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by dunmalg 6y ago
>I'm an atheistically and scientifically inclined type, non-religious, without a mystically-oriented mind, and these types of coincidences or oddities always throw me a bit regardless. Personally, I've had enough weird things h
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by dunmalg 6y ago
Some theorize that the ammonium nitrate was already being sold off bit by bit on he black market as the harder to procure half of ANFO, and for a lot more than farmers would be willing to pay. Even carting off 500kg a week, after 4 years wh
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by dunmalg 7y ago
No, Instagram is missing the fundamental focus that makes something a "check-in app", i.e. a data presentation hierarchy where "I am at (specific place)" is on top. Instagram's top level of data is "I have pict
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by dunmalg 7y ago
>useless coins A dozen or so members of my family use Swarm just as a casual "look where I am"/"look what I'm eating" thing, but I just cannot fathom what they were thinking with the evolution of the coins t
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by dunmalg 7y ago
>I've always wondered why this is desirable Others have noted other reasons, but I think the biggest reason is that 1st/business class seats are more comfortable than the crappy crowded boarding area. Economy seats, it's t
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by dunmalg 7y ago
>Sheetz has 600+ locations and does $8b a year. All corporate owned and operated 600+ seems like a big number until you consider that there are 168,000 gas stations in the US. Large chains have a LONG way to go until they are more than a
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by dunmalg 7y ago
> can a guy who owns a few dozen stores compete with chains that own hundreds? With the exception of places like Costco and large truck stops, the vast overwhelming majority of gas stations are franchises where the owner is just some loc
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by dunmalg 7y ago
>charging at night at home is cheaper today, only because power company makes it so. They make it so because there's excess capacity at night, when most everyone is asleep. This is not an arbitrary decision. >Ideally cars should
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by dunmalg 7y ago
Yeah, the use of "AI" terminology is dubious here. They've replaced aiming via a pre-loaded ephemeris with a system that actually aims the reflected light by looking at where the light is ending up after being reflected and a
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by dunmalg 7y ago
>what's your rationale for putting the "smarts" in the bulb and not the switch People are afraid of electricity and don't want to replace a switch. Anyone can replace a light bulb though, so it's default solution
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by dunmalg 7y ago
One might say the same thing about building a significant degree concern based upon random anecdotes.
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by dunmalg 7y ago
I'd say it's less a "choice" than an "oversight". SIM cards solve the problem of "how do we know if Random Phone is attached to an account and the bill is paid?" The question of "how does the pho
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by dunmalg 7y ago
>depending on Monty's motivations, his knowledge, and the way he decides what information to give you. The missing piece of the puzzle that seems to frequently be left out is we KNOW Monty's motivations, knowledge, and how he d
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by dunmalg 7y ago
Twenty US dollars is just "money", an agreed upon medium of exchange. A twenty dollar bill is currency, i.e. a physical token representing that amount of money.
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by dunmalg 7y ago
"Killed by someone" isn't "killed by yourself", so suicide isn't part of that. Also GP poster is referring to being murdered by someone using a RIFLE, not just someone using a firearm in general.
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by dunmalg 7y ago
Firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a rifled barrel minimum of 16" long, and an overall length minimum of 26". Rifles are defined more by what they AREN'T than what they ARE. "Shoulderable", "r
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by dunmalg 7y ago
Back then, it didn't even help much to have the original assets. I worked in-house for a company porting some of their early EGA graphics PC games to the C64, and I just had to basically do everything from scratch. I could look at the
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by dunmalg 7y ago
It takes a very specific design of breeder reactor to make weapons grade plutonium. Proliferation concerns are a red herring by anti-nuclear activists who intentionally conflate non-weapons grade plutonium with weapons grade to make ALL bre
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by dunmalg 7y ago
The devil is in the details of the implementation, though. If we discard age for a system of "achievement unlocked" style phases, who will be in charge of evaluating and approving these phase decrees? Subjecting an entire populati
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by dunmalg 7y ago
No, it's generally not illegal to copy someones key. It's illegal to STEAL the key, of course, but copy? Not a crime. Some states have laws that prohibit "providing access" to a government facility which can be applied t
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by dunmalg 7y ago
>Presumably this mostly comes from the steel wheels on steel track Highly unlikely. Steel-on-steel is used because it lasts for YEARS without needing replacing due to wear.
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by dunmalg 7y ago
>As a for instance, what happens if a dual flameout in flight occurs? Does the Ram Air Turbine make enough power to run the Flight Control Computer and all it's dependencies to ensure the MCAS functionality stays intact until the pl
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by dunmalg 8y ago
The US already moves over 40% of its total hauled tonnage by rail, more than twice that of the next largest economic entity, the EU, which is pushing about 20%. Long haul trucking isn't just competitive because the "subsidy"
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by dunmalg 8y ago
>Maybe the pilots did not receive proper sim time on a 737MAX, which I believe has different enough instrumentation and automation systems to require a separate sim from the standard 737 Isn't part of Boeing's marketing strateg
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by dunmalg 8y ago
>the problem is licensing, once implemented, is almost never critically reexamined and regularly gets pushed for more difficult requirements regardless of those requirement's efficacy or results. There's also the "license
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by dunmalg 8y ago
>are you sure its clutch safety switch is actually working? If the clutch switch was inoperative and the cruise control was engaged, the cruise would not know the engine is disengaged from the transmission and would rev the engine up to
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by dunmalg 8y ago
Not signing in to reddit is the surest way to experience the online equivalent of a table next to the bathroom.
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by dunmalg 8y ago
>the Hyatt bridge collapse a year earlier was a couple of orders of magnitude worse (114 people, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collap... ) from what was also a fairly subtle engineering failur
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by dunmalg 9y ago
Actually, ANY coffee brewed in a proper machine is going to be better than keurig, even from a Dunkin Donuts. Coffee needs three things to be ok: recently roasted grounds in suffice quantity, hot enough water, and long enough brew time. You
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by dunmalg 9y ago
> you can afford to field 2,700 Furies against that F-22 You can't just divide the cost of a Fury into the cost of an F-22 and assume that's even remotely reasonable as a fieldable proportion. The limiting factor isn't

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