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onraglanroad

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    Comment #49224554

    > by way of example, when every woman I know got pregnant Impressive work, but surely there were suspicions?

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    Comment #49201664

    I don't think so. I've seen those complaints for more than a year. I have an Ops background and I strongly suspect they were given a stupid timeline for the Azure migration. I've g…

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    Comment #49201443

    I wrote my reply before yours appeared but it's basically agreeing. A simple Forgejo hasn't given me any grief. It really seems simpler. Maybe they're hosting in us-east-1 though :…

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    Comment #49200279

    I'm starting to really hate analogies. They more often obscure than enlighten.

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    Comment #49173279

    It's rather amusing to see a PG post flagged on HN.

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    Comment #49173025

    Oh, that kind of goatlover:) I'm reminded of Don Bradman's conversation with Sachin Tendulkar at his 90th birthday (Google who they are), when he asked, "Sir Don, if you were playi…

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    Comment #49172673

    I can't find it just now but I'm sure I read that record was broken later today with 41.3C.

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    Comment #49172328

    I've just moved the goalposts back to the subject of the article. Treating all sciences as the same seems like an error.

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    Comment #49172265

    I don't think it's as dire as you're supposing. I hadn't expected the rollout of renewables and the growth of EVs to be as swift as we've seen. If we can cut emissions entirely the…

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    Comment #49156151

    I'm not sure the folks down the chippy ordering a "fish supper" were trying to be pretentious!

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    Comment #49113670

    Not $447 million? Sounds like a result!

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    Comment #49112963

    Both examples from medicine rather than physics. Can you give an example from physics? Preferably from the last century or two?

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    Comment #49089041

    I know who some of them are. I'm sure as hell that you weren't one of them.

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    Comment #49087615

    What felt Sci-Fi to me was when I saw this Stack Exchange question about what the A's at the end of the COVID virus sequence meant: https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/9060…

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    Comment #49086819

    Buy a domain? If you're going to fork email, may as well go the whole hog and fork DNS too! Have your own gmail.com

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    Comment #49060663

    There's no real point in engaging with these bot accounts. They'll keep making points that sound superficially correct but allow an argument against. TT has real results which is w…

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    Comment #49060340

    I guess it's a better title than Dick News...

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    Comment #49060276

    It's strange we're complaining about too much investment. The reason we avoid deflation is because it hinders investment, but perhaps it's time for a bit less money creation and ha…

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    Comment #49050440

    Many comments pointing out this is part of the response rather than the prompt. But the whole speech is the response. What do you call the bits at the start "Certainly, I can write…

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    Comment #49039543

    No site should be able to give you your password because they should never store it. They store the hash of the password and whatever password you provide is then hashed and compar…

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    Comment #49038904

    > They can be used as adhesives, abrasives, laminates, passive fire protection, personal protective equipment, window films, paint-protection film, electrical insulation, car-care …

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    Comment #49011126

    That's such a bizarre statement. Diversity was rare in London? Have you ever been there (I lived there for years). London is quite possibly the most diverse city in the world. Edit…

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    Comment #49011067

    Because the Roman empire included parts of Africa, including importing their slaves. There were black Roman soldiers posted on Hadrian's Wall in the north of England.

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    Comment #49011011

    That's a better comment but > Societies throughout history have taken as a given their power to overthrow malicious governments when things hit a breaking point, simply isn't true.…