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by lstodd 4y ago
This reminds me of the situation with the telecoms in the east europe - it's almost the same. There were no incumbents, so both internet access and private healthcare are leagues above US. It's just not comparable. Also include on
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by lstodd 4y ago
Too bad they missed this one https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e6/37/b1/e637b1345d6f13bd14c6...
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by lstodd 4y ago
Nah, we were checking who's got the most sturdy phone one night at a bar.
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by lstodd 4y ago
What's so novel about rubber gaskets? My Nokia 5210 from 2002 was waterproof, and its electronics were actually suspended inside shock-absorbing case so that it survived being thrown against a wall repeatedly.
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by lstodd 4y ago
Poker is dumb. Préférence is better.
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by lstodd 4y ago
It's been known since 90s for plain ccns, and, well, about two years after CVC got phased in they were also broken. Besides once you submit both somewhere, you're potentially toast. 2 factor auth without, or better with disposable
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by lstodd 4y ago
District heating is hell. Most ex-Soviet/Warsaw pact countries tried to move from district to direct gas, or small CCGT plants (as in one for about 10000 people) exactly for this reason: maintenance is hell and losses are enormous. And
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by lstodd 4y ago
What holding tanks? They would have to be by the volume about the equal of where you'd discharge them. This is just sad.
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by lstodd 4y ago
> none of the big oil companies are going hard into renewables Citation, please. Because afaik it's the other way around. They're not 'oil' companies, they're energy companies. As long as something other than &#x
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by lstodd 4y ago
Yeah, no. It spews NOx and the whole bunch of undesirable things like dioxines. You don't get pure PET and oxygen in, and you don't get pure CO2+H2O out. It's messy to the point that it's debatable if it's better ju
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by lstodd 4y ago
Nothing eliminates anything. It's all CxHy + zO2 -> nCO2 + mH2O There is such thing called second law of thermodynamics. The only question is into how much stages we can split this process, and how much useful stuff we can extract f
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by lstodd 4y ago
Read the Mutant 59 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2368220.Mutant_59
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by lstodd 4y ago
Alice / Алиса is the one from Yandex https://yandex.com/support/m-yandex/alice/talking.html
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by lstodd 5y ago
Cloud albedo? Its effects depending on surface temps? Cloud cover changes wrt local climate change? Do you have any sources for that?
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by lstodd 5y ago
You forgot the albedo effect of the clouds. On both sides - top and bottom. This has not ever been modelled to my knowledge. And it is very complicated.
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by lstodd 5y ago
They "hold many, many patents" (usually worthless) to have an "unencumbered range of motion to use them offensively" against similar entities. If the whole idea of using bullshit patents to defend against someone's
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by lstodd 5y ago
Drugs, sex and rock'n'roll. Seems like the last part is being solved.
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by lstodd 5y ago
Wrong paper, and/or bad fusor. My stuff printed on HP LJ 4 in late 90s is still as good as new.
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by lstodd 5y ago
> A laser printer uses simple carbon No, it uses what's basically a fine plastic powder. By mass it's mostly carbon, yes.
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by lstodd 5y ago
> Laser prints have the bad tendency to "unstick" themselves from the paper, you end up losing everything. That's bullshit. It's the other way around. Inkjet fades out and gets washed off by a little bit of moisture,
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by lstodd 5y ago
http://www.airforce.ru/aircraft/miscellaneous/ejectionseats/... Super convenient - climb a ladder, strap in and then tech guys winch you up with a hand crank (on first models). Altitude less than 1500 ft and
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by lstodd 5y ago
What's wrong with 4chan (and dozens of its offspring)? You don't like it - you don't read it. It's that simple.
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by lstodd 5y ago
Hm. I managed to "win" it several times, that is to survive to the end without stealing or such stuff. It is hard, but possible.
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by lstodd 5y ago
Idk how it's now, but ten years ago managing a part of a corp in Eve Online was a full-time job, not to mention alliances. Not very different from managing a real company.
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by lstodd 5y ago
That's some bullshit video. All you need is some tissue and a gas soldering iron or equivalent lighter. Lights up in under one second.
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by lstodd 5y ago
So distracting people who work on something that blocks you is "making progress"? That's rich.
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by lstodd 5y ago
I'm not seeing any difference if one was born and nurtured into autocracy, or just happened to have it land in their hands. I'd say in either case the pressures are such that the resulting behaviour can not even be named as selfis
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by lstodd 5y ago
Let's start with that being an autocrat is irrational (or insane, or however you would have it) in itself. I think we agree on that.
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by lstodd 5y ago
IDK about what SA had to offer back back then. Diamonds? Gold? Thing is, Russia lived all those years on gas and oil export mainly. Which isn't exactly a great proposition nowadays.
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by lstodd 5y ago
Nah, that's bullshit, sorry. They hoped that UA will collapse inside 48 hours, but this didn't happen. Not to say there aint no 6400 warheads. They, you know, require maintenance. 640 100kt range maybe.

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