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by ljf 4y ago
Interesting podcast on the sub https://coldwarconversations.com/episode35/ And some video from 4 years ago https://youtu.be/nwLp0xwP9OI
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by ljf 4y ago
According to 23andme I have just under 4% Neanderthal DNA - more than 99.9% of people in the world - I have always wondered what that actually means for me as a human. I am relatively successful in that I have a job I can do, met a partner
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by ljf 4y ago
Similar set up here, though this one is/was available to visit on the Thames in London https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_U-475_Black_Widow
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by ljf 4y ago
That may be, but if only those who were able to did this I'm sure the impacts could be high. For those in apartments, timers could be set to run during the day when more people are out at work.
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Twelve European countries broke temperature records in 2022(theguardian.com)
32 points by ljf 4y ago|12 comments
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by ljf 4y ago
Not sure if the problem is your end or mine, but when I tried to add a multi word password it didn't treat that field like a normal password field, so my keyboard entered spaces between each word. This has not happened for any other ap
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by ljf 4y ago
This! I was helping a friend with a site he was building. He kept wanting to spend loads of money early on to make sure he could scale, but I advised him to stay cheap and lean - and worry about scale when he got there. He would have spent
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by ljf 4y ago
Yes there have been studies, and no it doesn't affect more women than men. It may be that women are more vocal in looking for help and support with the illness. But no studies have actually shown that this affects more women.
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by ljf 4y ago
I am watching my wife recover from this. Before long covid she was lifting 50kg at the gym and working out 5 days a week, she's been a fashion pr organising massive events, she's done more than most people and has a strong drive t
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by ljf 4y ago
Ok, so no medical study then or other peer reviewed paper. If you could back this up with any fact then I'd be interested in discussing. As this is just your ill-informed opinion, then I've no interest in talking more.
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by ljf 4y ago
What is this assertion based on?
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by ljf 4y ago
Excellent to hear - in my wife's experience most of her main symptoms did go in the first year, but the tiredness and fog persisted far longer. Its been nearly 3 years now, and she still isn't where she was before in terms of fit
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by ljf 4y ago
Time to get into energy storage? The profits available for smoothing supply and demand are going to be huge, especially when the alternative is gas peaker plants.
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UK sets new record for wind power generation(theguardian.com)
2 points by ljf 4y ago|1 comments
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by ljf 4y ago
I think hunter gatherers had a far more regular diet than early farmers. By the middle ages in Britain most peasants were near starvation most of the year, but hunter gatherers avoided famine as they had a wide variety of food sources avail
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by ljf 4y ago
I've worked with two blind programmers and a blind content producer for a kids TV website. All were very capable at their jobs and all three were blind from birth. I've also worked with a deaf programmer and with one who wasn&#x27
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by ljf 4y ago
I'm a Brit, I would no think of Joe as a liberal, and I only read this thread as I was so shocked to hear he might be a left leaning commentator. Obviously reading this, he is not.
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by ljf 4y ago
So fascinating how quickly things change. Only 150 years ago lobster was the food of the poor in the UK.
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by ljf 4y ago
Under the ocean the bubble is held in place but the water pressure. This is already a solved problem - see diving bell: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_bell#:~:text=A%20divi... In the atmosphere, how do you mean
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by ljf 4y ago
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejsp.440 The study. Note that this is about taking equally matched players, and having them compete via the Internet without knowing the gender of their partner
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by ljf 4y ago
The site seems to have been hugged to death, so in the mean time this article may be of interest to you: https://www.openculture.com/2017/06/hunter-s-thompson-typed-... Hunter S. Thompson Typed Out The Great Gatsb
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by ljf 4y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64114784 From Dec 29th attack: Ukraine's military said 69 missiles were launched, with air defences intercepting 54 of them. So 78% - I've not looked to see how normal or
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by ljf 4y ago
Thanks - that is really goodand didn't realise that was something I already had installed. I'd be happy to pay for a service where I can adjust the readers voice and speed, but this worked amazingly well, and the enhanced version
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by ljf 4y ago
From the link Your vehicle may also be removed if: it is considered to be abandoned it is untaxed From .gov.uk Decide if a vehicle is abandoned Authorities must decide if a vehicle is abandoned. This is likely if at least one of the followi
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by ljf 4y ago
Military spec doesn't always mean 'better by all measures' too. Eg some military spec velcro is weaker as it needs to pull apart much more quietly. So it is good at doing that job, but bit if you need it in ace if normal velc
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by ljf 4y ago
You were pretty lucky if you got away without being towed if you had no plates in Westminster - they will tow abandoned or untaxed cars. https://www.westminster.gov.uk/parking/has-your-vehicle-been...
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by ljf 4y ago
There were various domestic bombing attacks in the USA in the 1950, the kkk killed over 3000 people in the first half of the 1900s and in the 60s and 70s various political groups planned assassinations. Things are bad now, but no worse than
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by ljf 4y ago
I understand where you are coming from! But I relish the time off - now that I've come to terms with the fact that nothing will actually get 'done' and most of the time will be 'working' as child care. Pre kids I wa
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by ljf 4y ago
Palace of Versailles draws more tourists than the Royal Family in the UK. France has not had a royal family for some time.
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by ljf 4y ago
Currently listening to a series of lectures on medieval Britain, and very generally most working people were close to starvation - they couldn't even afford to keep farm animals as the cost to feed them was so high as the field practic

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