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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…

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 gener…

> He who does not work does not eat That was Lenin who wrote that, although it was originally from the Bible.

Useful if you need to tow a trailer. Otherwise it's just a novelty.

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 f…

Depends on where you live I suppose. Due to the risk of causing bushfires, fireworks are banned in most of Australia.

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 assum…

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 t…

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.l…

Fire extinguishers are easier to carry than a dumbbell. They're a tall cylinder with a handle at the top.

Imagine the money they'd make if they turned Buckingham Palace into a hotel.

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 …

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.

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 h…

I've always gone with señor developer myself.

The NodeJS alpine base image is only 40 MB.

At least (I hope) you weren't still using Bower.

> along with companies like Nintendo The western equivalent would probably be Nokia, which was founded in 1865 as a paper manufacturer.

> 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 bu…

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 menth…

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.

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…

Wouldn't there the small matter of a few meters of concrete attenuating any signals coming from a nuclear facility?

> 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 […

> 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 pa…