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by rantallion 3y ago
I imagine sterilising the ones you've caught is the easy part. How do you actually catch them all though? They claim to have sterilised 150000 dogs. At the beginning of the programme, you could reasonably assume that every stray dog yo
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by rantallion 3y ago
Then the real problem that ought to be solved is too many people boarding with too many large bags. The size of some 'carry-on' baggage of late is getting comical - I've seen some as large as my checked baggage. And then some
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by rantallion 3y ago
In the UK, bank accounts rarely cost anything and debit cards come for free as standard. Banks are still profitable. I would hazard a guess that most banks in fact make most of their money through lending your funds to other people.
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by rantallion 3y ago
From the article you linked: > The solution in Germany was a series of forts and fortifications, called limes, which used timber from the great central European forests and ditches to prevent tribal incursions. In contrast, large forest
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by rantallion 3y ago
Maintaining a healthy work/life balance is in no way 'quitting'. Employers expected too much (without adequate reward) and are simply shocked that people are drawing a line.
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by rantallion 3y ago
"Drugs are typically distinguished from food and substances that provide nutritional support." Food is food. Drugs are drugs. That's not to say that a poor diet won't result in suboptimal results, but let's not conf
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by rantallion 3y ago
And if anyone wants to go really custom, it's worth checking out the QMK firmware supported by many mechanical keyboards. Aside from the level of customisation made possible by QMK, another benefit is that everything lives on the key
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by rantallion 3y ago
This one gets trotted out every time someone wants to demonstrate how terrible JavaScript is. You can do many of the same stupid things in many other languages too, and most of the examples in that quiz are pretty contrived. Do you have som
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by rantallion 3y ago
One of my favourite language-related sites is the online etymology dictionary, which has the following entry for 'correlation' for anyone interested: https://www.etymonline.com/word/correlation#etymonline_v_19
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by rantallion 3y ago
It depends entirely on the license under which you published. Not everything is, or should be, fair game for corporations to exploit.
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by rantallion 3y ago
> There's the small matter of millions of undocumented migrants entering Europe who will be trapped in this now-illegal-cash underclass Are these migrants frequently making cash payments in excess of €3000?
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by rantallion 3y ago
> "I think they just wanted to show my employer and other CEOs that people deserve to be congratulated, rewarded, even just acknowledged for their hard work and dedication," he said. Even if his employer or other CEOs saw the c
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by rantallion 3y ago
The last paragraph explains: > Unlike halogen and incandescent bulbs, however, LEDs release too little heat to activate thermocatalysts. So Kim's team is developing photocatalysts that are stimulated by the near-UV light emitted by
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by rantallion 3y ago
Why do I suspect the next part of this post will be you asking us to run untrusted JavaScript code in the console of our Discord client, pilfering our session tokens and running arbitrary commands?
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by rantallion 3y ago
That'll be one of the tricks your browser employs to save compute time on animations for inactive tabs/windows. Interact with it again and the browser will allow scripts/animations to run at full speed again.
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by rantallion 3y ago
The season ticket only covering station-to-station travel means you're still left with covering the leg at either end. As an example, this is likely still going involve a car journey plus parking costs at 'local' station, and
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by rantallion 3y ago
I don't think it's unreasonable to ask to know the difference between fact and fiction. Articles on astronomy are clear when they share an artist's depiction of some distant phenomenon so readers don't mistakenly believe
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by rantallion 3y ago
Your 3 users are probably okay with 99% uptime. No need to sweat over 5 9's for a hobbyist/personal site.
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by rantallion 3y ago
This one.
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by rantallion 3y ago
In case you missed it, WotC did in fact sent the Pinkertons to a Magic player's home. Not a great look, even for a litigious firm. https://kotaku.com/mtg-aftermath-leaks-pinkertons-wotc-magic...
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by rantallion 3y ago
I believe that was already covered by "some very exotic solution to a fake problem that was simply invented as a cover for some convoluted financial fraud".
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by rantallion 3y ago
> They have sugar in them or chemicals. Nitpick: everything is a chemical (even water itself).
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by rantallion 3y ago
Depends. Are you referring to the rotation of the wheel or of the car? While I've never heard it used before, the post to which you're replying avoids that ambiguity.
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by rantallion 3y ago
> If you're gonna hijack the back button for the purpose of your app, folks, at least make it eventually go to the previous page. Don't make it circular. Or, in the spirit of the site itself... they can fuck the fuck off. Not s
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by rantallion 3y ago
If we were talking about free, open-source AIs available to everyone (ironically, what OpenAI set out to become), I'd be inclined to agree with you. However, we're talking about commercialised AIs that scrape your intellectual pro
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by rantallion 4y ago
> This is my first time posting on HN Except for this time, I guess: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35362384
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by rantallion 4y ago
> To confirm that the gears performed this function, the researchers performed a neat (albeit morbid) trick with some dead Issus. They manually cocked their legs back in a jumping position, then electrically stimulated the main jumping m
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by rantallion 4y ago
Both of you can be correct here. It's possible (and I would say likely) that you end up having a bunch of social activities and yet still not go to parties . I know as I've gotten older (still younger than OP but well on my way),
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by rantallion 4y ago
If you're in the UK, save yourself the shipping and check out the food hall in the nicer department stores (Fenwick, John Lewis, Harvey Nichols, etc). They usually have a few bits from the Niederegger range, particularly around Christm
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by rantallion 4y ago
USB4 is the specification for the cable, USB-C is the connector at the end. We'll presumably start to see USB4 cables with USB-C connectors to replace the current 'best' USB3 cables with USB-C connectors.

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