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by gnode 8y ago
Arguably, China is not capitalist. Granted, China has a market economy, but capitalism refers to the ownership of bulk of assets by private parties. The Chinese government holds a lot of the wealth in China, and does not operate on a level
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by gnode 8y ago
> the worker Yes, the hypothetical singular worker. In reality, there are many workers, all willing to undercut each other in a race to the bottom. Competition has a tendency to force suppliers to supply at as low a price as possible wit
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by gnode 8y ago
> The vast majority of consumer hardware will _never_[0] be exposed to this category of attack Arbitrary code execution is common in the browser (Javascript and Webassembly). Really, this is any case where you don't entirely trust e
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by gnode 8y ago
The estimates show the percentage increase from renewables slowing and tailing off to around 45-50%. Is there any justification for assuming the trend won't continue at a rate similar to current in the near future? I don't expect
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by gnode 8y ago
My point is that it's less a question of technical difficulty / tolerance, but more fuel / delta-v / mass cost. In the case of a bat swing, to bat the ball faster, your muscles need to be stronger, and the ball and bat n
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by gnode 8y ago
It's not just an issue for humans. I often have the problem that touching my single board computer (ODROID-UX4) or plugging another mains powered device into it like a screen zaps it and causes it to fault and reset. I wonder if this i
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by gnode 8y ago
It doesn't necessarily make it harder. There's a burn to slow the booster down for re-entry, and having the side boosters do a lot of the work means more fuel / delta-v can be saved to slow the core booster. The FH is apparen
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by gnode 8y ago
The two side boosters were landed close together on dry land. The core third booster was landed down-range on a sea platform.
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by gnode 8y ago
What confused me most is that he was arrested twice. It seems non-nonsensical to arrest him a second time (rather than simply charge him), given that he was already in police custody. Does this signify something meaningful, such as a change
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by gnode 8y ago
It depends on the extradition treaty and the delivering country's law. Technically the US doesn't extradite people to the US, other states extradite people to the US upon their request in accordance to an extradition treaty. The U
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by gnode 8y ago
In what use cases is this superior to traditional metal-glass seals (e.g. vacuum tubes), or metal-on-glass deposition (e.g. mirrors)?
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by gnode 8y ago
You could make a similar meaningless argument about electronic engineers. Most just solder together ICs, and the IC designers mostly glue together IP blocks. They pay utility companies to provide electricity. To work at a lower level doesn&
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by gnode 8y ago
I think making arguments about programming languages fitting the hardware to explain their popularity doesn't make much sense outside of high performance or low level system programming. The obvious counterexample is languages with gar
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by gnode 8y ago
Not even Mozilla like Gecko though, hence their effort to replace it with Servo, and for the time-being to replace components of Gecko with stable Servo components in Firefox (the Quantum project).
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by gnode 8y ago
As noted in another comment of mine, they didn't blame murder on him, but instead prosecuted more technical, less interpretable crimes. I agree that murder may be an excessive charge given lack of intent, yet in the United States murde
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by gnode 8y ago
My understanding is that (b) only defines punishment for where federal jurisdiction uniquely applies, and does not limit the jurisdiction to specific locations. Particularly federal murder is applied to the murder of federal officials every
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by gnode 8y ago
Murder is a federal crime: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1111#a Federal murder may be prosecuted separately and in addition to state murder, without double jeopardy applying. The same is true for
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by gnode 8y ago
I think it's reasonable anywhere to expect an emergency call to result in prejudice, whether that's police being apprehensive with regard to a suspected dangerous person, or firefighters being willing to break into a building they
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by gnode 8y ago
It's interesting that the charge was not simply first degree murder. Although there may not have been an intention to kill, the victim was killed as the result of an inherently dangerous crime, which may invoke the felony murder rule.
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by gnode 8y ago
In the scenario of forcing speakers underground, those speakers have not been silenced (they may still speak to a large audience) but they will not speak to an audience which has not elected to listen to them. Conversely, if you're pop
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by gnode 8y ago
> A fearless internet for passive consumers means they won’t run across this ungood content That's one way to generally interpret "fear" but not in its context of a right to privacy. "Without fear" in this contex
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by gnode 8y ago
I find this argument similar to: regulating the construction of buildings will just lead to seasteading. The issue isn't really about silencing people, but removing their access to a mainstream audience.
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by gnode 8y ago
Expecting police to prevent all crime is fantastical. Police generally serve to enable punishment, deterrence and incapacitation of criminals. Furthermore, there is a distinction in motivation between propaganda and journalism, but the info
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by gnode 8y ago
> and as kids we got warned by our parents and everyone is still alive. Not every child has this though. Parents vary greatly in competence and ethics, and virtually every society and government recognises children as having rights separ
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by gnode 8y ago
> it is the parents' fault, and the parents' responsibility The idea that parents should have such sole responsibility over their children is one extreme of a spectrum of opinion. UK government policy tends to be on the other e
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by gnode 8y ago
Vague, but hardly meaningless. Most people have a concept of a "geek". A more valid criticism might be that the shared concept is harmful to the discussion of people, as it doesn't fairly communicate a reality of their person
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by gnode 8y ago
An aerogel would be among the worst things to use as a heatsink. They are mostly air, held in place. Air has a very low thermal conductivity, low density, and low heat capacity. Air cooling is used because air is abundant and usually readil
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by gnode 8y ago
For a typical hydroelectric dam, kinetic energy is not particularly important (although smaller kinetic hydroelectric plants do exist). The relevant factors are pressure (determined by the hydraulic head) and volumetric flow. In ideal condi
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by gnode 8y ago
The Bill of Rights applies only to the government (and its agents), not to all private entities. It (particularly the 4th amendment) doesn't generally allow you to sue people, but to have illegally obtained evidence excluded.
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by gnode 8y ago
As I understand it, birth control is designed to mimic the hormonal characteristics of pregnancy; a state which is otherwise natural and usually well tolerated by the body. I'd say the use of this drug for Alzheimer's patients is

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