NLips

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by NLips 8y ago
A favourite fact of mine: Every point in the UK is more northerly than every point in the contiguous USA (i.e. excluding Alaska). Take that and think about winter in Minnesota vs winter in England. The sea and the Gulf Stream provide a lo
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by NLips 8y ago
""" the UK can't say to any of them "Hold on a minute. Are you even a fit?" """ This only applies to workers, which roughly means that if they have a genuine job there. Historically, the UK has
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by NLips 8y ago
While I dislike the ban on e.g. religious garments, it can still be coherent to ban face covering and ban face recording.
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by NLips 8y ago
It's difficult to persuade people to have fewer children, since the people alive today generally inherit the trait of wanting children. Further to that, I'm not sure it's a good idea anyway in many cases if you're worrie
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by NLips 8y ago
Hybrids typically run the engine at or close to peak efficiency all the time, which more than makes up for transmission losses. In contrast, traditional ICE-only powered vehicles have to run the engine at a range of speeds, some of which a
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by NLips 8y ago
Vanguard total stock market index VTSMX 2012 low: 31.76 2012 high: 36.72 2016 low: 45.03 2016 high: 57.17 2016 high pre-election: 54.84 So the worst you possibly could have done between 2012 and 2016 was a 22.6% gain. Using more middling p
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by NLips 8y ago
Being charitable, I think the parent means that the python developer sticks all the dependencies in a directory and creates a bash script to set PYTHONPATH and launch. The user receives a directory rather than an executable, but only has t
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by NLips 8y ago
"Biological needs and taking a break don't necessitate 20-30 minutes every 300 miles, though." They really should. If you don't need to stop for a loo break after ~4 hours (at 75mph), you're not drinking properly.
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by NLips 8y ago
It may sound like a minor correction, but track bikes are uncommon* on the road. You probably mean road bikes. The important difference is that track bikes do not have brakes. Most bikes on the road do. *Yes - there are people cycling on
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by NLips 8y ago
My advice (can't remember where this is stolen from) when you need to fix a production issue in a short amount of time: Don't just do something; sit there!
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by NLips 8y ago
That's how I see it, and there'd be no point if no further information is exchanged. As a sibling comment says, some people use it more like a ping, where I'm uncomfortable using something other than a more traditional greet
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by NLips 8y ago
However, blowing up a bomb on a cruising plane will probably kill everyone. Blowing up a bomb on a cruising train will probably not - many people will be far from the blast and derailing trains are more survivable than planes breaking up a
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by NLips 8y ago
Many places do say the same about commercial ads, for example, banning advertisements for cigarettes. A key difference in many cases is that my life and the world are much less affected by me choosing to go to KFC instead of MacDonalds, tha
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by NLips 8y ago
You did mention that "F1 cars go a little bit slowly". The difference is that speed is pretty much irrelevant. It's sub/trans/super-sonic that matters.
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by NLips 8y ago
The key point you're missing is that subsonic and supersonic flows are very different - in terms of fluid dynamics, supersonic planes are not just faster than subsonic planes. Commercial jets and F1 cars are optimised for subsonic flo
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by NLips 8y ago
Pretty sure all the parent's questions were healthcare related: [What happens to my healthcare] if I want to start a business? [What happens to my healthcare] if I want to go back to college? ...
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by NLips 8y ago
The research is pretty poor. The main problem is that all physical punishment is landed into a single pot, but there is clearly a world of difference slapping a fifteen year old in the face and slapping the bottom of a four year old. See h
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by NLips 8y ago
Actually the evidence is extremely poor, largely because 'spanking' seems to cover anything from a slap on the bottom to beating around the face with your fists. If you have evidence to the contrary, please provide it.
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by NLips 8y ago
It really is the case. VOIP in the middle isn't a problem. MGCs can translate between the callee's phone being on-hook to a SIP re-INVITE with inactive media. In fact, I've worked on projects in the last few years to do ju
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by NLips 8y ago
Telecoms + networking software engineer here: 'tis true - the caller has call release control on the PSTN i.e. the call doesn't end until the caller puts down the phone. There's special handling for e.g. 911 calls so that ca
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by NLips 8y ago
This show is verging on ridiculous for me - I am so out of my depth listening to it. But I appreciate that the BBC produce it for those who like it. Other quizes of various difficulties include University Challenge, and Mastermind. Both h
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by NLips 8y ago
Not sure whether what you're describing is different; I understand UK law is that you have to have free* entry as an option otherwise it's gambling, and the company has different regulations plus a bunch more tax to pay. Most com
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by NLips 8y ago
Your quote directly contradicts your assertion. On Gershoff's meta-analysis, from your meta-analysis link: "...most of the research on physical punishment “lumps” together nonabusive and customary punishment with ove
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by NLips 8y ago
From the abstract at that link: "The results indicated that effect sizes significantly favored conditional spanking over 10 of 13 alternative disciplinary tactics for reducing child noncompliance or antisocial behavior. Customary physi
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by NLips 8y ago
I have children (too young for this to matter yet) and I have the same discomfort. I was 'smacked' on the bottom sometimes as a child - no real idea about the frequency as this would now be a long time ago. Small children don&#x
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by NLips 8y ago
What's sad is that the focus of the article is how a young person didn't recognise Bob Dylan, and there's an implication that if the police don't know you're a famous musician, it's no OK to walk in the rain.
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by NLips 8y ago
Please can you explain what you mean by manually braking? At its core, ABS releases the brakes for a wheel when it detects that wheel skidding. Braking is still manual until the locking point. Having ABS enables a driver to slam the brak
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by NLips 8y ago
This is absolutely correct. If you are driving on a loose service (not just _packed_ snow) like snow or gravel, emergency braking is faster without ABS because skidding the wheels causes the material to bunch up in front of the wheels, dra
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by NLips 8y ago
Yes, it is recommended. ABS pumps much faster and with more control than most, if not all drivers. Modern cars also re-balance braking between front/rear and left/right. Anti-lock brakes are forbidden in Formula 1 in order to ma
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by NLips 8y ago
I'll agree that the way you think of ABS should be unlike how you think of cruise control, but you shouldn't lump it in with automatic braking or adaptive cruise control. You just never need to think about ABS. It removes the ne

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