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by NickRandom 4y ago
I'm not sure why HN's duplicate submission bot isn't working correctly but [Dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=valerionappi.it
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Point Nemo, the Most Remote Location on Planet Earth(allthatsinteresting.com)
2 points by NickRandom 4y ago|0 comments
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by NickRandom 4y ago
Note IANANE (I am not a nuclear engineer) but most probably by using a closed Brayton cycle. The gas is heated which expands and drives the turbine, the hot gas is cooled via a heat exchanger, compressed then fed through the reactor again.
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Updating our understanding of Earth’s architecture(adelaide.edu.au)
3 points by NickRandom 4y ago|1 comments
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by NickRandom 4y ago
I'm not sure if you made it to the end of TFA, but yes. And the author got a 10k bug bounty
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by NickRandom 4y ago
I'm not sure if you are aware of the Alt Sex Stories Text Repository? If you enjoy written word porn there is some good stuff in there (plus some stuff that may be illegal in some countries so fair warning) https://www.asstr
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by NickRandom 4y ago
Previous submission (as linked in tfa) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339 (Feb 2021, 699 comments, 3883 points)
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by NickRandom 4y ago
OG link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767253 by Dan G " If job ads were threads, each thread would be a generic referendum on the company. Worse, it would be the same referendum over and over. Job ads are bori
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by NickRandom 4y ago
Risky Business, Terminator 1 & 2 and Office Space
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Gone in 130 seconds: New Tesla hack gives thieves their own personal key(arstechnica.com)
4 points by NickRandom 4y ago|0 comments
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by NickRandom 4y ago
@Deceptive - Please post your full name, telephone number, email address and postal address here. If you are reluctant to do so - then doesn't that sort of answer your own question?
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Study suggests that most of our evolutionary trees could be wrong(bath.ac.uk)
2 points by NickRandom 4y ago|0 comments
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by NickRandom 4y ago
Previous discussion (Feb 2021, 567 Points, 242 Comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26192025 My favorite comment from that thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26193028 ) My best compariso
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by NickRandom 4y ago
A quick search turned up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29864157 (Ask HN: Is Product Hunt Worth It? 99 points, 66 comments, Jan 2022) https://hn.algolia.com/?q=product+hunt tells you all you need to k
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by NickRandom 4y ago
Yet another example of 'One Rule for Me and another For Thee'... I (sort of) get the carve out for cargo only flights but an exemption for private business jets??? WTF!
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by NickRandom 4y ago
I was digging around and came across an article from 2021 about Twitter suing him. Twitter sues Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, asks court to halt his investigation of the social media company ( https://www.texastribune.org&#
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by NickRandom 4y ago
Gosh. Firstly, this is just a personal opinion of some random internet stranger and I'm trying not be mean here but that page is just ..... ugh! Instinctive instantaneous reaction was that I had just warped in to the middle of a Power
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by NickRandom 4y ago
Also when you factor in the additional "getting ready to go to work" time (shower/bath, choosing outfit, breakfast etc) vs. a quick brush of the teeth and the extra 'unwind time' needed at the end of the work day me
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by NickRandom 4y ago
Better link to what seems to be the original source? at https://www.nature.com/articles/418601a (2002)
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Improving the accessibility of online data visualizations for screen-readers(github.com)
2 points by NickRandom 4y ago|0 comments
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by NickRandom 4y ago
The original indictment at https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1132356/downl... makes for an interesting read. I only dug around because I was wondering why she didn't high-tail it once t
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by NickRandom 4y ago
Ooops.... "So Reddit, can you please give me some feedback on this?" cough-cough.... uhmm you might want to proofread things, especially when cutting and pasting. Just a suggestion.
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by NickRandom 4y ago
My First thoughts on reading “... This control region is in most vertebrates, including humans ,” was (of course) about some kind of mutant comic-book super-hero/villain. My Second thought was 'sharks with friggin' laser bea
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How Electric Fish Were Able to Evolve Electric Organs(news.utexas.edu)
50 points by NickRandom 4y ago|19 comments
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Seeing how odor is processed in the brain(u-tokyo.ac.jp)
35 points by NickRandom 4y ago|11 comments
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by NickRandom 4y ago
LowEndBox is worth taking a look at, they often have specials and even if some of those are outdated sometimes the providers will offer the same price if approached. As always though - you get what you pay for
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by NickRandom 4y ago
The other advantage of using hydrogen is (in an emergency fuel situation) being able to slowly 'rob' the ballast ballon for fuel for use in either the motive engines or an ICE genny if the solar setup failed for some reason or yo
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by NickRandom 4y ago
Unlike the Empire State Building airship dock, the Pan Am heliport was an actual and working mini 'airport' with regular scheduled flights / pick-ups-drop-offs for years.
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by NickRandom 4y ago
I also used to 'sort of know that' and then I came across something on YT about the updraughts and air turbulence etc. Can't find the clip I saw but this link says pretty much the same. "A popular myth claims that the to
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by NickRandom 4y ago
Uhmm - Link?

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