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by fwungy 4y ago
If weather could be modified on a global scale it would be one of the greatest weapons of all. There are hundreds of patents for weather modification techniques, many filed recently. The unusually warm Winter in Ukraine has hurt the Russian
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by fwungy 4y ago
The most dangerous, murderous things in history are powerful central governments. They are like the Ring of Power, everyone thinks they can wield it for good, but it doesn't work out that way.
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by fwungy 4y ago
1) in the USA slavery would have eventually ended due to the economics. Steam engines are cheap compared to human manual labor. 2) Migrant labor is the replacement for slave labor in the USA. These are workers who do not legally exist and t
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by fwungy 4y ago
It would have ended because the Industrial Revolution made slave labor un-economic, in the worst case. Modern capitalists prefer seasonal labor for agriculture. They don't have to feed/clothe/house people year round, and have
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by fwungy 4y ago
The founders designed a system that was slow to act on purpose. They did not want a strong federal government. Given how difficult it is to predict policy outcomes this is probably a good idea. Even if a collection of policies are good on t
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by fwungy 4y ago
IBM's Hybrid Cloud concept is promising. Run your sensitive or expensive bulk resources like dbs onprem and go cloud for the rest. You can often save big just bringing your db onsite.
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by fwungy 4y ago
But look at some of the Asian immigrant communities who came to the USA dirt poor and worked the lowest tier jobs. Asians as a class now out-earn whites[0]. That they've managed this in the face of rampant anti-Asian discrimination in
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by fwungy 4y ago
It's not just having money, it's keeping it. Plenty if stories if lottery winners being back where they started soon enough. Plenty of poor athletes and musicians too who once had it. It takes intelligence and discipline to build
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by fwungy 4y ago
You can't do the flim flam without the shim sham.
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by fwungy 4y ago
Those numbers seem widely optimistic and probably assume the panels are always optimally generating, when panel placement is a huge performance factor. Those panels are maybe generating 0.1 kwh in the top quartile of exposure, and have a ba
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by fwungy 4y ago
You plant beauty and hope in young people not fear and despair. My friends teenage children openly voice anxiety about climate change. I'm completely unsurprised that a kid might kill themselves over it. It's a big load for.a deve
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by fwungy 4y ago
I'm a 70's kid. They've been telling me the world was going to end soon since I was young. I was taught in college in the 80's that the earth was going to be in climate catastrophe by 2000 (and also that there was going
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by fwungy 4y ago
Corded tools have more power and are cheaper. Cordless is more convenient but way more expensive when you add in batteries, especially for power intensive tools like grinders.
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by fwungy 4y ago
Would could possibly go wrong?
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by fwungy 4y ago
There are $7.5T worth of foreign exchange transactions per day. If BTC can take 1% of that it's currently worth $1.5M/btc. The rest of the crypto market shadows btc with other blockchains having niche uses. BTC/crypto is a na
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by fwungy 4y ago
Yes, but food is incredibly popular and buying it the most popular way to get it, so they're making a small margin on good volume.
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by fwungy 4y ago
Russian ISR is excellent. If Ukraine was taking out Russian aircraft they'd be screaming it from the mountain tops. UAF AD is completely mapped. They have to run their radars in pop up mode because Russia will lock and destroy them in
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by fwungy 4y ago
It's called " well poisoning". You take a plausible idea and make it implausible by adding something crazy. It is entirely rational to question whether you want to take an experimental medication ( odds are you shouldn't
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by fwungy 4y ago
That's why everyone still got covid after 3+ shots.
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by fwungy 4y ago
Russia knows where the Ukrainian air defenses are and avoids those areas, but can fly everywhere else, and more importantly can get in range of Ukrainian targets. Ukraine can barely even fly because Russian air defenses are so tight.
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by fwungy 4y ago
There are maybe 25 F-16s that can be spared for Ukraine and not much more than a few thousand active airframes. Nobody wants to lose a $20M fighter to a $100k missile. Combat flight missions are too dangerous to risk on a rush trained pilot
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by fwungy 4y ago
Brain surgery is really just about hand eye coordination. Why not train gamers to do it in the metaverse?0
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by fwungy 4y ago
The problem is that F-16s are rare and expensive. If a pilot screws up due to a failure that could have been addressed with training, it's a huge loss.
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by fwungy 4y ago
Planes are too valuable to risk. Modern interception occurs at 100+ miles, well before visual contact. Enemy air defenses are mapped and no one will fly a plane in range of them. Planes are used to fling things at the enemy from safe positi
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by fwungy 4y ago
This is wishful thinking backed up by dropped standards. Yes, a fighter pilot can quickly enough learn to fly another fighter in terms of basic flying functions, but a fighter is an advanced weapons system built to interact with a constella
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by fwungy 4y ago
I wonder if the censorship algorithms are getting too aggressive and that's messing up the suggestion algorithms. I get the same short suggestions repeatedly but sometimes they're mixed in with very new, low quality stuff with no
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by fwungy 4y ago
The Japanese and Germans are resisting the ICE phase out in their own ways. The Germans aren't ready to walk away from their vaunted automotive history so they forced efuels to be acceptable for 2035. But all those efuel vehicles will
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by fwungy 4y ago
Metabolism is genetic, Diabetes is too. You need to include genetic factors.
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by fwungy 4y ago
I've had several fitness trackers that never convinced me I needed to exercise more. But when I paired that with a Constant Glucose Monitor, that made a huge impact. You don't need to push hard all the time, in fact most of your
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by fwungy 4y ago
Imagine not voting on a closed source proprietary platform. It's barbaric!

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