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by j9461701 7y ago
Additionally, intermediate cartridges allow more rapid followup shots compared to full power rifle cartridges. An M4 fires lightly enough that soldiers can "miss their way to a hit" - as in fire, fire, fire, oh I'm aiming too
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by j9461701 7y ago
What is the actual legal pretext for him being in the box?
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by j9461701 7y ago
At the risk of being a Connie Contrarian, I don't think it is. Data makes wild, un-evidenced leaps of assumption that are only "empirical" because we the audience understands what he's saying is correct. But in-universe
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by j9461701 7y ago
I would much rather live near a nuclear power plant than a coal plant. I thoroughly support this, and hope they dismantle the big smoke-belching power plant in my city in favor of clean nukes. My only concern is the scalability of this tech
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Garden hermits (a delightfully bizarre 18th century fad)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by j9461701 7y ago
The thing that sinks most of these flying car or flying taxi initiatives is the noise problem. Because airplane engines are so darn loud, all flying cars are forced to operate away from built up areas whether or not they're capable of
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by j9461701 7y ago
>How familiar are you with Perl, and how much have you used it? It's what my company's entire code base is written in. So every hour of every work day for the past 6 months. >To me it looks really no uglier than any other ma
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by j9461701 7y ago
> Compare the 35.7 km traversed in three days by the Apollo 17 astronauts in December 1972 with the almost identical distance (34.4 km) traversed by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity in eight years. Yes, and the Rover costs 1/1
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by j9461701 7y ago
What I hated even more about 8 am lectures is I lived an hour and a half away from the university, so from the time I left the house to the time I got home again took like 13 hours every day. And the real knife in my guts is I was paying
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by j9461701 7y ago
I believe so many problems in our society would be solved by lifespan increasing technology. It would make people have to seriously consider the long-term ramifications of their actions, and I imagine adopt a kinder, gentler, more sustainab
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by j9461701 7y ago
The good side of community, order and obedience to authority are the entire civilized world and all the goodies within it. Hospitals, electricity, cozy homes that stay cold in the summer and hot in the winter. Without the human tendency to
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by j9461701 7y ago
>The World Nuclear Industry Status Report is a yearly report that explores the global challenges facing the nuclear power industry. It is produced by Mycle Schneider, a professional anti-nuclear activist , and gives a detailed overview
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by j9461701 7y ago
Seinfeld was famous for having the rule 'no hugging, no learning'. The main characters were mean, selfish, short-sighted jerks and they never learned their lesson or grew emotionally over the whole course of the show. That was unh
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by j9461701 7y ago
I find it strange the competition around Seinfeld was this intense actually. Certainly in its day it was the 900 pound gorilla of sitcoms, but modernly? The sitcoms that seem to be doing well are either feel good stuff like Parks and Rec o
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by j9461701 7y ago
The graphic comes from certain assumptions that do not hold in the general case. Specifically, that of non-isotropic fragmentation and arbitrary fragmentation depth.
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by j9461701 7y ago
>monomer-dimer problem Oh hey, I did my undergrad thesis on that! It generates neat looking graphics: https://imgur.com/a/Z6hySAw
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by j9461701 7y ago
On 10 November 1942 the Vichy French Battleship opened fire on Allied landing vessels in Casablanca after being re-floated following her sinking on 8 November. TBF Avengers were dispatched to deal with her, but they lacked AP bombs and were
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by j9461701 7y ago
A fun fact is you can figure out why battleships became obsolete just by comparing Iowa's guns to more modern systems. A 16", 2,700 pound AP shell from an Iowa class battleship contains 40.9 pound of high explosives as the payload
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by j9461701 7y ago
This is why I'm so excited for lithium-air batteries. Theoretically they'd carry ~40.1 MJ/kg, which is very competitive with gasoline's ~46.8 MJ/kg. Factoring in the higher efficiency of electric drives (95% vs. 35%
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by j9461701 7y ago
My Dad was a janitor, my mom was a secretary, my sister dropped out of high school and had a baby at 14. Meanwhile I attended college (first person in the family), double majored in CS and physics, and graduated this past April. I got a job
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by j9461701 7y ago
>It has been designed and commissioned by people who believe that "most advanced" necessarily means "best" and who are indifferent to the actual tactical and strategic requirements. They said the exact same thing ab
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by j9461701 7y ago
The issue right now is every plant is a unique one-off. Meaning the inspectors need to pour over the plans, construction crews need to learn how to build each design specifically, fabricators providing parts need to make each plant's r
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by j9461701 7y ago
>And not what Tumblr did - their erotic content ban was under way before the CP snafu got them temporarily kicked out of the iOS App Store. They got kicked off the app store in november, and moved to ban all porn in december. They might
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by j9461701 7y ago
The same thing happened with live journal. Executives massively over-react to the terror of possibly hosting child pornography, and therefore decided all pornography - or even anything mildly erotic - had to be ejected. And, like what ha
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by j9461701 8y ago
>And yet, the idea that ten labs with $1M budgets might be better than either is a cornerstone of the free market. How many Nobel Prizes came out of Bell Labs? How many out of Joe Random's Inventoroum Garage? This was actually one o
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by j9461701 8y ago
>And there's really no reason to expect that meritocracy would fix unequal distribution of wealth I never said it would. >meritocracy hopes to fix injustice in the inequality of our world Fixing the injustice in the inequality of
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by j9461701 8y ago
This is something I really agree with. Both myself and my father read very often, but we read utter schlock. We are no more intellectually improving ourselves than someone watching an action movie. To think otherwise is empty self-flatterin
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by j9461701 8y ago
>Sorting people by ‘merit’ will do nothing to fix inequality No one ever said it would, nor would we want it to. Concentration of capital and talent is how progress gets made after all - a million labs with $10 research budgets aren&#x27
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by j9461701 8y ago
Churches encourage complacency (all of life is God's plan), many fought hard against abortion, contraception, and women's rights/equality, and the insular tribalism such places encourage has enabled a lot of truly ugly behavi
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by j9461701 8y ago
I wonder what parts of modern sci-fi we will regard as hopelessly outdated in a hundred years, as we might view many elements of the Foundation series? Perhaps we'll achieve Ghost in the Shell-style brain encapsulation, and so view any

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