GravitasFailure

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by GravitasFailure 5y ago
Fine. Estranged widow. The point is if anyone has control of his legacy, it's her, and the director claims to have consulted his widow which couldn't really be anyone other than her, which means one of them is lying about giving t
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by GravitasFailure 5y ago
> She's not his widow, she's his estranged ex-wife. That's incorrect. They were still married when he died and most of Bourdain's estate was left to their daughter with Ottavia overseeing it. "The family," i
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by GravitasFailure 5y ago
One of the huge problems with making generic drugs is that you need to demonstrate that your drug does the same thing as the real deal, which isn't as expensive as phase I, II, and III trials for bringing a completely new product to ma
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by GravitasFailure 5y ago
There's a research exemption to patent law in the US, but that might not apply if they're publishing the details with a how-to manual.
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by GravitasFailure 5y ago
>How hard would it be to ban trade with China? It depends. A lot of why China is such a manufacturing powerhouse right now is not only do they have the factories and machines, they have people trained to do that kind of work. They also h
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by GravitasFailure 5y ago
Don't forget that lithium batteries tend to burst into flames if you hit them hard enough. Dumping your batteries can too easily become a bombing run. Also, Jet-A doesn't burst into flames like gasoline. Even if you soak an area w
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by GravitasFailure 5y ago
Corporate Average Fuel Economy. It's a regulation mandating fuel efficiency for vehicles. https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/corporate-average-fue... is the full explanation.
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by GravitasFailure 5y ago
A a route that serves a few hundred passengers a day is also potentially profitable for an airline while a train would likely not be unless there's existing infrastructure that can be leveraged. Also, if nobody needs that route to be s
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by GravitasFailure 5y ago
>People have even built computers in an atmosphere of pure DHMO Shouldn't that be "hydrosphere"? Though Babbage's steam powered Difference Engine might count as making use of a "water atmosphere." And just f
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by GravitasFailure 5y ago
Losing Earth's hydrogen to space would require a stupendously long wait. Maybe freeing all of it at once would help speed the process asking, but the first lightning strike, volcanic eruption, or meteor would just ignite it all back to
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by GravitasFailure 5y ago
I believe you're thinking of the GPS/Gyro locks that certain high end Japanese CNC machines have, and the ITAR compliance issues many CNC machines are subject to for export. The locks were implemented because somehow Iran got thei
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by GravitasFailure 5y ago
You could try browsing via i.reddit.com, which is an older mobile version, or a third party app with a better UI.
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by GravitasFailure 5y ago
Changmiania liaoningensis, named after the Liaoning province, comes to mind, and a trilobite named Han Solo[0] after the Han people of China. There are entire lists named after Harry Potter[1], Tolkien[2], and Pokemon[3]. Scientists are bot
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by GravitasFailure 5y ago
To really put the cherry on top, it appears there were even large cities further north that we didn't know about until fairly recently, such as Cahokia[0]. Gardens built on rafts were functionally an early form of aquaculture, too.[1][