George83728

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by George83728 3y ago
> "police who were near incompetent in their investigation, the forensics people who could barely maintain chain of evidence" Are you sure they were all bad at their jobs? It's certainly possible. But it's also
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The sort of private schools who retain lots of disruptive poor performers because of the money aren't the sort of private schools that perform well as schools. My statement that "private schools all [kick out bad students]"
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You're wrong, it's not treason. This is meant to be a legalistic society where crimes are defined by laws, not by how the word for the crime is popularly perceived by laypeople. The US Constitution defines treason. In America,
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> To improve outcomes you need a unified school district and limit the existence of private schools. The true rich will send their kids away to another state, or even another country, if that's what it takes to get their kids into
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> In my area, private schools routinely offer much better education at a fraction of the expenditure per child. Loads of money simply disappears into the corruption of the school system, but private schools know doing that means student
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Nah, just some water towers. You can fill the water towers slowly using small pumps, then drain them quick using gravity.
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> To me, this is the scariest part of Musk's desire to colonize Mars Not much sense getting scared about fantasy scenarios. Nobody is seriously working on a Mars colony, it's not happening anytime soon, if ever.
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That flow is even bigger than it looks, seriously impressive. > The IOP/SS peak flow rate is 1.1 million gallons per minute, high enough to empty roughly two Olympic-size swimming pools in one minute. https://www.nasa.g
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That's not an insurmountable problem, it just costs more money to deal with. People have been building structures below the water table for hundreds of years using cofferdams and caissons. Very realistic, just a bit pricey.
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What would be the point? Who'd pay for it? The real money is in launching satellites into orbit around earth and you don't need orbital propellant depots for that. Serious Mars colony customers don't exist. I know they&#x2
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Some dust dropped on the wilderness and ocean is a nonissue, it's a weak sneeze compared to what the mining and construction industries do every day without fanfare. The issue is the dust dropped on the people in that area.
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> What was determined is is not economically viable which even SpaceX has started to realize on some launches where they ditch the landing in order to be able to carry more payload. SpaceX hasn't "started to realize" tha
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The dust is a problem for the community in that immediate area on the order of miles, but on a planetary level it's nothing compared to the dust the mining, construction, etc industries produce. Per the ATF: "In 2015, the latest
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Meaningless gesture inspired more by Terminator movies than any real concern for such a scenario, which wouldn't happen in the first place unless they wanted it to.
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> this whole "tab into window" transformation is completely custom made by browsers and also at least somewhat hacky. Would be nice for microsoft to notice and make a 'tab' a native component, and automatically hand
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My guess is they probably didn't rely solely on this report, but confronted her with the report and she probably confessed and gave some excuse for it instead of saying "the report is wrong, call those other companies if you don&
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SpaceX have sought approval for 12,000 satellites, with a possible extension to 42,000. Right now they have less than 4,000. I think they have substantially fewer satellites than they believe they require, and the service is probably do
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> But I always wondered why stuff that literally grows on trees isn't cheap and abundant. American grocery stores sell bananas grown outside on trees for literal pennies each. Dirt cheap tropical fruit, arguably the CIA's f
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They've told their investors that everybody else does it wrong, to deliberately divorce their own valuation from reality. They don't want to be valued like a regular greenhouse company, they want to be valued as a cutting edge co
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Traditional 19th century greenhouse technology accomplishes this just fine; tropical fruits grown in temperate climates isn't wizardry. The problem is transportation of foods actually grown in the tropics has become much cheaper, so t
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For what it's worth, my batting average for getting problems fixed on the phone with a real person is substantially better than trying to sort problems out on a website. To the point that phone calls are now my first resort, before
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> Doom on a TI-84 Not really though. You played a different game using a much simpler sort of engine (probably a raycaster, similar to wolf3d) with much simpler level geometry (probably square on a grid, and probably without stairs, w