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by pacificmint 3y ago
> While the first season of the fantasy series, [...] did big business for Netflix [...] season two struggled to break through in a major way [...] Maybe that is because after two years, I've all but forgotten why I was excited abou
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by pacificmint 4y ago
> I'm from Australia. You say "Global South" like it's some kind of substitute for "poor countries". “Global South” is the currently used term for what was previously called “Developing Countries” and “Third
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by pacificmint 4y ago
I believe it’s standard practice to publish tapes of the radio transmissions, but not from the cockpit voice recorders. They do publish a transcript though, if it is relevant.
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by pacificmint 4y ago
If some one wants to read a lot more details an out this incident, there is book about it. It’s been a decade or two since I read it, but I remember it being well written. ‘The Day the Phones Stopped Ringing’ by Leonard Lee
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by pacificmint 4y ago
Research and Experimentation
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by pacificmint 4y ago
Here is an article [1] and corresponding HN discussion [2] that adds some insight to that question. [1] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/apple-job-cuts-tide/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3
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by pacificmint 4y ago
> modify the fundamental nature of the House of Representatives such that a representative's voting power is proportional to the share of the vote they got. Germany does that. They have districts, which get to send the winner in eac
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by pacificmint 4y ago
Hah, I had never realized that, but after some digging it turns out you are absolutely right. In fact, ‘premise’ and ‘premises’ have actually very different meanings. This article summarizes it nicely. [1] [1] https://www.govloop
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by pacificmint 4y ago
At that point, you pretty much have to write it in Java. :)
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by pacificmint 4y ago
> That’s something like 1200 miles (2000km) On the other hand, a high speed train can do 200 mph (320 km/h) in actual operation. That would be a six hour train ride. A plane is faster, but once you add all the airport overhead, the
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by pacificmint 4y ago
> (insert verb for what a traitor does) You mean Treason?
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by pacificmint 4y ago
Could people ride the Cargo Dragon down in an emergency?
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by pacificmint 4y ago
One more option, if Russia couldn’t get an extra Soyuz up there in time to pick them up, would be to send an extra Dragon up empty to pick up the extras.
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by pacificmint 4y ago
Looks like the Adblue trademark is registered to the “ Verband der Automobilindustrie e.V. (VDA)” which is a German non profit automobile industry association.
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by pacificmint 4y ago
The long Covid and cancer numbers are from The NY Times podcast [1]. The traffic injuries and fatalities are from Wikipedia [2]. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/podcasts/the-daily/long-c... [
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by pacificmint 4y ago
The best estimate I found was from May of this year. At the time they estimated somewhere between 7.7 and 23 million cases of long Covid in the US. Compare that with 1.6 million people getting a cancer diagnosis every year, about 40 thousan
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by pacificmint 4y ago
Time to put a safety glovebox crowbar in your center console.
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by pacificmint 4y ago
AirTags use CR2032 batteries which are, in fact, lithium batteries. They are lithium primary cells though, not lithium ion cells, which are usually what is banned.
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by pacificmint 4y ago
Definitely worth watching the video. Even though the results not surprising, it is still amazing to see how well the interior space around the 2009 driver stays intact. And how much the space around the 1959 drive does not. From the article
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by pacificmint 4y ago
As a data point: Probably 90% of my messages are on iMessage. I have one friend group that has a telegram chat. Almost nothing in WhatsApp or Signal.
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by pacificmint 4y ago
> “surely a big pipe from here to So Cal, given the dire straits of the drought, has to be doable at this point”. Water is very heavy. Which means moving it takes a lot of energy. Unless it’s flowing downhill, you have to provide that en
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by pacificmint 4y ago
New heat is generated by nuclear decay inside the earth. Eventually it will run out, but so will everything.
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by pacificmint 4y ago
Back in the day, when VCRs were a thing, everybody used to joke about how no one new how to program theirs. Heck, half of them had the blinking clock forever cause people couldn’t figure out how to reset it. After reading this book, I reali
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by pacificmint 4y ago
> Martha Stewart went to jail for 5 months for a meager case of insider trading. I believe she went to prison for lying to investigators. The insider trading they couldn’t make stick. So in the end, maybe the cases aren’t so different?
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by pacificmint 4y ago
Full circle make it sounds like we’re doing it only once. :) I like to think of it as a Pendulum! Back and forth it goes.
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by pacificmint 4y ago
The title of the article does indeed use ‘direct’, but the article actually talks about non stop flights. The Sydney - London flight will take 20 hours.
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by pacificmint 4y ago
> word games […] are very rarely games about words > Scrabble is adversarial optimization A friend of mine used to joke that Scrabble is an area control game with 40,000 rules for tile placement. Like many good jokes, there is a kerne
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by pacificmint 5y ago
I think the reason a lot of people have heard about the one-click-patent is that it has served as the poster child for frivolous patents for the last 25 years. So yes, your outrage is shared by most people. I stopped holding my breath for r
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by pacificmint 5y ago
I’ve always heard it as “Three letter Agency ”, when used in this context specifically.
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by pacificmint 5y ago
The German ‘Kaiser’ as well.

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