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Creating art is rarely a waste of time, even if it never finds an audience.
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I watched a TV documentary recently that was making a serious attempt at addressing this problem in Australian society. It was about older people in nursing homes who were sent to pre-school, with unrelated children a few days a week. The e
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Bees can land and launch from flowers and house flies can land upside down on a vertical surface. Sure, tiny flying robots exist, but I don't know of anyone who can make them do either of those things using only onboard sensors and com
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Scott Morrison made a big deal of his intention to use the recent meetings between world leaders to build an international consensus around this issue. Instead, he was humiliated when the president of France called him out as a liar over hi
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There is another choice; Just file a claim and let your insurance take care of it. Insurance companies can lobby for political or policing changes if it becomes a significant problem for them -- just like they already do for a plethora of o
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In Australia the authorities literally beg people not to travel in the outback without a Personal locator Beacon. Just a few days ago a family was rescued after becoming stuck in the Simpson Desert and activating their beacon. https:/
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I wish I was taught this history when I was taught the math. My schooling provided next to no historical context when learning mathematics. My math teachers just taught the math, and my history teachers were probably largely unaware of math
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It's native in so far as it embeds the transpiler and hides it from the user. It is still JavaScript under the hood. https://deno.land/manual@v1.15.3/typescript/overview#how-doe...
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Two of the mutineers were also left (to die) on the Australian mainland in 1628 -- 140 years before Australia was "Discovered" by James Cook.
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They exist all over Australia too. Some of them are thought to be amongst the oldest examples of human construction on Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewarrina_Aboriginal_Fish_Tra...
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I quite enjoyed the TV series made about Jack Parsons a few years back; Strange Angel https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7210448/ Unfortunately it ended (cancelled) just when L Ron Hubbard knocked on the door and thin
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A recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSJsKpKKBaI
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Ducks Can Imitate Human Speech(royalsocietypublishing.org)
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World's biggest wind turbine shows the disproportionate power of scale; https://newatlas.com/energy/worlds-biggest-wind-turbine-ming...
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It is also a possibly a (sort-of) sequel to Snow Crash. There are hints all over the Diamond Age that refer to Snow Crash; > "Chiselled Spam," Miss Matheson said, sort of mumbling it to herself. > "Pardon me, Miss Mat
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This could be implemented right now using native browser APIs (custom elements w/ closed shadow roots & WebGL), on a per site basis. Seems a bit pointless really.
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The Spanish police found a drone that had made trips from North Africa just a few months back. It was a hybrid fixed wing drone that could carry 150Kg. https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyvwmv/look-at-this-huge-
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A FTA TV Transcription Side-Project Becomes a Popular Tool for Journalists(theguardian.com)
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> A real weird unit is km/l or miles per gallon, which cancels out to a unit of area. Ohms per square is another weird one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheet_resistance#Units
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I just read chapter one, and it has intrigued me enough want to read the rest. It brought to mind the Aronofsky film Pi -- particularly this scene; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vi7043z6tI
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Your family history is a fascinating one! Did any of your family take Queen Victoria's offer and move to Norfolk Island when things got rough on Pitcairn 165 years ago? https://www.discovernorfolkisland.com/norfolk&#x2F
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The shoreline is mostly just rocky clifftops. There are no beaches; https://www.google.com/maps/@-25.0712126,-130.1117952,3998m/...
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It'd have to be a big private yacht, as Pitcairn has no sheltered harbours. For a small yacht, even in the lee of the island, it would be difficult to stay for long, and you'd have to be prepared to leave whenever the weather chan
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Don't be too sure. Very similar things have happened in Australia before, and no doubt will again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Rau
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Mathematician reveals oldest example of applied geometry(phys.org)
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Oh, generally I agree. I live in Australia. We, like much of the developed world, have built our cities and suburbs on the fertile parts of the country and drain our rivers to irrigate semi-arid farmlands. We only have one long river system
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It's not that simple. Semi-arid areas where water can be provided consistently, can have agricultural advantages like more sunlight and fewer pests.
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Damn. Now I'm worried. Consuming less than 6 coffees a day is more unusual for me.
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Sanctions would be pretty pointless if anyone could just go and offer goods and services to a sanctioned country regardless. It may have just been a talk, but a talk is a service, and he knew it was a serious federal crime. If he planned to
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I shared a house with a demented Cockatoo once. He was rescued from poor conditions and didn't really know how to be a bird. They are really smart -- like toddler smart, and very curious. They can solve puzzles, pick locks, and have ep

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