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Spare_accounton Vertical turbines are more efficient in large-scale wind farms: study

I can't vouch for the sources, but here is some reading material:

https://wes.copernicus.org/articles/5/1623/2020/wes-5-1623-2...

[PDF] https://wes.copernicus.org/preprints/wes-2019-105/wes-2019-1...

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/05/14/...

Spare_accounton Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

This kind of comment chain helps me remember how amazing uBlock Origin is. I don't see the popup or the inline adverts, and uBlock just works without breaking the site. Amazing.

It just works so well, in fact, that I forget it is there at all, and I am glad to occasionally get these reminders.

Spare_accounton Digital Needle: Ripping vinyl records with a scanner (2013)

FWIW this content is approximately 19 years old (the date in the title is incorrect). Wayback machine has archived content going back to 2002ish.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26959024

Spare_accounton Digital Needle: Ripping vinyl records with a scanner (2013)

I'm curious about the date tag (2013)?

Wayback Machine does indeed has archives of the page from 2013 onwards, but while googling "Vinyl-ROM" (inspired by comments in this thread) I found a reference to this exact huji.ac.il page in a comment thread on Halfbakery dating back to 2003:

https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Vinyl-ROM

In fact the parent URL does have WayBack archives going back to the early 2000s, which include this content. dang: I nominate the date for this item should be listed as 2003.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030221050553/http://www.cs.huji...

Spare_accounton Digital Needle: Ripping vinyl records with a scanner (2013)

Is there a Vinyl-ROM format?

Spare_accounton The “Granny Knot”

Are you referring to this picture: https://www.fieggen.com/Dont_Link/finished-Surgeons-Knot.jpg

The perspective of the picture fooled me for a moment too, but this knot is in the usual position.

Spare_accounton Transiting the Suez Canal in a Private Sailboat (2003)

Here's a link to am AMA he hosted, you can explore his comment history from there I guess:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/q9qzn/iama_former_nas...

Spare_accounton AstraZeneca vaccine safe and effective in U.S., Chile, Peru trials

I can't find anything about Norway having 4 fatalities associated with blood clotting.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/scientists-say-they-found-cause...

>Norway registered three cases of CVST, one of them fatal. The country vaccinated around 120,000 people with the shot.

https://sciencenorway.no/covid19/norwegian-experts-say-deadl...

>Holme led the work to find out why three health workers under the age of 50 were hospitalized with serious blood clots and low levels of blood platelets after having taken the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine. One of the health workers died on Monday.

Spare_accounton Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade EGA/VGA Comparison

Perhaps I've fallen victim to a regional language difference but even with the most generous interpretation I could manage, the addition of "mate" on the end of your comment left me with the impression that you were being (mildly) aggressive.

I will refer myself to my own quote from the guidelines :-)

Spare_accounton Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade EGA/VGA Comparison

From the HN commenting guidelines:

>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Spare_accounton Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'

(preface to state that my personal opinion supports taking the vaccine)

>Or let people have a choice in determining whether the risk is worth it for them.

Are there any countries where the vaccine is mandatory? That choice already exists doesn't it?

Spare_accounton Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/13711918852686725...

> What's possible is a Twitter staffer tried to block a street address, but the postal syntax acted as an escape sequence, or the original was multi-line and they only pasted the city.

What postal syntax in the US looks like an escape sequence?

Spare_accounton Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System

Do they? I'd like to read about that

Spare_accounton We created a fake language to root out resume liars

Plants can be exchanged for goods and services

Spare_accounton Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut

Does this cover off any of the areas you're interested in?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02615...

>Health outcomes associated with vegetarian diets: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses

>Conclusions: Vegetarian diets are associated with beneficial effects on the blood lipid profile and a reduced risk of negative health outcomes, including diabetes, ischemic heart disease, and cancer risk. Among vegetarians, SDA vegetarians could represent a subgroup with a further reduced risk of negative health outcomes. Vegetarian diets have adverse outcomes on one-carbon metabolism. The effect of vegetarian diets among pregnant and lactating women requires specific attention. Well-designed prospective studies are warranted to evaluate the consequences of the prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency during pregnancy and infancy on later life and of trace element deficits on cancer risks.

Spare_accounton New malware found on 30k Macs has security pros stumped

I have showdead enabled, there are no dead comments on this thread and the current comment count matches the number of visible comments. I suspect the GP comment's observation was due to a timing issue

Spare_accounton Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023

Why _should_ they go public?

Spare_accounton JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

If MAUs is hard, then don't use MAU as a billing metric? Charge for concurrent connections or by the minute maybe?

Spare_accounton SpaceX Starship SN9 High Altitude Test – Live [video]

Apologies if I'm covering something you're already aware of, but that time is just Tim's (Everyday Astronaut's) best guess at when to start streaming.

The actual launch time is unknown to everyone outside of SpaceX. For SN8 SpaceX published a live stream of their own a few minutes before launch, but we don't even know if they'll do that this time.

Spare_accounton UK coronavirus variant may be more able to infect children: scientists

Can you elaborate on this for me, I am not familiar with him

Spare_accounton Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

I'm British and have a British passport and I permanently reside in the UK but I'm also technically an Irish citizen because my Irish father was born in Ireland.

I have never applied for an Irish passport but I am automatically an Irish citizen based on my ancestry. Does Facebook know this? Do I need to inform them to benefit from GDPR protections on an ongoing basis?

How the hell is any of this enforceable?

Spare_accounton Gmail having issues

It's inconsistent for me, I've had two failures and one success in quick succession

Spare_accounton Gmail having issues

That's the point, this page is readable and information-dense. There is no bloating

Spare_accounton Gmail having issues

You've linked to the same URL as this HN post

Spare_accounton New UK police speed gun can read license plates from half a mile away at night

I was prosecuted and fined for speeding in the UK on the basis of two Police officers' testimony that they observed their own speedometer while following me. A UK Police officer can assert that he saw a thing recorded on a calibrated device and it will stick in court.

I would imagine that a Police officer could testify that he measured the speed using the calibrated device and continued to observe the same vehicle until it was possible to read the number plate.

Spare_accounton Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

I'm guilty of not clicking through to the profile page of everyone I reply to

Spare_accounton Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

You were asked for a source though. You've just expanded on your point but without a source.

As it happens I am an old.reddit.com dinosaur that finds your argument plausible, but I'm interested to see the data as well.

Spare_accounton Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

Presumably the best thing you can do is use it, to boost the metrics, and click through more adverts you see. Make it valuable for them

Spare_accounton South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn

If you have the time,would you mind expanding on this with the detail that you mentioned?

Spare_accounton Email a Dumpster Fire

It looks like the rain is getting onto the conveyor and the chute, they just tried to dry it off