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by avar 2y ago
It spent way more money than initially planned, while doing so consistently over decades, and in all the right congressional districts. It was wildly successful. You're just under the mistaken impression that the goal was to go to spac
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You can rather easily write rules with GNU make that sit at the comfortable middle ground between these two. E.g. if you have 1000 JS files to generate from 1000 source TS files you'd "shard" them dynamically by having them b
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Sure, but now we've shifted from "isn’t gameable" to "gameable for a price", perhaps to inflate the stock price as you make the news for outselling Tesla or something. And yes, you'd need to deliver the car to
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by avar 2y ago
I'm not arguing the thrust of your point here, just noting that there isn't a 1:1 correspondence in case anyone's under that particular misconception. I agree that registrations is probably the least bad metric, and I doubt B
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You have the cause and effect backwards. German homes are electric heated at a rate of around 5%[1], French at around 30%[2] (page 7). As electricity prices are lowered (e.g. by state investment in nuclear) various things that use fossil fu
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> they are using registrations > which means actual sales No, you register a car in order to drive it on public roads in a given country. Some purchased cars are never registered (track use, private export etc.), or defe
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The ban on thinking machines in Dune has nothing to do with the mechanics by which those machines work. For all we know (I'm ignoring Brian Herbert's fanfiction here) the predominant type of computing at the time was mechanical. I
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Just in case it's unclear, I'm not being serious here. Still, it seems to me that the wording still allows for some rules lawyering. When they say "directly power each wheel" they clearly mean the four wheels attached
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They clearly could do that, since ABS systems allow for independent braking on each wheel. But I'm unaware of any production AWD vehicle which allows that as a "hack" to emulate a sort-of locked differential when your hardw
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With reference to previous absurd but technically correct interpretations of US national park rules[1] I'd like to suggest a way to comply with the rule in question [2], which states: High clearance four-wheel drive is requir
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The difference is that this was during practice sessions. The "unsportsmanlike" aspects isn't about the difference in intelligence gathered, but avoiding the need for every team to run counter-surveillance operations.
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> you must be younger than > the average life expectancy > (currently 73yo) - while in > office. As an aside, it's a common error to think that overall life expectancy is relevant to this sort of thing
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> Sadly, this has never > happened, anywhere, ever. Didn't this literally just happen? If Biden hadn't suffered in the polls after the nature of his debate performance, I don't see how we'd be here to
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How is that related to this? Even if Biden had personally authored and posted every one his tweets, that would have nothing to do with whether aides were kept in the loop about major campaign announcements. This thread is discussing an al
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> someone that isn’t old If she wins she'll be 60 years old and 3 months old the day she assumes office. That'll make her the 13th oldest president (out of a total of 47)[1]. That's "old" by any objecti
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Even if they didn't mean that, drunk or not, the US president has the sole authority, both legal and practical, to launch a nuclear strike. Respectfully, you might want to read something more current on the subject. The excellent book
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They hadn't told the people running his Twitter account yet? There was already an incident [1] where his press secretary tweeted about running for president on her own account, so she or her people are presumably in charge of it. 1. h
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That's the same as saying someone who's poor and low risk can't snowboard, because their premiums have gone up due to a richer high-risk snowboarder you're forced to sell subsidized insurance to.
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Only tangentially related, but humans are thought to have floated (they can't really swim that distance) around fifteen hundred kilometers to the Galapagos from the coasts of Central America, where they later caused the extinction of G
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The ADF compiled a short history of pre-enforcement challenges going back to the 1920s[1]. They're not common, but weren't novel in this case. 1. https://adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net/files/PreEn...
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by avar 2y ago
Nuclear weapons are targeted, an asteroid releasing 1000x the amount of energy of all the world's nuclear weapons isn't going to be 1000x worse. Perhaps it'll vaporize on impact in the middle of the Pacific.
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That website creator sued their state's regulatory agency, and "sufficiently demonstrated both an intent to provide graphic and web design services to the public in a manner that exposes them to [Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act]
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It counts as ecological collapse, but that's not being discussed here, but whether the island became destitute, triggering population collapse. Imagine paving over the entire Amazon and replacing it with monocrop greenhouses. It woul
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> Even in the case of the > Challenger, no single article > say WHO was the executive > that finally approved the launch. The people who made the final decision were Jerald Mason (SVP), Robert Lund, Joe Kil
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> It's concerning that a huge open source ecosystem like Linux depends on a closed specification. Linux is written in C, whose spec is proprietary. The larger stack has countless ISO standard references etc., all of which refer to p
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If online dashcam videos have taught me one thing, it's that some drivers will do almost anything to avoid an accident, other than fully depressing their brake pedal while traveling in a straight line.
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I forgot that my car's engine is unusual in this regard, BMW's like to run hot, so normal operating temperature for the coolant is above 100°C.
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If you want something really efficient for clothes drying in a van or mobile home just place a small junkyard car radiator in that tiny "bathroom", and hook the radiator up to your engine's coolant loop. As you're drivin
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If you're going through the trouble of embedding an appliance in your ceiling you could just heat insulate the "drying room" from the rest of the house, and place a door on it that wouldn't allow air to pass through. Giv
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> The right answer is no rocks. Sand is considered a "rock". If you live in e.g. the USA or the EU you've definitely inadvertently eaten rocks from food produce that's regulated and considered perfectly safe

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