pgalvin

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by pgalvin 2mo ago
I believe the second half of your comment is exactly what I was getting at.
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by pgalvin 2mo ago
I’m more familiar with how Starlink compares to existing publicly-available satellite internet options. Here are some brief points: - data throughput orders of magnitude higher, - the ability to use smaller and more portable antennas (e.g.
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by pgalvin 2mo ago
However, the Earth’s own radius dwarfs the height of LEO, so they’re actually roughly the same. There are other reasons we don’t currently experience major problems with collisions in space, and why airplanes sometimes do, but it is not thi
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by pgalvin 3mo ago
The article indicates they were unable to handle the increased electricity load, which caused blackouts. Additionally, sometimes unnaturally high temperatures break AC systems put in place with poor planning. This is very common in UK super
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by pgalvin 4mo ago
He is far more than just a narrator. His 77-year career created and defined the wildlife/nature documentary as a genre, beginning at a time when television was so new that it really was just him and a few individuals making all the dec
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by pgalvin 5mo ago
I disagree with the claim that a greater proportion of people go hungry, and more are homeless, today than at any point in recent western history. These have broadly been on a downwards trend over the last century. Of course many do struggl
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by pgalvin 5mo ago
I believe that is the same event as in my comment.
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by pgalvin 5mo ago
> Imagine you take a conspiracy influencer and actually put them in the spacecraft with the astronauts so they could see the whole thing with their own eyes and wouldn't be able to deny it. They return to earth to tell their followe
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by pgalvin 5mo ago
> However, they just change their original message, maybe to remove a typo, change the date or add a friendly note. Then the three letter agency does a glorified 'diff' and they are subsequently in on the chat. Could you expand
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by pgalvin 6mo ago
Your entire comment is filled with false claims and figures. In 2025-26 there are an estimated 39.1 million people paying income tax - 56.0% of the population [1]. Of course, in the last census, 20.7% of the population were children [2].
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by pgalvin 7mo ago
This depends entirely on how you hold your phone in your hand. For some positions, someone would need a 5” thumb to reach the corner. You can’t make such sweeping statements for something with such variation.
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by pgalvin 7mo ago
This information is now many years out of date - they no longer have this policy.
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by pgalvin 7mo ago
You are wrong, this same story was not reported more than ten years ago. The article is not a report of a man being arrested, tried, and sentenced (doubtless the extent of reporting in local news when it happened). This article is about the
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by pgalvin 7mo ago
Are you suggesting that the BBC, the world service arm of a British public broadcaster (that is editorially independent from the state and even the wider BBC), began spending five years filming a documentary across the US, Portugal, Brazil,
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by pgalvin 8mo ago
Do you mean to suggest that computer hardware does not need to be cooled when it is in space? Or that it is trivial and easier to do this in space compared to on Earth? I don’t understand either claim, if so.
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by pgalvin 8mo ago
This will let you download all of your photos that already exist on iCloud Photos. Going forward, you’d want to set up some other way to sync photos you take from your phone to your other devices. I can personally recommend Synology Photos
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by pgalvin 8mo ago
The s-, i-, and r-processes do however follow the same mechanism at the most fundamental level, even if it results in wildly different production paths. I think the author was simplifying for an audience unfamiliar with the details, for w
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by pgalvin 8mo ago
I believe it’s quite common for people to marvel at the vastness of the universe. For that reason, people might like the tangible link that they feel to the rest of the universe when they think of this - it’s amazing to think of how small w
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by pgalvin 8mo ago
The front page of the BBC right now, at the very top, is a large photo of protests in Iran. The headline reports that hospitals are overwhelmed by the regime cracking down on protestors. The article focuses on first-hand accounts from medic
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by pgalvin 9mo ago
University exams being marked by hand, by someone experienced enough to work outside a rigid marking scheme, has been the standard for hundreds of years and has proven scalable enough. If there are so many students that academics can’t keep
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by pgalvin 10mo ago
OTOH, no company or item exists in a vacuum. If McDonald’s suppliers have increased prices, and their employees expect higher wages due to inflation, then McDonald’s must increase prices or eat the cost (unsustainable in the long-term). Doe
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by pgalvin 10mo ago
Anthropic does seem to have more ethical practices on that than most companies in this space, purchasing and scanning physical books rather than pirating them as Meta and OpenAI did. However, books are cheap, and I’m unsure of their wider p
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by pgalvin 10mo ago
That lecture is by a doctor who had widely discredited views on cancer, often cited as an example of quack, pseudoscientific claims on the topic. His claims, specifically on cancer, were widely and roundly rejected by the scientific and med
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by pgalvin 10mo ago
This is no longer true. They changed their policy to ignore robots.txt in 2017. I seem to recall that they still respected robots.txt later, though I can’t find any more information on it and may be misremembering. Currently, they do not.
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by pgalvin 11mo ago
It looks like he is using an EOS R5, in the video he uploaded of him taking the photo. This is a mirrorless camera (very common nowadays) so the viewfinder is merely an LED screen with a live video.
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by pgalvin 1y ago
Perhaps they meant to suggest that factory farms are overusing antibiotics, rather than the antibiotics remain in the meat we consume? Anecdotally, I’ve heard plenty of concern (from the public) that the latter could breed resistant bacteri
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by pgalvin 1y ago
For what it’s worth, despite the legal situation, it is virtually unanimously accepted by historians, journalists, academics, and the wider Irish and British public, that Gerry Adams was a member of the IRA. Nobody seriously disputes this.
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by pgalvin 2y ago
I may have misunderstood your comments on Kindles. How are they the worst tech product you use, if you also think they’re the best at their intended purpose? Do you mean that you still find e-ink technology lacking, but there is nothing bet
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by pgalvin 2y ago
> It would avoid the problem of a kid sticking a fork in an outlet One of the best things about living in the UK! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q
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by pgalvin 2y ago
I think you might have misinterpreted the comment above you. I took it to mean that there are a set of circumstances unique to Gaza that cause greater conflict between it and Israel than between the West Bank and Israel, which is not suffic

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