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by Detrytus 1y ago
Well, if grandma's home is surrounded by apartment complexes already, then even without LVT some property developer would definitely make an offer to buy her house for a ton of money, and even throw in some relocation package, for exam
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by Detrytus 1y ago
I disagree. It does not dwell on economy, or technology, but at least we have pretty good overview of social fabric and power structures: how kings get to power, how they make decisions, how they raise armies, how they deal with allies, etc
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by Detrytus 1y ago
I did not say anything about "morally acceptable", I was talking about what's possible, and yes, it is much easier to wage wars against countries that are weaker than you.
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by Detrytus 1y ago
Soviet Union was an US peer, in terms of power, and China was their ally. Bombing their nuclear facilities could result in war that the US could just as well lose, so that's why they had to show some restraint. But believe me, they wou
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by Detrytus 1y ago
Also, if you go all in and build something equivalent to Chinese bullet trains (that go with speeds up to 350km/h) you could do for example NY to Chicago in 3.5 hours, or even NY to Miami in 6 hours :-D (I know, not very realistic)
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by Detrytus 1y ago
> There isn't much in the way of passenger service, granted, but that's because people in the US aren't, well, poor. They can afford better transportation options. This is so misguided view... Trains (when done right) aren
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by Detrytus 1y ago
Is it just a matter of Waymo being tourist attraction? Last time when I was in LA my friends and me, we had a rental car to go around, but we still took couple of Waymo rides just for fun. With enough demand from people who have "auton
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by Detrytus 1y ago
Italians, Irish, Germans in US are bad examples, because Americans and Western Europeans are basically one and the same culture, the only significant difference being the language spoken. I suppose integrating Chinese or Indian people might
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by Detrytus 1y ago
Hi Peter, I was checking my I-94 recently, and noticed that my travel history is missing one trip, an arrival. Basically, it lists two departures in row, couple months apart. Does it matter? and is there any way to fix it?
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by Detrytus 1y ago
Does being "busted" by Customs (i.e. carrying some items that should be declared, but going, and being pulled of from "Nothing to declare" lane) affects admission to the US at all? I was let go with just a warning for my
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by Detrytus 1y ago
To be honest, just getting up and leaving is a bad way to end a meeting on time. You should be conscious of the time you have left, and start steering the meeting towards conclusion at 5-10 minutes mark.
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by Detrytus 1y ago
The requirement per se is not the biggest problem. Implementation by different banks is. In my country I have several bank accounts. One bank allows me to install mobile app on up to 5 smartphones, all I need is connect the smartphone to th
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by Detrytus 1y ago
Password managers, such as KeePassX can generate TOTP codes. And Keepass database is just a file, you can have as many backups of it as you want.
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by Detrytus 1y ago
I would say that any language that has if-else instruction, for loop, and the ability to define functions/procedures is "high level".
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by Detrytus 1y ago
I have a coworker right now whose name is Carmelo Martini. Seriously, I had to ask him: "did your parents name you after their favorite drink?".
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by Detrytus 1y ago
> Ukraine was always a part of Russia until 1991, btw, there was never a separate country called "Ukraine" before 1991 For very limited definition of "always" - Ukraine existed in different forms since like 9th centu
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by Detrytus 1y ago
Well, it's not that simple. Yes, Congress passes the bill saying that X billions of dollars have to be spent on universities, but that bill does not name every single university in US as beneficiary. That's what executive branch i
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by Detrytus 1y ago
Well, if they were able to successfully resuscitate you that means that you weren't truly dead.
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by Detrytus 1y ago
But the point of "living in the forrest is not an option" isn't that the person in question is incapable of surviving there. It is that the society claims ownership of the forrest an will punish you for trying to live there.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
I always say this: we are headed to a star-trek future, but we will not be the Federation, we will become Borg. Between social media platforms, smartphones and "wokeness" the inevitable result is that everybody will be forced into
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Animals that feed on grass have to eat almost constantly, since grass is very low calorie food. Predators on the other hand are famous for having a lot of free time: lions for example sleep between 15 and 20 hours per day. So I guess early
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by Detrytus 2y ago
But it does make sense: both Musk and Trump are emotionally unstable morons with gigantic egos, their cooperation is doomed to fall apart the moment they have a difference of opinions on something (which just happened, with Musk criticizing
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by Detrytus 2y ago
What influence? Musk is already being kicked out of the government.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
I think that’s a good thing. As an outsider who only recently started following baseball I can say that what makes the game quite boring is a difficulty mismatch: throwing the ball is easy, hitting it is quite hard (many MLB players have ba
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Don’t follow your logic: if the day is currently shorter than 24 hours we need to slow the Earth rotation down, not speed it up.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
And NATO is also OTAN, because France insisted on having a French translation of the treaty to be treated equally with English version. Btw NATO and OTAN being anagrams is a coincidence
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Pillars of Hercules name itself is ambiguous, one of the theories is that Plato referred to a pair of Greek islands, not Gibraltar. That would place Atlantis somewhere in the Mediterrain Sea.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
With the advent of AI, robotics and killing drones the question becomes: "How long do billionaires tolerate the poor?".
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by Detrytus 2y ago
1. Human "neural network" is few orders of magnitude more powerful than the best neural network available right now. 2. This might be obvious question but: Humans have two eyes and they are few centimeters apart so that we could u
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by Detrytus 2y ago
@proberts - not sure how that works, can you clarify? I know that normal B1/B2 visa in theory allows 6 months stay in the US, so is that what you are suggesting? If you are fired from your job then just pretend to be a tourist for the

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