Oxidation

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HS2 rail project delayed by 2 years to save costs(ft.com)
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by Oxidation 4y ago
You missed a couple: - real whiteboards are just better - real whiteboards aren't as good as screen sharing But yes indeed, nothing new has been said on this subject for years.
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by Oxidation 4y ago
And apparently they are now doing a face-heel turn and joining the lockout party. Hopefully mine lasts forever, even though I keep feeding it eBay toner!
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Stephen Baxter's Phase Space . If those short stories, especially the ones with Reid Malenfant, grab you, then read the Manifold series. If you find yourself wishing it was more Alastair Reynolds, then the Xeelee Sequence .
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by Oxidation 4y ago
> Can't leave that bread overnight Is that a climate thing? In my (temperate) experience, bread lasts for several days, even in summer.
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by Oxidation 4y ago
> So 79% of theses houses weren't sold? Likely they were bought by people who already have houses, as investments. Your logic, that over-expensive housing won't sell at all, only holds if people are only buying houses that they
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Not nearly blatant enough if you ask me. I'm still waiting for the Tom Cruise sequel Top Gun: Top Marx .
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by Oxidation 4y ago
I think it's about avoiding having them running than turned off at the socket. And I have a countdown timer on heating devices that could be left on and won't automatically turn off after some time like electric grills and heating
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Meanwhile I did a fire course and the firefighter running it said "never leave applicances on over night or unattended" (rule 2 after "always close doors"). Not that I always do not do so (the dishwasher and washing mach
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Even in the UK, which has quite stringent electric regulations, you can get two-conductor cables with a plastic earth pin (which is always required even if you don't need grounding as otherwise the shutters covering the live and neutra
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by Oxidation 4y ago
I'm always amazed that these products can be so accurately locked to an exact flavour for years, regardless of the inputs, which, being plant or animal matter, can vary a lot naturally between batches and between years. Not only whisky
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Good to know the venerable "credulously repeat what the charismatic technology man said" school of journalism is now well into its second century of utility.
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by Oxidation 4y ago
In the vein of fan theories about imaginary events, a favourite of mine was that James Bond died in Blofeld's brain drill chair and the second half of Spectre was hallucinations as his brain shut down. The release of a subsequent film
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by Oxidation 4y ago
He didn't have more knowledge than we do now, 100 years, trillions of research dollars and millions of engineers later. He had a very amazing and intuitive sense of electricity, mechanics and physics in general, as well as an eidetic m
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Isn't water one is the canonical examples of a natural monopoly?
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Much "journalism" isn't journalism at all, it's just content aggregation and maybe a paraphrasing. In the case of anything remotely technical, this will probably also include dumbing down to the point of uselessness, if
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by Oxidation 4y ago
I assume it's only a matter of time before someone plugs something similar into Wikidata and rather than using AI to generate facts statistically, look the specifics up where known.
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by Oxidation 4y ago
0N0E, maybe (Null Island)? Depending on if latitude and longitude count as coded or not. Otherwise "Burj tip" could be quite good (centimetres).
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by Oxidation 4y ago
The Martian "timeslip" in Red Mars works exactly kind this, if I recall. I assume that's a reference to the Philip K. Dick novel of the same name.
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Especially when servicing interest on debt (the I) isn't nearly as cheap as it used to be, unless the debt is locked in at a lower interest rate. Even if it is, but the term ends, a rosy-sounding EBITDA can turn ugly.
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by Oxidation 4y ago
> It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single species in possession of a good technological base and a will to survive, must be in want of a interplanetary kinetic asteroid redirection system.
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Workers always earn less than the value they make for a useful business under capitalism (and that's before taxes, which don't necessarily require or imply capitalism). There's always a point where a cost to a worker exceeds
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by Oxidation 4y ago
> create much hard to capture value. This is pretty key. Imagine a train line that allows commuters to get to work. Trains are expensive to run, so the actual cost to get a commuter to work and back is £100. The commuters are paid (say)
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by Oxidation 4y ago
As Stephen Jay Gould said: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
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by Oxidation 4y ago
I'm curious if (and if so, how) these startups think they're going to survive when the supertankers of the large auto companies complete their miles-long turn and start production at the scale they do ICEs now. The scrappy first-m
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by Oxidation 4y ago
I talked to a heart surgeon in his late 50s about 10 years ago. "Who knows, we'll all probably live to 100!" I said, lightheartedly (don't remember the exact context). "No", he said, "my generation might,
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by Oxidation 4y ago
"Harder than I think" reminds me of https://xkcd.com/883/ because starting a business already sounds like the hardest thing I'd ever have attempted.
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by Oxidation 4y ago
For sure, same as the Culture, but with more existential and body horror. RS (and the Culture) also have a bad habit of hopping across the universe in space, time which would badly disjoint a single series. They're more like Star Trek
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by Oxidation 4y ago
I do respect the recognition that leveling up the protagonist every installment eventually leads to godlike beings fighting each other at a level that humans would be vapourised by mere proximity. The Dresden Files, say, appears to be runni
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by Oxidation 4y ago
I really dislike the covers of Hyperion depicting the Shrike. Seems like something that should be left to the imagination in the context of the book format.

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