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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Good but it should probably be mentioned that solar power production and transmission from geostationary orbit (where the sunlight is nearly constant) would work better and have the same positional advantage. Costs have to be considered, of
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
The US etc has passed through a few cycles of media control/moderation vs media anarchy; first with print, then radio, then TV - now youtube which is now trying to be restrictive atm but has a sordid rabbit-hole past. If you grew up wh
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Nuke the moon! Right now the topography of the poles necessitates quite tall towers to get into perpetual sunlight; but a bunch of judiciously placed nukes could easily take away most of the shadow-bringers (crater rims) and reduce the towe
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Tacitus only tells us - at most - that in the time of Nero, there were religious people who thought Jesus existed. Not whether Paul, etc were doing a lot of inventing. Not contemporary with Jesus.
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
I think you've misunderstood the question. He doesn't want a job, he wants a job where he'll get use his special sauce. All managers spend a ton of time on people problems, and onboarding/training. But CTOs do or can do
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
In other words, abandon hope of finding the rare employer who'll get what you can bring to the table right from the jump. Just get a pigeon-hole job like everyone else. But he's not that - he could have specialized like the rest o
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
You want to find a rare employer who is looking for people just like you. Elon's one, Parker another. All you need is a list of your interests and knowlege (which you've already given, really), and maybe a bare excuse to hire you
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Yet polymath doesn't even mean "good", it means Jack-of-all-trades (master of none.) If you want to say "aspirationally a polymath," that might go down easier. Still, you need to be in a rare corporate body that und
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Mao received oodles of support from the USSR, the Long March was the Reds fleeing northward to where they could still get that support, and then being able to punch further East. The KMT was also a revolutionary force (against foreign domin
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Indeed, he'd had plenty himself from the USSR.
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
The US is large, true. More a matter of control points, such as Harper's Ferry. That's where Lee had to punch through to get to Antietam, in 1862, for example. https://www.nps.gov/hafe/learn/historycultur
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
It did not begin as a guerrilla war, true; but the abject failure of that initial effort made it clear to Washington that the war had to continue as an irregular war without set front lines or attempts to directly take back New York or Bost
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Re aristocracy, I only mean that change happens drop by drop even when the movement toward it is all but invisible, sometimes.
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
There's a good recent analysis of the hospital stats vs vaccination rates over time, amongst other things. But remember, our defense against viruses includes having infected cells kill themselves, so damage is always widespread over th
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
It gave me a reflexive distrust of both sides. Govt officials utterly ignorant of the published research and happy to contradict it then reverse themselves next week; and unread citizens cheerfully making up their own fantasy worlds. I was
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Heart problems caused by the virus, especially if you haven't been vaccinated, are far more frequent and severe than from the vaccination. Our immune system is powerful and can hurt us all by itself; but it's powerful because it h
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
History strongly shows that epidemics do change political consciousness, toward psychological conservatism. It will take two generations (as with economic depressions) before things get anything like as loose and sloppy again. We'll fa
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Well, it's always been annoying for Canadians, I can tell you that. Harmful? No, it shows considerable narcissism, which ain't incorrect; so let's say it's more of a valid indicator giving foreigners a bit of a heads up
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
It's a maxim that guerrilla wars succeed with a lot of external help and supply, if they succeed at all, throughout history. That's fact. The French were financial supporters from before the shooting began; and supplied high tech
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Good point, distilled beverages (gin) affordable for the poor, hit Britain like a brick in the face in the 1700s. Whiskey in the U.S.
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Summary - and interpretation - from memory of a lot of reading: Background: Humans are highly unusual amongst mammals; our livers are more than ten thousand times IIRC better at burning off alcohol than any other known mammal, and this is a
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
It's almost as bonkers as Medvedev's prediction list on Twitter (which I just saw and Elon highlighted to troll him) or will look that bonkers in a year; but flipped.
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
bit flip hard to detect - true for RAW, false for .jpg or other compressed files.
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
If your pictures are not RAW but compressed (say jpgs) then the corrupted photos will really jump out at you - half the picture is there, but then noise. I used to make sure I was storing jpgs not RAW, but then learned that wasn't alwa
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Turns out it's okay nutritionally to feed ducks (for example) fresh (thawed frozen) peas. Just not bread. Changing their habits might be a different consideration.
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Having heard stories of my homesteading great-grandparents being chased 'round and 'round their sod house by a steer while screaming at their significant other to "open the **ing door, for **'* sake!" I'm gonna
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
I've seen a woodpecker (I think it was) and a crow combine to challenge a falcon, in Edmonton repeatedly; although not in the air. The competition was for tree tops in the ravine and lasted a while with the smaller birds zooming up to
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Evolution prepared us for nomadic life, not this life. Do take a look at "The Old Way." How children are in a nomadic tribe; and our experience of what children are like is way, way different. They're better company, more mat
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
'Tis true. Even sixty years ago, kids (7 or 8 and older) walked long distances in cities to school and then hung out in packs for hours 'till the streetlights came on. Not every day but a lot. This does seem to be a pretty good (s
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
On the one hand, by the principle of charity, what was meant was that modern cities can't function without automobiles, not that ancient Sumeria required automobiles. Straw man. On the other hand, by the principle of charity, what&#x27

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