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by abduhl 6y ago
They’re internet points man. Relax.
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by abduhl 6y ago
"We struck first because the other side was going to strike first if we didn't!" Who knew that first-mover advantage existed in politics? Or perhaps this is better seen as a example of mutually assured destruction playing ou
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by abduhl 6y ago
I’m sorry, but is anyone else getting a real “this is good for bitcoin” vibe from the comments here? It seems we are all attributing this to a successful lockdown rather than considering other scenarios. It feels very “rock that wards off t
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by abduhl 6y ago
I don’t disagree that qualified immunity has been extended way beyond where it was even arguably appropriate, but I was just explaining why invoking the 14th for its protections is not appropriate. I am anti-QI, by the way. Not just the cur
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by abduhl 6y ago
Qualified immunity is a privilege that flows from the sovereign, not from the individual rights of the police officer. Equal protection does not apply because qualified immunity isn’t a personal protection but rather a governmental protecti
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by abduhl 6y ago
How does your intuition square with a country like Sweden's response to the virus who would be classified as not just a "late mover" but a "non-mover?"
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by abduhl 7y ago
I think they're saying we should realize that a septuagenarian or an octogenarian is, economically speaking, a drain on society and we should be having a conversation about whether stopping the world economy to keep cost centers runnin
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by abduhl 7y ago
Why do they have to make exceptions? Absent a government mandate there is no requirement and, unfortunately, the mortgage is secured by the underlying property. I fully expect, and you should too, foreclosures to skyrocket and people to be
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Furloughed Workers Earning More Money with Unemployment(forbes.com)
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by abduhl 7y ago
While I appreciate what you're trying to say here, your point is orthogonal to the discussion. The original comment was about the tone of patio11's post and the assertion that an anonymous white paper significantly altered policy
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by abduhl 7y ago
Yes, but do you have any thoughts about the topic we were talking about before your rant?
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by abduhl 7y ago
So it's treason by association then?
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by abduhl 7y ago
But should they?
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by abduhl 7y ago
What about the environmental impact of people buying everything "just in case?" Should we be stockpiling oil like crazy right now when prices are low just in case (while also artificially driving up demand)? Isn't one of the
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by abduhl 7y ago
Oh come on man, you think that Germany directing a foreign country to freeze assets during the lead in to a war is a more likely way for a Jew in Nazi Germany to lose their hidden savings as compared to them trying to smuggle a USB wallet a
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by abduhl 7y ago
Great, let Uber do all that. Set working hours, deny them from working on other platforms, deny them from being able to refuse rides. And let the free market compete for drivers by allowing other "gig-economy" companies to not ha
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by abduhl 7y ago
Then again many would counter this by asking “outcompeted by whom in a global recession?” For example: who is going to outcompete American Airlines/United/Delta if all international flights are grounded or flight restrictions get
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by abduhl 7y ago
While this is an interesting response, it strictly does not the answer the poster’s question. Would they be liable for the fees for an attack like this?
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by abduhl 7y ago
The unit weight of water being 62.4 pcf is probably not known by most people - most people don’t think in cubic feet. The more likely (and less useful) number most people know is ~8 lbs per gallon.
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by abduhl 7y ago
I have no idea what the GP is doing but you would just do Pi * D^2 / 4 * H * 62.4 Where D is tank diameter in ft H is tank height in ft and 62.4 is the unit weight of water in lbs per cubic foot. Divide by 144 of D is in inches and 12
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by abduhl 7y ago
The article is confusing. It says that they are supposed to deliver two tunnels - are both going on at the same time? It also says that they’re 6 football fields in: 1800 ft. This is only 35% of the stated mile length for the tunnel. Under
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by abduhl 7y ago
This is an unfair treatment of the decision. The question addressed by the court isn’t “who is the cause of supracompetitive prices?” but rather “if Apple is the cause, can consumers sue?” Apple’s defense argued that only the app developers
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by abduhl 7y ago
It's been a while since I hit a buzz word bingo while browsing a HN comment thread. I've got "disruptive," "obvious," the free space in the middle, "synergy" (which I'm counting combination of te
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by abduhl 7y ago
The states are subservient to the federal government as restrained by the constitution. If the federal government (Trump, Obama, Nixon, Clinton, it does not matter) wants to take over California and can find an emergency power to do so auth
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by abduhl 7y ago
I still don't understand what exactly you're talking about. Are you talking about sand used for concrete or sand in general (e.g. - for subgrade soils). Sand used in concrete needs to meet a gradation requirement. The gradation
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by abduhl 7y ago
Not to argue with the BBC, but this statement is just factually incorrect. Desert sand is not suitable for concrete because it is poorly graded and is all essentially the same size. Concrete mixes call for sands of various grain sizes, an
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by abduhl 7y ago
Because crushing rocks costs more money than dredging rivers. Especially when there are weak or no environmental protection laws or regulations for dredging, like on the Mekong.
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by abduhl 7y ago
I'm not a concrete mix design expert by any means, but I disagree with this post on a few levels. Concrete strength is derived from multiple sources, and grain interlocking is just one of them. I think recent research has shown that
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by abduhl 7y ago
What is “artificial” sand? Sand is just a classification of grain size of soil. We make sand all the time at quarries by crushing rocks. Most of the aggregate used in construction is made this way or taken from a pit/dredged.
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by abduhl 7y ago
It doesn’t take 1000 years to make sand. You take a rock and crush it. You’ve got sand. It just happens to be easier and cheaper to dredge where there aren’t any environmental laws.

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