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by avar 3y ago
A theoretical alternative to ullage motors is to impart a spin on the vehicle. Then the fuel would pool at either end, or along the tank walls, depending on the type of spin. There's some diagrams and discussion here: https:/&#x2
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by avar 3y ago
I'm not American, but here you can read some extensive American reporting on it: https://nonproliferation.org/bulgaria-reaffirms-plan-to-dest... What you're skipping over is that the reason the US asked for their
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by avar 3y ago
The Birò is cheaper at ~15k or less, popular in The Netherlands, also used in at least the UK and Italy: https://birocars.co.uk/price-list/
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by avar 3y ago
It's normal in many very cold places to entirely switch off your heating overnight. You heat your home up during the day and evening, and as you retire for the night it's switched off. With sufficient insulation and warm bedding y
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by avar 3y ago
Standardized format != guaranteed reproducible. Git makes no promises that it'll keep PACK contents stable, just that they're guaranteed to "deflate" to the same contents. Which is what the linked article discovered. Thr
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by avar 3y ago
> You seem to have reading comprehension issues. You seem to have a particular obsession with drawing equivalences between the safety ratings of industrial chemicals and their ingestion. Of course I wouldn't drink 111-trichloroethan
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by avar 3y ago
Ivy Mike was around 70 tons and yielded 10 Mt, the B41 was around 5 tons yielding 25 Mt. Extrapolating from that a 10 Gt device should weigh around negative 25 thousand tons. You wouldn't need the starship to launch it, just attach it
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by avar 3y ago
> it's wild that people > would say things like that > back then. I think it's "wild" that you're so confidently clinging to the narrative that there was a causal link between this chemica
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by avar 3y ago
The US walked away from deals with NK[1]. An agreement was made to suspend the nuclear program in 1994, the US then refused to certify it after 9/11 due to NK's transfers of technology to Iran. Whatever anyone thinks about that, i
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by avar 3y ago
In the 1960s they were testing detonations. If you were tasked with manufacturing a 1960s car today that had to work without ever actually starting the engine doing so would be a monumental undertaking, involving supercomputers simulating
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by avar 3y ago
Pretty much all of Dutch society (trains, highways etc.) shuts down every couple of years due to something that would be considered light snowfall further north in Europe. The temperature in Texas reliably doesn't go below freezing, ex
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by avar 3y ago
The best alternative isn't even listed: stainless steel. There's a reason commercial kitchens prefer it. It can also me cheaper, as you don't need a solid slab of it, a 1-3mm plate of stainless glued to MDF will do.
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by avar 3y ago
The customer would be made to sign a contract allowing random state inspection. > what if I do that on my own, or I used a cousin to do it for me, for free? You and your cousin could decide to go and mud wrestle crocodiles, but we'd
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by avar 3y ago
If they were customer focused they'd focus on cutting their profits to give lower prices to consumers. Did you hear about the CEO that told institutional investors that the company missed projections, but that they shouldn't worry
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by avar 3y ago
> The oldest still in effect copyright I know of is from 1611. I can beat that by over 4000 years. As far as Icelandic copyright law is concerned the copyright on the Diary of Merer[1], written 4500 years ago, will be held by the French
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by avar 3y ago
Sure you can. You just can't infringe subsequent copyrighted works. But if there's an episode where that character goes to space or whatever your derivative work can do that too.
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by avar 3y ago
> Spain absolutely ignores it's own laws and regulations. Which regulation would those be? The GDPR and similar laws explicitly exclude state intelligence agencies and the like. > I can't imagine a world where the USA shares
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by avar 3y ago
> [...]this doesn't mean that he would have gotten away with it if he'd cooperated[...] If he'd stuck to the story that he just had an engine mishap would they have been able to prove that it was intentional? They'd a
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by avar 3y ago
You're conflating customs with immigration. When you take a train from e.g. the Netherlands to Germany you're already within Schengen at the point of disembarkation. The police might check your passport details, but you won't
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by avar 3y ago
Take all the nuclear waste the world produces in a year, now dissolve it in a swimming pool. Would you drink from that pool? No, and neither would I. I suspect the difference between our positions is that I'm willing to define how big
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by avar 3y ago
It can, but it's uneconomical except for some niche applications, and breeders also come with their own proliferation concerns. Most nuclear waste is being warehoused. So, a reason to do it is because it would be cheap and safe if done
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by avar 3y ago
> Nuclear bombs from the US were always under US control, even if positioned outside the US. They really weren't, the nominal US control over them was always a figleaf to appease the requirements of Congress. If you look into the hi
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by avar 3y ago
Arguably the most sensible solution to nuclear waste is dissolving it in the ocean. But you can see the response to the Fukushima wastewater release for a hint at the sort of massive hissy fit people would throw about that.
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by avar 3y ago
No, the UK was in NATO, and if it didn't develop its own nuclear weapons in could have easily convinced the Americans to give them nukes for deterrence purposes, as the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy etc. did. The real reason is that the
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by avar 3y ago
It's still done even within Schengen, e.g. last year I took an overnight train from Vienna to Amsterdam, a trip entirely within Schengen. German police boarded the train at the first station in Germany and walked the train to check eve
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by avar 3y ago
Everywhere? This is the first I've heard of customs checks on trains in Europe at the point of disembarkation. I've been on plenty of cross-border trains where police walk the length of the train and check everyone's passport
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by avar 3y ago
> There does seem to be a lot of innovation for innovations sake at Tesla. The latest example is that the physical buttons to change gears on the Cybertruck are located in the ceiling near the rear view mirror.
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by avar 3y ago
The EV-specific failure they cite first is that they're finding EV's have reduced braking performance, basically because people are relying on regenerative braking to the point where their brake pads are rusting apart. Usually thi
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by avar 3y ago
It's baffling that an experienced mechanic wouldn't know that there's often a 2x-5x price difference in "genuine", "OEM" and "third-party" auto-parts. It's something you usually learn the fi
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by avar 3y ago
I'm not saying the manufacturer is being anal, I'm saying that's really the extent of what you can argue here. The car isn't "broken", it's just reporting an engine problem. The same car from the 70s would

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