kibwen

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541.
by kibwen 7mo ago
> Cool, you sent in a hundred thousand dollar cruise missile to blow up a thousand dollar turret. Turret wins. Nope. The calculus is not about individual components, but about overall cost of the entire system and all of its associated
542.
by kibwen 7mo ago
The long operating life of a solar panel compared to a barrel of oil is a selling point when it comes to self-sufficiency. With 20 years of warning, any country that pretends to be a globally-relevant power can get itself to the point of pr
543.
by kibwen 7mo ago
Stop wasting your life chomping at the bit to do unpaid labor for the sole benefit of megacorps.
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by kibwen 7mo ago
What's their supply chain for being restocked with ammo? Is that supply chain susceptible to drone attacks along any part? Then you still lose eventually.
545.
by kibwen 7mo ago
> Blow up 100 $ drones for the cost of a 0.50 $ shotgun shell. Then two drones approach from opposite sides at 200 MPH. Your emplacement costs more than $200 and can only fire in one direction at a time. Or, as we've seen in Ukrai
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by kibwen 7mo ago
Note that fitness standards are bracketed by age, so the standards themselves get more lenient as age increases. The standards in question: https://www.goarmy.com/content/dam/goarmy/files/HQDA_EXORD_2...
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by kibwen 7mo ago
Of course, that's only fair.
548.
by kibwen 7mo ago
When it comes to crypticurrencies, no, the "hack" that turns out to be an inside-job rugpull is so common that the correct burden of proof is on the people who think this wasn't an inside job.
549.
by kibwen 7mo ago
Yes, it's extremely effed up, and it's a common condition among people who compulsively use websites to distract themselves.
550.
by kibwen 7mo ago
Sure, and plenty of Britons live in Gibraltar.
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by kibwen 7mo ago
No, the length you need between cars is variable and depends on the speed of traffic and the time it takes for a car to come to a stop. The longer a car is, the heavier it is (frames do not have negative weight), and the heavier it is, the
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by kibwen 7mo ago
Because the vast and overwhelmingly majority of the time, if you ask a question into the ether that nobody has a good answer to, most people will gloss over it and not bother answering, as attested by decades of relatable memes ( https:&#x
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by kibwen 7mo ago
The footprint of the car matters. When cars get 5% longer, the same number of people in cars takes 5% more roadway, which adds up quickly, because the difference between smoothly-flowing traffic and jammed traffic is a fragile equilibrium d
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by kibwen 7mo ago
In defense of this blogspam, the original posts were each individual submissions to /r/programmerhumor, so there's no easy way to link to a collection of them on reddit itself.
555.
by kibwen 7mo ago
Nowadays there is. For the first ten years or so, you just had to shrug and apologize to the commenter for accidentally and irrevocably downvoting them.
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by kibwen 7mo ago
One of the major problems with cars is the terrible lack of density. Per-occupant, a car occupies more space on the roadway than any other form of passenger transport. And as cars get larger, that lack of density gets even worse. There&#x27
557.
by kibwen 7mo ago
Yes. For the record, Americans also don't wear their shoes indoors, except for maybe some people in extremely dry climates.
558.
by kibwen 7mo ago
As an American, I don't think I have ever seen anyone do this.
559.
by kibwen 7mo ago
Slowing down the dopamine feedback loop works. Many impulses that lead to distraction are automatic, not conscious. Ever closed a Hacker News tab just for your fingers to immediately re-type the URL into the bar and hit enter? There are bro
560.
by kibwen 7mo ago
As long as we don't try to hide and externalize the cost of all the hyper-saline brine management that comes with desalination.
561.
by kibwen 7mo ago
If you watch the OP, you'll see that the construction of this aqueduct caused billions of dollars worth of environmental devastation. Rail all you want against regulations, but when an argument boils down to "I wish we didn't
562.
by kibwen 7mo ago
And? I'm tired of thoughtless drive-by comments pointing out problems with a given solution without proposing any alternatives, which tends to be a tacit admission that there is no better solution. If you think you have a better solu
563.
by kibwen 7mo ago
We all need to decide where to spend our efforts. If you decide that maintaining a fork isn't worth your time, then that's a revelation of your own preferences.
564.
by kibwen 7mo ago
No, Hartford is at the same latitude as Barcelona, Rome, and Beijing. It's not too far north.
565.
by kibwen 7mo ago
It's all open-source. If you think the maintainers are trying to sabotage the codebase, you have the freedom to fork it.
566.
by kibwen 7mo ago
Agreed, which is why I didn't bother reading this comment before downvoting it. If you think that you were owed some other behavior from me despite not paying me for it, feel free to elaborate; for example, you could acknowledge that t
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by kibwen 7mo ago
We know for a fact that the US government has no evidence of aliens existing, because there's a 0% chance Trump wouldn't have blabbed about it during his first term.
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by kibwen 8mo ago
> insurance markets started with people in coffee houses Regardless of whether or not that anecdote is true, insurance is one of the oldest human institutions. We have records of Hammurabi's code from ancient Babylon that pertain
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by kibwen 8mo ago
Make a bet for "$PUBLIC_FIGURE will be dead by $DATE" and see how quickly people realize that this is just a distributed assassination contract.
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by kibwen 8mo ago
In the same way that the crypto hucksters were desperate to invent legitimate reasons for NFTs to have trillion-dollar valuations, pathetic gamblers are desperate to invent legitimate reasons for there to exist some non-gambling cover for t

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