LaMarseillaise

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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
How do you know? If I were studying a primitive species, I would be no more interested in their war fighting than any other aspect of their society. Maybe that is just me. If they are concerned about our militaries more than other things, w
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
So China has put a probe on the Moon, launched a space station, and landed a rover on Mars, just in the last few months? Asteroid sample return is the next logical step. Looks like the second Space Age is in full swing.
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
> How do you divert a river and put it back on demand, with not even medieval technology? Now I am wondering how Kurus handled this situation after he took Babylon.
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
A fast neutron is more likely to cause fission, but much, much less likely to interact with a fissile nucleus in the first place.
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
Current US electricity. To decarbonize transportation and industry, we will need 200-300% more. That drops rooftops to 10%, and that does not account for night and winter (overbuilding and storage).
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
> Nuclear makes little sense for climate targets. I do not care only about the climate - I care about the environment. The entire planet should not be covered with solar panels and wind turbines. Whether or not it is more expensive, I su
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
> They are fairly different industries Funding for each may actually benefit the others. For example, FLiBe salt is being considered as a coolant in some Gen IV fission, as well as compact fusion and concentrated solar. Production will i
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
Imagine that Apple charges a 0% fee. They could still undercut the pricing of Spotify, using their vast resources, and accomplish the same.
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
No doubt fraud is an issue everywhere. The question is whether it incurs cost on the fraudster. You mentioned people who took the money for construction and disappeared - why were they not sued or prosecuted?
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
> Financing (credit cards, furniture rentals, payday loans, diversity business loans) has not made poor people in rich countries rich. Predatory loans are not the whole picture. Stock markets and business loans have made many poor people
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
> Africa needs more factories, more mills, more kilns, more technical know how. Building capital requires financing. Financing depends on trust and stability. From your description, it seems like the issue is an ineffective legal system
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by LaMarseillaise 5y ago
> Now they have an unfair advantage since Spotify must pay 30% to apple while apple music "pays" 0%. I think this does not account for the opportunity cost. If Apple Music competes with Spotify, then Apple Music implicitly pays
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by LaMarseillaise 6y ago
A helicopter... on Mars. That is not much? Also, over one hundred space shuttle flights, a space station, a space telescope, GPS, and public satellite photos.
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by LaMarseillaise 6y ago
Unfortunately, I think the numerous tangential and unsubstantiated comments in this very thread suggest that the strategy has been highly successful. While I imagine Dominion could win against Giuliani, he is only one person and this disinf
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by LaMarseillaise 6y ago
You’re right: Parler’s negligence led to user data being taken. Parler should be punished for this.
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by LaMarseillaise 6y ago
So you would rather gamble human civilization on the chance that it might not be true, with a psychopath that has shown he is willing to do anything to stay in office?
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by LaMarseillaise 6y ago
> and then stood around. They did not just stand around [1]. This was extremely violent, and they intended to murder people. Deterrence meant nothing to them. They were only stopped because the Capitol Police and Secret Service shot one
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by LaMarseillaise 6y ago
Except it is not just a name: standard time is supposed to indicate that the sun is at its zenith at noon somewhere in a timezone. If we do not care about that, why not abolish all timezones while we are at it?
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by LaMarseillaise 6y ago
I keep seeing and hearing this sentiment, but I think it is a false dichotomy. There have been places that responded effectively to the crisis without lockdowns (Iceland, for example). The choices are not strict, widespread, extended lockdo
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by LaMarseillaise 6y ago
> a profession that has some limitation to demand This is the lump of labor fallacy. No profession is so fundamentally limited in the long term and no skills are set in stone. The article explains the national labor market effects (lower
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by LaMarseillaise 6y ago
> Have you ever lived near a Ppwer Plant? Yes. > In the case of a melt down, as San Onofre is both on the Pacific coast line as well as along the San Andreas fault line so it was just a matter of time, we would all die. Some slower th
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by LaMarseillaise 6y ago
Genuinely curious: do you have sources showing this?
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by LaMarseillaise 7y ago
And that is why Adams, not Jefferson, should be on the $2 bill.
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by LaMarseillaise 7y ago
This has already killed many times the number of people that Chernobyl did.
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by LaMarseillaise 7y ago
I can understand this sentiment, but I am now imagining criminals deliberately destroying body cameras.
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by LaMarseillaise 7y ago
> soviet arctic light-houses I had heard these used Strontium(/Yttrium)-90 (β), but I might have been misinformed. Do you know where I can find more information about this subject?
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by LaMarseillaise 7y ago
I believe dfox is referring to this incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1#Accident_and_response
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by LaMarseillaise 7y ago
lovemenot is correct. I do not think drones are evil.
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by LaMarseillaise 7y ago
I think it must be mentioned that in addition to fission and fusion (ITER) work, General Atomics is the creator of the MQ-9 Reaper, which is commonly used for drone strikes. A software job at this company may involve work on these aircraft.
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by LaMarseillaise 7y ago
Thank you for your honest reply. I have heard of efforts in India and China to develop and build out nuclear fission plants, though I do not know the scale of these plans. However, even ITER (the largest fusion project right now) has a budg

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