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by NonContro 5y ago
Maybe dismantling the nuclear industry was a bad idea? Particularly when the politician who oversaw it is now working for Rosneft: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/dec/13/russia.germany If anything
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by NonContro 5y ago
"On February 8, 2011, the NHTSA, in collaboration with NASA, released its findings into the investigation on the Toyota drive-by-wire throttle system. After a 10-month search, NASA and NHTSA scientists found no electronic defect in Toy
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by NonContro 5y ago
I'm not aware of any examples where car software 'crashed', in any vehicle, causing the vehicle itself to physically crash. And if you're talking about FSD, most of those instances are from exceptions eg. unexpected pede
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Tunnels are simpler when you remove fossil-fuel exhausts and human drivers from the equation, ie. Teslas with FSD only. You don't need as much ventilation since there are no products of combustion to exhaust, and the risk of crashes fr
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by NonContro 5y ago
Not really, because if there are long-term side effects, we need to have a control group. For example, the vaccine used for the 2009 Swine Flu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemrix "Pandemrix was found to be as
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by NonContro 5y ago
The popular attitude to the pandemic is set by politicians and the media. If those groups want urgent action on climate change, they will get it. Those groups wanted lockdowns, and they got it (along with most of the $5.2trillion printed in
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by NonContro 5y ago
"Godot does not officially support consoles (save for XBox One via UWP) currently. The reasons for this are: To develop for consoles, one must be licensed as a company. Godot, as an open source project, does not have such a legal figur
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by NonContro 5y ago
Part of the fatigue is the intense level of PPE. Its physically exhausting and usually just theatre because so many healthcare workers are either vaccinated or have already had COVID.
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by NonContro 5y ago
You're ignoring that a significant portion of #2 have already got resistance via infection. There is no point whatsoever for those people to get vaccinated, apart from padding out the pockets of Big Pharma. With the scale of vaccinat
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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7... Seroprevalence has been measured at 74% for Ultra-Orthodox Jewish populations in the UK. Its not a surprise that ethnic and religious minorities
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by NonContro 5y ago
"Nearly 72% of volunteers treated with ivermectin tested negative for the virus by day six. In contrast, only 50% of those who received the placebo tested negative. IN ADDITION, the study looked at culture viability, meaning how infect
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by NonContro 5y ago
One of the major advantages of being a small businessperson is rarely talked about: the ability to minimise taxes. You can live in your workplace, have a company car, company utilities, company equipment. Some customers will pay you cash. Y
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by NonContro 5y ago
You're probably right. It makes more sense to sell those mass-produced floorplans to architects, who will make slight tweaks for local conditions and perhaps pay via subscription, rather than directly to consumers who will probably jus
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by NonContro 5y ago
I'm planning to build a house, and it has surprised me that standardised house plans are not readily available online - particularly for European weather conditions - the emphasis is instead on custom floorplans. Creating new designs m
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by NonContro 5y ago
Lebanon is basically reverting to mean, going from a multi-cultural and Christian dominated nation, to a Muslim nation: https://www.economist.com/img/b/580/852/90/sites/default/fil... The
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by NonContro 5y ago
China should just ban free2play games - that's where the addictiveness is concentrated. Require every game to have a minimum upfront price. It would be great for the industry and refocus publishers on creativity.
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by NonContro 5y ago
A lot of these labour shortages will unwind when the eviction moratoriums and COVID-era Federal unemployment payments expire. I guess businesses just need to hold out until then.
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by NonContro 5y ago
Rebuilding a modern generation of modular nuclear power plants would be a good idea. Natural gas prices have just spiked in Europe because Russia is limiting supply. Solar and Wind can work but there are big demand management problems, and
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by NonContro 5y ago
There's a big systematic inequality in gaming, particularly PC gaming where Blizzard's products are most popular. Blizzard has its own launcher, which means they can sell directly to customers, at 0% commissions. Any new Indies ha
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Natural gas crunch sends European prices hurtling higher(ft.com)
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by NonContro 5y ago
Sir Peter Scott, Founder, WWF (1909-1989) “You know, I have often thought that at the end of the day, we would have saved more wildlife if we had spent all WWF's money on buying condoms.” We'll do more for the planet and for human
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by NonContro 5y ago
Won't all extraterrestrial life just look like crabs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
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by NonContro 5y ago
I'm noting a big rise in propaganda encouraging millennials to lower their quality of life expectations. Instead, we should be raising property taxes on baby-boomers (perhaps with land taxes of 1% annually, with credits for the number
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by NonContro 5y ago
At the same time as Moderna and Pfizer increase prices by 25%: https://www.ft.com/content/d415a01e-d065-44a9-bad4-f9235aa04... I think the vaccines are a good idea if you are in the risk categories, and if you havn&#x2
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New Startup 'Sentral' Pushes High-End Rental/Homesharing Apartments(seattlepi.com)
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by NonContro 5y ago
The gender imbalance is another problem. China needs more young people to be happy to be factory workers forever, instead of seeking out white-collar jobs. But many young men and their parents are convinced that a University degree is essen
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by NonContro 5y ago
As an aside, its also a a reason why immigration from poor countries is so dangerous - people in the 2nd/3rd world have much simpler lifestyles and are thus willing to accept much lower salaries. Note, I am from Ukraine, and I am speak
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by NonContro 5y ago
The developing world has cheap communal kitchens, and so cooking at home is optional. In my country (Ukraine) its cheaper to go to a restaurant for 'business lunch' which is soup, potatoes+vegetables+meat, and juice, for $3.35. As
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by NonContro 5y ago
Companies pay you minimum you're willing to accept. People don't have a habit of accepting jobs they know will cause their personal budgets to run red.
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by NonContro 5y ago
What you are describing is rent-seeking. Its easy to make money when house values and the stock market are expanding greater than the cost of money, particularly when you buy in at the start of the bubble. Typically the limitation for real

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