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by thombat 5y ago
A more nuanced description: the men who directly instigated the US atomic bomb effort were refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe with knowledge of the discovery of the fission and potential chain reaction of uranium in Germany in 1939, which
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by thombat 5y ago
It can be trivial to see an unfixable problem.
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by thombat 5y ago
I like it: a cool alternative to the traditional "may have been used for religious or sacramental purposes". Try substituting it in other archaeological write-ups: "the first-dynasty sarcophagus was found alongside a variety
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by thombat 5y ago
From Hilaire Belloc, of pre-war (1911) Britain: Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light Himself. It struck him dead: And serve him right! It is the business of the wealthy man To give employment to the artisan.
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by thombat 5y ago
The size of the points shows the reported visible range, the colour and pattern of blinks represents how the light should appear. But this all depends upon the OSM data being entered correctly, and as https://github.com/geod
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by thombat 5y ago
Workflow: https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by thombat 5y ago
IIUI for that trick they need to make those futurist tweets protected AND not allow followers, or we'd see them too? So try following and see what happens?
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by thombat 5y ago
Is there more to your pandemic prediction than 14 months before Corona-19 was declared a pandemic your writing "I have an ominous feeling ... for the last few days I had a sense that a pandemic would come" ? If not, then that does
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by thombat 5y ago
YouTube started recommending me Flat Earth videos a few years ago, and while it's a broad camp there's certainly plenty of religiously-driven antisemiticism there: references to "JewTube" deleting videos to hide the trut
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by thombat 5y ago
> My favourite example: for the first 60M years of trees existing, there were no organisms to digest the wood of dead trees. They just sat there or maybe burned. This is where 95% of the coal comes from. Intuitively that seems almost unb
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by thombat 5y ago
If there is to be a hot surface it's better that it's the far side of a panel a few metres above ground than the asphalt beneath your feet.
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by thombat 5y ago
Deeply awesome - I wouldn't have dreamed that it could perform so well! (even works nicely on my 200€ phone) It would be fascinating to read more of the design and data structuring behind it (if you find the time & will & it do
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by thombat 5y ago
However current theories of stellar evolution place the extinction of life on Earth in the range on hundreds of millions of years, due to the increase of its luminosity. For example here's a description of a better climate model [1] ex
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by thombat 5y ago
Seems a little overcooked: to be accredited as a diplomat requires the host country's assent. So Ecuador can't simply say "Mr Assange is our diplomat so you must give him free passage"; the UK govt can simply reject the
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by thombat 5y ago
Now you've made me wonder: those hours I spent mesmerised by watching the colourful display of Windows 95 defragging the disc, would I have paid a monthly subscription for it? What if they'd added achievements, or leveling up? &qu
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by thombat 5y ago
Slightly related: Tove Jansson (author of the Moomin books) related that the process of working with her English translator on an early book had been revelatory, in exploring what she was actually meaning to say to the extent that she recko
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by thombat 5y ago
Which also means they won't get to hear the full connection "song" as their modem explores all the different coding and error correction options to negotiate the best connection. A full rack of modems connected to a server ma
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by thombat 5y ago
Complete with Carl Sagan's magestic description: https://www.planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue-dot
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by thombat 5y ago
Or as a slight refinement implement it as feeding ("site:mysite.com " + user_query) through to Google, to spare your users 2000 Pinterest hits and 1000 scrapes of a very old Stack Overflow question that somehow matches.
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by thombat 5y ago
So when I move cities I have to quickly sell my house, or let it stand empty (or maybe let people live rent-free to avoid squatters)? Feels like quite a barrier to employment mobility
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by thombat 5y ago
It's impressively large - if I was planning a pleasant little flight in Denver or on the Gulf of California I certainly wouldn't be wondering what's happening at White Sands: https://imgur.com/gallery/24A
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by thombat 5y ago
Since the Ig Nobel awards have a flexible set of categories, YouTube might now be a shoo-in for the 2022 prize for Legal Fiction.
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by thombat 5y ago
Not quite the same, since McDonalds actually enjoyed the benefit of the labor without paying. So it's as if the customers sat down and ate the meal, then declined to pay. If the cops get called the consequence is probably worse than me
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by thombat 5y ago
The "Kent variant" (later "English", now "Alpha") was first described in Sept 2020, widely publicised as having become the dominant strain in the UK in late Nov 2020. So a geographic label was widely used befor
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by thombat 5y ago
Recently greek letters were introduced to remove the geographic stigma [1] , so that would read as "the Alpha strain now being the main one in Sweden" Besides risking moral overtones ("the British strain? Typical - when they
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by thombat 5y ago
All such systems will have overrides (imagine the "HERE I AM EVERYONE!" beacon triggering on the submarine when it's hiding as part of its primary, military, job). On an aircraft there is almost no powered circuit without a b
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by thombat 6y ago
Not unlike glaziers boarding up a broken window to prevent intrusion or weather damage (although that also serves as a good opportunity to advertise the services to a newly-discovered prospective customer)
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by thombat 6y ago
The debt will get sold (discounted) to a debt collector, whose entire business model is getting as much blood as possible from stones, regardless of how long it takes.
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by thombat 6y ago
Would need pretty beefy supports for wind gusts, including coping with gusts during [un]folding
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by thombat 6y ago
And now the parking lot has a roof, giving a nicer environment for the drivers and cars.

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