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by djsbs 5y ago
One minor quip “ The crimes committed there were not different than the ones committed in Europe between Europeans.” Just over 100 years ago Belgians were “harvesting” the right arms of Congolese for who knows what reason. The Spaniards wer
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by djsbs 5y ago
Or forget that liberalism has its roots in Spain centuries before similar ideas are found elsewhere.
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They weren't killed, they died of diseases. As we see today with the pandemic, the respiratory illnesses were unstoppable, so you cant ascribe guilt through some assumed knowledge of proto-germ theory. The first law is from 1512, 20 ye
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by djsbs 5y ago
Having added a timeline (point 1), I’ll agree - dog breeding today appears to me, a non-expert, barbaric. So, two people on the internet have agreed! Let’s put aside jewelry and luxury and have a virtual toast: To your health, my cyber-int
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by djsbs 5y ago
“ Sarcasm is a perfectly valid rhetorical device. If you find it rude, I apologize.” Its perfectly valid rhetorical device, a needlessly aggressive one that is good at putting down but never constructs. Worse of all, a rhetorical device tha
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by djsbs 5y ago
I dont support government support for the arts. At least not in a direct way like buying PPs for library. Should government buildings be beautiful and be tastefully decorated? Definitely, but no art for art’s sake - it degenerates it “ Thes
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by djsbs 5y ago
Again, sarcasm. Patek Phillipe is 180 years old. “Normal” people used to need mechanical watches to get to work on time until 40 years ago. Anyway, luxury goods don't have to justify themselves (at all) solely on their technological tr
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by djsbs 5y ago
1.“I don't believe you. It is pretty obvious someone would object to luxury cars and jewelry:” Let me revise, since I have met ppl like OP: Im so bewildered at this attitude that I’ll just ask “what problem do people like you possi
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by djsbs 5y ago
OP spoke in generalities, and I answered in generalities with specific examples merely as illustrative aids. You just used sarcasm.
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What’s obvious is economic misunderstanding. The resources “misallocated” in luxury goods motivate and teach us to make better mass goods. The car industry is a great example. luxury vehicles have driven R&D that have made cars safer an
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This seems like a judgement call from someone who doesn't understand any of the three topics and therefore sees only the negatives. As an example, dog breeding which I know least of the three topics, provided society (the object in you
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Agreed 00000 is not black, but the reflection is not from the backing layer but from the transparent glass. if the glass’ reflection is greater than the emissivity of the actual screen, isn't the screen black for all purposes? After al
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Very interesting and true. Reminds me when my mom taught me that in oil paintings the “black” colour of a scene should be made by mixing all the colours used - there is information in “black”. Look closely at an oil painting, you’ll see tha
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by djsbs 5y ago
Ballistic doesn't mean space, it mean paraboloid trajectory. A baseball is ballistic. But I concede your point. Its pedantic though. The new missiles do have a shallow trajectory specifically to avoid interception including in the bo
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The Russians new ICBM don't go to space and fly a “low” altitude trajectory to avoid ABM defences. including, it seems, these pebbles. Anyway, the Russians or the Chinese, if they reasonably feel they’re being denied access to space wi
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No because it would couple the impact’s energy over a (much) larger area.
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At GaTech there was a professor whose research included a suspension that could stop bullets. The idea was to make flexible body armor. It worked in the lab, but there was a problem keeping the suspension mixed
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Ketchup is non-Newtonian (shear thinning) as is corn starch suspension (shear thickening). Non-Newtonian liquids aren't rare. In fact, if we consider pure water to be a Newtonian fluid just about every fluid in nature is non-Newtonian.
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by djsbs 5y ago
- HP products before Corina took over. Especially the HP-28s and HP-48GX Hp basically put a lisp machine into your hands. The 28 is better than the 48 except for I/O, battery door, and screen and CPU speed. (What can I say. I love the
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by djsbs 5y ago
The Bic pen is genius. Im a writing utensil snob, but I have but the greatest respect for the bic. When you need a indelible pen that will just work and not run. As long as I dont have to write w/ it for too long ;)
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by djsbs 5y ago
As a pencil enthusiast, I love the rotring 600. I have two. I also loved rotring’s Tikky 1 (not the subsequent ones) Other great pen/pencil: - Pentel Ortez. I have the 3 mm and, if used properly, the lead wont break - Zebra delguard. A
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Now add the expected maintenance costs over the life of the aircraft. - How many hours of flight can the F-35 do before it needs to be hangered? - How long does it take in the hanger? - Can the F-35 even go supersonic without ripping off it
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Im not at all surprised that they learned at the same rate. Their English reading was bootstrapped by the German. Likewise, I could mostly read English when I arrived in the new country despite not being able to say or understand a single w
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The lab leak theory is taboo because it helps Trump style populism, which elites in China, EU and USA oppose. The lab leak theory also attracts nut job conspiracy theorists because it helps Trump style populism. We might never know what hap
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I learned how to read in Spanish, and very shortly thereafter I moved to an English country. Totally different. You just cant compare a phonetic language to one like English. My daughter is now learning how to read in the best school in my
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Im convinced that the active component is the soup of organics in the cat. A bit how pine/coal tar was used to make just about every chemical 100 years ago.
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“The machine stops” [1]written in 1909 has AI composing things (I forget if it was poetry or music) Orwell’s 1984, written in the mid forties, has pop songs written by machine. In both cases the AI composed works are described in the same w
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Id say it is lisp, with a slight syntax difference
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Id recommend Debian. After many years (2005-2011) of searching, I like it best. It is the most likely to just work. If you’re very adventurous and have a lot of free time to explore, install Arch. Its documentation is excellent.
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This person didn't vote for Trump but, although she voted for Sanders in the primary, she didn't vote for HRC either. So she wasn’t a cultist on either side. She has good memory and in ‘16 listen/read all the “liberal” source

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