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For the unfamiliar: https://youtu.be/NHWjlCaIrQo EDIT: Well sue me for footnoting a cultural reference, I guess.
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Over pork? Hope not. Bidding war for Brazilian pork exports, perhaps.
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A related idea I’d love to explore is an off-grid fridge cooled via the Stirling cycle [0]. It’s essentially a Stirling engine run in reverse, using power to move heat vs. the other way around. No refrigerant is required, just an external s
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Why not dig a pit? You can even load a big mass on top of the water for extra potential energy. Similar system from the age of steam: https://youtu.be/aKmi0PN7LxM
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Besides its similarly light weight, the 3-cylinder Geo Metro was short enough to fit sideways inside a typical American parking space. Thus college kids would often lift and turn it, between two other occupied spots.
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Or in a similar vein, “My Summer Car:” https://youtu.be/r0IZ_TEzg7M
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Butlerian Jihad didn’t seem that awful at the time (I was 12), but oh boy was “Paul of Dune” ever an unworthy installment.
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Looks like a “three strikes” law, which imposes a mandatory heavy (in this case, ridiculously heavy given the offenses) sentence after a certain number of felony convictions: “After this conviction under La.R.S. 14:67, Mr. Jackson was sente
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I'm surprised they don't mention the Dune prequel titled "The Butlerian Jihad," written by Frank Herbert's son according to the former's notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad
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Roughly 1-2 million Uyghur Muslims do not have the luxury of your equivocations, nor your freedom of expression, nor freedom. I encourage you to watch that entire VICE report I linked. For comparison, here’s VICE News plus a bunch of report
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My point stands: UN human rights inspectors can enter Texas whenever they choose (no formal invite required!), but not Xinjiang. They can interview anyone they meet on the street in the US, but not in many parts of China. I'd also argu
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>(are the Uyghur Muslims treated worse than immigrants in many western places like US / EU / AUS?) This question would be simpler to answer if China allowed foreign reporters access to the camps, cities, and provinces where (mi
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>The main thing for me was I rarely if ever see Peterson smile. Where do you usually look for his smile? In footage of high-pressure media interviews and public debates? In the photos carefully selected by the editors of whichever news s
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I’m generalizing based on my own experience here (and taking some polemic license), but that’s all one can do. If I’ve misjudged the HN audience and enough do appreciate this link, I can’t/won’t argue with their upvotes!
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Have any UAVs been developed for close air support? Seems like one of the riskier tasks for human pilots. I wonder if command latency is more of an issue for low-and-slow gun runs? EDIT: Looks like DARPA is working on it, sort of: https:&#
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The idea is that the reader - briefly acquainted with Bentham and Mill as part of their undergraduate education - has a smug, knowing chuckle when they recognize these references. (Similar to “clapter,” I’d call this a “snuckle” piece.) The
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I recall an article (or blog post) from a couple years ago- it made the case that US productivity had been grossly mis-indexed since the 80s, in part due to assumptions about CPU power relating to economic productivity where Moore's La
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I would refer you to the Putnam study from another comment, which defines homogeneity/heterogeneity in terms of ethnicity. Certainly ethnicity is a fluid concept. The language, value system, and cultural context of a Texan may differ f
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Homogeneity generally engenders more trust. More trust generally means less crime. This effect can be observed across the world. There are benefits to diversity, of course, but there are also downsides. Iraq, Afghanistan, India, Bosnia, and
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Equity is a significant, and often the largest, part of most Google employees' total compensation.
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I don’t have a way to convince you that I’m posting in good faith, but for what it’s worth, I guarantee you that I’m not trolling or seeking to cause disruption. As others have pointed out, the traditional Western concept of the private-pub
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The U.S. could enact personal travel sanctions and asset freezes for responsible Chinese officials under the 2016 Sergei Magnitsky Global Human Rights Accountability Act. EDIT: Don't know why I've been downvoted for answering the
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Another word for it might be, “national socialism.” Many more parallels there than with Marxism, in my moderately informed opinion.
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League of Legends censors the phrase “Xi Jinping,” in English, in non-Chinese regions: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/93f04k/just_found_o...
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Side note: most industrial fertilizer is produced from non-renewable minerals and natural gas [0]. If you want a truly sustainable food system, some amount of "organic" a.k.a. plant and animal-based fertilizer is probably necessar
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tl;dr It's an automated image classification system ("Tank division identified"), with some ability to identify and predict movement of said objects ("Tank division likely moving east"). Not sure how the Verge autho
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Was just about to link this! My favorite excerpt: “Would anyone actually go to the trouble of disassembling and studying 100K or so of incredibly tight and bizarrely threaded 6502 machine code just to tinker? As it turns out, the answer is
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Thanks for the detailed answer - right on the money, so to speak. Follow-up question: does M1 include funds that are digitally issued from a central to a private bank, such as loans from the Fed to (for example) Wells Fargo? If so, are thes
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Somewhat related question: does anyone know how many yuan there are? That is, how many have been issued in total by China’s central bank(s)? Are such figures even made public, or is it a matter of detective work and estimation, perhaps fund
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By what measure has extremism failed to take root in Europe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks https://en.wi

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