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throwaway69123··on A first for Canada: New type of nuclear plant opening by 2028
Most people who want nuclear power want it for base load and the rest renewables
throwaway69123··on Ask HN: Is the EULA on my new $30k RED cinema camera legal?
What would happen if you had a monkey press accept?
throwaway69123··on Germany's Nuclear Fumble
You are confusing supply issues with generation. A stock pile of 100 tonnes of coal is 100% reliable.
throwaway69123··on Pushing back against contract demands is scary but please try anyway
I always offer to sign non competes with an amendment that says they must pay me for the time that it’s in effect, usually they remove it because it isn’t that valuable to them. I find almost universally asking for compensation for strict contract clauses sees them removed fast
throwaway69123··on The $11BN Tunnel Connecting Scandinavia to the Mediterranean
How long would this last in a conflict with Russia.
throwaway69123··on AppleSqueezer GS: A Modern Apple ][ Accelerator
Better software
throwaway69123··on Running GUI apps within Docker containers
Anyway to do this on windows?
throwaway69123··on Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read
Perfect example of why algorithms shouldn’t be patentable
throwaway69123··on Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia
I’m sure you could work out why Twitter suppressors speech that the deem effects them as Americans doing that overseas would just cost them money
throwaway69123··on Australian state sets minimum pay for Amazon contractors
As someone who wants to be an independant contractor who has to deal with all this crap I disagree.
throwaway69123··on Australian state sets minimum pay for Amazon contractors
The rules protecting people from being exploited as independant contractors should have an upper limit on pay. If your paying someone 200K to be an independant contractor they shouldnt be able to dispute it.
throwaway69123··on Heterosexual HIV diagnoses overtake those in gay men for first time in a decade
101 times?
throwaway69123··on In defense of flat earthers (2020)
He used it to find the hypotenuse
throwaway69123··on In defense of flat earthers (2020)
If schools taught the scientific method universally it would be harder to indoctrinate them with things like social "science" that dont stand up against that kind of thinking.
throwaway69123··on The Shameful Decline of Scientific American
This kind of vitriol makes me sad at humanity
throwaway69123··on Yes, there is 'diamond rain' on Uranus and Neptune
Don’t tell debeers
throwaway69123··on Could Germany's obsession with homeopathy explain the low vaccination rate?
Just like chiropractors
throwaway69123··on Woke Up to an NFT of Myself
This could be the funniest thing I’ve read all month
throwaway69123··on Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround
How is this any different than apple only allowing safari on IOS
throwaway69123··on Winamp source code leak
Downvoting this comment is like kicking someones dog.
throwaway69123··on U.S. sets goal to drive down cost of removing CO2 from atmosphere
If they did this nuclear power would become cheap...
throwaway69123··on Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
I really wish docker (not specifically but containers frameworks) had support for graphical output. Be really cool to containerise visual apps.
throwaway69123··on Female African elephants are evolving without tusks due to ivory poaching
It isnt worth much, there is no physical evidence to support either theory, lab leak or wet market. We just have to take the word of a communist regeime, "there is no graphite on the roof" comes to mind.
throwaway69123··on Female African elephants are evolving without tusks due to ivory poaching
Also if you buy the offical story of Covid it is this desire for exotic expensive animals with questionable natural medical benefits that caused the zootopic jump of Covid from bats to humans. So the real cost of this sort of trade now couldnt be higher.
throwaway69123··on Launch HN: Rainforest QA (YC S12) – No-Code UI Test Automation
Does this work with desktop apps ?
throwaway69123··on Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the literature
hypothesis and repeatable experimentation
throwaway69123··on Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk
It got me good.
throwaway69123··on Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists
How is this any different to selling other types of weapons?
throwaway69123··on The Launch Landscape: Small Rockets
Excuse me but I really appreciate your replies, so my reading of what your saying is the launch is less about reaching a height but instead reaching a velocity that can escape earth’s gravity and launching from a higher altitude just decreases the distance the rocket has time to reach this speed?
throwaway69123··on The Launch Landscape: Small Rockets
I have no expertise in rockets but I have often wondered why for ultra small pay loads you couldn’t use a balloon stage and then a rocket stage
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