manarth

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by manarth 5mo ago
https://archive.ph/Kvuv7
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Frontier Airlines plane hits person on runway during takeoff at Denver airport(theguardian.com)
5 points by manarth 5mo ago|0 comments
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by manarth 5mo ago
Starlink requires new antenna / hardware to be fitted to the aircraft. This approach doesn't require aircraft changes (and revalidation) - aircraft use the same radios. The satellites provide a relay.
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by manarth 5mo ago
Passengers possessions - e.g. jewelry, watches. Technical equipment on the ship. Items from the on-ship shops. Interesting artefacts (ships bells are often a prized loot from wrecks).
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by manarth 6mo ago
> the latrines are always at least 30m from the sleeping quarters Toilet facilities are lacking in many parts of the world, and "open defecation" – e.g. toileting in a field without the benefit of a dedicated hole &#x
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by manarth 6mo ago
Average income in the UK is ≈ £40,000. Average house price in the UK is £270,000 (6.75 × average income). That's not to say that the UK is OK, housing affordability is a political topic (and applicable to many developed countries).
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by manarth 6mo ago
Median income in Tanzania is ≈ $1,800pa, so this property is around 5 times the median annual salary. That said, housing in first world countries is generally a significant multiple of annual median income. In the UK, banks typically lend a
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by manarth 6mo ago
Because the UN expects the population to double by 2070? That's a simple extrapolation of growth rates and some assumptions about improvements in mortality. 110 new homes isn't going to make a dent in raising an army.
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by manarth 6mo ago
If the recipients could only afford a traditional mud + thatch home, the contractors building work was new additional demand, rather than competition against existing builders. Even when first-world funding dries up, knowledge of the design
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by manarth 6mo ago
You may also like allogrooming, which takes place in a wide variety of species
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by manarth 6mo ago
Presumably there's a slightly lower risk of getting caught, as casual observation suggests a normal shopper paying for their groceries.
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by manarth 6mo ago
Most self-checkouts I've come across have weight validation – "Unexpected item in the bagging area". Categorising things as "bananas" tricks the checkout into accepting the weight of an item, and you pay the appropr
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by manarth 6mo ago
Well of course, Dihydrogen-Oxide kills hundreds of thousands of people every year - even small amounts can be fatal.
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by manarth 6mo ago
https://archive.is/HgJde
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by manarth 6mo ago
https://archive.is/iRBng
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by manarth 6mo ago
An unempowered individual (a John Doe) threatening to destroy a civilization might be an unhinged individual, a terrorist, or a nusiance. A President of a significant world power threatening to destroy a civilization is politics in its ulti
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by manarth 6mo ago
Current page title from the CNN site: > "Trump threatens ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’ ahead of his Iran deadline" Listed as "Live updates" so the title may change over time
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by manarth 6mo ago
Consumer pricing in the UK is regulated with a price cap (per kWh), so consumers can't be fleeced in an unexpected event. Business energy users aren't protected, so they buy long-term contracts, hedge, or go-under in the event of
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by manarth 6mo ago
> "They could export the surplus" Negative prices generally indicate that the transmission connections are already saturated: as much energy as possible (or financially/technically acceptable to the third parties
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Wireless Festival cancelled after government stops Kanye West entering UK(bbc.co.uk)
13 points by manarth 6mo ago|1 comments
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by manarth 6mo ago
I've had various pains with QBittorrent (nox) which seem to vary based on the version of the client and the version of libtorrent used. Out-of-memory and resume issues, but varying according to the torrent size, number of simultaneous
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by manarth 6mo ago
Same, I've wired the house for Cat6 and have a Cat6 prosumer switch, so 25 wired devices pulling at 1Gbps? I clearly set my ambitions too low and should follow the Swiss model :-)
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by manarth 6mo ago
My secondary school physics teacher was somewhat accommodating to "interesting" experiments - those which might look cool to teenagers whilst also providing a lesson in physics. One of those was attaching electrical probes to each
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by manarth 6mo ago
My experience of travel suggests to me that honking is cultural: what's normal for Mumbai doesn't happen in London. In the UK, the horn might be used to "wake up" a driver in front - e.g. the traffic light has gone green
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by manarth 6mo ago
https://archive.is/MCCx2
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by manarth 7mo ago
https://archive.ph/5USa7
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by manarth 7mo ago
https://archive.is/6VgNL
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by manarth 7mo ago
https://archive.ph/HQwWO
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by manarth 7mo ago
NB: The original post said: > "our coats were were from white" Which appeared to be a typo. The understanding of the original post was "our coats were white because", which implied the purpose of the coats be
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by manarth 7mo ago
I assume you're referring to the HN user zabzonk, rather than the article author Donna Vatnick. The HN user zabzonk's profile description says "Ex C++ programmer and project manager". It'd be interesting to understa

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