Armisael16

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by Armisael16 5y ago
An Air Force base hosting one of the nine major commands doesn’t seem like an obscure target…
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by Armisael16 5y ago
The person I was responding to said the difference was impossible to notice on public roads. I gave an example of a situation where it is noticeable and everyone decided that I meant it was a situation where it’s necessary (despite explicit
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by Armisael16 5y ago
There’s an extremely obvious difference in 0-60 times between a Prius and a Model 3, and that matters on an on-ramp. (Replace 0-60 with 5-60 or 25-60 or whatever you measure of acceleration you prefer). Is it necessary? No, obviously, peopl
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by Armisael16 5y ago
Nuclear plants can adjust reasonably quickly in theory, but most plants don’t have the equipment to do in practice. This is because nuclear has a very low marginal cost of power - a kJ is very cheap if you’ve already built the plant - so th
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by Armisael16 5y ago
Your link says that the number of new laws was regularly in the 600s or 700s in the 70s and 80s; in the last decade it’s been down in the 300s (it crept above 400 once, for the 115th Congress, which was a Republican Congress under a Republi
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by Armisael16 5y ago
In the US system you can have split control - one party has the house and the other the senate (or the presidency - you need a trifecta). If you don’t have all three then basically nothing gets done. This can’t happen in a parliamentary sys
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by Armisael16 5y ago
> The real statement is that no one asked a few self-chosen individual who have never travelled beyond their own valley to ruin text handling in computers like the American Standard Code for Information Interchange has. That much is obje
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by Armisael16 5y ago
My car already runs its thousands of cells mostly in parallel, because the manufacturer isn’t stupid. I am usually battery-limited while charging instead of cable limited. I plugged into a 250kW charger on Friday and my car peaked at 132kW
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by Armisael16 5y ago
In my (entirely US) experience they haven’t done a good job making sure quality keeps up in restaurants far from their home site. Their corporate HQ is in Northern Virginia, and the restaurants in that area are excellent (especially the one
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by Armisael16 5y ago
DCA and National are more-or-less interchangable. It's Reagan that's the own-of-towner one.
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by Armisael16 5y ago
That isn’t quite how the decision problem is usually phrased. It’s usually “Is there a path of at most length L?”, which is pretty easily in NP. Minor difference in wording but a big difference in complexity. Asking for the optimal solution
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by Armisael16 5y ago
Many requirements for society are political stances; they just aren’t interesting ones because basically everyone agrees with them.
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by Armisael16 5y ago
The FDIC lists a little under 5000 ( https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/quarterly-banking-profile/stat... ).
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by Armisael16 5y ago
Right, the article is garbage. The paper is in an open-access journal. You can just go read it.
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by Armisael16 5y ago
The research team was doing to as a technical proof of concept using readily-available letters. They didn’t especially care about Marie Antoinette. The Ars article is terrible at conveying this; you have to get to the 7th paragraph to get e
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by Armisael16 5y ago
This was really more of a proof of technique. Marie Antoinette’s letters were readily available (the team is French). The article on Ars is pretty shit at conveying that - you have to get to the 7th paragraph for any technical details to co
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by Armisael16 5y ago
That isn't remotely what MMT is. It also isn't remotely fed policy.
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by Armisael16 5y ago
No. The same is true of New Caledonia (most of overseas France, actually).
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by Armisael16 5y ago
Article 5 only applies to attacks in Europe or North America. The SCS is definitely in neither.
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by Armisael16 5y ago
The weight matters a little, but people having been wearing helmets at work for millennia. The bigger problem is that the weight isn’t balanced - the front is heavier than the back.
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by Armisael16 5y ago
That's only relevant for the EV itself, not for the stuff it lit on fire.
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by Armisael16 5y ago
GM issued a recall for all bolts a month ago.
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by Armisael16 5y ago
Saying ‘leaving or being fired’ implies that those are happening at a comparable frequency. Staff are incredibly burnt-out because they’ve been in emergency mode for a year and a half. Hospitals can’t get enough staff. Firings have been ext
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by Armisael16 5y ago
Sometimes there’s more than one person in a home.
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by Armisael16 5y ago
None of the towns discussed in the article use that development model except inasmuch as they have roads at all. They're small towns in rural areas, not suburbs. Strongtowns is great or whatever, but not remotely relevant here.
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by Armisael16 5y ago
The human species as a whole. No living human will see a self-sufficient Mars colony, so it’s rather difficult to say it’s just for the rich or whatever.
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by Armisael16 5y ago
I’m surprised they aren’t blaming US astronauts for the first problems again.
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by Armisael16 5y ago
> to lend out and earn interest Who are you lending to? That’s the key - there’s a ton of money looking for returns but not enough people looking to borrow.
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by Armisael16 5y ago
That isn’t penalizing savers; that just isn’t actively subsidizing them (and by extension the rest of the investing world, since that would easily be the most attractive place to have your money in the world). Also, central banks have a man
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by Armisael16 5y ago
This is exactly the opposite of paternalistic government intervention. If the money can’t be put to productive use then the bank can’t profit from holding your money and they’d just as soon not have it. If you insist on giving it to them an

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