D_Alex

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by D_Alex 4y ago
>Cable television and netflix have made it quite clear that payment does not mean “no ads”, it just means “no ads, yet”. 'It's better to be a millionaire hero than a billionaire asshole' (Ben Elton, Gridlock ) Of course a
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by D_Alex 4y ago
>NATO is not a threat to the survival of Russia NATO has become a threat to survival of NATO. And Russia. And everyone. Think very carefully and tell me how is expanding NATO to the Russian borders in the interests of original NATO membe
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by D_Alex 4y ago
I am a project manager and a SAP user. First I hated it. And the more I used it, the more I hated it. It's like a really, really uncomfortable chair, strong, but designed with zero attention to ergonomics.
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by D_Alex 4y ago
I suspect a noticeable part of the drop was a decrease in ocean freight rates. Down about 30% from peak, but still about 3 times higher than 2 years ago. I'd expect them to drop by another 30-50% over the next year, that should help a
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by D_Alex 4y ago
My solution is to enclose the cheap polyester bag filter in a large plywood box and duct the air to a vent stack on the roof. Best air quality and no expensive cartridge filters to maintain. Not sure how practicable this is in very cold wea
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by D_Alex 4y ago
Curious, the unemployment charts linked by von_lohengramm in this subthread show unemployment rising for all the periods mentioned above.
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by D_Alex 4y ago
Stagflation is associated with high unemployment.
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by D_Alex 4y ago
>more people working or working multiple jobs This should cause the opposite of a recession, no? More people working --> more GDP, right?
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by D_Alex 4y ago
OK this is a plausible explanation.
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by D_Alex 4y ago
According to those graphs, the employment to population ratio has been rising strongly for the last two quarters... which makes it even stranger IMO. BTW that first graph is a lovely illustration of how unemployment went up every time the
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by D_Alex 4y ago
This would be the first recession ever featuring near-record-low unemployment. if anyone has any insights on how we are having an economic contraction AND such low unemployment, I'd love to hear them.
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On use of pop up windows (1999)(artlebedev.com)
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TLDR: please don't.
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by D_Alex 4y ago
>the epitome of unintended escalation And right about now we are witnessing another. Against an opponent with nukes.
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by D_Alex 4y ago
>I can't remember anyone saying that viruses don't mutate. In 2020-21 there were plenty of articles claiming stuff like: "The coronavirus is not mutating significantly as it circulates through the human population, accordi
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by D_Alex 4y ago
Deluge of fear based messaging, plus an equal and opposite deluge of hopium. 2020: "It's no more severe than a cold" 2021: "Coronaviruses do not mutate" and "You won't catch it more than once" 2022: &
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by D_Alex 4y ago
>"I don't think you can generalize [the study] to everybody... because veterans... It would be weird if veterans were the opposite to everyone else though. >here can be a correlation between overall health and ability to be
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by D_Alex 4y ago
>This is a single study How many studies will convince you?
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by D_Alex 4y ago
Maybe the disease will fade away, however world population now is four times that in 1890, and mobility is, I dunno, ten times higher? New variants are likely to arise and spread way faster - in the absence of control measures.
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by D_Alex 4y ago
>A properly functioning society does not sacrifice the future of its young to protect the old. That's not what happened. What actually happened is that we sacrificed everyone's future for some short term "freedoms".
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by D_Alex 4y ago
The bump key hits the lower pins, which move the upper pins. This is not possible with the Enclave design. You really cannot move the pins by vibrating the entire lock. The pins are so light that you would need tens if not hundreds of g of
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by D_Alex 4y ago
Especially if the lock is mounted in a door.
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by D_Alex 4y ago
No, that won't work, because the pins cannot be bumped once the lock is partly turned.
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by D_Alex 4y ago
>I have no idea how one could approach picking this Not sure how well the lock is made but it may be possible to detect when pins 1 and 6 are in correct position - because the slider is "stiff against springing apart" at those
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by D_Alex 4y ago
This is Australian, but probably relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTCqXlDjx18 Seriously - what does the US Navy have to do with Trump's "trade war" with China? With Russia-Ukraine conflict? With US b
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by D_Alex 4y ago
I only read the linked article, not the books. I think that the thesis (as professed by the article) that the "deglobalization" is largely due to the decline of the US Navy is pretty silly. "Decline in the standard of US fore
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by D_Alex 4y ago
>a risk free alternative to stocks I'm pretty sure Russia disagrees, and it remains to be seen how China and other foreign holders of US treasuries will look at US (and other foreign) bonds in the future.
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by D_Alex 4y ago
>the deepest hole ever drilled by anyone was 7Km 12.2 km - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole
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by D_Alex 5y ago
The short term effect of Europe's move away from pipeline gas to LNG will be to increase CO2 emissions, if only because production and transportation of LNG consumes about 10% of the original gas. Furthermore, emissions of methane from
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by D_Alex 5y ago
> Free speech does not include using speech to lie and defraud. The social media is full of misinformation published by the Ukrainians, eg: https://observers.france24.com/en/europe/20220301-video-debu... https

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