Armisael16

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by Armisael16 3y ago
One of the core elements of the 2008 meltdown was when someone abandoned a house, all the other houses in the neighborhood would see a substantial drop in their value. This made it more likely that other people would go underwater on their
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by Armisael16 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppression_of_Enemy_Air_Def... These are questions the US has been working on since Vietnam - they’ve gotten pretty good at it by now.
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by Armisael16 3y ago
Depends strongly on the area. I’ve never seen any above 41c/kWh, and one of my local chargers does 13c/kWh after 8pm.
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by Armisael16 3y ago
It’s often more expensive to convert offices than it would be to knock the building down and start from scratch.
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by Armisael16 3y ago
For what it’s worth the Bradley has performed quite well, and the flaws that have shown up weren’t noted in the movie (some discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarCollege/comments/erpmjm/having_j...
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by Armisael16 3y ago
Americans do generally call them legos. The company hates it.
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by Armisael16 4y ago
That would be true if the people on the bus were selected truly randomly from the full population. They aren’t - not even close.
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by Armisael16 4y ago
The tariffs and policy in questions are being set by the US - of course the discussion is US-centric, the question being discussed is ‘how should the US be approaching this?’
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by Armisael16 4y ago
The principal square root (ie, the one with positive part) is commonly referred to as the square root, especially since the radical symbol is explicitly defined to produce the principal root.
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by Armisael16 4y ago
The US is not a petrostate. Petrostates are defined not just by the large amounts of oil and gas they extract but the relative absence of other economic activity and the dependence of the state on that money. 42% of Saudi GDP is petroleum.
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by Armisael16 4y ago
The idea people can get more done by working together is literally older than writing.
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by Armisael16 4y ago
All of the money the bank gives out comes from deposits or shareholder capital. The bank isn’t the mint; it isn’t allowed to print money. The way that banks expand the money supply is by providing the illusion that all my money is there and
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by Armisael16 4y ago
Per capita figures do include full-time residents, even migrant workers. They do not capture international commuters (most relevant for Luxembourg, which gets something like half its workforce from neighbors).
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by Armisael16 4y ago
The US is top 10 in PPP gdp per capita, and almost all of the states that are higher up are either tiny oil and gas states (eg Qatar, Brunei, Kuwait) or small states that focus on financial services for much larger areas (Luxembourg and Ire
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by Armisael16 4y ago
> Mining virgin materials uses much more resources than recycling. That depends heavily on the material in question. Aluminum, yes. Plastic, no.
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by Armisael16 4y ago
Yes, precisely like that.
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by Armisael16 4y ago
The human body also has ways to heal broken bones - are you arguing that it’s a waste to not use those as well? We’ve developed means to more effectively handle certain common poisons. That doesn’t mean they aren’t dangerous.
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by Armisael16 4y ago
It was a bit of both, really (and the snaking path was only present in early versions of the missile). Sorry to mislead!
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by Armisael16 4y ago
The real-life reason for this wild spiraling behavior would be that the launch tube isn’t pointed directly at the target and the missile overcorrects. That’s actually how the sidewinder missile got its name. This kind of mid-flight course c
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by Armisael16 4y ago
That’s nonsense. You can’t pay taxes with other currencies, but issuing IOUs/gift cards is absolutely legal.
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by Armisael16 4y ago
The 787 has a 330 minute ETOPS certification, so as long as it’s within 6.5 hours of an airport it can fly there. That’s almost everywhere on the planet except the South Pacific and Antarctica.
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by Armisael16 4y ago
They did, back in October: https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-united-nations-port-au-... As you say, no country wants to get involved. The US would be the most capable power in the area, but it’s almost impossible to
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by Armisael16 4y ago
Electric heating and cooling (instead of gas, which while still energy doesn’t go in the same bucket) and probably a larger house. His usage is high by the standards of the region, so it probably is also something like an electric car or cr
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by Armisael16 4y ago
The average New Englander uses between 567 kWh/month and 711 kWh/month (different values for different states - areas farther south generally use more). The answer is probably that you live 5-10 degrees north of him and don’t use
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by Armisael16 4y ago
Turks make up less than 15% of immigrants in Germany. The US currently gets more Asian immigrants than Latinos.
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by Armisael16 4y ago
A mission from the surface of the Moon would cost ~3 km/s of delta-v to get an intercept with Mars (and more from there, but that depends on how much aerobraking you can manage). A mission from the surface of Earth would cost ~13 km&#x
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by Armisael16 4y ago
The Moon is not a useful launch site for projects elsewhere unless a lot of the mass comes from there (ie, lots of fuel or the mission itself). You lose a lot of dv by stopping mid-trip; this isn’t like pulling off at a rest-stop.
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by Armisael16 4y ago
Man, I was just trying to answer the question “why does this work in Northern Europe but won’t in the US”. Not everything is an attack.
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by Armisael16 4y ago
Most of the US is in fact better for solar than most of Europe (Iberia is fairly good). However, energy prices in the US are considerably lower, so the bar for profitability is much higher. The EU also has colossal subsidies for renewables,
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by Armisael16 4y ago
The traditional US cul-de-sac is rounded at the end, and usually has a house at the end (the road was never intended to continue) Here’s a fairly representative picture of the geometry: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/ima

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