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by laverya 4y ago
"Republican leaning users were banned ~5x more often than Democratic leaning users, but they also shared misinformation more as decided by we-promise-they're-neutral fact checkers and the average American, so there's no discr
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by laverya 5y ago
> nobody wants Nazis or Pedophiles to spread their opinions because they are obscene. I want both sets of people to expose their views to the public. Disgusting though these views may be, it is safer for society if individuals are able
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by laverya 5y ago
The F-15 was initially sold only to a relatively small set of foreign operators - Israel and Japan. Saudi Arabia was added in the early 80s, but it took 20 years after that before another foreign operator was introduced. Now, the F-15 is fl
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by laverya 5y ago
If you're eating 2000 calories a day of bread and a bit of sausage filled with sawdust (not a lot of food for a soldier), it means that your logistics systems are probably almost at their breaking point. If you're eating 5000 calo
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by laverya 5y ago
The character insulting the reviewer caused the extinction of humanity. I don't think they're meant to be a paragon of all that is right and good in the world. (they're also a memecoin speculator, among other things)
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by laverya 5y ago
Yeah, fizzle was a bad choice of word. I'm not sure what you'd call an intentionally subcritical detonation, though.
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by laverya 5y ago
In other words, Trump may have been pro-Russia but the Trump Administration was very tough-on-Russia. As said by the grandparent.
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by laverya 5y ago
Or the nuke does an intentional fizzle (sets off the implosion in an intentionally asymmetric manner resulting in plutonium being spread all over, but no nuclear criticality) which seems like the most serious-but-still-plausible "fuck
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by laverya 5y ago
Presumably because "government not able to seize my money" >>>>> "government able to seize money of my opponents". (I am not an Edge customer either)
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by laverya 5y ago
And my point was that Chernobyl was not a reasonable point of comparison as all US power reactors have containment structures to the best of my knowledge.
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by laverya 5y ago
> NRC uses a cost/life of $9M when evaluating if new nuclear safety equipment is needed. How much cost has been added to nuclear projects due to additional safety requirements? I think it's plausible to say "over 9 billion
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by laverya 5y ago
Nuclear hasn't, but WHY is very interesting. And the answer seems to be because there's a DOE regulation that says that the risk of death from nuclear power must be "As Low As Reasonably Achievable". In practice, this me
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by laverya 5y ago
Michigan's are better: https://www.michigan.gov/mdot/0,4616,7-151-9615-575096--,00....
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by laverya 5y ago
Blue is generally training [0], but the standard loadout for the A-10 was a 5:1 mix of depleted uranium API and HEI rounds. (per wiki [1]) I think there was a move to change that ratio given that they were much more likely to be shooting un
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by laverya 5y ago
Congress has also been pretty clear that there's no right NOT to spend money on health insurance.
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by laverya 5y ago
> Its also illegal to make weapons yourself. Where? Not in the USA. And jstark, the guy who made the FGC-9, was rather conspicuously a resident of Germany [0], so it's not like making self-manufacture of firearms illegal made it imp
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by laverya 5y ago
Most mass shootings in the US are gang related using illegally-owned pistols, IIRC. At least using the definition that gets you big numbers of mass shootings.
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by laverya 5y ago
Perhaps a better comparison should be discrimination on the basis of religion, then.
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by laverya 5y ago
NASA not running an actual assessment after STS-27R was almost lost to a similar foam strike in 1988 is really the flabbergasting part. If that foam strike had been almost anywhere else on the wing , it would have resulted in the crew and
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by laverya 5y ago
It's not the fact that the hash of the public key is exposed, it's the fact that 1. so little of the hash is exposed (only 80 bits of 160 for sha1), making it easier to find a collision 2. the hash is so weak (sha1 is widely consi
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by laverya 5y ago
That's the subject of a previous article in this series: https://technicshistory.com/2021/07/13/the-triumvirate-coal-... A great read too!
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by laverya 5y ago
I'm continually amazed at how long it took to go from steam-powered pumps at one mine to steam power within factories to replace water.
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by laverya 5y ago
28 C-40s built, ever [0]. Southwest has 737 737s in service [1]. (also, lol at the coincidental number) There's 91 P-8s [2] in USN service, but still not really enough to make up the shortfall. 165 737NGs delivered in military configur
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by laverya 5y ago
Not a multiplayer game, but... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Waters_(video_game)
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by laverya 5y ago
Building a basic (large, loud, inefficient, expensive, unsafe) reactor is "easy", by the standards of nuclear shit. Building one that's suitable for use in a submarine is decidedly less so. How often do you need to refuel the
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by laverya 5y ago
That's exactly the allegation - that someone dying after taking the vaccine is investigated and only counted as a vaccine death if there's positive evidence of that being the cause, but COVID deaths were famously counted regardles
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by laverya 5y ago
If it was inflation + 5%, I'd be fine with that - but a flat 5% limit only works so long as inflation stays low.
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by laverya 5y ago
People talk about Trump destroying the US's reputation as an ally, but no one sane should have trusted the US to go to war for them after Ukraine. "If you give up your nukes, we'll protect you", we said. Until we decided
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by laverya 5y ago
I am suggesting that "being African American" is a disproportionately urban phenomenon.
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by laverya 5y ago
That's completely unrelated to whether your rural neighbors will be friendly, though. In fact, both things he mentions - crime and police - are going to be primarily experienced in urban, democratic areas by African Americans.

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