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by anikan_vader 3y ago
It is not, as the Ukrainian air force continues to conduct regular sorties and has successfully prevented the Russian air force from every gaining air supremacy. The Russian air force has taken massive losses, both in terms of planes and pi
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by anikan_vader 3y ago
Less so ethics and more so credible legal action against offending companies and individuals.
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by anikan_vader 3y ago
Sure, but once you have speed you can use aerodynamics to get grip (e.g., F1 cars). So this is really only relevant if you need acceleration from low speed.
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by anikan_vader 3y ago
It clearly demonstrates a time when MIT completely hung one of their own out to dry, in contrast to the “all tech men carry batteries” defense. It is representative of the modern administration’s inability to empathize with the students and
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by anikan_vader 3y ago
There is plenty of evidence for non-determinism in matter, which the brain is notably made out of.
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by anikan_vader 3y ago
I mean it’s pretty easily explained by the Industrial Revolution starting in Europe, which is very far north. The explanation that heat induces laziness is a bit suspect given that in older eras many of the most prosperous civilizations wer
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by anikan_vader 3y ago
Plenty of children come up with bubble sort as a sorting algorithm. It’s intuitive to go down the list swapping any pairs that happen to be in the wrong order.
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by anikan_vader 3y ago
Why? LaTeX is one of the most useful programming languages to know these days.
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by anikan_vader 3y ago
Given the university’s response, this is clearly an institutional problem. The United States of America should not award them more grant money to study viruses in any capacity. Putting millions of lives at risk via this kind of intentional
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by anikan_vader 3y ago
Oh no if only the free market had a mechanism to correct labor shortages. Anyways…
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by anikan_vader 3y ago
>> it is insignificant. But compared to the government’s science funding through the NSF, it is an order of magnitude larger than entire major fields of academia!
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by anikan_vader 3y ago
Cantor’s arguments always receive a very negative reception from most of the HN crowd, just as they did from his peers at the time! He was nearly shunned for opening this can of worms, which is one of the reasons why he spent many years ref
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by anikan_vader 3y ago
>> if we can deal with ratios in calculus due to infinitesimal sizes using limits Cauchy proved this in the 19th century using analysis. You did not cite a proof that we can somehow use analysis to do something vaguely similar for inf
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by anikan_vader 3y ago
Do you have an example of when this is true? It is certainly not true of integers, or rationals, or real numbers. Typically the Cartesian product of an infinite set with itself is bijective with the original set.
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
Well, collective ownership and communal property are arguably just as “natural” as private property.
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
Child poverty has declined significantly since both 2007 and 2012 (although they did rise momentarily after 2008).
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
Not really how it works when you a violate another superpower's sovereign airspace. Interesting to see them so invested in it given that it's just a "weather balloon." Actually though, it seems pretty remarkable how poor
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
It's the only 5th gen fighter jet that is available. The fact that the price point happens to be highly competitive with 4th gen fighters is almost irrelevant.
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
If only there were some mechanism in a market-based economy to solve labor shortages…
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
An interesting idea, although I think the US is actually ahead of the curve on mines. From Wikipedia: >> Opponents point out that the Ottawa Convention places no restriction whatsoever on anti-vehicle mines which kill civilians on tra
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
>> The UK is only a monarchy at the ceremonial level. This is a common claim, but I can't say that I agree. The House of Lords holds real power, as does the king in his role as head of state. The UK is not an absolute monarchy by
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
For example, the IRA member Bobby Sands was elected to the UK parliament while in prison during his (subsequently fatal) hunger strike. Parliament then immediately passed a law banning people from running for parliament from jail. Of course
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
It would have been highly unusual for the Ukrainian military to have depleted their entire anti-air arsenal in April, given that, at the time, they weren't receiving Western high-altitude anti-air systems. (Nor were they facing a persi
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
They were anti-air missile(s) originating from an S-300 fired at Russian aerial threats (likely cruise missiles or Iranian drones).
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
>> When you are older and settled down In general when you are settled down it is easier to care less about trying to gain additional romantic partners.
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
> and ending with the creation of the central banking system, which arguably goes against the spirit of the Constitution. I see you're not a fan of Alexander Hamilton. The (first) US bank predates the other items in your list, thoug
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
My bad, thanks for the correction. I am surprised though – I thought higher frequency waves were more dangerous, but clearly that is not universally so.
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
The Atlantic article that this one links to admits that negative side-effects of UV-C have been known since at least the 40's: >> But though Wells and other early pioneers of this technology could shine their 254 nm lamps aloft t
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
>> It probably isn't [true].
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
Satellite state is the usual term. It's not clear that the term colony implies direct governance. For example, the Brits applied almost no direct governance to their colonies in the Americas from 1650-1750. One could also just say that

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