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by loufe 2y ago
Is it a matter of pretention or rather them rebranding to open the doors to having more than one "Sphere(tm)"? IIRC the idea for a Sphere(tm) was dropped for London, but keeping "The" in the title, to their credit, does
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by loufe 2y ago
I suppose I omitted inflating away all debt, but my impression is that high inflation isn't a tool one wields much control over. I remember reading about the immense debt around the time of the French revolution in both France and Engl
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by loufe 2y ago
I hope that bankruptcies rise but then level out at a sustainable rate, for all of our sakes. It seems like most governments, companies, and individuals are drunk on debt right now. Slowly, steadily cutting off the rotting part sounds reaso
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by loufe 2y ago
I find the choice of the Russo-Ukrainian war an interesting choice of topic as an example. I could see it being an intentional choice as a means to target military data analysis contracts.
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by loufe 2y ago
This is easily in the top 5 of my favourite HN comments of all time. What a beautiful way to express how things were and have changed. I know I hearken back to the days where trust was the default and I felt in control, rather than fighting
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by loufe 2y ago
If you're wondering why you're both getting downvoted, please think about what you've added to the discussion with these unsubstantial comments. It's happened to me and I learned from it. The discussions on HN are good b
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by loufe 2y ago
For those who know their stuff, setting up a dedicated VLAN for IoT and putting devices in it based on MAC addresses (allow or disallow lists) is a solid option as well and fun to learn.
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by loufe 2y ago
Fun fact, if anyone else noticed the spelling of pottery "sherds" and thought it was a typo for "shards", apparently it's an alternatively spelling favoured in archeological circles.
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by loufe 2y ago
Truly great article, and surprisingly lives up entirely to the very click-bait sounding title. The writer has a great mix of anecdotes, facts, and images. I feel like we don't often hear about times where these civilizations and religi
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by loufe 2y ago
Yes, but the 60%-70% I mention is explicitly Fe content, and not the magnetite/hematite content. Around page 165 in the NI-43-101 they have some details: https://www.miningdataonline.com/reports/MaryRiver_Technical
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by loufe 2y ago
Apologies, forgot to paste it when submitting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_River_Mine There are some known techniques to deoxidize iron from the medieval and renaissance periods, and they take a lot of work (and
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by loufe 2y ago
I wholeheartedly disagree, many of the issues mentioned were regarding build quality.
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by loufe 2y ago
Given the seriously negative sibling comments, I thought I'd weigh in with my own experience. I'm unaware of anything behind the scenes, but I've always enjoyed the user experience in Firefox on Android, at least for the last
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by loufe 2y ago
You do get some very large deposits of mostly pure iron, all of which in Europe would be fully mined out by now. Here's a mine in Northern Canada near my own which has 60-70% pure iron ore (truly astronomically high purity compared to
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by loufe 2y ago
Great way of seeing it. While I don't like being on Facebook, I now almost always tend towards it over Kijiji (Canadian alternative) and Craigslist for the reputation system.
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by loufe 2y ago
Agreed, the only news I pay for is the economist. No other publication comes close to it in terms of quality, maturity and consistency of perspective, and reach. Pricey, but worth it.
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by loufe 2y ago
Udio's instrumentals seem to be better than Suno's, but the reverse is certainly true for vocals. God these tools are fun. Here's one I made a little earlier: https://suno.com/song/a6a53f5a-0c4f-4602-9654
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by loufe 2y ago
I'd argue parent's comment was clearly sarcastic.
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by loufe 2y ago
No they have not been covered, as mentioned in a root comment, I work at a remote mine site in the sub-arctic where 95% of energy comes from diesel. All the inuit villages and all the mines this high up generate power the same way. This cou
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by loufe 2y ago
I work at a remote mine just south of the Arctic Circle, the perfect place for this type of thing as diesel-fueled power generation is just about the only way all these remote sites have reliable power. The cost certainty any SMR company is
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by loufe 2y ago
I've never seen that one. Made me think about the claim that all ants weigh more than all humans. Looks like it may or may not be the case exactly, but ants are at least a significant missing part of the picture. edit: forgot link : h
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by loufe 2y ago
As per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : "In Comments Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes."
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by loufe 2y ago
I think the title is a bit misleading. As a mining engineer I opened it interested in learning about a safer chemical explosion reaction (which would mean less incomplete combustion and thus bad gas production) but if I understand correctly
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by loufe 2y ago
FYI "ostensibly" means 'seemingly, but not actually'. In this case I think you mean just "seemingly".
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by loufe 2y ago
Great point. I think the next couple years will see private money dry up for all but a few companies, unless there are further massive breakthroughs. A publically funded group would be great to incubate talent in the EU and help keep AI res
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by loufe 3y ago
I'm surprised this is confusing. While one could talk in terms of what is just and right according to law and rules, but this is without a doubt a political deciison. It's a question of US-opposed vs US-aligned country company own
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by loufe 3y ago
I doubt many readers would know it either, but everyone has to start learning somewhere, however I'm certain almost every visitor would be able to tell it's one of two mandarin-speaking places. Regardless of one's opinions on
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by loufe 3y ago
@dang can we improve the title? Starting with "China..." gives IMO an unnecessary political framing to this story. These were researchers at Chinese universities (almost all the same, Tsinghua), so it should say so. There are some
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by loufe 3y ago
It's crazy how many people experience these injuries. I have a great uncle and know a friends dad who have both lost fingers to table saws.
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by loufe 3y ago
It's odd that the legislative framework surrounding their powers to ban chemicals is only applicable to "new" applications. That's the easiest way to handicap it's efficacy. I also have you wonder how expensive it w

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