captainoats

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by captainoats 5y ago
Look at photos of the US from before the introduction of the automobile. It looks very similar to today because of the similar form factor horse and carriage has to a car or truck. Minus the interstate highway system, things would look near
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by captainoats 5y ago
Even the introduction to this article is deeply corrupt. It describes the authors partner, an architect, an their constant attention to the flaws of others work and designs of structures. I’m sure many of us can relate to this feeling, with
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by captainoats 5y ago
Ya, not a dumb question, and you are correct. Submarines can’t use active navigational systems (anything that emits energy) like radar because it would defeat its own core mission of being a stealth weapons platform. They do use passive sen
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by captainoats 5y ago
The value is in providing accountability to the civilian world, even if we can’t have access to specifics for security reasons we can watch for any patterns of safety or diplomatic incidents or bother our representatives to go find out more
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by captainoats 5y ago
The current water based paints BMW uses are terrible for impact resistance/rock chips (compare the front bumpers of pre-2012/2013 to cars manufactured after that era) but generally very good for UV stability and being able to corr
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by captainoats 5y ago
A lot of comments here about the need for more public transportation or other transportation options I think come from projecting one’s personal lifestyle on the rest of the country. Property in dense walkable urban areas is expensive and t
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by captainoats 5y ago
https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedes ... has a lot of interesting statistics on this matter. Seems like the largest unique cohorts at risk are intoxicated people in urban areas at night
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by captainoats 5y ago
Wonder if their Google Vision OCR offering lead to that
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by captainoats 5y ago
What part of that question were people upset about?
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by captainoats 5y ago
How each person assigns value to different professions is entirely subjective. Almost every industry has its own bell curve, the market determines how tall/shifted each is.
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by captainoats 5y ago
I think you mean freedom of speech is only a negative right and not a positive right. You cannot compel anyone to enable your speech.
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by captainoats 5y ago
The article mentions the dispute over wether or not anonymized medical record data really has enough of a signal for meaningful research use cases. That has to be weighed against the privacy concern.
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by captainoats 5y ago
Blackmail as a crime requires the blackmailer trying to get money or something of value out of their victim to prevent them from exposing some sensitive information. Would be interesting if someone could argue the outcome of cancelling some