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by bigbubba 6y ago
What's really wild is when they launch these from the side of ships. The missile/torpedo starts above the water, dips into the water then launches out, flies above the water then eventually dives back in. https://www.y
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by bigbubba 6y ago
In addition to what sawjet mentioned with wire guided torpedos, I think they might also have hoped for the nuclear warhead the VA-111s originally had to destroy the incoming torpedo. By being particularly fast, the supercavitating torpedo
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by bigbubba 6y ago
In the case of the Soviet Va-111 Shkval, the intent was to fire the supercavitating torpedo at the enemy after the enemy already fired at you.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Torpedoes may also be launched from naval mines. An example is the Mark 60 CAPTOR, which is anchored to the sea floor where it waits for a target to shoot its Mark 46 (chemically powered) guided torpedo.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Imprison the executives, for a crime tantamount to theft. (Though umprisonment for fraudulent DMCA takedowns regardless of whether or not they own the copyright would be justice.)
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by bigbubba 6y ago
DMCA abusers should have their copyright for the work in question nullified; it should go straight into the public domain. Companies that ignore fair use no longer have any moral right to that work.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Rarely does SCOTUS reverse course like that, even when the justices change. The risk, while not zero, seems very slight.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
You'd probably faint if you heard a tenth of the stupid shit people do after drinking alcohol. And yes, it includes people jumping off buildings.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Acting as though scale is irrelevant is being deliberately obtuse, and doubling down on that is inane.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I'm quite sure breathing in any sort of hot soot does you no favors, but it's obviously absurdly false that the chemical composition of the smoke doesn't matter, or that all smoke is made equal. Some smokes are much worse th
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by bigbubba 6y ago
...it's not one percent of a village. Many things won't make sense to you if you go around being deliberately obtuse like this.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It's been my experience that the sort of people on HN who claim the general public don't care about issues like this have a gloating tone which makes their personal stance on the matter clear.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Our coats now.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
This is a problem for some extant landfills, but not the premise of landfills themselves. Most nations do not have a shortage of land a long way away from and above the ocean.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I think that's what the name is ''supposed'' to be, but a web search revealed a number of people seemingly named 'Bonface', spelled that way.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I think you might be able to accomplish this in mpv using --lavfi-complex and the apprpriate ffmpeg filters.. alimiter maybe?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Yeah soda is foul, though there's quite a bit of it around. PET is also used for plain seltzer water (which accounts for the majority of bottles I go through.) I guess PET is favored for pressurized drinks?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Bonface seems to be a first name used in some parts of Africa.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
PET bottles get recycled into more bottles, or other things like textiles. PET is a very recyclable plastic.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Rising sea levels should not be a concern for nearly any landfill, except perhaps those of island nations. Building a few meters above the present sea level will keep you out of the ocean even if everything melts.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
A quick web search leads me to believe this is a minor expense. Either way, I expect the true cost of imaging, including the labor of the technician, is miraculous cheaper in developed countries other than America.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
What you say is generally true of plastics, but not in the example you give. PET is in fact properly recyclable; bottle-to-bottle recycling is done with PET. (And the intent of my proposal is to render the use of plastics unlike PET unecon
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Simulation is "not science" in the same way that microscopes are "not science". These are tools that may be used by scientists, but are not themselves 'science'.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Plastic manufacturers could be made to buy back plastic goods at a rate that would bankrupt them if they're unable/unwilling to reuse or recycle that plastic. This would incentivize the use of less plastic overall, recycleable pl
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Yes I think this is [part of] the answer, not the cost of radiologists.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Unfortunately abstaining from consuming their products (as I generally do these days) doesn't render me immune to the legislative fallout of their dying thrashes.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
We should let their obsolete business models fail instead of writing new laws in defiance of the reality of digital communication.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Physics classrooms around the world have had students replicating this experiment for decades. I think it's not his definition of 'reproducible' that's nonstandard.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I'm not talking about expectations. I am talking about the price of medical imaging, not the price of the analysis of medical imaging. It is my impression that a clear distinction between these matters can and frequently is made.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Is this GPT-3 text? It's incomprehensible.

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