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by cc439 8y ago
"Thankfully, those who are yet to be born will be many more numerous" The 3rd world will be more numerous, the current citizens of the first world will not. We're already seeing societal strains rising from the introduction o
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by cc439 8y ago
It's an excellent strategy (when executed correctly) in times of unparalleled stability and economic predictability like those of 1948 to ~1976 and ~1982-2008 but it's a terrible strategy when returns on pension fund investments a
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by cc439 8y ago
The problem with that line of thinking is addresses in the article. The oldest large scale area of "ancient" crust on land is a mere 1.8 million years old (the Negev Desert). The entire surface of the earth is regenerated on a sca
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by cc439 8y ago
Gold is soft but Amber is softer and we've found intact insects encased in that substance which are 230 million years old*. You wouldn't be likely to find a complete car or something in 60 million years but there will certainly be
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by cc439 9y ago
>A person flagging down help on the side of the road. Are they going to do something while you're in a vulnerable position changing a tire? There have been at least 2-3 different murderers who have used that technique in my local ar
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by cc439 9y ago
There's a difference between "not fully understanding the functioning principles" of something and "not understanding what is potentially lethal about the functioning principles" of something. I messed around with p
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by cc439 9y ago
While that specific application of that strategy is illegal in the US, manufacturers get around it by setting a MAP (Minimum Advertised Price) limit with their distributors. The most common example of this being used in practice is when you
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by cc439 9y ago
There's "perfect" as in "perfectly reliable and perfectly safe" and "perfect" as in "we achieved every last design goal regardless of other factors". That last part is where Airbus may have misse
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by cc439 9y ago
The A380 is hardly flown by anyone, never mind US carriers. Airbus is likely going to end production if they can't land another large order in the next year or two. It's an amazing aircraft that just doesn't fit the modern ma
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by cc439 9y ago
IIRC, first generation Intel Atom CPUs are safe from Spectre due to their nature of being an in-order execution design. Those are the most modern/powerful in-order chips I can think of and now I regret selling the old Dell netbook I ha
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by cc439 9y ago
The water table is a pretty obvious barrier to that in all 3 cities you mentioned.
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by cc439 9y ago
There are a few more parts that have to be made of metal depending on the type of action used by the firearm. At a minimum, you'd also need a metal bolt/breach face (the part that supports the rear of the cartridge) for any type o
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by cc439 9y ago
How do you define "domestic"? Is it a company that earns the majority of its revenues in your country? That won't work because Toyota is certainly not an American company but the US market represents the majority of their rev
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by cc439 9y ago
I used to think IKEA was insane for running such a "20th Century" business model for shipping their products. The fact that you cannot purchase anything from IKEA's website and have it delivered without incurring a $129 deliv
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by cc439 9y ago
I just wish designers would bring back good old analog knobs for radio/HVAC controls. "Automatic Climate Control" systems are bromcing increasingly common even on base model cars and it is slowly driving me insane. Cars are n
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by cc439 9y ago
Automotive cooling systems have been designed to operate in excess of 100C for decades now. The system is designed to pressurize the coolant to raise the boiling point by as much as 25C/45F. The radiator cap acts as a pressure release
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by cc439 9y ago
>But the public like cars to look a certain way. Meh, this isn't all that true in my opinion. A properly designed "grill-less" car can be just as popular if not moreso than a design that adheres to the status quo. Just loo
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by cc439 9y ago
Were 30 year old hairdressers ever able to afford a home inside a major metro area? I'm sure one could have afforded a home in Seattle 40 years ago, but the Seattle metro area wasn't even among America's top 20 largest metros
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by cc439 9y ago
While I can't easily read upside down text, I can instantly recognize it as not only text, but that it needs to flipped upside down in order to be read. That's something current "deep learning" AIs can't do reliably
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by cc439 9y ago
That's incredibly interesting. Does it line up with the geographical record?
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by cc439 9y ago
>Or... teach the police how to use their elbows, knees and fists. Well say goodbye to women serving as patrol officers. Also, elbows, knees, and fists are lethal weapons, just ask Eric Garner.
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by cc439 9y ago
The problem with that definition is that "prehistoric" is a lot more recent than people realize in the Americas.
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by cc439 9y ago
"And here's why it doesn't matter for most of the US: energy companies are regulated to make a percentage of the money they spend." This is also found in the ACA (Obamacare) in the form of a minimum medical loss ratio. I
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by cc439 9y ago
"Assigning probabilities to rare events is meaningless unless you a) have data over a much longer time period than the recurrence time" This is probably the most important factor nationwide in the US. There simply aren't writ
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by cc439 9y ago
That and desktop sized muffle furnaces have been around for half a century and can be purchased for under $1,000. I see a 12.7 x 10.8 x 15.2 cm one in my company's catalog for $870 so I don't consider this a huge breakthrough.
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by cc439 9y ago
Those parts are produced via Metal Injection Molding (MIM). MIM parts have similar issues to printed (laser sintered) parts but injection molding is a far more efficient process for mass production.
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by cc439 9y ago
Solder must be heated to a high temperature in order for it to flow, which it must in order to properly bond the die to the heatsink. CPU dies, especially those using modern sub-50nm processes, are extremely fragile. Using an assembly proce
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by cc439 9y ago
AKA spark gap generators. Take $50 worth of parts, connect it to a lightweight motorcycle battery, throw it in a backpack, and you've jammed all useful frequencies within several hundred yards of your transmitter. You can even jam mili
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by cc439 9y ago
The only effective "anti-jamming" technology is a radar/EM homing missile or some sort of artillery fired smart-shell acting on the same principle. There are technologies which work around specific functions of electronic war
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by cc439 9y ago
>2) Carry your gun in a proper holster, on your person. Not in your purse in the shopping cart, but on your hip. Even then, a proper retention holster that covers the trigger would solve that problem in 99% of cases. Sure, a particularly

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