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by Cushman 13y ago
Yup, that's exactly the idea with massed fire. If you can't hit a point target, just designate it an area target and get enough rounds together to be effective on the entire area. When it comes to taking down a blimp with a round that barel
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by Cushman 13y ago
Well it'd be ten times as large in your scope, but I don't think I'd call it an "easier target"-- you have to deal with a much more dramatic arc and unknowable atmospheric wind conditions.
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by Cushman 13y ago
I'd quibble. While I agree it wouldn't be vulnerable in practice, I don't think the longest sniper kill is relevant at all. A battle rifle caliber can definitely break 10,000 feet fired straight up. The issue would be whether it has enough
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by Cushman 13y ago
It'd be rather more difficult than that to take out a high-altitude blimp with small arms. One hesitates to say impossible, but it's wildly unlikely without organized military involvement.
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by Cushman 13y ago
The primary benefit is portability-- it compiles not just to JS, but AS and native mobile and desktop code as well. That's a life saver for small game devs, but if it's not a killer feature for you then you probably wouldn't see much reason
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by Cushman 13y ago
But note that that isn't the "real" question, just the incorrect result of the Earth experiment.
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by Cushman 13y ago
It's a bit silly he had to say this-- this is made very explicit in the books. I feel like a lot of people missed the point of the whole exercise.
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by Cushman 13y ago
I appreciate your anecdotes, and I'll respond with one of my own. I went to college with two people. (More, maybe!) Not people I knew that well, but it was a very small school. They were both written up ("infracted") for marijuana use-- I f
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by Cushman 13y ago
I highly recommend Kerbal Space Program for this, by the way-- I feel like I've got some good first-hand experience of how normal and boring space really is. "One of the interesting things about space is how dull it is. Staggeringly dull. B
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by Cushman 13y ago
Who was it that wrote that had the millions of lives and trillions of dollars wasted in the World Wars been applied instead to peaceful pursuit of science, we would easily have had a man on the moon by 1950? Wishful thinking, of course, but
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by Cushman 13y ago
Nominal prices will rise, but what you're really seeing is the fair valuation of these services when costs aren't massively depressed by the abundance of free labor in a post-industrial society where there is less and less real work to do
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by Cushman 13y ago
Capitalism, hey? The garbage will pile up until somebody is willing to take away the garbage for what you are willing to pay. Then you will know what the real value of garbage removal is to you, when you can no longer use the inhumanities
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by Cushman 13y ago
Yes, giving people the minimum to avoid starvation seems to make them dependent on that income. Giving people enough money to effectively take money off the table frees them to make intelligent decisions about how to invest not only that ca
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by Cushman 13y ago
If you disagree with this: > I think someone who didn't know a lot about the facts could easily read TFA and come away with the idea that there exists some connection between our gun violence problem and some or all of rifles, military
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by Cushman 13y ago
That's a good point, but it's not completely true as stated. It is illegal to manufacture a firearm for sale or transfer without an FFL (a Federal license). However if I'm reading this[0] right it is probably not illegal to manufacture a fi
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by Cushman 13y ago
Heh. It's a bit ironical, but I don't think it's really hypocritical or anything. To go back to my computer example, I can argue for your right to smash it with a hammer and still not be able to understand why you would choose to. Or ta
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by Cushman 13y ago
I think someone who didn't know a lot about the facts could easily read TFA and come away with the idea that there exists some connection between our gun violence problem and some or all of rifles, military rifles, AK-47s, kit-build rifles,
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by Cushman 13y ago
Do you mean for me rhetorically, or in my peer group? Rhetorically, the common emotive argument against social welfare programs is that they enable the poor to do drugs all day rather than doing productive work (I suppose this is also an ar
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by Cushman 13y ago
Personally, I assumed that whatever followed "If I recall correctly" would likely not be expertly sourced. I did look at that Wikipedia article-- it has 102 references, many of them offline. So hell if I know if there's evidence in there,
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by Cushman 13y ago
> I would expect to see an academic review of the literature. What you provided was [1] wikipedia I expect this is why you're seeing downvotes.
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by Cushman 13y ago
I certainly don't mean to equivocate developed and developing poverty, but I also don't agree with the inverse. Yes, we are not starving or threatened, for the most part. But in both worlds, poverty means dependence. It means not having opt
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by Cushman 13y ago
I'm very predisposed to believe this. In fact, I'll go further and say I'm not sure I can think of a friend of mine who wouldn't do something really cool if you gave them a year's income in cash. My friends, generally speaking, spent a lot
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by Cushman 13y ago
Not to nitpick, but "assault rifle" is a technical term for a select-fire (fully automatic) weapon that fires an underpowered rifle caliber, and any select-fire weapon is quite illegal for individuals to own in the US. "Assault weapon" is a
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by Cushman 13y ago
But you wouldn't consider it to have any relevance to the broader cultural problem of traffic fatalities and vehicle registration? Or you don't think others would? Or you think that any misleading effect is regrettable, but not a reason to
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by Cushman 13y ago
My thoughts on this article are roughly equivalent to my thoughts on my hypothetical Vanity Fair piece, which I think I made clear. Since your questions don't seem to relate to that hypothetical, I don't have much to add.
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by Cushman 13y ago
I was using "children" rhetorically here, including gang violence and adult suicides basically. Anyway, this isn't the place for the conversation.
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by Cushman 13y ago
I can understand where you're coming from. Unfortunately, I don't think this article is the explainer you're looking for, for a lot of reasons discussed in these comments, but primarily this: he destroyed the gun . He bought it, he built i
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by Cushman 13y ago
Sure, but you don't know about that because you're not interested in guns. Like, how many people know you can legally build and fly an RC drone from a kit? Or that you can legally build and drive a car from a kit? There are enthusiasts, and
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by Cushman 13y ago
> How many people on Hacker News (or hell, in the US in general) do you think have built a rifle from a kit? Order... hundreds of thousands? Millions, maybe? It depends how you define a kit, I guess. It's quite common to put together up
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by Cushman 13y ago
You evolved from species that lived well for millions of years without the use of sight. Shall we remove your eyes, so that you may experience freedom?

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