avn2109

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by avn2109 9y ago
Because they used the 2.5 billion to buy planes which they used to make money.
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by avn2109 9y ago
>> "...the reason for the ban was intelligence that jihadist groups..." The reason for the ban has nothing to do with jihadists and everything to do with protecting domestic business. Emirates and Turkish Airlines were eatin
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by avn2109 9y ago
shovels are included with the Experience
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by avn2109 9y ago
Actually I used my 4 years of high school work as a rural irrigator to get into Ivy undergrad, it worked like a charm despite my preposterously low grades and uneven disciplinary record. The trick is just to spin it as more "sunset ove
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by avn2109 9y ago
Two thousand bucks is like one and a half ticket-tow combos in Manhattan. And it's ~impossible to avoid legal problems if you street park a car in the city.
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by avn2109 9y ago
It's super unclear why this is downvoted, seems to me like he has an entirely valid point about strong dependence on the time resolution of data.
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by avn2109 9y ago
Many TBM's are already nuclear powered, in that the grid power they consume was generated in a reactor somewhere. There is no reason to bring the reactor closer to the dig site. Also, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by avn2109 9y ago
No clue why this is downvoted, these are valid concerns. Measuring and avoiding ground settlement consumes an enormous amount of engineering and contracting resources in every urban tunneling job. Flooding too can lead to work stoppages or
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by avn2109 9y ago
People bother to build little narrow streets all the time in non-slum areas, and their emergency services work fine. It just doesn't happen in North America.
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by avn2109 9y ago
I mean that there exists no classifier which consumes as input arbitrary speech, and emits as output a foolproof classification of "hate" or "not hate." Therefore humans are required to emulate that classifier. Perhaps w
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by avn2109 9y ago
>> "... you could spend those same billions to build higher capacity transit." Former tunnel boring engineer here. This is true, but the real elegant solution is to build everything closer together by an order of magnitude
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by avn2109 9y ago
>> "I struggle to empathize with the sorts of folks negatively impacted by hate speech laws..." That's only because your pet ideology (whatever it is, I have no idea who you are or what your politics are) hasn't ye
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by avn2109 9y ago
>> "It wouldn't be autonomous..." There are plenty of autonomous sailboats, such as https://ubcsailbot.org/ , http://saildrone.com/ etc. These tend to be small because they're not o
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by avn2109 9y ago
The GP quote contrasts "the West" to Russia, which is itself overwhelmingly White. It's hard to see a white supremacist angle on a comparison between two majority-white blocs.
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by avn2109 9y ago
On issues where there are > 1 powerful organized constituencies in the lobbying market, this is exactly what happens. However, many issues have just a single "market participant" which is organized enough to participate, and th
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by avn2109 9y ago
The best counter-propaganda to the "give us backdoors" demand is this: "FBI demands rights to look at your children's dick pics!" It would be great to see some headlines like that. And then in fine print down below:
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by avn2109 9y ago
There's a big difference between having a country dacha as your second home and living in a gross tasteless suburb as your primary residence. The presence of all the other people ruins the dacha vibe.
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by avn2109 9y ago
If this thing could be persuaded to run Linux out of the box with no driver problems, it could be a Macbook killer.
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by avn2109 9y ago
>> "(personal opinion: there are none coming)" Former tunnel boring engineer here. There is a ton of room for innovation around tunnel boring machines built by the major manufacturers (primarily Herrenknecht and Robbins),
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by avn2109 10y ago
(waves)... More Montanans than you'd expect are on here. Though maybe you guys are from the WY side.
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by avn2109 10y ago
As an American patriod I support neither the NSA nor the unconstitutional American police state. But to oppose the idea of meddling in the international banking system is to oppose the very idea of an intelligence service. Such meddling is
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by avn2109 10y ago
"To electrocute" means "to kill by electric shock [0]," therefore it's in principle impossible to "repeatedly electrocute" anyone. [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electr
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by avn2109 10y ago
Pearl Harbor, although pedantically maybe that was just an air force/navy instead of an army.
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by avn2109 10y ago
>> "...pretty good search." Ugh all I want is to be able to grep my Slack conversations instead of using their search interface, which drives me mad :( :( :(
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by avn2109 10y ago
>> "... a tool being purpose built for illegal activity." Attempting to discern the author's design intent ex-post-facto strikes me as very difficult. Also, this does not admit the possibility of a tool being designed f
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by avn2109 10y ago
If the demand for art were infinite, it's a mathematical fact that the price would also be infinite, regardless of the quantity supplied. In fact the price for most art is very low, below the cost of materials, or free. This implies th
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by avn2109 10y ago
Steinbeck agreed with you, many years ago: "The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the mon
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by avn2109 10y ago
Not saying you're wrong, but often the ads seem louder than the content without actually dissipating any more power; this is because ad studios are good at dynamic range compression and other sound engineering witchcraft.
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by avn2109 10y ago
>> "Why would the ex-CIA guy hurt his current employer to help his former?" Once you're a made man in an intelligence service, you're in for life, regardless of whether or not your name appears on the official payr
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by avn2109 10y ago
>> "... hire a realtor I trust." To a first approximation, 0% of real estate people are trustworthy. Doubly true in hot markets.

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