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by Clewza313 5y ago
Interestingly, vertical designs have been proposed for Mars, because space for shipping them is at a serious premium, and the much lower atmospheric density reduces the stress considerably. (Hollywood depictions of destructive Martian sand
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by Clewza313 5y ago
> MingYang says the MySE 16.0-242 is just the start of its "new 15MW+ offshore product platform," and that it's capable of operating installed to the sea floor or on a floating base. Am I reading that right? A tower 242
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by Clewza313 5y ago
The Darvaza Crater in Turkmenistan is a more photogenic version of this: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210610-the-darvaza-crat...
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by Clewza313 5y ago
The original article is off base here. As far as I know, there are no FAA requirements for minimum seat pitch, only for being able to evacuate the airplane fast enough. As it happens, in 2018 Congress mandated the FAA to come up with some
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by Clewza313 5y ago
In Australia, parking at popular beaches is both packed and crazy expensive, with day passes pushing $50, so there's a well-established tradition of giving your parking ticket to the guy waiting to swipe your spot as you pull out. Of c
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by Clewza313 5y ago
For other HN readers who weren't aware (I wasn't), Morse was rabidly anti-Catholic and pro-slavery.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Interesting. Although he really should have gone with a serious, enterprisey name like "Google" or "Tiktok".
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Per the site, the fully assembled retail price for the Ploopy Classic would be $209.99-$227.49 CAD if it wasn't out of stock. Even the DIY kit runs $139.99-$157.49 CAD depending on options. https://ploopy.co/shop/
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by Clewza313 5y ago
My first guess would have been that this is from a European company, which often have product names that don't sound quite right to a native English speaker [1], but cursory Googling [2] reveals that Ploopy Corporation appears to be ru
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by Clewza313 5y ago
I'm quite well aware of what's happening in NZ, thank you, and the reason they locked down the whole nation is because that one case a) could not be immediately linked to another case, implying there were likely others out there,
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by Clewza313 5y ago
There's a broader version of that: "You can buy someone, but you can't make sure they stay bought." Applies widely to bribery, diplomacy, etc.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
No, that's a literal description of what they did last week: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/17/new-zealand-to... One (1) positive case, entire nation placed on maximum level 4 lockdown
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Startup wants to develop commercial cargo services for Chinese space station(spacenews.com)
1 points by Clewza313 5y ago|0 comments
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What Winning Looks Like (2013, video)(youtube.com)
3 points by Clewza313 5y ago|0 comments
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by Clewza313 5y ago
> Saying Covid response is the only thing that could possibly explain the observed differences between Sweden and (let say) Norway is simply wrong. Nobody has claimed that it is, and in fact in this very thread you've seen it corr
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by Clewza313 5y ago
You're the one asserting they're not comparable here, so please trot out some factors where Sweden is measurably different from its neighbors then.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
On the balance, yes, but SUVs have their own risks, notably rollover due to the highest center of gravity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_sport_utility_veh...
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Amtrak Joe vs. the Modern Robber Barons(washingtonmonthly.com)
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by Clewza313 5y ago
https://archive.is/2aP1f
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Jackfruits are the world's largest fruit, but while they're a bit pungent, they're nowhere near as powerful as the actual smelliest fruit, the durian.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Google Pay is the most popular payment system in India, a country of 1,400,000,000 people.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
If you're working for a FAANG or any company of similar scale, it's virtually impossible for an individual contributor to move the needle in terms of stock price. So the rational thing to do is plan and review with an eye to your
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Both are technologies we've expected to have for quite a while, yet here were are, still waiting for anything that's not just a tech demo.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
This doesn't seem like the kind of problem that would require a humanoid robot to solve though? It's just that even with current state of the art robotics, things like grabbing cardboard boxes (easily crumpled or dropped, mass
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by Clewza313 5y ago
The article notes that the number of arcades across the country had already collapsed by 80% from 26573 to 4000-odd in 2019, and that's before COVID.
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The Missing Missing Reasons(issendai.com)
37 points by Clewza313 5y ago|20 comments
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by Clewza313 5y ago
It's not "wrong", you're just parsing it differently. The title means that the poor don't enjoy any additional benefits from that growth, since their expenses scale accordingly; thus theie net growth in disposable
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by Clewza313 5y ago
For most employers 7 vs 50 felonies will make no difference, any number that's not zero will disqualify you. Being upfront about your criminal record (including that it looks worse than it is) and/or explicitly targeting companies
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by Clewza313 5y ago
This study only covered US cities, and the main factor seems to be housing prices. It would be interesting to replicate this in places where cheap housing is more abundant, be it through liberal zoning (Tokyo), subsidized public housing (S
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What to do with Tokyo's hundreds of thousands of abandoned homes(resources.realestate.co.jp)
2 points by Clewza313 5y ago|0 comments

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