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‘Unheard of’ marine heatwave off UK and Irish coasts poses serious threat(theguardian.com)
14 points by ljf 3y ago|1 comments
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by ljf 3y ago
Certainly and some people also get serotonin syndrome if they mix this with other antidepressant medications. Read up before taking but to me this just highlights the impacts it can have. If it were patentable it would have had far more res
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by ljf 3y ago
My poor sleep and stresses started well before Covid, but definitely came to a head then, combined with my wife's illness from long covid. After seeing what covid did to my wife and others with long covid, plus friends who lost parents
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by ljf 3y ago
At university in the 00s, I used to sell various bits I'd imported from China - initially fresnel lenses and 'mini aerials' back when phones still had aerials. They were really cheap to buy and ship, but if I sold them for an
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by ljf 3y ago
I was taking 200mg a day, about 45 mins before I'd go to sleep, with a piece of brown bread. (200mg is considered a high dose - but I hadn't done a lot of research, I was just looking for 'something' to help, and bought
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by ljf 3y ago
About 2 years ago I wasn't in a good place. My wife had been ill for a year, I found the lockdown hard (though I agreed with them), and I was struggling at my job. I wasn't sleeping well and was settling into a funk. I started tak
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by ljf 3y ago
Amazing article and well worth a read to discover how these sites would have worked in practice. It deserves a submission of its own.
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by ljf 3y ago
Really? When travelling in Northern Portugal in the late 90s I saw women manually pulling ploughs on their allotments with their husbands, female builders, rubbish collectors and taxi drivers. In the 2000s saw very similar sights in Bulgari
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by ljf 3y ago
Looks brilliant - though a great pocketable folding keyboard and a 'normal' phone might be better for most people who want a keyboard. I had a brilliant folding Bluetooth keyboard that I used with my Nokia E61 before I used it wit
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by ljf 3y ago
Which part of the article (not the headline), do you have an issue with?
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Disinfecting an old US mineshaft saved a colony of little brown bats(theguardian.com)
5 points by ljf 3y ago|0 comments
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Adapting to a Foggy Future Along Trans-Arctic Shipping Routes(agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
2 points by ljf 3y ago|0 comments
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by ljf 3y ago
Yes
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by ljf 3y ago
People cared a lot: https://www.gq.com/story/suddenly-the-koons-is-this-100k-ban...
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by ljf 3y ago
Strange that there is no way to deny cookies from the cookie overlay, only accept or close (which is considered accepting). Legal?
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Some US residents cannot get home insurance due to the climate crisis(theguardian.com)
4 points by ljf 3y ago|0 comments
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by ljf 3y ago
All the while remembering that all transactions in bitcoin have a permanent ledger - so many friends seemed to think that bitcoin is somehow secret and anonymous - there are ways to make it more so, but by default it is much less anonymous
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Insurance giant halts sale of new home policies in California due to wildfires(theguardian.com)
2 points by ljf 3y ago|1 comments
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by ljf 3y ago
I have favourited that - what an articulate letter on the complexity of nuclear power.
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by ljf 3y ago
Recent discussion (of a different source): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36030945
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by ljf 3y ago
The 'some we may be able to reverse' - I'm thinking of things like a lake bursting it's banks - once that happens it may then turn into a river and all the benefit of the lake may be lost - though it may (with will and f
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by ljf 3y ago
We can hope - we certainly seem to be at a point where the economics are meaning that investment will only increase, and at the same time oil etc will become less valuable against cheaper and cheaper energy sources.
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Solar power due to overtake oil production investment for first time -IEA(reuters.com)
9 points by ljf 3y ago|2 comments
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by ljf 3y ago
I think there are so many possible tipping points out there - some we won't notice until it is far too late, some we may be able to reverse and some the will seem like nothing - until suddenly it becomes rather serious. Fun times ahead
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Slowing ocean current caused by melting Antarctic ice could have drastic impact(theguardian.com)
18 points by ljf 3y ago|8 comments
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by ljf 3y ago
The 'board' on my dishwasher went - the only solution was to get one from the grey market (and the manufacturer didn't sell them direct to consumers) for nearly £150 - I could get a new dishwasher for £200. It felt crazy to s
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by ljf 3y ago
I don't know - I struggle to remember what I've read half the time. I listen to audio books while walking, and even now I can recall learning about King John (and there reason there has not been a king names John since him in the
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by ljf 3y ago
Can you run a rig full speed onto a beach, like they do with the ships?
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by ljf 3y ago
I'm sure I listened to a scifi short story like this recently - but it was just text responses. Is a strange and interesting thought - I know that even listening to the voices of my children when they were little, can be really emotion
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by ljf 3y ago
Pretty sure that gov.uk uses or used voice authentication. Banks certainly do: https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7axa/how-i-broke-into-a-ba...

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