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5y ago
A lot depends on how gradual the onset is, esp in highly agrarian countries - like India. A gradual reduction of crop yields will lead to smaller numbers of people supportable on a given acreage = slow exodus, smaller families, like the dec
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aurizon
5y ago
She is slippery, so are scientists - judges are stern - she may not get much traction...
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aurizon
5y ago
I am constantly amazed at how well the Soviets did, with lesser orders of electronic and computer aided design tech. This diversity of engines exemplifies this.(bear in mind, I am not a rocket scientist). From the youtube they seemed to do
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aurizon
5y ago
Yep, you were the first to twig...
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aurizon
5y ago
This was a huge hit to the budget and they had to save up their taxes for a few years to do it....
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aurizon
5y ago
True, they know how to break it up and sell some assets and shed some obligations, like pensions...
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aurizon
5y ago
Yes, I see, managing a declining business can be done profitably, and they might have other assets the fund will sell.
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aurizon
5y ago
What are their current wages, and what are they offered, but have declined? I am unable to support or castigate unless I know what side is in error. We have seen the huge loss of first class mail starved the US Postal Service of $$, and now
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aurizon
5y ago
That manager will regret this unconscionable act after the Streisand effect kicks in...
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aurizon
5y ago
Make sure any patent assignment has a pull-back mechanism in case the initial buyer goes broke and some other entity buys the patent from the bankruptcy trustee with zero to you, and often the royalties are stripped - not sure how they did
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5y ago
A few years back mattresses were full of springs and padding etc, were huge and bulky. Now they are made of layered open cell foam(several layers with different natures( plus a cover. They then found they could shrink the volume of the matt
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aurizon
5y ago
Well, any hydrogen car that combusts the Hydrogen with atmospheric Oxygen fits this only if the Hydrogen is created by electrolysis of water. It will be very inefficient even if the Hydrogen comes from solar/wind/wave power as it
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aurizon
5y ago
Many countries would 'freeze in the dark' if coal was straightlined to zero too early. It is incumbent on the other nations to gift other nations who can not afford zero coal the means to reduce carbon emissions - they will also b
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aurizon
5y ago
Hard to say, show some stuff that got you downvoted? Usually HN wants comments that add to the idea being discussed. Flames or various ad hominem attacks are not well received. Were you attacked or your ideas unloved?
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aurizon
5y ago
A station in China might be able to bypass the great firewall using this now it is gone? Makes me wonder if there were ever any anonymous clandestine stations or is that precluded, or does any data draw get fed to reduce latency? Or would S
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aurizon
5y ago
You are wrong. With a state actor in the room, it is quite possible to place a complex die with static ram on a thin substrate inside a multilayer board, using the +5 and ground and a number of traces that lead to I/O ports etc, https
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aurizon
5y ago
Yes, I agree, I recall many themes he first dealt with that later people, with later state of the art tech deemed prescient, and derived many good novels from.
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aurizon
5y ago
Bezos is still able to underwrite Blue Origin with his stated $2 billion - then if there are delays with SpaceX Blue Origin would be well positioned to launch it's own parallel project. NASA may or may not be interested? This would req
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5y ago
No it is not a solution, but it is a way to start to incrementally imperil the economics of fossil fuel projects which will hasten the time to them becoming uneconomic compared to greener or eventually fully green projects = closed. Wars ha
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5y ago
The old gauges had wires to a harness, which became very complex. A modern harness could be uncorrodable fiber from the sensor, with a laser counter shining down the same fiber with a small solar cell sealed in the sensor for power to a las
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5y ago
I have read about this. They hope to create a time delayed sonic boom by having the phase of the boom progressively delayed as it is created along the fuselage - this will help with some cancellation as well as delaying the waves path so th
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aurizon
5y ago
Zillow walks on thin ice - a cracking sound is heard, they look down - an Oh Shit moment occurs. What now? tread with care, head for the shore, slide feet hope... All over the USA/Canada - ROW? people will hold their breath, then a few
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5y ago
But, how long for the galactic reboot?
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5y ago
This is older generation sexism, it will run wide and deep with him if he does this shit. Types like him are incorrigible - insist it is 'all in good fun' Bull. It is incremental sexism, he will push and persist until he gets slap
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aurizon
5y ago
As I see it, ships are unloading their full containers and then refusing to wait to load empties to take to China for re-use because they want to push off to China and burn fuel to get loaded with full containers at, some say $22,500 per co
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aurizon
5y ago
The British and all the 'invaders who looted' were wrong to loot. In effect they took items of value for no reciprocal payment = theft. In mitigation, if the indigenes found them they would have used them to make new structure, or
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aurizon
5y ago
Now we enter the analog of military defense speak, like ECM(Electronic Counter Measures), and ECCM,(Electronic Counter Counter Measures) and ECCCM.(Electronic Counter Counter Counter Measures) and more - do not laugh - it's true. Also
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5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilizati...
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5y ago
Part is the lack of a party system and part is the way votes have been made fungible. The politicians say we vote publicly so the public can see how we voted. This is false, they vote publicly so other politicians and lobbyists can see them
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aurizon
5y ago
I see a lot of criticisms by people with a long history of wood buildings(which burns), painted(which burns), wooden furniture with foam(which burns). Is this building made totally out of non combustable components which will not create tox
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