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by jjk166 4mo ago
Why shouldn't B have standing? They presumably are residents of and taxpayers to city C, and they face property devaluation stemming from nearby municipal actions.
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by jjk166 4mo ago
> I am 4. I have many interests. I would love to read books about those interests, but in order to do this, I have to do phonics drills and practice sounding out words. But I am 4, and I do not have the cognitive skills to force myself t
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by jjk166 4mo ago
It's dropping that one last straw on the camel's back which caused the problem. This isn't an overburdened camel issue.
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by jjk166 4mo ago
> An infinitesimal reduction in supply of a product with a perfectly inelastic demand curve will result in an infinite increase in price. And an infinitesimal reduction in supply of a product with a perfectly elastic demand curve will re
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by jjk166 4mo ago
I say it usually results in a lot less. Prove me wrong.
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by jjk166 5mo ago
You shouldn't have because the poor resolution is irrelevant and OTH radar is widely used in BMD systems.
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by jjk166 5mo ago
By what objective standards does a price 41% higher than prewar encode an optimistic outcome? https://xkcd.com/904/
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by jjk166 5mo ago
You don't need to target at distance, you are limited by the range of your interceptor. OTH tells you which interceptor battery needs to be looking where.
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by jjk166 5mo ago
Knowing that it's coming and the general direction is what you need for command and control, the actual interceptor is going to be much more limited in range than the targeting radar.
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by jjk166 5mo ago
> Ground radar is line-of-sight. The Earth is round. Anything below the horizon is invisible. That's not true. Ground based radar can see over the horizon (hence the term Over-the-horizon radar) by taking advantage of the refractive
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by jjk166 5mo ago
If there's enough radioactive material and it is mobile enough (due to ground water or wind driven mixing) to stay near the surface it could sterilize any organic material that comes in faster than it can accumulate.
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by jjk166 5mo ago
> The question was "why is it needed". No that was not the question. Why precisely sleep is essential is a complete non-sequitur to the original question, which was "does something occur during sleep which resembles what i
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by jjk166 5mo ago
It is not necessary to answer the question of what it's doing that is essential to know a subset of what it is doing.
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by jjk166 5mo ago
> If it's too diluted, you can purify it with normal chemical processes and then make your bombs. It's not like uranium where you need a monstrously expensive isotope separation process to get the fissionables out. While techni
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by jjk166 5mo ago
Well the idea would be to put a catch tower on a barge so those aren't actually issues.
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by jjk166 5mo ago
> We need to fix our government and then you can build anything you want. Are we all going to stop building things until the government is fixed and all political problems are resolved? No? Then we must think about how we should build in
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by jjk166 5mo ago
I'm surprised mining is so low. As an outsider, it seems like similar work to construction but with the danger turned up to 11. I can think of multiple potential explanations, but I have no intuitive sense of which, if any, is likely r
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by jjk166 5mo ago
So 200-280 tons. A standard barge can support 1500-3000 tons of cargo. Even with the added weight of a catch tower and a healthy factor of safety thrust isn't gonna sink the barge. Far more likely the major hurdle would be stability is
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by jjk166 5mo ago
Let me add Johnny Got His Gun to the surprisingly large number of works that seem to anticipate exactly this premise.
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by jjk166 5mo ago
Please avoid strawmans when using this forum. Also the personal attacks weaken your already weak argument, FYI.
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by jjk166 5mo ago
Well in the recent Iran war they kept their major ships far from Iran and didn't try to do any major operations in the area where small Iranian boats like those used in the wargame would be a threat. Indeed none of the vulnerabilities
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by jjk166 5mo ago
> "saving up" for massive clouds of long range strike drones every couple weeks, instead of sending out a couple hundred every night. There are real technical limitations to operating large numbers of drones simultaneously. The
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by jjk166 5mo ago
> My main thesis is that the cost of small autonomous drones have dropped enormously over the past 20 years, and that increasingly drone swarms look like a much more capable and cost effective way of waging war And how about the cost of
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by jjk166 5mo ago
There are biopic films about people who founded or transformed businesses like Steve Jobs, Roy Kroc, Mark Zuckerberg, the founders of Blackberry, etc. Might not be everyone's cup of tea but I wouldn't describe that genre as boring
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by jjk166 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
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by jjk166 5mo ago
> Why is this so hard to understand? Because a functioning neocortex prevents it. Over-hiring is inneficient. If not being able to easily lay people off prevents that issue, it's a good thing. You're making an logical leap that
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by jjk166 5mo ago
> full annual income of someone from somalia. Not if they seize a cargo ship it isn't. Criminals can afford the tools to commit crimes by using those tools to commit crimes.
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by jjk166 5mo ago
> They go hand in hand. Companies need to be able to innovate. And yeah that means hiring and firing teams as they see fit. Think about any job you ever worked at. When layoffs happened, did the work ever get easier or done to a higher s
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by jjk166 5mo ago
HR exists exclusively for the numerous situations where the company's interests and employee well-being are in conflict. In any situation where the interests are aligned, there's nothing for HR to do - left to their own devices pe
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by jjk166 5mo ago
It takes a special kind of mind to emphasize the importance of listening while simultaneously disregarding what someone actually says.

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