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by avar 3y ago
I agree that the EU and the world needs to move aggressively on clean energy (including nuclear), climate change etc. But I really hate this tendency to overly micro-manage the economy. Yes, gasoline cars pollute, but then the solution is t
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by avar 3y ago
Can't those towers implement goods hand-off points in the longer term? I.e. bulletproof glass with a tray through which you can pass goods back and forth?
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by avar 3y ago
You could move to Europe, I've never seen screws and nails sold by anything except count, up to counts of 100-1000. Perhaps if I were to buy much more than that it would be by weight here.
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by avar 3y ago
All of these articles discuss his desire for citizenship, and being refused. I've yet to read one that explains what a person of his standing would gain from British citizenship in practical terms, surely he was wealthy enough to perma
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by avar 3y ago
To chime in, I don't, but yes, it's my understanding that for many people the "voice in their head" instead metaphorical at all. I was always under the impression that the internal narration used in visual media (e.g. th
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by avar 3y ago
The latter is already the case in some jurisdiction, and it's quite reasonable. You can't just declare that any modification of the product voids the warranty, you need to show that the consumer's modification caused the warr
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by avar 3y ago
It's entirely possible that the subject of the article is a terrible programmer, if he were to sit down and write or maintain something as an individual contributor. I've worked with people like that, who were pretty bad individua
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by avar 3y ago
Isn't the flaw that the posted model assumes that you're essentially bolted to the swing by your ass, and only able to move your legs and upper body, excluding the arms? Whereas an actual person on a swing has two points of contac
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by avar 3y ago
If you think you can jump up, then you can also jump forward by jumping "up". it's just a matter of what angle the swing is at when you execute the jump. It's clearly trickier than a standing long jump, but mostly the sa
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by avar 3y ago
The proposed Olympic sport seems like an elaborate reinvention of the standing long jump [1], just executed at an angle, and standing on a moving, unstable and elevated platform. Clearly the author expects (and the interesting mathematical
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by avar 3y ago
Yes, the Culture novels have an extremely biased POV by design, comparable to an alien's only knowledge of human society being CIA mission reports. > The Culture is explicitly a direct democracy It's not, and what you've q
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by avar 3y ago
I'd like to second the Culture, but just to add (minor spoilers ahead) that it's also a distopian depending on your point of view, which makes it even better. In the Culture all real agency humanity has is lost to machines (Minds)
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by avar 3y ago
> Putting the company out of business strongly disincentivizes other companies from engaging in fraud. It'll also disincentivize other companies from working in these areas at all. That's often easy to justify in isolation from
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by avar 3y ago
> Water cleanliness doesn't matter, bacteria is everywhere[...] It matters a lot, I've dived extensively, and the only time I've gotten an ear infection was in Indonesia, likely polluted runoff water contributed to that. Y
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by avar 3y ago
> Historically, for example, log cabins are popular in the woods because logs are plentiful [...] I wouldn’t build a masonry house in the forests. Why not? Perhaps the US is different, but in mainland Europe you'll find plenty of br
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by avar 3y ago
This 2012 article mentions that the Royal Navy might have female submariners "next year". It happened in 2014: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/female-submariners-make-h... And here's the next art
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by avar 3y ago
"Must" is debatable, but I've got a propane patio heater of a fairly common model here (NL) that tops out at 13000 watts. If it were electric it would require a 13k/220 = 60 amp connection, triple the domestic wiring sta
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by avar 3y ago
The same goes for Afrikaans to some extent, i.e. many words in it are a more purist version of Dutch, whereas Dutch itself adopted some loan word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Afrikaans_and_Du...
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by avar 3y ago
2015, not 2016.
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by avar 3y ago
> so this was illegal. > In both cases a management > issue. I think attempting to call the other ATC 11 (!) times in the span of a couple of minutes before the crash goes way beyond a management issue, it's
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by avar 3y ago
You're simply misreading it, ATC refers to the specific person(s) responsible at the time. Perhaps you're tripping over "responsible", it helps to read it as "if you, future person, are in this situation, consider h
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by avar 3y ago
Its also because a spare tire is counted in the curb weight if it's standard equipment. So it'll impact e.g. the fuel consumption you can advertise.
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by avar 3y ago
Those are discussed in the "systemic causes" section, but as my sibling comment notes the controller has some responsibility for those factors too. I'm not spouting my own opinion here, just noting that what the report says i
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by avar 3y ago
The first line in the "causes" section of the official accident investigation blames ATC. The murder of Nielsen is a tragedy, but that doesn't mean he wasn't responsible.
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by avar 3y ago
What the FAA had to say on the matter isn't relevant, and doesn't contribute to there being "conflicting guidelines". The FAA doesn't regulate European airspace.
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by avar 3y ago
> $5000 operation to save a > newborn baby? Obviously > worth it. Obviously? A 10 year old, sure, because you've sunk a lot of money into education etc. for that individual already. But while any given newbor
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by avar 3y ago
The article concludes: > A long-term solution requires sustained investment of millions of dollars into identifying every illegal connection and correcting it. Couldn't they just restrict flow through the system when it's not r
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by avar 3y ago
Are you talking about this tool, which you can get even cheaper elsewhere: https://triumphdirect.co.uk/products/oil-filter-wrench-t3880...
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by avar 3y ago
> Or even if it broke up > in the atmosphere. The atmosphere we've already detonated over 500 nuclear weapons in?
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by avar 3y ago
> The very _complexity_ of it > somehow feels subtly wrong. Why is in complex? Because it's not all square corners or a donut shape? I understand that it was hard to build, but isn't that just because it's

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