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by laverya 5y ago
At least 20 states are Constitutional Carry as of 2021: http://www.gun-nuttery.com/rtc.php (there's a fantastic gif there - I honestly wish there were similar gifs for other state-by-state law changes) And IIRC there&#
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by laverya 5y ago
I think it's quite possible that the maintenance events for an electric airplane are further apart and simpler than for a traditional engine, and those maintenance costs are a very major component of total infrastructure costs.
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by laverya 5y ago
While I'll be the first to admit that the US's current foreign wars are unnecessary, far fewer people would say so about ww2's Pacific campaign. (Unless you're placing the blame on the US's prewar trade embargo?)
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by laverya 5y ago
1. Presumably, your "we have a superweapon" talk would say that it can be carried on a single plane. That is literally the main/only advantage of first-gen nukes. Also, the maneuvers that a B-29 needed to do to escape the bla
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by laverya 5y ago
> There was no need to burn two cities. If you think the US only burned two Japanese cities, you should look at the history of the US's bombing campaign. Firebombs were used a lot . As for "taking the head honchos to the tests
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by laverya 6y ago
Oxygen is the vast majority of the propellant mass, I'm afraid. Methalox is CH4+2O2->CO2+2H2O, so you need 4 Oxygen atoms for every Carbon atom (with Hydrogen being a rounding error).
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by laverya 6y ago
> It only takes looking at the responses to the common core to see how resistant parents can be to any innovation in education. This assumes that common core was a good thing, and that the resistance to it was thus incorrect. Which is co
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by laverya 6y ago
Does anyone know what node this facility produces? If it's a 28nm line that's a whole different level of impact than 5nm or 7nm.
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by laverya 6y ago
The average duration that a person holds a mortgage and the duration of that mortgage may be wildly different - and I think they are in this case.
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by laverya 6y ago
Kind of ironic, given how small the sources are.
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by laverya 6y ago
If everyone who cares about the environment doesn't have kids, this just ensures that the children of those who don't care about the environment will rule the world. And political stances are remarkably heritable.
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by laverya 6y ago
Not to mention WP:CANCER [0], though it's less of an exponential curve today than 5 years ago. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
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by laverya 6y ago
Personally, I'd also put that down as an example of how a fixation on guns leads to failure. A truck attack or bomb might have been far more devastating. Especially since it sounds like his substitute gunpowder worked.
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by laverya 6y ago
There's a great recent video on the Memphis Pyramid from Bright Sun Films [0] - 10th tallest pyramid in the world! 0: https://youtu.be/FEB-YG2iiYA
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by laverya 6y ago
Yeah, 3d-printed guns are essentially nonexistent in criminal hands today. (to the best of my knowledge)
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by laverya 6y ago
I could theoretically manufacture a pistol-caliber carbine myself for under $1000, including the 3d-printer. As in, from bar stock + hydraulic pipe + DC current source + 3d printed components. Look up the FGC-9 - it's pretty impressive
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by laverya 6y ago
3rd option - manufactured by the criminal. This isn't common today, but considering ongoing the efforts to make 3d-printing Glock and Hi-Point frames easier I can't imagine it will remain uncommon forever. These aren't exactl
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by laverya 6y ago
> You won't be hitting a gong at 1000 yards, but you'll hit a pie plate at 20 pretty easy. Depends on what you're building. If you're making your own AR-15 lower, there's no detrimental impact on accuracy - all o
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by laverya 6y ago
> Colt's main products are the AR-15 (introduced ~1963) Colt didn't introduce the AR-15, either. That was ArmaLite, who then sold the rights to the design to Colt.
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by laverya 6y ago
I was thinking something similar myself (more on weld quality, "welds should be as strong as the rest of the material"), but then I realized that this doesn't matter , and having an unoptimized test vehicle a week earlier is
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by laverya 6y ago
Because the US has had so much success securing its southern border, and because taking the necessary actions to truly close it wouldn't be a total political shitstorm.
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by laverya 6y ago
Given that Starlink will probably solve the same set of problems within a few years (that being access to internet worldwide in areas with minimal infrastructure) this isn't too much of a surprise to me.
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by laverya 6y ago
> In fact it's actually illegal for the state to create such a list. To elaborate on this a little bit, NO state in the US has such a list - not one worth a damn, that is. For instance, NY recently mandated the registration of all
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by laverya 6y ago
The Boeing paper linked to within the post [0] is also pretty interesting, on the financial and organizational impacts of outsourcing at McDonnel-Douglas and later Boeing. If you need a TL;DR, go to page 14 and look at the recommendations.
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by laverya 6y ago
Before 1.16, there's a whole list [0], though I've personally used go-bindata the most. I've yet to try statik, though I doubt I'll ever have a reason to now! 0: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/
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by laverya 6y ago
The best example for the new '//go:embed' directive I've seen so far is this: package main import ( "embed" "net/http" ) //go:embed assets/* var
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by laverya 6y ago
> I don't think there's been a single instance where I've thought "why can't stdlib do this?" I've had this a few times, most recently with "how do I add this data file to my binary". At least
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by laverya 6y ago
Automatic weapons are legal in most states, they're just an NFA item and need to have been manufactured + registered prior to 1986. (And due to this, they're expensive as all hell - think $10k for a gun that sold for ~$120 new in
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by laverya 6y ago
> So the government should be able to force your business to do something against your will? This ship sailed 50 years ago, I'm afraid. Businesses can no longer discriminate (including refusal to serve) on the basis of race, gender,

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