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Man built a bunker under Hampstead Heath and lived in it for two years(theguardian.com)
343 points by oska 7y ago|140 comments
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by oska 7y ago
Not strange at all. These are two highly toxic companies, in the same class as Philip Morris Tobacco. Everything they do is to maximise profit and to push all negative externalities (harmful effects on consumer health, environmental polluti
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by oska 7y ago
I think the answer to this is that it is their site and their honour to bestow.
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by oska 7y ago
> When I was pursuing environmental studies, there was a cartoon in one of my textbooks depicting microbes giving off oxygen and some of the microbes protesting that they were destroying their environment and needed to stop. Microbes tha
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by oska 7y ago
Agree. Can't imagine Freeman himself having any problems with his stance on the issue being discussed now (or at any other time).
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by oska 7y ago
> I've met him and his other daughter. This seems somewhat impolite. If you've met her one would presume you would remember her name. I would expect she wouldn't like being referred to as simply an 'other daughter&#x2
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by oska 7y ago
With encasement of passengers and four wheels this would be safer than a motorbike.
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by oska 7y ago
Yes, I'd say a title change is in order.
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by oska 7y ago
Well, looking at this sub-thread, I've just watched you keep your cool while pasabagi throws insults at you. So I would hope their behaviour would be more likely to result in bans.
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by oska 7y ago
> But sure, stating an opinion is the real problem Where do you get that? All I suggested was you express your opinion clearly, rather than euphemistically.
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by oska 7y ago
Personally, I'd prefer such comments not to be made in a euphemistic way and just speak plainly. If you have concerns (valid or not) with immigrants not following the native culture and social norms then say that.
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by oska 7y ago
> Categorizing ads as "user abuse" is hyperbolic Push advertising is deliberate mind pollution. You are pushing information onto people that they are not seeking and doing it in highly manipulative ways. It's fine to marke
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by oska 7y ago
I think what the GP is referring to is the dominant narrative over the last 15+ years that every website has to be 'monetised' with varying degrees of advertising based user abuse. Wikipedia has obviously been a conspicuous counte
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Japanese firemen’s coats from the 19th century(publicdomainreview.org)
223 points by oska 7y ago|37 comments
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by oska 7y ago
So far no vaccine has ever been developed for a human coronavirus. That includes SARS-COV (2003), MERS and the two common cold coronaviruses. So I wouldn't be counting on a vaccine being developed for SARS-COV-2 any time soon.
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by oska 7y ago
> it's the news hyping it up to get clicks, ad impressions, etc? No. You've already had several good answers on the difference between multiplicative & systemic risk vs additive risk. That's the reason that people are
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by oska 7y ago
It's actually quite common for water authorities to publish quite detailed analyses of the water they provide. Doing such analyses is a core competency of being a water authority and, since they are mostly publicly owned, then publishe
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by oska 7y ago
Rain is essentially distilled water (evaporation from terrestrial water bodies and then condensation in the atmosphere). It picks up some contaminants in the atmosphere and some dissolved gases when it condenses but it's going to be mo
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by oska 7y ago
Some further context on the discrepancy between this figure and official figures: > The Iranian government has denied trying to cover up the full extent of the coronavirus outbreak after reports suggested that the death toll from the dis
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Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom(apnews.com)
234 points by oska 7y ago|234 comments
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by oska 7y ago
> and could be retired Unlikely. It's still a hugely useful word. I'd simply say that it's good we are being challenged to think deeper on what it means to be alive.
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by oska 7y ago
Can't people 'park & ride'? i.e. drive to their nearest train station and then catch the train in to the city centre.
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by oska 7y ago
Paris' greatest asset is its river, the Seine. Devoting a section of one of its two banks to a car highway is simply insane. If the city wants good uninterrupted travel East-West to replace that riverside highway it should build a tunn
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by oska 7y ago
> And if you look carefully at the data it looks like air pollution has reduced in areas where cars were removed but has increased elsewhere. Are you trying to imply some sort of causation here? Because I can't see how decreasing ca
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by oska 7y ago
I'm highly dubious about talking about people in terms of skin colour. However, putting that aside, this comment is far better than your original, short comment which is, rightfully in my opinion, being down-voted for being low quality
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by oska 7y ago
I agree. Interesting anecdote followed by simply moronic commentary tacked on to the end. And no, diversification is not a 'free lunch'.
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by oska 7y ago
This is somewhat significant because, as the article notes in passing, Singapore is a major oil-refining hub. National concern about being a low lying island in a world with rising sea levels would now appear to be gaining precedence over m
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by oska 7y ago
Not to mention that it wasn't until the sixth paragraph before they even gave this more specific detail about the well's location. The journal article about this discovery [1] gets to the point right in the first sentence: > In
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by oska 7y ago
> Also, I think a lot of the peace-love-dope crowd just grew up and got jobs. This is a peculiar comment to make under an article about a member of the 'peace-love-dope crowd' who had a job which he performed at an elite level.
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by oska 7y ago
Interesting tweet sequence from Elon [1] below Karen Hao's introduction of the story on twitter: > OpenAI should be more open imo > All orgs developing advanced AI should be regulated, including Tesla >> By individual gover

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