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by avar 7y ago
"Photo" is used synonymously with "image" or "rendering" depending on the context, e.g. try searching for "Hubble photography" and you'll find plenty of examples of cool renderings from aggregate
902.
by avar 7y ago
I'm saying your prediction of doom and gloom are obviously detached from reality if you look at a country like Germany, which has next to no Nuclear use. Yeah, it would be neat, but not necessary.
903.
by avar 7y ago
The Paris Agreement, as part of the way as that's going to get us, is by-and-large being globally implemented. Rising awareness about climate change has contributed to pushing for all sort of policies from more fuel-efficient cars, to
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by avar 7y ago
The per-capita CO^2 emissions of well-to-do western countries like Norway and Germany are a little over half as much as that of the US, France is around a quarter of US emissions (mainly due to Nuclear). You're the one who's being
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by avar 7y ago
> And for parent and child spaces, you can tell by the lack of children with the 'adult'. Can you? Is it not allowed in the UK for one parent traveling alone to use such a space for the purpose of picking up their spouse and ch
906.
by avar 7y ago
> This is basically how SpaceX seems to operate: rather than optimizing a single part of the system (like trying to get the most efficient engine), they try to optimize from a systems level. They're optimizing for "real" r
907.
by avar 7y ago
> "Boeing's designs reflect a US-centric expectation of pilots" So we are expected to believe that Boeing never connected the dots between: 1. We design planes for US pilots 2. We sell planes abroad 3. Incidents abroad can
908.
by avar 7y ago
Aren't those maneuvers done in simulators?
909.
by avar 7y ago
Then they wouldn't be saying that the people on the other side of the earth would experience zero-G as the black hole exited, they'd be "experiencing" some combination of being ripped apart by tidal forces and being buri
910.
by avar 7y ago
> The gravitational disruption will be equal in intensity to a slow moving black hole[...] the amount of energy transferred between the black hole and the earth from the actual collision would be negligible. Yeah, but you're not acc
911.
by avar 7y ago
> everything near where it "touched down" would experience near zero-g as it approached[...] while the black hole was inside the earth, everything would be experiencing close to 2G, then zero G for a bit for the poor souls on t
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by avar 7y ago
Certainly for the benefit of doubt of the GP I'll concede that at this point, now that I seem to have two commentators disagreeing with me. I'm not a native English speaker, my understanding of the word "tractable" is &q
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by avar 7y ago
The GP mentioned this in the context of sexism being a "tractable problem", that means it's a problem that can be solved, as opposed to an intractable problem. It can be inferred that they're proposing a mechanism by whi
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by avar 7y ago
Am I? The GP seems me to to be proposing the idea that jurors will be more fair to members of the opposite sex if they have members of that sex as part of their immediate family, something that isn't as likely to be the case with diffe
915.
by avar 7y ago
The notion that fathers who have daughters can't be sexist towards women is taking a really narrow view of sexism. You can think that women aren't responsible enough to vote, or to hold certain jobs while still loving your daughte
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by avar 7y ago
> In school the PM was always explained as "their version of President". In US terms the role of the PM in European parliamentary democracies is closer to the role of the head of a US government agency than the president, i.e.
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by avar 7y ago
Europe has entire countries where pretty much 100% of the population were extremist Catholic zealots with huge families by modern standards just a couple of hundred years ago. Today those countries have some of the lowest birth rates in Eu
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by avar 7y ago
Because while 99.9% of highway driving is simple, you don't want to turn something like another car being parked on the highway[1] into a mass-casualty incident because it was too complex for the lead car to handle, and the following 2
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by avar 7y ago
You might be interested to know that your notion of a successful macro-economic policy has been thoroughly tried throughout history, and has been deemed a colossal failure, see e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercan
920.
by avar 7y ago
> Yes, but I do not have a trade deficit on the whole as well. Yeah you (as in, most people) do, people just call it a mortgage, a car payment etc. I.e. they enjoy the present-day use of assets whose total price today is something they&#
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by avar 7y ago
I didn't mean to ignore this, I just wasn't following the thread, and perhaps you won't see this reply. I'm not maintaining that the current status quo is optimal, just that it's more complex than what people tradit
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by avar 7y ago
You don't need to directly control these systems to have a big influence. People in these countries (a tiny minority of humanity) opt to stay and pay the taxes that maintain these systems. But the main moral culpability is just not car
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by avar 7y ago
Or perhaps mainly consider your nationality. There's a relatively small minority of the world population who live in one of the two countries with arms sufficient to "destroy the world" (although some of the runners up could
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by avar 7y ago
> “If you compare the umbrella with the weapon the others are using to attack us, the umbrella is nothing for that. Actually, umbrellas are really easily broken and we only use it to protect ourselves.” Are umbrellas in China just really
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by avar 7y ago
I work for another OTA, opinions are my own. Rate parity isn't price fixing, and it's been going on for decades (pre-dates the Internet). The DOJ and EU regulators know about it. The hotel can price rooms however they want, they t
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by avar 7y ago
AirBnB clearly uses low room rates and high service fees to pull you in, but there's a legitimate reason to display it like that. The cleaning fee is fixed. So maybe you start out thinking you'll stay 5 days, but end up staying 10
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by avar 7y ago
> There is no way plastic BBs are considered ammunition. "Under Chinese law, one should be given a criminal penalty if he or she illegally owns more than 20 military bullets, 1,000 pellets for air guns or 200 non-military bullets.&q
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by avar 7y ago
I'm not claiming they're equal, I'm pointing out that the GP's "since I'm getting so much less, why should I pay the same price" point is subjective, and not a statement of fact. Sure, some people prefer h
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by avar 7y ago
As a consumer, the digital e-book is inherently more valuable than a physical book. I often re-read or consult books (or chapters) I've read on a whim. If I had to e.g. take my library on vacations to do the same thing I can trivially
930.
by avar 7y ago
The pixel-sized dots are cosmic rays, those are obviously artifacts as some of them can be seen in front of Saturn. I'm referring to objects you can consistently see between different observations. E.g. this one around 1/2 a plane

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