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It's both. Look up council complaints and demands for the HS2, they're full of unreasonable NIMBY stuff like asking for the line to be put in a tunnel because it comes closer than …

We do though! The first geological storage is going online next year in Finland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_re... There is nowhere to leak when we're …

The first geological repository goes online next year in Finland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_re... . It's not in the sparsely populated north of the c…

We do though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_re... is going operational next year, and the amount of research that went into it guarantees that it's safe…

Something else that came to mind while I was reading the comments: you do want phonetics/pronunciation classes when you're C2+. Do learn IPA and learn the sounds, it's crucial not …

Two things I observed while slowly getting better at English. First, the "sophistication" can backfire. There're a lot of comments about reading here, but there're very fine lines …

It's a shame Vinay disappeared from this thread.

Why speculating then? There is plenty of hard data on skin testing of various sunscreens. There are physical sunscreens, too, which were around even longer. We have MUCH better und…

I believe I have a solid hypothesis for what happened there https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33889445 If they indeed ordered a valuation for the whole plot as they did with the…

Oh my god, looking at one of your reports [1] I just realised what could have happened Please tell me you didn't get a valuation for the whole plot HP123436 instead of the sliver t…

Indeed, it makes it worse.

You're replying to a different person, I'm not phphphphp and I didn't call you evasive. Reading through a sibling subthread with phphphphp, I just can't understand how you can tell…

That's not a rando, that's Vinay Gupta https://twitter.com/leashless/ Edit: staying more factual

The buyer is a one person company with £14k in cash and £16k in debts as of the last year https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c... They have an empty cookie …

Russia doesn't have refugees, it has a tiny number of people seeking asylum after protesting against the regime. Middle class Russians fleeing conscription are not exactly comparab…

I don't understand though how do you explain those transaction to your tax authorities and pay taxes. Surely it can only be so long that you can get massive (by local standards) an…

Between bots, wash trading, and algo traders it doesn't say much about real world adoption.

Indeed, that's the classical game theoretic view. However, consider two possibilities: - what if deployment of an effective BMD is covert and piecemeal, and is presented as fait ac…

It would require quite a lot of it because you need to significantly change the orbit, especially if you want it to still be plenty fast on impact. And it doesn't make much sense e…

What do you mean "it's not working"? We already have BCIs for paralysed people, they're quite bad: very invasive, very expensive, very poor user experience, e.g. [1]. What Neuralin…

According to [1] and [2], most German plastic waste goes to Netherlands. Moreover, apparently a third of it gets incinerated or recycled domestically. So yes, officials turning a b…

If you live in a developed country, your contribution to the microplastic problem is minuscule regardless of the amount of plastic packaging you use. Landfilled, or better yet burn…

Until you encounter an instance that blocks any instance federating with what they consider undesirable. Then you have to choose.

There are at least three distinct use cases that Twitter somewhat covers: a) participating in already existing, well-defined communities. Mastodon works for that, but so does Disco…

You are right that simplified reimplementations make good property tests, but in this case I'd go the other way around: generate an AST, render it a in test case-dependent way (add…