Pristina

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by Pristina 8y ago
>because they are essentially owned by the local factories. And who own those factories, if not people?
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by Pristina 8y ago
last time i check liquid fuel has 50x the energy density of battery. so to get to /4, you would need a 12x increase. >since one of the reasons liquid fuel can store so much energy in such a compact and lightweight form is that it do
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by Pristina 8y ago
physical mail is hardly more secured than email. 'literally anybody' could is in front of your house and fish all the mails straight from your mailbox while you are at work.
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by Pristina 8y ago
>the lack of a reason then be scared of life itself
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by Pristina 8y ago
just soak your fresh vegies in 10% bleach and you will be fine
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by Pristina 8y ago
The implication, of course, if that if the founder had been a male, this would be a less big deal?
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by Pristina 8y ago
It's like you have no respect for people's agency at all.
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by Pristina 8y ago
If you only count 'conventional warfare' as part of the war, then yeah. But time is always on the side of the defender, especially against overwhelming force. You beat a sprinter by making it a marathon.
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by Pristina 8y ago
Nuclear is too scary. Last time there was an earthquake that wiped out 10000 people and shutdown a bunch of reactors (nobody died from the reactors), a country shut down all their nuclear power plants. It would take a HUGE amount of effort
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by Pristina 8y ago
>Frank-Lin Distillers' Is this a partnership between a white and chinese guy, or founded by a child of a white and chinese couple, or just a guy named Franklin?
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by Pristina 8y ago
>This to me is a reminder why it is so important that the people control the means of production The irony of this is palpable. The communist government, who got there trumpeting this exact ideology, would be stopped by the exact same th
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by Pristina 8y ago
I read that and it seems wrong. The question asked "what fraction of the pop is female" but his argument is that 3 families of 4 girls and 1 family of 12 boys make the fraction of girls in the average family 75% (the average of 10
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by Pristina 8y ago
Imagine yourself writing a javascript library to do some mundane thing then releasing it as GPL and then somebody made a slightly modified copy of it and licenses it to google for 5M a year.
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by Pristina 8y ago
You know, arts and bitcoins are alike in this way.
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by Pristina 8y ago
>I suppose the only drawback here is that they're issued from a centralized authority. you know what they say: "those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it". >A cryptocurrency that stays the same value is
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by Pristina 8y ago
People's relationship with death is wrong. It is mostly responsible for our terrible relationship with religion and rationality (believing in life after death and all the BS that come packaged with it). It is mostly responsible for our
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by Pristina 8y ago
That's some real life CSI stuff.
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by Pristina 8y ago
Yeah I know right. Just like how the invention of cars put all those rickshaw driver, horse breeders, horseshoe makers, hayrollers, cart makers, wheelwrights etc. all out of work. The same old busted argument again and again and again and a
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by Pristina 8y ago
What scenario am I in where I would have a sword, have it shattered and be in trouble? In war, people mostly use polearms. In a sword fight, as has been shown in many HEMA videos i have seen, it's over in a single exchange. At that poi