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by avar 1y ago
> There's an intermediate > solution The "intermediate" solution is one Iceland already had in its past. The number of representatives is fixed at 63. They'd be around 200 if the representatives per c
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by avar 1y ago
As an American, I feel I'd prefer this system. You'd like to live in Alaska and vote for say a Democrat, only to have some Democratic representative from say Florida be the one "you voted in" to the House o
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by avar 1y ago
The main "feature" of the Icelandic voting system is to dilute the relationship between a voter and their representative representing their interests in their district. Instead their vote goes to someone in the same political
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by avar 1y ago
> That mandatory debriefing was part of the reason why the data was better. That's what I'm saying. Indeed, and the NSF study notes the limitations of its voluntary survey methodology. But I don't think it's going to
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by avar 1y ago
Out of those three, Australia's economy is proportionally the most reliant on natural resources. Its mining sector alone is a bit over 10% of overall GDP.
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by avar 2y ago
> That's not how statistical extrapolation works. Yes, clearly it's going to be somewhere over 14%. I'm mainly critiquing the lazy reporting here. In reality that "59%" number is a wild guess, and should be repor
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by avar 2y ago
> The NSF itself said that sexual harassment > is a problem at the base. I'm not claiming otherwise, I was commenting on how bizarre it is to work this into an article about a transport bus in Antarctica. >
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by avar 2y ago
Networked bytes generally don't matter, networked packets do. Would your proposed change move the needle on that?
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by avar 2y ago
What a weird way to conclude an article, to suggest that an Antarctic bus will be remembered as coming from an era of "McMurdo’s persistent culture of sexual harassment". Then when you click through that article you can read about
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by avar 2y ago
If you know nothing about filesystems, then you're almost certainly limited by the underlying hardware, not the filesystem. And "performance" is meaningless in this context without specifying what you want to perform. Raw s
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by avar 2y ago
> We're literally on the verge of collapsing > because of climate change and mass extinction We're really not, and that's not me being a climate change denier, but deferring to the UN's IPCC reports o
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by avar 2y ago
> A parent said their teenage daughter > feared using the swimming pool because > of the drone’s camera. A clear failure of parenting in the modern world. They should be encouraging their daughter to bathe topless
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by avar 2y ago
> so the real deterrent you > have is how much of their > time you can credibly threaten > to eat up with legal actions. Being threatened with billable hours? They must be terrified.
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by avar 2y ago
As an outsider's perspective: This aspect of American culture seems self-reinforcing. It's not like things can't get heated when people in much of the rest of the world discuss politics. But if the subject isn't entirely
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by avar 2y ago
You're reading a lot into my reply. The GP's question was "is there any better way to [avoid the captcha] with a single developer?". That's clearly the case. As a trivial example, 4chan could take your $20 and avoid
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by avar 2y ago
> is there any better way to do > it with a single developer for > a website that serves millions > of people a day? No, the other reason they're using this is to make it so annoying that you'll s
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by avar 2y ago
> There are reasons why strict car safety regulations exist. They exist? Then why isn't Tesla getting fined in amounts that make this practice unprofitable?
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by avar 2y ago
To add to this, things can also get "lost in translation" even if you're reading something in your native language. If you're reading something written in the 19th or early 20th century then even something you think you
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by avar 2y ago
An excellent overview, one thing I'd like to take issue with is this: We can also observe that, in the IIHS analysis, many factors that one might want to control for aren't [...] One way to see that the numbe
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by avar 2y ago
Shouldn't you put it in reverse on a forward incline, not 1st? And turn the wheels such that even if it got going it would be stopped by terrain? That should be especially easy on unpaved African roads.
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by avar 2y ago
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by avar 2y ago
This article doesn't even try to address what I feel is the deeper and more interesting question (but probably one that can't be answered): Why is it that horses, cows, giraffes and birds have all had to come up with a purely pass
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by avar 2y ago
Yes we do, e.g. there's a sweet spot when scaling an incline (especially if there's easy handholds, e.g. a grassy incline) where using all fours is much easier and natural than making the same trips on two legs, even though you&#x
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by avar 2y ago
> the most reasonable way to > share this is that we get an > equal share. For far to long > certain countries have taken > up much more of their share. As someone from a country where people commonl
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by avar 2y ago
Do you? I'd imagine you can have too little on some of the pads, such that the melted material doesn't make contact. As long as others pads have enough they'd pull the BGA into place, and at that point those pads would make c
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by avar 2y ago
I don't have a current example of this, but I'd just like to add that they also do this for images. E.g. images deleted from Reddit can sometimes be seen in Google image results, but when following the links they might lead to del
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by avar 2y ago
Let's assume the schematic depicts a genuine weapon, and that this was a massive redaction screw-up. I think the author is omitting the most likely explanation for why it wasn't redacted in future publications. It took from 2007 t
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by avar 2y ago
The "large industrial base" is required primarily to highly enrich uranium (or plutonium). A modern fusion bomb requires much less of that than the initial fission bombs. So I don't know how much a state actor could infer fro
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by avar 2y ago
The shuttle could get 24 tons to orbit, Saturn V could deliver 130 tons. The per launch cost was the same when dividing the overall cost by the number of launches. Saturn V launched 13 times, the shuttle 135 times. There's just no way
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by avar 2y ago
The total cost of the shuttle was around $200 billion. A Saturn V launch was around $1.2 billion (today's dollars). The Saturn V could get 44.5 tons to the moon. So instead of the shuttle program we could have had whatever amount of mo

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