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First catastrophic climate tipping point: coral reefs facing widespread dieback(theguardian.com)
10 points by ljf 1y ago|1 comments
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by ljf 1y ago
Same for his suggestion the 1000s of people are in prison for tweeting - there are people who are jailed for malicious communications but that includes terrorism and a few others things that are far more serious than simply presenting an op
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by ljf 1y ago
Consider; a. Not all people using Facebook are using their real name, and b. Not all Facebook accounts are real people
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by ljf 1y ago
While I agree it isn't right or moral, I'd argue that this behaviour has been 'normal' for a long time now - but for most of the last 100 years the main funding and actors behind the undeclared wars were the global West.
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by ljf 1y ago
This is very true for me. If I wanted to throw myself into a weird or surreal story - grabbing a book was often the only place I could get that hit as a teenager in the 90s - we didn't even have a vcr for ages, so the only other places
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Demolition of coal-fired power station approved(bbc.com)
3 points by ljf 1y ago|2 comments
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by ljf 1y ago
East Anglia and Cambridgeshire are both highly at risk from rising sea levels - we might see the effects in our lifetimes. https://cambridgeshirepeterborough-ca.gov.uk/news/new-climat...
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by ljf 1y ago
Equally, feels like there should be a duolingo marketplace - want to learn electronics, maths, history etc through the duolingo framework - could be 'short' courses type materials, or ongoing/never ending type learning. I&#x2
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by ljf 1y ago
Not AI specific but Joel On Software covered a lot of the same material and thinking, written a lot better, about 20 years ago - but that is because this is an evergreen problem - getting leaders to understand that a prototype is just a tes
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by ljf 1y ago
Thank you for this - these are the kind of facts that really scratch a mental itch for me.
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by ljf 1y ago
I stand corrected, I didn't know that - but it is a while since I've paid attention to phone numbers like I used to.
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by ljf 1y ago
Things I learnt today: that mobile phone numbers in the USA are 'local' Here in the UK, all landline residential numbers start with an area code that starts 02 for London and 01 for the rest of the coountry (eg 020 for London and
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by ljf 1y ago
And in addition they got to watch their friends/family/coworkers succeed and fail many times over. While it can be very tempting to say 'we tried that before and it didn't work' - the key is people who can understan
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by ljf 1y ago
It has some good points but it reads like it was written by AI. Only the typos and grammatical errors lead me to assume a human may have written it.
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by ljf 1y ago
Not sure which of the three, but afriend bought one new here in the UK for around £22k - which at the time the dealer assured him he could sell back to them at £15-18k a year later. He needed the car to tide him over to a work based EV sche
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Trump officials reportedly set to tie Tylenol to autism risk(theguardian.com)
7 points by ljf 1y ago|1 comments
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by ljf 1y ago
No, truth is a defence now.
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The narco-subs that cross oceans carrying cocaine(theguardian.com)
5 points by ljf 1y ago|0 comments
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by ljf 1y ago
A very different man, but the book 'The Autobiography of a Super Tramp' is a fascinating read from the hayday of the tramp - about one manes tramping across the UK and USA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_A
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by ljf 1y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/opinion/environment/energ... Fracking is only profitable when oil is $120 a barrel or more.
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by ljf 1y ago
As below; Totally agree - their lives were no doubt hard and busy with back breaking work - my 'yes' was a 'yes it is a trope' - not a 'yes they barely worked
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by ljf 1y ago
Totally agree - their lives were no doubt hard and busy with back breaking work - my 'yes' was a 'yes it is a trope' - not a 'yes they barely worked'
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by ljf 1y ago
Yes https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/medieval-peasant-only-work...
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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds(theguardian.com)
6 points by ljf 1y ago|1 comments
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by ljf 1y ago
Just did some very light googling - building out, repairing and developing new road infrastructure seems to have around 2:1 or 2.5:1 ROI - Public transport, active transport seems to have around 4:1 to 5:1 ROI.
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by ljf 1y ago
Very interesting and well written article, let down by a clickbaity/dismissive headline - shame as it was well worth the read.
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Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University(theregister.com)
3 points by ljf 1y ago|0 comments
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The trade in US body parts that's legal – but ripe for exploitation(bbc.co.uk)
9 points by ljf 1y ago|1 comments
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by ljf 1y ago
Related recent discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44825326
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Dwarf planet Ceres may have been habitable – for microbes – c0.5-2B years ago(theregister.com)
6 points by ljf 1y ago|1 comments

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