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by laverya 2y ago
> Past that, to other presidents, I don't know. In my personal opinion, I think they're banking on never having to get there. I think their logic is basically "these people function ~identically to if they were democratic
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by laverya 2y ago
To be fair, that's actually one of the things that I've liked about it. Pushing me to study more on a week-by-week basis is at least theoretically valuable, no?
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by laverya 2y ago
Wasn't he literally banned on Twitter after posting a "stand down" video that afternoon?
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by laverya 2y ago
Unless, of course, it's illegal for normal citizens to own foreign currency. If foreigners can only own foreign currency, and normal citizens can only own local currency, then it makes it a lot harder to bribe the locals!
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by laverya 2y ago
Michelle Obama, yes.
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by laverya 2y ago
I think you missed point 8, "The reactor is in the study phase. It is not being built now."
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by laverya 3y ago
> German is probably easier for European-language speakers to learn though. This is a bit of an understatement. Japanese is a category-V language, taking an estimated 88 weeks of full-time study to learn, while German is a category-II la
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by laverya 3y ago
These two things can happen in parallel, unless we need to change how we design bridges to account for being rammed by neopanamax ships.
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by laverya 3y ago
> If flying is not profitable enough, then we need to plaster the country in passenger rail. These solutions are targeted at 15+ hour flights - I don't think anyone's building high-speed rail from London to Sydney anytime soon.
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by laverya 3y ago
It also might be worth pointing out that while the Senate structurally favors low-population states (which in the US are more likely to be conservative), the Republicans currently have a higher proportion of seats in the House than the Sena
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by laverya 3y ago
1.5 deaths per 100,000,000 vehicle miles driven in the USA, so I'm not that that far off (depends on occupancy and average trip length)
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by laverya 3y ago
9,999,999 times out of 10,000,000, so is driving manually
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by laverya 3y ago
Would UBI lead to more control for them, or for government? I have to imagine the latter.
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by laverya 3y ago
One of many reasons that FDR was the worst president in US history.
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by laverya 3y ago
Only if the attacker only transferred funds to one wallet. I could also see a sophisticated attacker holding off on draining wallets until the amount contained started to drop or increased past a threshold. Draining funds as soon as a user
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by laverya 3y ago
Deadweight losses exist, and it is also possible for things that the union demands of the employer to cost the employer more than they provide in benefits to the worker.
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by laverya 3y ago
Their corrections may be correct, but it's still always nicer when the magnitude of the signal is larger than that of the corrections to the data.
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by laverya 3y ago
> Students without parents that are college graduates are also at a disadvantage no matter what their potential is. It is possible both for SAT scores to predict a person's potential to contribute in cognitively demanding fields AND
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by laverya 3y ago
How long does it take for a bullet to reach 1500 yards? Around 2 seconds. How confident do you have to be in the movement of your target to hit them with a 2 second lead? Very. (Or you can follow the CIWS methodology and throw quite a few b
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by laverya 3y ago
Only when they buy back their domains business from Squarespace.
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by laverya 3y ago
The problem isn't in retraining a pilot to fly the new plane. The problem is that this pilot is now no longer interchangeable with legacy 737 pilots, and cannot fly a legacy 737. This means that if you have a hardware issue, you can&#x
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by laverya 3y ago
Also the rover is really, really slow - a few hundred meters on a good day.
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by laverya 3y ago
Mexico City is a wonderful place to visit, if you stay in the nicer areas! (It's the biggest city in North America - there's a lot of both "nicer" and "not-nice" areas) I remember the Museo Soumaya being pretty
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by laverya 3y ago
How many Americans are there in Mexico, and how many Mexicans are in the United States of America? Bonus points if you compare "legally" and "illegally" separately! I think that there's a lot of Americans that would
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by laverya 3y ago
I agree that their SRE team is good, well motivated, and transparent. That does not mean that they are the first priority for resources, or that it's the easiest line item to spend on.
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by laverya 3y ago
Because in the end every organization is vulnerable to being eaten from the inside and worn as a skinsuit by parasites. Especially charities. Why would they spend money on improvements to the site when they could spend money on other things
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by laverya 3y ago
I think he might still have a slight grudge against the New York Times. Can't really blame him, though.
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by laverya 3y ago
> making it faster than fiber over long distances This does not mean you should use it if you have fiber available at your house. This means you should pay for transit over it if you need to have low-latency overseas connections, for ins
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by laverya 3y ago
Levelized cost of electricity is the most favorable metric for intermittent / non-dispatchable generation sources, though!
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by laverya 3y ago
And reverted by anyone, if the edit doesn't meet standards - like relying on an unapproved source to correct a claim. And that's if the article isn't locked or otherwise restricted!

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