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by johndunne 2y ago
How do we know they even power up any servers at all, for the service? I mean, they could simply just not power up any servers at all. Till then, I’ll opt for the ‘take-my-money’ plan.
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Just Stop Oil protesters jailed after UK motorway (M25) blocked(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by johndunne 2y ago|0 comments
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by johndunne 2y ago
Or, put a JWST 2.0 with hexagonal segments each the size of the full JWST diameter, and fold that up into Starship... Yes please!
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by johndunne 2y ago
Yup, these mirrors can only point directly up (zenith telescope). Any adjustment off horizontally to the earth deforms the curve of the mirror. Some liquid mirror telescopes exist today to track space debris. Cheap and useful.
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by johndunne 2y ago
Given the hexagonal layout of JWST's beryllium mirrors, future telescopes could 'just' increase the size of the mirror by launching multiple payloads of these mirrors and aligning them in space to form one giant layout. It do
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by johndunne 2y ago
JWST is a taxpayer funded science mission, and the science run on the observatory isn't a pay-per-use model. I don't think a second JWST available for hire would see anywhere near the demand JWST currently fields.
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by johndunne 2y ago
And decommissioning promises to be more manageable and less expensive with microreactors. Individual microreactors can be swapped as they age out and decommissioned/refurbished elsewhere.
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by johndunne 2y ago
This happened to me yesterday although I was able to quickly unlock my account on my MacBook pro. I spent a while making sure it wasn't an attempt by a backdoor to access my password. Felt very suspicious!
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by johndunne 3y ago
A strange star is still matter so that matter would just fall into the black hole as any other matter would. Tidal forces prior to the merger could result in some of the stranglet material being spewed out into space. AFAIK strange stars ar
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by johndunne 3y ago
The cynic in me says it was probably lobby groups that kept the favorable status quo going for the incumbents. Do people in the US have any decent choices when choosing cable operators?
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by johndunne 3y ago
Not a US person here, but I'd be interested in knowing if there are any 'customer-friendly' alternatives available. For example, I'm in the UK and specifically chose Zen internet as my broadband provider for its more cus
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by johndunne 3y ago
I think the point being made was that if the US had a similar version of GPDR, then GM’s activity would have fallen foul of the act.
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by johndunne 3y ago
That’s kind of misanthropic, talking in absolute terms. I could agree in terms of low possibilities but certainly not absolutes. I feel it does a disservice to the few who actually come up with genius solutions to problems humanity faces an
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by johndunne 3y ago
My wife and I landed in NRT a couple months ago and had a taxi leave us high and dry. We had to book a taxi there and then and it cost $450 to Tokyo in a standard taxi. The pre booked taxi that left us H&M was $200.
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by johndunne 3y ago
The punitive US Justice System doesn't seem to be as effective at deterring crime as Norway. There are other factors contributing to crime, such as equality of opportunity and income etc. See https://www.nationmaster.com&#x2
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by johndunne 3y ago
Exactly, rehabilitation has been lost in the US justice system to corporate prison head counting.
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by johndunne 3y ago
Would the real Satoshi, please stand up... I used to ponder who the real Bitcoin creator really could be. You can go down a rabbit hole if you're inclined. They could be a group of people, but the consensus ;) seems to be that from his
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by johndunne 3y ago
https://archive.is/yDJg0
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by johndunne 3y ago
I think asking the question "Can OpenAI create superintelligence" telegraphs a lack of understanding of where the intelligence, in AI, comes from. Mimicking intelligence based on patterns identified in LLMs isn't a bedrock fo
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by johndunne 3y ago
Actually, I do this when making a banana split. Cut a piece off the top and then slowly press the banana into thirds. Then, lower the banana, with the bottom part of the banana still intact, into a tall glass. Smoother with cream, ice cream
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by johndunne 3y ago
There's already a discussion going on over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39201317
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by johndunne 3y ago
Gas pressure is the atoms/molecules bouncing off something else. If the atoms have more energy, then they impart more energy into whatever they bounce off (inside of the balloon), which essentially means higher pressure i.e. the balloo
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by johndunne 3y ago
Completely agree. I’m looking for a new car and I’ve dry runned some long road trips I commonly do between Yorkshire and Dublin, and in a pure ev car, it’s a very different prospect to petrol only. Plus, hybrid has lots of regenerative ener
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by johndunne 3y ago
A key detail is that the Post Office specifically had a method for secretly and remotely editing accounts of post masters and lied about its existence. Along with experts lying under oath that the software had no known issues that could res
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by johndunne 3y ago
That’s the crux of the scandal. The Post Office had experts claim under oath that ‘horizon is faultless and fit for purpose’. Mounting evidence shows that these experts were evidently aware that they were lying and so the scandal is taking
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by johndunne 3y ago
Hopefully, everyone is safe. But what of the homes? I'm interested to know what generally occurs, in terms of insurance, when homes and property are destroyed by lava flow? Is there insurance coverage for such events? Are the homeowner
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by johndunne 3y ago
Sounds promising. I'll wait till other people have been using them a while though ;-). And maybe I'm becoming cynical in my old age but when I hear the inventor of an atomic battery say "it is absolutely safe", I ponder
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by johndunne 3y ago
This Post Office scandal is currently ongoing in the UK. The Fujitsu developer in question confirmed what the Post Office was denying, that the Horizon software at the center of the scandal, had implemented methods for secretly editing acco
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Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower(bbc.co.uk)
525 points by johndunne 3y ago|298 comments
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by johndunne 3y ago
This is very interesting. It looks like most of the London train stations have a regional focus. I often travel to London from Leeds, so Kingscross is the terminating station (true for Scotland and the North East), Euston seems to be mostly

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