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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
Cigarette filters are basically ineffective at reducing the incidence of cancer [1][2]. They're more or less just a placebo for cancer prevention. When people started realising how bad smoking was in the 50's, the tobacco companie
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
You don't even really need to tile your yard with solar panels. Depending on location, you could be self-sufficient(ish) with 10 kW of solar, 25kWh of batteries, and a 10 kVA generator for cloudy weeks. Total cost is around $40k. Howev
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
> He who does not work does not eat That was Lenin who wrote that, although it was originally from the Bible.
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
Useful if you need to tow a trailer. Otherwise it's just a novelty.
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
Anecdotally, most of the music I heard when I was travelling in South America wasn't American music. Same thing with South East Asia. Look at the Billboard (or equivalent) charts for Germany, France, Argentina, or any other non-Anglo c
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
Depends on where you live I suppose. Due to the risk of causing bushfires, fireworks are banned in most of Australia.
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
Machine guns were commonly used in an indirect fire role during the First World War, as the parabolic trajectory allowed machine gunners to target soldiers in trenches. Now I assume most people aren't using firearms chambered in .303 o
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
In the case of the US, shooting people isn't even considered "misuse" of a firearm. The USA is the only developed country where it's socially and legally acceptable for civilians to own and carry firearms for the specifi
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
It's probably not from prepaid SIM ID checks. Telcos are forbidden from retaining your passport/drivers licence details after your identity has been verified [1]. [1] https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F20
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
Fire extinguishers are easier to carry than a dumbbell. They're a tall cylinder with a handle at the top.
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
Imagine the money they'd make if they turned Buckingham Palace into a hotel.
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
The king is paid from earnings generated by the Crown Estate [0], which is basically a state owned property investment fund. From my understanding, taxpayer money hasn't been used to fund the monarchy since the 1700s. [0] https:/
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
Ironic that they've been fined by the Irish DPC, considering that Ireland has been the key enabler of FB/Meta's tax avoidance for years.
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
First thing that comes to mind is the big list of tech industry position descriptions from the Australian Information Industry Association [1]. Not sure how good they are since I haven't actually had a proper read of any myself. [1] h
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
I've always gone with señor developer myself.
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
The NodeJS alpine base image is only 40 MB.
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
At least (I hope) you weren't still using Bower.
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
> along with companies like Nintendo The western equivalent would probably be Nokia, which was founded in 1865 as a paper manufacturer.
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
> because capitalism favors maximizing profit and considering tolerances too wide as an expense. Lack of foresight isn't exclusive to capitalism. Would socialist data centres be built to handle temperatures several degrees above the
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
I have the opposite feelings about menthols; I can't stand them. Whenever I smoke a menthol I feel like I'm smoking a toothbrush. I'm a full time smoker, but I'll turn down a menthol if offered one. I'd rather suffe
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
Netflix has a great international catalogue, and unlike torrented content, it's all reasonably well subtitled. However, their English language catalogue gets worse by the day.
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
Funnily enough, there are quite a few Australian (and a few Kiwi) companies in the telematics space these days. Not sure how many of them are designing hardware from scratch though, versus off the shelf devices with custom firmware.
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
Wouldn't there the small matter of a few meters of concrete attenuating any signals coming from a nuclear facility?
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
> I won't be surprised if even the power connection becomes a future (unintended) means of data transmission. That's already a thing. From the same author as the TFA, PowerHammer [1] exfiltrates data using current flow fluctuat
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
> why don’t more countries attack, say Costa Rica, which doesn’t even have a military? Because of the Monroe Doctrine [1], which has been applied in some form or another for the past couple of hundred years. [1] https://en.wik
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
This is basically the origin of the M16 rifle, in its original incarnation as the 7.62mm chambered AR-10. The original prototypes were designed and built by Eugene Stoner and half a dozen other people in basically a garage.
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
They're almost the standard in New Zealand. I've also seen pozisquare screws around, which can be driven with both pozi and square bits.
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
> or crescent spanners as they are known here I presume you're a Kiwi? Over in Australia they call them shifters. One of the many tiny culture shocks I had when I moved across the ditch was when I asked someone to hand my crescent a
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not a tax consultant, check with your accountant If they don't have an ABN, they'll need to give you "Statement by a Supplier" [1], otherwise you're required to withhold tax at the top marginal
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
> sometimes via the expectation that you commit to the git repository from start to finish Just rewrite your git history and fudge the commit timestamps. It's not even dishonest, it's just demonstrating your experience with Git

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