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by knz 10y ago
Generators could maybe keep critical infrastructure up but long term brownouts/blackouts in areas accustomed to easy electricity would be a disaster, especially if it was during the winter. Obviously the scale of a CME is what matters
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by knz 10y ago
"One Second After" is often suggested reading about what those issues might look like. Like many books in the genre, it's interesting but the political leanings of the author quickly become apparent. Personally I'd love
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by knz 10y ago
> CBP/ICE already collects retinal scans and fingerprints of people with visas from many countries. Plus there's the FBI face recognition database. Permanent residents too (no retinal scan but digital fingerprints and photo eve
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by knz 10y ago
How is it a threat to the US GPS infrastructure? Does it not add another potential layer of redundancy for positioning systems? Assuming that the EU/NATO is still our ally...
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by knz 10y ago
Is there anything in this article that actually links the deletion to President Obama or explains why the deletion was ordered? Or even any evidence that this happened? Edit to be clear: I'm not implying the Obama administration did no
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by knz 10y ago
I used to experience sleep paralysis as a teenager and it was terrifying until I worked out how to end it (stay calm and focus on wiggling a toe). It always left me wondering how many stories about alien abduction etc were related to sleep
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by knz 10y ago
I disagree - we may not have built large settlements by the coast but there are thousands of small towns on the coastlines of the world that were essential in the exploration of the world that drove settlement.
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by knz 10y ago
> I assume late 80s was recent enough for decent resolution space imagery? Landsat ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsat_program ) was likely the best available imagery back then. In the 80's it looks like they
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by knz 10y ago
How many of those are attributable to factors that could be mitigated through augmented systems (a cap on how fast a vehicle could travel, collision avoidance systems, HUD's etc) though? Those could probably be implemented much more ea
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by knz 10y ago
The dealer was very specific that they are supplementary sensors. The only practical solution is probably sensor redundancy. Of course that doesn't mitigate all of the risks.
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by knz 10y ago
It's a false comparison though. 1) Society tolerates a small amount of alcohol for most drivers. 2) Driving while drunk impairs your physical and mental ability to drive safely and only gets worse as you drink more. Obviously a manual
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by knz 10y ago
New Zealand has Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) where you vote for a local representative and also a party. There are a fixed number of local representatives and the rest of the 120 available seats are made up by the total party vote. So if
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by knz 10y ago
Does Russia have an equivalent of ITAR? If not, that could partly explain why US aircraft are less commonly sold. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arm...
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by knz 10y ago
Github also added "Projects" (basically Trello with integration to your issues etc) in September 2016. https://github.com/blog/2256-a-whole-new-github-universe-ann...
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by knz 10y ago
Some people just aren't equiped to be parents and others recognize the significant burden and sacrifice to have them. Others have concerns about the world and choose not to. Some choose not to because of health concerns or because of p
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by knz 10y ago
The new US ones aren't too bad (nice pictures and quotes in them) but they are definitely very traditional. My family has a mix of American and New Zealand passports and the US on looks a little boring compared to the kiwi ones!
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by knz 10y ago
> This guy does not have a history of bumbling around. He seems to be quite an effective man of action. I took the "best case" to mean that Trump is so caught up in his daily Twitter fueds (Arnold Schwarzenegger today) to push
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by knz 10y ago
For sure. I wasn't implying it should be released to everyone.
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by knz 10y ago
Great point but there are some legitimate reasons that the city may want ride data especially if Uber wants to replace multiple forms of transportation (taxis, personal vehicles, frieght delivery, ride services for the elderly/disabled
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by knz 10y ago
The most concise summary of why the US should adopt the Metric System is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system#/media/File:Metr... If the metric system had no value then the map would be reversed. It&#
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by knz 10y ago
"Too expensive" is also often used, which completely ignores the expense that every other country also incurred. My parents were teenagers when New Zealand went metric (and adopted decimal currency). They can still remember the mu
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by knz 10y ago
> Social Security is an authoritarian play, or a power play A more charitable view would be that social security is an attempt to provide a minimum standard of living for all seniors and the disabled. How do you propose that society care
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by knz 10y ago
Indeed. I think you could make the argument that it was a better investment than something like the F-35 though - at least the interstate system provides continuous economic benefit etc.
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by knz 10y ago
To be fair, we could probably have both if national rail was a priority. The interstate system was built over decades during periods of high military spending and several conflicts. Modernization of our nuclear capability isn't necessa
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by knz 10y ago
You can say "Hey Google" with the Home. It's a little easier to say.
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by knz 10y ago
The C720 was/is an awesome chromebook! Mine is still going strong and is perfect for 99% of my use. Is the screen as nice as a MBP - nope, but I think it was under $200 vs $2,000+. Not all chromebooks are created equally but some of th
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by knz 10y ago
My wife had an ambulance ride with a police escort once. A 20 minute drive turned into about 8 minutes. Minutes and seconds saved can make a difference sometimes.
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by knz 10y ago
From an insurance perspective, storms are very expensive. Especially if they come with more frequent and stronger damaging winds, hail, tornadoes, landslides, and flooding. It would be interesting to see some analysis of the financial cost
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by knz 10y ago
Isn't LA known for it's smog?! Being coastal just means you have prevailing winds - if geography is working against you (barrier mountains or a basin) then you will have a pollution issue.
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by knz 10y ago
And tighten zoning on the periphery to encourage density in the core. I live on the periphery of a major urban area and regularly see farmland/woods being turned into senior housing/single family homes/strip malls/banks

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