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by deftnerd 1y ago
Civilian uses? Perhaps not, but Iran has always wanted to have a respected navy. Compact nuclear reactors like the type used in submarines with nuclear reactors for their power production require 90%+ enriched uranium. That's one very
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by deftnerd 3y ago
I am a big fan of The History Guy ( https://youtube.com/@TheHistoryGuyChannel ) He's very affable, good voice and cadence, and it's enjoyable even in an audio-only format. He's also very prolific, producing thr
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by deftnerd 5y ago
Many of The HN clients that I use have their own bookmark system that doesn't actually trigger the bookmark feature on the website. It makes bookmarking a totally local client feature. Does your client support site based bookmarking?
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by deftnerd 5y ago
This seems disingenuous to me, but my personal experience with Coinbase colors my opinion. I had my Coinbase accounts canceled more than 5 years ago. Despite my merchant account with them processing over 1MM USD a year in BTC, they refused
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by deftnerd 5y ago
I live in Ithaca, and Cornell is about to start drilling a test borehole in the coming year. Once the borehole is completed and some tests made, they'll drill a pair of production boreholes about 10,000ft deep. The goal is to pump wate
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by deftnerd 5y ago
It looks like a group at the University of Exeter is working on that exact plan. "SeaCURE harnesses two natural properties of the ocean that can circumvent this problem. (1) The amount of carbon dissolved in a seawater is approximatel
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by deftnerd 5y ago
Well, there also incidents about 5 years of people making vape juice with Diacetyl, a food additive that gives a creamy buttery taste. Turned out that while it was food safe, bringing it to the temperature necessary for vaping did bad thing
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by deftnerd 5y ago
You do make a good point. It makes me think of the occasional video of a registered nurse standing in front of a City Council saying things like vaccines cause Autism, or the COVID-19 vaccine has tracking chips in it. Seeing that makes me t
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by deftnerd 5y ago
I didn't know that was a Kodi feature. It's actually enough for me to consider migrating away from my Plex setup, or at least running them in parallel.
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by deftnerd 5y ago
I disagree. The truck going through the crowd model requires a sacrificial group member. In our country, the lack of terrorist group members makes their individual value higher. that makes an attack that has a higher capex cost more appeali
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by deftnerd 5y ago
One of the other issues that your comment shines a light on is that police often book someone under multiple charges. A safe one that the person is likely to be able to be convicted on, and multiple charges that probably don't apply to
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by deftnerd 5y ago
I remember reading about a year ago how thieves have been seen using BLE scanner apps walking through parking garages looking for computers and phones to steal. Even in "sleep state" many of them are discoverable through bluetooth
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by deftnerd 5y ago
From what I understand, ransomware insurance is already a thing. With the policy you get someone who negotiates the price and pays the ransom directly to the ransomware gang, which bypasses some laws against paying ransomware directly. In t
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by deftnerd 5y ago
It's getpocket.com, actually. The io one is just a domain for sale. You know, I was furious about the pocket integration and partnership when it first happened almost six years ago. I didn't like the idea of third-party integratio
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by deftnerd 5y ago
It's a feature on some money counters, which seem like something banks might use at the end of the day to check the balances in the drawers.
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by deftnerd 5y ago
This looks very promising. I use several self-hosted solutions to handle several of the things this provides. The one thing that will keep me using Monica instead of this is the ability to access my contact info and their birthdays using Ca
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by deftnerd 5y ago
Cloudflare lets you create custom error pages [1]. I would recommend making one for any geo-restricted pages. The benefit is that you can emulate your site theme and have an opportunity to explain the reasoning for the geographic restrictio
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by deftnerd 5y ago
I find it interesting that there were spikes of readings at certain times of day and night. Coupled with the information that the apartments have a VoC barrier, my intuition is that there is a timer somewhere that turns on a fan to clear ou
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by deftnerd 5y ago
Nuclear power is expensive and complicated, but not inherently so. A lot of the causes of the problem is political decisions and bureaucratic processes. There are many designs for nuclear reactors that are simpler, safer, and more suitable
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by deftnerd 5y ago
I think it might just be a way for staff at embassies to make some money on the side. Embassy employees are allowed to import vehicles without paying import duties or taxes. Buying a car every month or two and reselling it to auto dealers c
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by deftnerd 5y ago
Because controversial campaigns are usually not welcome on other platforms. Niche platforms that court those kinds of controversial campaigns exist, but they struggle to stay alive with the public always trying to get their host or payment
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by deftnerd 5y ago
I get that you're trying to say that Ransomware is a kind of evolutionary pressure to force IT ecosystems to adapt and improve, but that's far from saying it should be legal. It's like trying to justify armed robbery as a met
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by deftnerd 5y ago
I had a business idea last year that would take advantage of a similar concept. Basically, it would be like GoFundMe, but users could also pay money to defund a campaign if they so desired. For example, if there was a campaign that people t
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by deftnerd 6y ago
They have scripts to import from Asana, Notion, and Trello https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/tree/main/import
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by deftnerd 6y ago
One possible use case of solar panels on a car in bright and hot environments would be running the air blower to continually replace the interior air with the exterior air in order to maintain a reasonable temperature. It's not uncommo
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by deftnerd 6y ago
Are there industry options or methods of wiring to allow for a UPS room separate from the actual rooms the racks are stored in? It's almost tradition to have a rack with UPS's in the bottom and then the rest of the space filled wi
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by deftnerd 6y ago
[1] this episode of the Caspian Report (an excellent Youtube channel on international affairs) discusses how Israel and Turkey are trying to establish stronger diplomatic ties in order to directly connect their maritime EEZ's and block
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by deftnerd 6y ago
Heat Pump technology is pretty awesome and more efficient, when your circumstances and weather patterns support it. Since they move heat from one place to another, they have to work harder as the difference between the temperatures increase
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by deftnerd 6y ago
Considering the tight integration of the OS and the hardware, I would offer the comparison that it's more like a CPU not allowing any code that's not signed by Intel to run. Or, more aptly, only allowing one specific OS to run on
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by deftnerd 6y ago
Only if you believe that the warnings went out because of the "alarm over the devices' sophistication" and not "alarm over the idea this could happen" or even "alarm over a misidentification of a legitimate com

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