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by keanzu 7y ago
Eventually? Probably did do the same thing. There are hundreds of individual fires across the country thousands of kilometers apart. With so many fires there were likely a lot of different ignition sources, lightning easily could have been
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by keanzu 7y ago
The ignition source for a bushfire isn't relevant. What creates the necessary conditions for severe bushfire? Long periods of hot and dry weather leads directly to large amounts of easily combustible material - fire danger ratings and
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by keanzu 7y ago
It takes one exceptionally dedicated team of super-arsonists to burn a million hectares of cold wet forest. Such a thing has never occurred in history. Weather patterns (hot and dry summer) create the conditions for a fire, an arsonist mere
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by keanzu 7y ago
Australia fires: Smoke turns New Zealand skies 'eerie' yellow https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50969488 Maybe not exactly global but the smoke made it ~2000km to New Zealand!
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by keanzu 7y ago
Police take legal action against more than 180 people so far during 2019/2020 bushfire season The NSW Police Force has taken legal action against more than 180 people for bushfire-related offences since late last year. Numerous bush
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by keanzu 7y ago
Exactly: the combination of size and proximity to populated areas makes this unusual. Unbelievably there was a bushfire in 1974/75 Central Australia which consumed ~117M hectares yet went UNNOTICED until after it burned out.
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by keanzu 7y ago
Bil Gates doesn't need any new taxes to help him transfer his money to the US government, he can do it right now with "Gifts to the United States." https://fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.
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by keanzu 7y ago
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money” -Alexis De Tocqueville
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by keanzu 7y ago
The tyranny of the majority is a weakness inherent to majority rule in which the majority of an electorate pursues exclusively its own interests at the expense of those in the minority. This results in oppression of minority groups comparab
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by keanzu 7y ago
New study finds no evidence of educational benefits from installing air filters in classrooms A new study was performed of a set of Los Angeles schools and found no effects on test scores, comparing schools with and without newly-installe
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by keanzu 7y ago
If you have an issue with the numbers take it up with the Japanese government, they commissioned the study. Source was provided.
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by keanzu 7y ago
The risk model that Gawker was using apparently didn't account for Peter Thiel - who destroyed them. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-peter-thiel-destroyed...
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by keanzu 7y ago
The Spiegel article doesn't appear to specify.
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by keanzu 7y ago
There's been 1 recorded radiation death. The other 2202 deaths were all related to evacuation. The cause of these early deaths were due to the disruption of hospital operations, exacerbation of pre-existing health problems and the stre
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by keanzu 7y ago
If you piled all 10K tonnes in one place it would a cube less than 20m per side. All the 'highly radioactive waste' for Germany's entire nuclear industry for all of time up until now? That's very little. The EU Commissio
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by keanzu 7y ago
Nuclear waste is a non-issue. All of the used fuel ever produced by the commercial nuclear industry since the late 1950s would cover a football field to a depth of less than 10 yards. https://www.nei.org/fundamentals/nu
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by keanzu 7y ago
By measuring deaths per TWhr. Nuclear power plants generate a lot of power and very few deaths. The amount of energy generated by nuclear is so vast that it more than outweighs incidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima over the long-term. This
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by keanzu 7y ago
Just imagine 10 years after you've built your nice new nuclear plant and someone makes a breakthrough on some form of cheap reliable energy. The current development focus on alternative forms of energy makes nuclear high risk purely du
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by keanzu 7y ago
I don't have to imagine it, none of those things are relevant in China, they've discovered a different problem - the economics don't work and so China’s losing its taste for nuclear power. That’s bad news. https://
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by keanzu 7y ago
OP (nkurz) explained that he wanted to focus on the civil liberties and surveillance aspects rather than the specifics of this person's rather famous case.
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by keanzu 7y ago
> Or order him to turn over his own email. Which they could have done in this case. So why subpoena Google?
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by keanzu 7y ago
Why not this guy? Possibly because he generated a little too much infamy and now the public wants blood. Or maybe the prosecutor believes in the defendant's guilt and thinks they can make a strong case. Maybe a mix of both. Perhaps you
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by keanzu 7y ago
I don't see how the context of his alleged crime (he's not been found guilty of anything) is relevant. Beyond a felony/misdemeanor the means available to the state to build a case/prosecute should be identical regardle
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by keanzu 7y ago
Even if user data were seized, it would be impossible to decipher because of ProtonMail's encryption. Unlike Gmail or Outlook, email you send with ProtonMail is encrypted before it's sent to the ProtonMail servers.
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by keanzu 7y ago
Knowing a letter was delivered by USPS doesn't yield the contents. The state would have to subpoena each individual recipient - and they may have destroyed or lost the letter. It would only be equivalent if every letter was opened and
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by keanzu 7y ago
> How would that help? They'll just get a warrant for those. In terms of e-mail, any service that encrypts at rest and doesn't maintain the key can only hand over encrypted data. ProtonMail would be one example.
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by keanzu 7y ago
Full title -> Jussie Smollett investigation: Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of the actor’s data as part of special prosecutor probe Too long for HN? Unknown. The title reads fine in the Chicago Tribune.
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by keanzu 7y ago
Are you trying to say: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." ? Become terrorism? To answer that we'll first need to define "terrorism&quot
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by keanzu 7y ago
Quality of the record keeping is vastly higher. Imagine a subpoena for every paper mail you sent in a year. You can't get that from the US Postal service.
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by keanzu 7y ago
Currently, Samsung is offering two models of The Wall, or rather the individual panels that make up The Wall, the IW008J and the IW008R. While Samsung doesn't list prices for these panels online, other resellers are listing the modules

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