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by laverya 4y ago
Yeah, this was remarkably irritating for me here in Austria - if you're going to change the language based on location, please let the user override it . Luckily 'en-gb' is less likely to be overridden than 'en-us'
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by laverya 4y ago
The real question is "does it cost more to certify the autopilot to do this than it does to pay for an extra two pilots", and with my understanding of aerospace costs that answer would be "very, very much yes".
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by laverya 4y ago
> since nobody in GA wants to pay for better ones. Since nobody wants to pay to certify better ones. The engine in a Cessna 172 is going to run you $20-40k (20k rebuilt, 40k new afaict - check out [0]) - far more expensive than an au
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by laverya 4y ago
The gas reservoirs don't hold enough to get through a winter. They hold enough so that with normal inflows , there's enough gas in the winter - while drawing down the stocks. You need both ~full storage and continuing supplies to
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by laverya 4y ago
The more western equivalent of this is screening for Down's Syndrome. In certain countries, essentially all Down's babies are aborted. (98% in Denmark, for example)
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by laverya 4y ago
Yeah it really reads like "we know people are going to do nasty things with this; we can't prevent that; please don't sue us over it" to me
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by laverya 4y ago
If it paid for its own road maintenance, and no other services such as water or sewer , they would need a 46% property tax increase just to cover that one thing .
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by laverya 4y ago
> A "modern" nuclear weapon is much more powerful than the ones we recall. The nuclear weapons deployed during the 60s and 70s were far more powerful than the ones of today. Instead of multi-megaton yields being the default, no
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by laverya 4y ago
Let's work at this from reverse. OF COURSE smart people are more likely than average to become rich! How could it be otherwise, unless the only way to become rich was luck? Now, some people are born rich! But even if it's just the
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by laverya 4y ago
Fukushima may have been bad (this is debatable, it was bad in public opinion more than anything else), but viewed in comparison to "not having enough power leading to industry shutting down (happening now) or people freezing to death (
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by laverya 4y ago
Not shutting down their nuclear power plants is an easy first step. Building more nuclear, developing local fossil fuel sources, and building LNG offload terminals would all be good second steps, though of course also more expensive.
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by laverya 4y ago
When they decided to rely on Russia for their energy security?
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by laverya 4y ago
> North Korea is an independent nuclear power South Korea, like Japan, is a "latent" nuclear power - meaning they have the ability to quickly (likely a matter of months) produce nuclear weapons given current resources and exper
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by laverya 4y ago
Are you richer than the average local at time of entry? Expat. Poorer? Immigrant. Or at least that's what matches the usage I've seen the best.
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by laverya 4y ago
> That's the most fucked up thing here. The regions with the highest concentration of people upset about paying taxes overlaps almost exactly with the places that get the most excess benefit of taxes, typically in the range of 1.1:1
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by laverya 4y ago
Have you ever seen a flat parking lot in the downtown of a US city? Low property tax (because it's unimproved) plus real estate speculation.
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by laverya 4y ago
IIRC apartment complexes advertising no pet surcharges + other pet accommodations have been dinged for racial discrimination because more white people than minorities owned covered pets. Disparate Impact is a bit crazy. EDIT: I was wrong, i
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by laverya 4y ago
Advertising is why people want to run/host wiki clones. Not having the complete timeline/backstory/abilities/etc of every One Piece character/Pokemon/Simpsons episode is why people want to use wiki clones.
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by laverya 4y ago
And thanks to Wikipedia culling all the fancruft (including pokemon articles), we now have 10,000 ad-ridden wiki clones, one for each fandom. I REALLY can't imagine this was the best decision in the long term.
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by laverya 4y ago
Worst case if you short out all the safeties and just run it anyways is a meltdown, but Germany's reactors have containment structures. So a meltdown just means that the decommissioning process for your reactor has become a LOT more ex
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by laverya 4y ago
> Firstly the date on the link you provided is from Jan 11, 2022, 9:52 AM so it's a little dated when considering a fast moving pandemic. January 2022 would include ~3/4ths of the pandemic's time and deaths so far.
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by laverya 4y ago
> Erm... the 1980s? You know, the time period that led to the 1994 ban on guns? Absolutely huge spike in gun violence and homicides. There is a major difference between "Gun violence and homicides" and "mass shootings&quot
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by laverya 4y ago
Ah yes, Sprint - for when having a 5kt bomb go off over your city is the good outcome. Terminal ballistic missile defense is hard!
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by laverya 4y ago
That determines who has control. However, the Democrats currently have control despite this , if only barely. So the question remains - why don't they just do what the court has said they should, and pass a law?
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by laverya 4y ago
> There's a whole bunch of wrong rolled up here. The regulations were about how to stop CO2 from polluting the atmosphere. From there, you try to play Senator CS to shift this into some sort of weird "delegating an industry&quo
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by laverya 4y ago
What agency would you hold up as an example of competence, sanity and political independence, then? The FAA's got egg on its face from the whole 737-Max situation, the FDA is approving vaccines for under-5 year olds despite no evidence
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by laverya 4y ago
> The "lifelong bureaucrats" are typically (but not always, see the CDC) policy and subject matter experts. We really, really needed one of those groups of unelected bureaucrats to be policy and subject matter experts, and they
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by laverya 4y ago
The current interpretation of the Commerce Clause is large enough to legislate essentially everything.
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by laverya 4y ago
And indeed, it's when you mention the fact that UBCs require a gun registry to be enforceable that people really start opposing them. (The current background check system was passed with the compromise that it wouldn't be used
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by laverya 4y ago
I'm saying that polls can be twisted however you want, if you're willing to put in the effort. [0] How the question is framed is a large part of the effort, and what the quoted doctor was complaining about. (Specifically, he was c

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