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by DocTomoe 4y ago
The names we have been able to know by now would indicate that theory to be wrong - or Microsoft has a warped idea of what constitutes as a low-performer.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Friendly reminder that a private company with launch capability currently is massively increasing the space junk problem and about to trigger the Kessler scenario for a quick buck and internet access without cables, while at the same time r
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> ruined a Van Gogh for a climate protest tried to ruin. The painting was protected by a piece of protective glass. Doesn't mean these kids shouldn't be prosecuted, but the good news is that a priceless piece of cultural herita
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
In a non-corrupt civil society, the solution to this problem would have to have a much stricter and more punishing criminal code for law enforcement officers - if they get special rights and protections, they should be held especially accou
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Nah, the eierlegende Wollmilchsau is good for everything, but unattainable. Our government is good for nothing, but we can't get rid of it. So ... it's the exact opposite.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Sure - but with HDDs, you tend to just move all your stuff during each update cycle, because the new generation then tends to have a multiple of the capacity you've had before. CDs/DVDs/... feel very much more like a "lo
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
A pardon does not remove anything from your record. It is about forgiving, not expunging. As for civil rights (e.g. the rights to vote or the right to bear arms), they often are state matters and a federal pardon does not grant them back. I
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Without going too deep in Japanese real estate planning laws, iirc most I am aware of are more a "national guideline" and are frequently overridden by prefectures and cities. That's hardly on the level of actual national-plan
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> Any person who feels excluded from participating in the Free Software movement is a loss. Yes, but not every loss is equal, and in a changing world, growing groups will eventually reach a point where not everyone who wants to play will
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
I would expect them to make more money selling special stamps to collectors (who then quickly make them disappear without ever using them) than they make by delivering mail. Better not disturb a business line like that.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
So I flew Emirates First the other day. They now have virtual windows in some suites, which are linked to cameras outside of the plane. That worked surprisingly well, and after a few moments I forgot about having booked an aisle seat. I wou
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
The test is about whether such an evacuation is theoretically possible, not if it is realistic under any conceivable circumstance (half the plane gone, blocked exits, plane resting at an incline, smoke and/or fire and/or water in
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> concept for the 787 Such designs come up every once in a while in civil aviation - but then disappear, mostly because they would require new (expensive) airport infrastructure. Just remember that when the A380 came out, every major air
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
And - in all fairness - enriching yourself only is the side-effect, the major other output being "there now is a (more) desirable place". People want to live at increasingly more desirable places, and that is true even more so for
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
That's the point: In my example, an actual seizure of the account has not happened. Just because a state actor declares an item seized does not make it so - seizure implies having taken possession of the item at question (see, e.g. [1]
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Think of it this way: A state actor has identified funds on a offshore bank account that they do not have a controlling access to. They did seize a computer that has been used in the past to access that bank account. The bank accounts owner
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Prototypes came up with Micro-USB and USB-C before either were released to the public, which then - in millions of tests - realized these are nimble things that break easily as compared to the rather robust Lightning connector. Creating som
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
>That compound word is obviously never used in conversation so I don't think proficiency factors into it. It is in discussions about how the duties on surveilling the labelling beef on packaging are distributed (which is what this l
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> 2001 Selbach-Oster Wehlener Sonnenheur Riesling Spaetlese Feinherb It is a dry (feinherb) white (Riesling is a white wine berry variety) wine that has been harvested late in the season (Spätlese), making it have a higher alcohol level.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Oh, I believe both. Things can both be a real problem to be tackled and the basis for ultimately useless fear-mongering. Usually, the evil Greens focus on the latter.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
In fact, in the 1970s, the German Green Party proposed replacing nuclear with more coal power plants. They were anti-nuclear first, the whole CO2 thing only ever started to get traction with them when they won their first Atomausstieg and n
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Also, and this is a big one: DALL-E has an overzealous filter, which blocks seemingly harmless prompts as "violating content guidelines". Look, I get it: They don't want to be in the news for producing porn or gore. But if yo
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
That's the crux with all kinds of fundamental research, isn't it? Everyone considers it a basically useless wild goose change until sometimes, something comes along that completely restructures our understanding of the universe. I
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
What is uncanny is how the US started taking notice of NS2 around 2020, with Congress threatening sanctions against Germany [1], and Biden ominously talking about how there's going to be "no more Nord Stream 2" [2]. [1] http
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
People tend to forget that while gas is being used for energy production, it is also being used as basis of chemical processes, e.g. for ammonia production, which then starts a whole chain of products (most prominently: carbonic acid, ferti
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
This is a surprisingly bad headline for an article, giving absolutely no context about what I am supposed to take an interest in as a reader. This is about a physicist claiming she is being ostracised because she has professional views abou
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
At risk of being a massively unpopular opinion: Ukraine has a track record of being an unreliable trading entity against other European countries, to the point where it looks like they were actively stealing gas that was sold by Russia to e
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
At this time, and with the different claims (use of sex toys as a cheating device, "I can't name specifics" wink wink), and with the pacing this comes up (every 7-10 days), I get the distinct impression that this is more abou
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
The United States. Poland. Ukraine. Non-Russian gas suppliers. In that order.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Ukraine will be fine, post-war, with Germany buying Russian gas that went through pipelines on Ukrainian soils, because they get paid transit fees. No transit fees necessary for Nord Stream.

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