Hondor

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by Hondor 10y ago
This is the "too big to fail" that the GP described. Do you really want a world where a company can evade the law just by getting enough people to depend on it? An important idea of rule of law is that it applies equally to everyo
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by Hondor 10y ago
If a terrorist wanted to kill a lot of people confined into too small space to run away, what better target than these densely packed zig-zag queues? Really, what's the point of protecting a plane carrying hundreds of people by putting
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by Hondor 10y ago
Misinformed people are already effectively excluded from voting. They're the people who stick to one party no matter what. These blind supporters of each party cancel out each other's votes, leaving the actual decision to people w
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by Hondor 10y ago
Made in America isn't really an important scaleable value. For American customers it plays on their patriotism. For overseas customers it plays on the perceived quality of American products. In both cases, it's just marketing tric
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by Hondor 10y ago
Reusing the 1st stage seems to impose a massive penalty on the payload. Chopping it down to 1/3 for the Falcon Heavy to GTO (8000 kg vs 22000 kg). In case I'm misunderstanding, do these term have these meanings? mT = metric tonne?
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by Hondor 10y ago
That suggests a whole new type of power generation - moving rocks from mountains down to sea level. It would also have the advantage of creating more level land that could be more suitable for farming and construction. Not sustainable at a
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by Hondor 10y ago
That was the analyst making a mistake, not a bug in the software. They used poorly shaped or too few elements which lead to an underestimate of the stress. This has always been a well known limitation of the finite element method and any co
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by Hondor 10y ago
You could say it also took us to a place where there are no more Elvis's, Michael Jacksons, Beatles or Queens. This might just be my perspective failure due to growing old but maybe the quality of music has degenerated into singers sho
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by Hondor 10y ago
This is why it's a lopsided to blame the publishers. Look at the incentives: Whether publishers give away their papers openly can make or break their business. Where researchers publish in open or closed journals can make or break thei
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by Hondor 10y ago
I'm rooting for Bing simply because Google search has no real competitors in the west. I'm sure Bing's accuracy and bot coverage/speed will improve with time, while Google might be kind of at the peak. Hopefully in the f
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by Hondor 10y ago
sin(8 degrees) = 8/100 ? More like 8/50. But nonetheless, that is a horrible mix of units. And who even knows how many feet in a mile?
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by Hondor 10y ago
If the business model of Elsevier/etc somehow collapses, I wonder how universities will make hiring decisions? They high fees of their journals are effectively a recruitment or candidate selection service paid by university libraries a
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by Hondor 11y ago
In both cases, don't forget who it's addressed to - people who have made rude, unreasonable demands and threats. Those people are bullies so it's fair to insult them.
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by Hondor 11y ago
They're completely above board. It's still the RMB currency just using and app to pass it around between people's app accounts and bank accounts. Bitcoin on the other hand is restricted I believe, so is exchanging RMB for for
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by Hondor 11y ago
That's good news for freedom. It seems flag burning was illegal before 1990, and very nearly became illegal again a couple of years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_Protection_Act It's true most other
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by Hondor 11y ago
It always find it surprising that Americans say they have the right to own guns but whenever something else goes wrong, owning or carrying a gun seems to cause massively greater punishment. Shouldn't it be illegal to discriminate again
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by Hondor 11y ago
People are saying he was "unhinged" or mentally ill, but it sounds like he was simply sucked into an online scam. That happens to normal people all the time (even professionals through "whaling"). If you believe your sca
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by Hondor 11y ago
The whole point of making public posts is because they want lots of people to see them. So who cares if the school sees them too? That's part of the public. It's not spying if the spyee is intentionally broadcasting the informatio
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by Hondor 11y ago
No country has free speech. But in choosing a country, you can choose which types of speech you want to be allowed to make freely and which types you want to be protected from other people making. America gets its free speech by defining th
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by Hondor 11y ago
A bit tangential, but something fantastic it mentions is electronic payment. In China it's already like living in the future. Most shops accept WeChat or Alipay. Everything from chain supermarkets down to the old lady selling vegetable