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by neffy 2y ago
That's what they said on the tannoy at least. They also reported he made it to hospital alive so hopefully all ended well. It's not actually unknown to get altitude sickness in Denver, it is one of the things the city warns about
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by neffy 2y ago
Mine was over 12 hours late, as a passenger had to be airlifted off because of cardiac issues. Said passenger had been told not to fly, because of altitude issues, and hadn´t thought through the "mile high" aspect of transiting th
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by neffy 2y ago
Isn´t this the entire plot of Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" ?
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by neffy 2y ago
Isn´t this also an issue with World War's 1 and 2? They both dented life expectancy fairly significantly, and that cohort is now aging out of the figures. If the rate of increase is being measured, then that would presumably play a sma
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by neffy 2y ago
Now add a language translation layer with X.75 :)
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by neffy 2y ago
And yet 90% of all startups fail, which could also be seen as a indicating a certain level of incompetence in the private sector. Consider perhaps that incompetence is distributed across the economy, and government and private industry shar
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by neffy 2y ago
SpO2 monitoring is actually quite reliable.
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by neffy 2y ago
If you get one of the watches or other devices that can do continuous SpO2 monitoring (blood oxygen) overnight, then it should be possible to detect any form of severe sleep apnea just by looking for significant drops in SpO2. The proper ki
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by neffy 2y ago
Hard to say. A well run bank with no bad debt on its books can absorb ~0.75% losses on its total lending in a year from income, without hitting any of the regulatory limits that would start to curtail lending. From the article, the US banki
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by neffy 2y ago
There's a claim over on Mastodon from Kevin Beaumont that the file is different on every customer he´s received the file from. https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112812454405913406 (scroll down a little)
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by neffy 2y ago
Not entirely true. The company I worked for, major network equipment provider, had a customer user group that had self-organised to take it in turns to be the first customer to deploy major new software builds. It mostly worked well.
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by neffy 2y ago
Root access is a separate issue, but user space access to sys level functions is something Apple has been slowly (or quickly on the IOS platform, where they are trying to stop apps snooping on each other) clamping down on for years.
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by neffy 2y ago
The other quite reasonable hypothesis is that these are tales of the fairly rapid sea level rises that accompanied the end of the last ice age as the breaking of ice dams in the north released massive glacial floods into the North Atlantic
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by neffy 2y ago
That's when it's useful to know how to crochet.
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by neffy 2y ago
I would argue that it is the expected outcome of processes exhibiting: Latency... it takes a few years to actually kill their victims, and Exponential behaviour.. the most damage is done in the last few rounds of the expansion.
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by neffy 2y ago
I for one welcome our new Polar Bear Overlords. (Hope the Russians don´t forget their rifles when they move in.)
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by neffy 2y ago
This would be the same Microsoft that can´t explain to the US State Department how there was a golden key floating around that allowed their email to be hacked? https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/microsoft-lost
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by neffy 2y ago
No, we had the lowest tier (research - funding is an issue) - but more seriously SME's will get trapped in this as well, and if I had $1m/yr I would definitely be running my own datacenter. They offered to investigate if we paid f
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by neffy 2y ago
Hate to disillusion you - but exactly this happened to us on AWS a couple of years ago. 1 months research compute - no biggie, but no more AWS for us either.
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by neffy 2y ago
It of course depends on how you cut and slice it, and also on the categorisation of black - but we are talking about approximately 2-3 billion people there if we include India, Indonesia, Africa and the rest of the world. Can you point to a
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by neffy 2y ago
Lend lease was signed in March 1941 - Battle of Britain was Autumn 1940. It's hard to say how much the RN could have done, it's not that far across the channel, and it would have been potentially a very broad front. Another fun re
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by neffy 2y ago
I think the cash/property grab aspect was there from the beginning, and even in the 20´s you see it manifesting itself on a local level with intimidation etc. Klemperer's, I will bear witness, diaries from Dresden in that period a
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by neffy 2y ago
It's an interesting question, and on the face of it, yes, the Nazi's probably would have won with the Jewish people on board. Similar arguments can be made about their invasion of Russia, given the support they would have received
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by neffy 2y ago
5% nuclear vs 80% renewables on the chart linked. Really, the sane solution is the one that brings down the financial system (debt for existing oil plant and nuclear is substantial, and has decade long write down periods attached to it.)
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by neffy 2y ago
Abilities to do this range widely with individuals. Leaving that aside, there is a concept of linguistic distance from people´s first language, which makes it easier or harder to learn another language. French and English are very close to
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by neffy 2y ago
I can't find anything to support this online, but I do distinctly remember reading once that the cap on medical student places goes back to the founding of the NHS and negotiations between the government and the BMA. (One of the issues
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by neffy 3y ago
...or a stalking horse by somebody in Microsoft's marketing division.
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by neffy 3y ago
Those guys are estimated to have made $1 billion last year - have to think that buys some developer talent.
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by neffy 3y ago
Or employ an excel spreadsheet wielding administrator whose only job is to count the number of publications internally for the entire university and circulate back to the department heads and marketing folks. And see how much they care ab
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by neffy 3y ago
I think you will find the numbers come from 1491 by Charles C. Mann, which is one of the books that kicked off a reexamination of the entire settlement by Europeans of North And South America, and which also goes into the reasons why the na

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