unusable… and it’s why Congress is stepping in." - https://web.archive.org/web/20231115165553/https://gabrie
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by eesmith 4mo ago
I find it interesting that you think "served in the U.S. Army" isn't American enough for you. Foreigners can serve in the US Army. Native Americans weren't automatically US citizens until 1924, but were considered citize
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by eesmith 4mo ago
Where did it say the liability only applied to non-deterministic software?
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by eesmith 4mo ago
Is that a ban only in classes, or also ban during school hours (including lunch and breaks)? Does it include after-school activities? What about on school grounds before/after classes start? I tried a DDG search for "sweden ban mo
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by eesmith 4mo ago
> Some communities are banning hand watering of lawns as part of progressive drought restrictions When I switched from hose irrigation to drip, my water bill decreased and my yard plants were much happier. It was also fun to put in.
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by eesmith 4mo ago
"it can be collected" is far different from "is collected". If the data center uses evaporative cooling then most of the water vapor leaves that water basin. While some of that irrigation water goes into the ground and s
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by eesmith 4mo ago
People did care, but there weren't anywhere near as many locations so you heard less about them. For an example from 5 years ago, at https://www.opb.org/article/2021/09/29/google-water-data-cen... &
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by eesmith 4mo ago
I found an English use from 1883 - https://archive.org/details/argonaut131883sanf/page/n391/mod... . > The creosote in toothache drops administered to a New York boy cured the pain, but ki
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by eesmith 4mo ago
And one of the people kicked out was Steven Kahn, a co-author of the editorial, and editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care.
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by eesmith 4mo ago
Which doesn't contain "hack" in the title.
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by eesmith 4mo ago
And if the border guard asks for the name of the computer art festival, to check if it exists?
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by eesmith 4mo ago
Sure. I had something like that planned. But that doesn't change the title of the event.
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by eesmith 4mo ago
It was a non-competitive hackathon - different groups working on related project s get together to promote inter-group relationships.
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by eesmith 4mo ago
Pons and Fleischman was cold fusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
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by eesmith 4mo ago
I went to a hackathon in another country and was worried about explaining that name to the border guard. To my relief, the topic didn't come up.
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by eesmith 4mo ago
> I do not want this ID to be digital, attached to any devices, or available for inspection outside of my control at any point in time. I'll add "and revocable in an instant".
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> Data centers use water in a closed loop "Closed loop" doesn't mean no net water use after filling. There are leaks, and the water in the system needs to be processed for reuse, and that processing needs clean water. Even
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by eesmith 4mo ago
Jesus wept.
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by eesmith 4mo ago
It seems like gross negligence to create systems which are so fragile that a single line of unexpected output can cause data deletion of the sort "rm -rf on the working tree". [1] It's not like the law says you're free t

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