InclinedPlane

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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
It wasn't actually expected to last much longer than 90 days, that it did was essentially a miracle, not just good engineering. At the time the MER vehicles were built we knew enough about Martian dust to know that it would be a seve
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
I truly do not understand this mentality. Why not simply check / look up the word? You don't even have to try a dictionary these days, google will give you definitions if you just use a word as a search term.
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Measles is incredibly bad. What people have found is that the introduction of measles vaccination in a country inevitably leads to a significant decrease in all cause mortality, which doesn't seem to be explained by a reduction in meas
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Don't be flippant. Marijuana criminalization and the war on drugs causes a vast amount of harm to the entire country, including millions of lives ruined or cut short. Just recently a completely innocent couple were gunned down in their
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Honestly? When my bosses were on extended leave and I had little oversight and could do whatever the hell I wanted. I got so much done.
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Which only applies to some kinds of boats. Many other boats won't have the same issue.
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Basically any multi-hull or deep keel boat should do fine.
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
By god! If that short term random fluctuation continued as a long term trend the Earth would continue cooling forever! You've cracked global warming, what an incredible accomplishment! (Another another way of wording the headline would
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Itanium represents a classic case of jumping architectures and committing too soon. Any mature system represents not just the sum of a huge amount of design work but also an untold number of hours (years really) of beta testing, bug fixing,
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
The people who built the Alpha went on to work at AMD and built the Athlon. Most of the innovations in that platform ended up filtering into the Intel Core 2 and Core i7 architecture as well.
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
"Soy milk" as a term in the english language dates back to the late 1890s. It's a term that has been in common use for a very long period.
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
I drink unsweetened soy milk, it contains 1g of sugar per serving. Even the fully sweetened variant contains only about 2/3 the sugar content of regular milk.
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Do you have one printed in a reputable peer reviewed journal?
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Interesting, can you point to a paper outlining this theory and how it matches all of the extensive observations that otherwise have supported the theory of dark matter?
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Question: would policing in the US be easier without the 4th amendment? Would it matter if the answer was yes?
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
I dunno, there's plenty of twitter that is just plain weird. Full of bizarre dadaist humor and all sorts of super referential jokes that require like a bibliography unless you are up to speed in the relevant sub-communities where the o
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
You might be confusing buzzfeed with buzzfeed news. Buzzfeed news is a recognized legitimate journalistic organization that has been nominated for and won many prestigious journalism awards (they were finalists for the 2017 and 2018 Pulitze
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Technical people who are intrinsically motivated (typically the best and most productive people) often are the sort of people who find working with other high caliber people to be an important and highly valuable part of their work experien
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Nobody needs to watch an Alex Jones video to have an opinion on the man. He is a garbage person who spreads lies and propaganda. This isn't an opinion, this is Jones' own admission in court of what his program represents.
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Question: have you ever bought anything from a targeted ad? Do you go out of your way to try to buy things from ads in the media you read? Do you feel bad if you don't make buy anything that was advertised to you in said media? Why or
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
> But the company had discovered that more than 9 percent of the money it made from children was being clawed back by the credit card companies. > In comparison, the average chargeback rate for businesses is 0.5 percent, according
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Unlike sane countries if the US government doesn't pass a budget in time then federal workers can go unpaid. Many federal workers are nevertheless still forced to work (via summons) despite not being paid. This particular shutdown is d
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Extreme cold is easier to deal with. Consider, for example, how many different kinds of heaters there are: wood stoves, gas stoves, gas or oil furnaces, heat pumps, steam radiators, etc. And some of them are centuries old technology. In c
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
There are automated systems that monitor the moon for impacts regularly, however they don't watch during a full moon because it's too bright (except during a lunar eclipse).
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
When the statistics back it up? Yes, it's possible for the rich to get richer while the poor also get richer. It's also possible for the rich to get richer by taking all the economic gains for themselves, leaving the poor to stagn
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
I think the OP meant "freaking out" as in "putting a universal sense of urgency behind our efforts at correction and remediation". There seems to be zero sense of urgency behind a lot of these issues today, especially at
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
There are plenty of good arguments against cars, this is not one of them, this is not even remotely intellectually honest.
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
> Being frugal, I still wanted to dabble with money-making opportunities at my disposal. That... does not sound frugal to me. Frugal is working some part-time job during your time off, keeping your expenses low, and maintaining your savi
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Not to mention how much it cost in time to do all that work. Index funds don't incur any opportunity cost overhead in terms of your own time, they are fire and forget.
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Most people I know have not bothered to learn any math beyond algebra, and try to forget what algebra they did learn, they still seem to be doing pretty well. You can always limit yourself and pretend that's "enough" but it c

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