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by jjk166 1y ago
60% enrichment is not weapons grade. Weapons grade is 80%. High enrichment is used in certain reactor designs, such as naval reactors. There are a lot of reasons to be enriching uranium besides building nuclear weapons. Considering the US r
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Assad was deposed more than a year after the start of the current Israel/Gaza flare up, which has included conflict in Lebanon and Yemen. He was also deposed nearly 14 years into the Syrian Civil War.
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We fought a war against Iraq, conducted no fly zone operations over them for 12 years, fought another war, occupied them for 9 years, left and came back less than 3 years later for another 7 year long military operation against the terroris
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In the same way you can predict what will happen to a bridge that is unstable. It doesn't matter which bad option he winds up choosing, the fact he's not choosing the good option is what makes him unpredictable.
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Well that pre-supposes that Iran was actively working on acquiring the bomb, that this course of action would stop them from getting the bomb, and that Iran having the bomb is actually a severe issue.
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No, but they're the ones making the decisions about fighting such a war. The child soldiers in the 1980s are the politicians, the diplomats, and the generals in the 2020s.
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> So there's some sort of curve, zero at both ends, between overall rocket size and the payload to orbit. This doesn't follow. Engineering complexity is not a limit on payload to orbit, it is a fundamentally different parameter
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> IMO the simpler hypothesis here is that this isn’t anything adaptive, it’s just another example of how biology is like spaghetti code; changing one chemical signal will affect an essentially random set of downstream systems, some of wh
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> you would expect protective social anxiety to arise in people whose situation hasn't much changed except that they've encountered people whose has (as with sedentary villagers encountering nomads who may or may not be about t
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How is it not beneficial for the individual to avoid threats to their health and safety?
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I think it makes sense that our microbiome should be able to trigger such a response. If your microbiome is changing, it means that some microbe is gaining numbers it didn't previously have, and your current bodily functions, such as y
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Sure Musa didn't have those things, but not because of a lack of wealth. There is no point that you could increase his wealth to such that he would be able to afford those things. It takes some amount of resources and labor to produce
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It most certainly was the case. As you correctly point out, people were collecting such statistics at the time, we know how much they worked and they worked a lot. In London from 1750 to 1800 the average male laborer worked over 4000 hours
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> Unless the law forbids working more than 15 hours per week, the numbers will shift around but the supply-demand market equilibrium will remain approximately the same. Require anyone working over 15 hours to be paid time and a half over
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While it's a particularly brazen scenario meant to illustrate the concept, the point is the law does allow that. This doesn't simply apply to cars left on the side of the road, this is any car that's been towed for any reason
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Not at all. A common railway gauge is necessary for different parts of the rail network to be joined together. If one section of the network has a different gauge, it is cut off and can not be joined without being completely replaced, leavi
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Again, that's not a win for anybody. No one winds up in a better position than where they started, there is no payback in exchange for the temporary drawback, which also isn't temporary if the final standard is inferior. If some p
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A court order can be a lawful excuse for non-performance of a contract, but it's not always the case. The specifics of the contract, the court order, and the jurisdiction matter.
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If someone was in an accident that rendered them unable to walk, would you say they can or can not walk?
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Change calls to text messages. The important thing is the keeping records of things unrelated to an open case which affect millions of people's privacy.
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> plenty of people are going to be inconvenienced when one is chosen as the cable to rule them all, but in the end everyone wins That's not everyone wins. The people that actually bought these devices now have cables that don't
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Presumably the fine should cover it. The customer service costs are pretty constant regardless of impound duration, and you locate the impound in a place where a big empty lot with a fence is not expensive. If space needs to be made, the de
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I think the point is that somebody can look at a brand new mint condition bugatti and say "that looks like it's worth less than $1500 to me" and then take it. It's not good to rely on people to be honest when it is in th
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> We now have more than 10 times as much clothes to wash. Citation needed.
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Presumably the reduction to a 15 hour workweek would be much the same as the reduction to the 40 hour workweek - everyone takes the same reduction in total hours and increase in hourly compensation encoded in labor laws specifically so ther
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> Throughout human history, starting with the spread of agriculture, increased labor efficiency has always led to people consuming more, not to them working less. Can you give a single example where that happened? During the industrial r
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> Since I just improved the strategy, it wasn't optimal. You did not improve on the strategy. > You're talking per capita rates and I am not. Because per capita rates are all that matters. specifically your concern was &quot
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Although 50,000 humans inside a football stadium are not 50,000 times smarter than a single human. Indeed taken as a single entity, its intelligence is probably less than the average person. Collective intelligence likely peaks in the singl
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People reproduced much more when food, medicine, and housing were much more scarce. Humans are quite a bit different from micro-organisms. Humans are a K-selected species - the optimal strategy for passing on our genes is to invest as many
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How often do you have multiple trucks going the exact same route at the exact same time? If this were for transit between logistics hubs, this is just a less efficient version of trains. The one advantage of trucks over trains is their flex

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