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On the upside, several billion people saw their mental health improve briefly.

Its not just the coal generator accidents but the weirdly long underground fires that rarely get a mention. Here's one article I found of a fire underneath some suburban houses: ht…

Something odd is happening here. Perhaps I can offer a piece of insight. APRA is the Australian music copyright organisation ( https://www.apraamcos.com.au/ ) ECAD is the Brazillia…

Take a pinch of half truth (this is about protecting journalists), mix with a dusting of nationalism (FB are intimidating Australia) and viola - a news monopoly gets a legislated f…

Please keep going :) Using Smalltalk (particularly Pharo) has been an eye-opening experience for me. Its interesting to see that Amber has a Boolean class which I suppose correspon…

You're missing the fact that the plastic was already there. As another poster mentioned - in Kenya, waste plastic is commonly burned on the side of a road. Turning it into bricks i…

Youtube consumes more electricity than South Africa. https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+the+total+power+cons... https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+the+total+power+cons...…

Geez thats bad. What's the value of GM on that basis?

Also, if you accidentally drive 3601 miles, you lose on the transaction :)

One could also argue that the power used by the vehicles themselves contributes to increased emissions. I think the only way forward here is to generate electricity as cleanly as p…

Nice work. Its also nice to know that a low price point doesn't automatically act as a bad-player magnet.

Well that was concise. I'd love to know the types of sites they hosted. Anyone here have the skillz to find out? My bet is on slimming tablets and viagra sales.

Large numbers of the 'get rich quick' crowd that you speak of become poor after each crash. More will follow. Each time this happens, I stand in awe of the brilliance of bitcoin - …

Its great that you can find these consumption figures so easily in some cases. It seems that Google only uses 10.6 terawatt hours. https://www.google.co/search?q=google+total+power…

Whose idea was it to put a sketch of a penis underneath the word 'Amazon'? That logo is brilliant.

Because you haven't found lively kernel. https://lively-kernel.org/

Are they the snowflakes now? Things move so fast these days.

It seems like you can see it all now, rather than having to cherry pick. https://cybernews.com/news/70tb-of-parler-users-messages-vid... I'd be interested in seeing the hate ratio …

Agreed that the problem looks like 'fail open', but there is the additional possibility that they had no plan for this failure mode at all beyond timing out. In that context, and w…

Expect delays in Somerset due to a multiple lorry pileup. The leading lorry shut down when recent earthworks caused an unexpected input. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerse…

As a programmer, I find it comforting to hear that people are prepared to terraform in order to cancel out my bugs.

Yes. Brexit was clearly a grassroots movement started by a 65 year-old man on an allotment.

I sometimes wonder how I would feel if my deliberate lies caused so many deaths. Maybe the profit would make up for the pain - or one could indulge in a fantasy that the destructio…

From the numbers, it sounds like you could have saved 10% by firing yourself.