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by fivefifty 17d ago
Unlikely since they used the term cyclone, probably Australia as that's the sort of place they would most likely do something like that and have someone posting on hacker news about it.
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by fivefifty 27d ago
Women aren't better at ultra marathons they are just more competitive as the distance increases. Speed is mostly a matter of muscle mass and maintaining speed over time and distance is related to lung capacity and ability to manage lac
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by fivefifty 4y ago
The local producers did reduce output for those reasons, supermarkets etc instead went to source replacement produce from overseas, but those overseas suppliers also had a poor season and couldn't supply enough.
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by fivefifty 4y ago
The Harrys Farm youtube channel explains it fairly basically in this video, I'll try and link direct to about where he talks about it specifically (although whole thing might be worth watching if you're interested in how farming w
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by fivefifty 4y ago
While you are mostly correct there have been some infamous ones such as the 1983 Negev incident where an F-15 and A-4 Skyhawk collided and the F-15 landed without a wing https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/that-time-an-f-15-la
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by fivefifty 4y ago
I don't think the F-15 would be the first to accelerate vertically, the English Electric Lightning was also known for incredible climb performance even in the vertical and it's a much older design of aircraft.
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by fivefifty 4y ago
Certainly in my area they seem to just wear dark plain hoodies and face masks and don't care much about cameras as at 4am no-one is likely monitoring any alerts that come up and once people see the footage in the morning there isn&#x27
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by fivefifty 4y ago
Not exactly the same but there has been consideration given to store ICBMs in lakes amongst other things: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/air-force-considered-f...
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by fivefifty 4y ago
Not exactly what you are describing but there are some sites like runrepeat.com that are basically a database of running shoes that let you compare stats and check aggregated reviews on whether they fit true to size etc along with reviews f
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by fivefifty 4y ago
>Where do we land when people are not allowed to pick the partner they actually want? We land in reality. There tends to be a bit of a gap between what people 'want' and what they can actually 'get' and I think this i
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by fivefifty 4y ago
This is correct, you don't need animal products specifically to get the height increase it's more about just getting a decent amount of protein along with associated vitamins and minerals for the mother during pregnancy and throug
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by fivefifty 4y ago
That's really not how it worked, the conquered people mostly obeyed the Roman rule not because they were won over with hearts and minds but because otherwise the Romans were absolutely brutal and cruel in their punishment against any k
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by fivefifty 4y ago
Experience/training does seem to matter more as distance increases, distance runners tend to peak older than you'd think. Also for sprinting, height matters somewhat, in particular the longer your legs the better you will be to a
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by fivefifty 5y ago
I'm fairly sure the Ghost of Kyiv came from a DCS (digital combat simulator) player originally and is actually based on this short DCS movie called 'The Ghost' which has very similar core details. https://www.yout
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by fivefifty 5y ago
Like most of these ridiculous intergenerational conflict articles lately, it doesn't even get the generations right! The rants about 'Millennials' are really about 'Gen Z' who are the current 25 and younger generati
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by fivefifty 5y ago
I remember Web 3.0 was first a thing maybe 15 years ago when talking about the 'Semantic web', i.e. interchangeable meta data standards etc. That was mostly boring data stuff to 'normal people', so never really took off
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by fivefifty 5y ago
From what I've seen it mostly it's Americans writing about the US losing the next world war in fictional books like Ghost fleet: A Novel of the Next World War or Twilight's Last Gleaming.
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by fivefifty 5y ago
Men do outnumber women on apps but I think you'll find it's actually very difficult these days to get men to attend dating events like speed dating even in western countries. Why are men afraid of dating events - https:/&#x2
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by fivefifty 5y ago
Privacy does have a cost. I was working at TfNSW at the time they were phasing out the paper tickets and the main reason they got rid of them was the enormous cost of having and maintaining all that paper ticket infrastructure. I think it w
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by fivefifty 5y ago
Except modern fruit variants are not what we evolved to eat. Some zoos have stopped feeding fruit to some animals because they are too high in sugar. https://qz.com/1408469/humans-have-bred-fruits-to-be-so-high...
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by fivefifty 5y ago
That would suck. In China when you win the lottery, while they don't reveal your name, you still need to collect the prize/cheque in person and pose for publicity shots. This has lead to the amusing situation of most winners turni
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by fivefifty 5y ago
Didn't Biden say within the past couple of days there wouldn't be helicopters evacuating the embassy like in Vietnam? Guess he got that wrong.
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by fivefifty 5y ago
Some of the trucks etc were broken down or worn out and some might have been contractor or personal vehicles brought over that they probably decided wasn't worth the cost to take back. The ammo, weapons and military vehicles I believe
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by fivefifty 5y ago
It does make sense if you think about it in terms of overall calories consumed rather than metabolic rate. Children are very small and light, so even with a higher metabolic rate they need less calories overall than an adult. However a teen
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by fivefifty 5y ago
Like most things there's quite a lot of factors to play into this but I would say one of the main factors here is that generally men start reducing natural testosterone production and gradually losing muscle mass sometime after around
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by fivefifty 5y ago
This is exactly right, I had a 1.5 hour each way commute before we switched to work from home last year. I calculated that I saved around AU$5000 a year just from not having to commute or buy food/coffee out let alone the massive time
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by fivefifty 5y ago
This is very true, a few years ago that I started eating around 4-6 eggs a day because it seemed a good source of nutrients and I had seen various articles saying the cholesterol thing was a myth etc. After about 3 weeks of that many eggs p
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by fivefifty 5y ago
Yes Australians in general are quite accepting of authority. America fought a war of independence to be free of the British Monarchy. We got offered a vote to leave the monarchy and be a republic and we voted no. There is no bill of rights
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by fivefifty 5y ago
Basically it's to do with ownership, Rupert Murdoch/News Corp actually has nothing much to do with Sky News UK (anymore) but completely owns Sky News Australia. Sky News UK is owned by Sky Group, which also used to own Sky News Au