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M_bara commented on How can traditional British TV survive the US streaming giants   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/asplake
M_bara · 7 months ago
I’d pay more for bbc content than i do for Netflix or prime. It’s typically very good content that is strongly geo locked behind iplayer and you have to play whack a mole to get it…
M_bara commented on First ammonia-fueled ship hits a snag   spectrum.ieee.org/ammonia... · Posted by u/pseudolus
_aavaa_ · 9 months ago
Hopefully this ship of fools runs aground before it kills its whole crew with the first, inevitable, leak.
M_bara · 9 months ago
If you think this is bad, then the chemicals used in rocketry - read the book ignition [1] - will have you whimpering in a corner. As with any system, risks can be identified and controlled and operationalised - Gasoline has its risks, so does Chlorine trifluoride [2]. Yet both are wildly different and are used in day to day operations.

1. https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_trifluoride

M_bara commented on First ammonia-fueled ship hits a snag   spectrum.ieee.org/ammonia... · Posted by u/pseudolus
amelius · 9 months ago
> Ammonia is toxic, explosive, and corrosive

It also smells like rotten fish.

M_bara · 9 months ago
I thought it smells like piss. Rotten eggs - hydrogen sulphide.
M_bara commented on Demand for Starlink in Zimbabwe is overwhelming capacity   restofworld.org/2024/star... · Posted by u/impish9208
RicoElectrico · a year ago
Obviously it doesn't, but government officials everywhere are technically inept by default. It's a FUD.
M_bara · a year ago
Precisely,Safaricom also alleged that they would allow for illegal connections… perhaps they meant connections that we can’t easily wiretap on behalf of the government. Interestingly, during the protests a few months ago, the government severely throttled all external connections by putting a few interfaces down at the fibre sea landing points. Only Starlink users were getting good connectivity. A lot of folks migrated at that point.
M_bara commented on Demand for Starlink in Zimbabwe is overwhelming capacity   restofworld.org/2024/star... · Posted by u/impish9208
lxgr · a year ago
Probably "dishy": Their terminal is internally called "Dishy McFlatface".
M_bara · a year ago
Yep, blame my phone’s auto correct…
M_bara commented on Demand for Starlink in Zimbabwe is overwhelming capacity   restofworld.org/2024/star... · Posted by u/impish9208
M_bara · a year ago
Same thing in Kenya. A 150km radius around Nairobi is maxed out. I have a fishy kit that can’t join due to capacity issues. In fact, the advent of Starlink - which had acquired 0.5% of the entire market - has rattled the existing players so much that, 1. They’ve doubled available bandwidth for residential plans without increasing cost. Safaricom went way overboard and 5x-ed plans. So if you were on 40mbit for $40 USD, you’d get 200mbit for the same cost. 2. They are all writing letters to the fcc equivalent crying about GSM spectrum interference (duh…) and predatory pricing [1]. I’m all for more competition! I’m only considering moving to Starlink due to frequent fibre cuts.

1. https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/corporate/technology/...

M_bara commented on Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s surface   smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
dmitshur · a year ago
Have people wondered about a possibility of an advanced life form hiding inside a star? It doesn't seem easy, but there'd be an abundance of energy, and the less advanced life forms are unlikely to interfere.
M_bara · a year ago
Stephen Baxter’s Flux has something in that vein
M_bara commented on Two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as a compound lens   phys.org/news/2024-11-ast... · Posted by u/wglb
yreg · a year ago
Is it only one direction or does it work the same from the other side?
M_bara · a year ago
Should work the other way too. Physics and symmetry:)
M_bara commented on HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer   ourworldindata.org/hpv-va... · Posted by u/ZeroGravitas
wkat4242 · a year ago
Just wondering how much did you pay for it? Here in Spain I also can't get it in my 40s and it costs 800 euro, which is a lot on a Spanish wage. And the doctors say there isn't much point because I've probably been exposed already (considering number of partners that's likely). And then the effectiveness is supposed to be massively reduced. Still, if it were 200€ I'd do it. There's only one place here where I can get it so I wonder if it's cheaper elsewhere.
M_bara · a year ago
Take a vacation to somewhere in Africa, see the Mara and get the vaccine there. It does cost about $40 per dose…

u/M_bara

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