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Giant dams enclosing North Sea could protect millions from rising waters(theguardian.com)
14 points by nfg 7y ago|19 comments
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by nfg 7y ago
It’s not a direct answer to your question and I don’t have a reference to hand but I found it interesting. I read that the 74-75 fires were a fairly different situation - the year before there was anomalously high rainfall which lead to a l
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by nfg 7y ago
They’re forgiven - but if you’re saying NOAA are saying the trend is linear and will continue to be you’re wrong. All the site is saying is it displays the “average” trend over the period as a straight line. It’s a comment on how the data i
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by nfg 7y ago
No, I’m not. The NOAA site does not posit that the underlying trend is linear over the period - it simply displays a linear fit on the graphs. See here for more details https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/
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by nfg 7y ago
You can’t just eyeball these graphs and assume the trend is linear: https://tamino.wordpress.com/2019/10/09/sea-level-accelerati... See also https://tamino.wordpress.com/2019/10/14&#
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by nfg 7y ago
Luc these both seem so close to what I have in mind, but neither are it. Thanks so much though - if nothing else they’re both great reads!
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by nfg 7y ago
Here’s a chance to ask - I’ve been trawling my history and searching like mad to find an article I read a year or two ago which I’m almost certain was linked from HN. It was an essay or opinion-piece about nuclear war which I believe was wr
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by nfg 7y ago
> Historically, monarchy’s seem to be more stable and result in less open warfare. How did you come to that conclusion? It seems like ahistorical nonsense to me.
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by nfg 7y ago
Many of your points are either wrong or something many gardeners (particularly the younger end of the spectrum IME) are very conscious of. Of course all of this comes with the caveat of being anecdotal and from my own experience as a former
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by nfg 7y ago
Let me ask you a question if I may: I have a server app I’m running on k8s, it’s stateful and external users connect to it (over grpc). Users connect to a specific server which is identified by ID, this is important and can’t be easily rea
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by nfg 8y ago
This exact use-case is debunked in article linked.
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by nfg 8y ago
If you haven’t read William Calvin’s “The Ascent of Mind” you might enjoy it: http://williamcalvin.com/bk5/bk5.htm The “throwing theory” features prominently.
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by nfg 8y ago
They’re being downvoted because social programs were cut as part of austerity measures in some European states.
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by nfg 8y ago
I also read it this year (as part of a book club) - one thing I’d note is I was very pleasantly surprised at how well the footnotes worked in the ebook. I had made an attempt with a hardcopy about ten years ago and found juggling two bookma
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by nfg 8y ago
> US states have their own governor, their own political counties, and in a good part and their own policies, besides the common group policies. That’s also true of the sub-divisions of many European states.
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by nfg 8y ago
There’s a good analysis of what seems to be the same chart (and more like it) here: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2016/05/compar... TL;DR: it is using every trick in the book to mislead.
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by nfg 8y ago
FWIW Havok is very much still trading and active in the games space. I won’t say any more as the business side of things isn’t my forte. Unfortunate that the website gives that impression! Disclaimer: I work there.
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by nfg 8y ago
> Everything that is made with Unity or UE4 uses PhysX That's not true - UE4 games can be (and are) built against other physics engines.
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by nfg 8y ago
Is that incorrect? Wikipedia says: The term "person of color" (plural: people of color, persons of color; sometimes abbreviated POC)[1] is used primarily in the United States to describe any person who is not white. I'm not f
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by nfg 8y ago
There’s a Geoff Dyer piece about visiting the Lightning Field which is worth a read if you’re curious: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/04/18/poles-apart
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by nfg 8y ago
This is amazing to me, where I live (suburbs of Dublin in Ireland) an average 3 bed family home is 100sqm (~1000sqft), I would consider a 150sqm home (~1500sqft) to be quite large, so the idea that it’s a size that you might just about mana
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by nfg 8y ago
I’m not entirely sure I do know what you mean. Or rather I fear I know exactly what you do. You are saying that “minorities” in Europe have, on a population level, radically different world views to native people. I’ve had to reword that se
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by nfg 8y ago
“I don't think people really realise how extreme the cultural divide between _immigrants_ and _natives_ are in the West. The US would have elected Trump in a land slide were there no _minorities_” So whites are native to the US but bla
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by nfg 8y ago
I’m no expert by any means but one major factor is that the airframe is subjected to a lot of heat due to friction which can require exotic or expensive construction materials.
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by nfg 9y ago
“Atom: late 15th century: from Old French atome, via Latin from Greek atomos ‘indivisible’, based on a- ‘not’ + temnein ‘to cut’.”
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by nfg 9y ago
>It's pretty much frowned upon to be in any way proud to be a pale skinned European; mainstream media demands we feel shame for all the oppression we did in the centuries before our birth. It's Paddy's day on Saturday - ho
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by nfg 9y ago
“O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! A secret theater of speechless monologue and prevenient counsel, an invisible mansion of all moods, musings, and mysteries, an infinite resort of
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by nfg 9y ago
Just a note for HN readers that the author of this piece, John Banville, is himself a writer of great power. Given the audience here I’d recommend trying ‘Doctor Copernicus’ or ‘Kepler’ to start. Historical fiction of the richest variety im
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by nfg 9y ago
Is there a way to get goodreads to give back page number information like that? I track my reading there just like you and have been meaning for ages to get something going to give a page-count for each month / year.
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by nfg 10y ago
> Just bear in mind you won't be able to go to US afterwards It's worth clarifying that this isn't strictly true, at least for everyone. I've been in the US twice since visiting Iran for a few weeks in 2011, admittedl

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