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by mandevil 5y ago
The story around this is interesting. So the main job of royalty is to produce a heir: the advantage of monarchy over tyranny is that succession is clear, which is good, but you need to actually have the children to do so. King George III a
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by mandevil 5y ago
For the record, the US entered WW2 after more than four years of fighting- Japan was the proximate cause of US entry, and they had been engaged in their horrifying, semi-demi-hemi genocidal war in China since the Marco Polo bridge incident
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by mandevil 5y ago
There are major differences between Northam (did not commit a crime, happened decades ago) and Cuomo (did commit crimes, happened during his term in office). I suspect that the closer parallel in Virginia history would be Bob McDonnell- in
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by mandevil 5y ago
I'm going to presume that you are not American. In the systems used by almost all other democracies around the world (either Westminster or Party List), where his office was dependent on maintaining support from Parliament, he probably
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by mandevil 5y ago
No, the treatments were all paid for by the government of North Carolina in this case, and were based on levels of lead concentration in the blood, not socioeconomic status. So by comparing those with slightly above the threshold (who got t
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A defense that the company can offer is 'we intervened to prevent this in the following ways, senior management took this seriously and had a zero tolerance policy, as you can see from the long list of people fired for doing bad things
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by mandevil 5y ago
In my experience, the US Army cared more about securing their stats on what a T-72 or T-90 could do than what a M1 could do. Which is frankly amusing given that the Russians know exactly- even better than the US- what those numbers are. Of
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by mandevil 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
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by mandevil 5y ago
The thing that struck me about this article was a point barely acknowledged: that the reporter had obtained an email chain of senior executives candidly discussing CrowdTangle. This points to a deeper problem within Facebook. In general, pe
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by mandevil 5y ago
Man, Facebook. Can't even keep your executives emails complaining about the transparency you do have from getting leaked to a reporter. The problem that Facebook has is clearly that a reasonably large % of the employees have no trust t
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People have been trying to do this with expert systems, flow charts, and every other technology you can imagine, and have for decades. My wife is a pharmacist, and they have software that is supposed to help them out with the bewildering nu
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by mandevil 5y ago
Banks and financial institutions (in the US or that are in some way regulated by the US Treasury- which in practice means everyone who uses USD, including such surprising places as casinos in the Philippines) are required to make Suspicious
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by mandevil 5y ago
Two points on the market basket mechanism for measuring inflation: One is that I think lots of people over-focus on specific sectors: sure houses and college education have gotten more expensive, but clothes, travel and computers have gotte
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by mandevil 5y ago
This story makes clear that it wasn't 'politics' the way all the outsiders thought of it. The way this rule was instituted makes it clear that it was about protecting company leaders (and DHH's ego) from criticism over t
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by mandevil 5y ago
Chang'e 5 was more like a modern day Luna 16 than an Apollo mission.
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A child born on December 17th, 1903- the day the Wright's flew a plane just under a quarter mile at Kittyhawk- would have turned 65 the day before Apollo 8 took off to take the first humans to Lunar orbit.
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by mandevil 5y ago
By the nature of the beast, a spacecraft with humans is going to have absolutely thunderous mass and energy budgets compared to robotic ones, so any instrument you can put on a robot you can put on a manned mission. In a similar manner, I w
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by mandevil 5y ago
Right, but the lunar science was not just limited to sample return, and here the J missions (Apollo 15-17) with their SIM bay cameras produced much better image quality than even Lunar Orbiter for much of the Moon's surface (Lunar Orbi
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by mandevil 5y ago
To compare the scientific return of robots and people, we can compare the results of the only space rock both have visited: the Moon. The six manned Apollo missions brought back much much much more scientific return than all of the contempo
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by mandevil 6y ago
Whose population? The EPL makes so much money because it's a global sport, so why should I normalize by the population of the UK?
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by mandevil 6y ago
Sure, but let's go by # of teams: The top 58 teams in promotion-relegation system: (EPL+La Liga+Bundesliga- I'll even through in UCL since it's mostly the same core teams driving the attention) 15.5 billion euros The top 62 t
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by mandevil 6y ago
Yes, a team bought by a foreign billionaire willing to spend money suddenly got good, so good they ended up winning it all. Great for fans of Leicester, but what about all the fans of, say, Bolton? That's a team where the ownership has
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by mandevil 6y ago
After briefly being relegated to the third tier (for just a season, first time ever) for a season, they immediately bounced back up to the second tier in 2009-10 and then they were bought by Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, a Thai travel and retai
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by mandevil 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_sports_le... The NFL, MLB, and the NBA are all higher revenue sports than the EPL. Even the NHL brings in more revenue than every other sports league than the big 3 No
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by mandevil 6y ago
Those changes were made without any actual cutting though: the decision was made early enough in the process that there was nothing to cut apart. They just put some different pieces together than originally planned. Source: personal convers
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A title without money is valuable to the employee only because it gives them better leverage to find a job that gives them with more money.
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by mandevil 6y ago
Public Figure Doctrine in the US. According to it, if you are a public figure libel and defamation have much higher burden's of proof whereas if you aren't a public figure you don't. And there are concepts like "Limited
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by mandevil 6y ago
The North Koreans and Iranians are using very small submarines, similar to the ones under discussion here, probably for similar roles (covert infiltration of people and goods). And similarly, operational security is probably the most import
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Errr, this is very different, but not because of the submarine. Modern ASW[1] is based on the idea that Russian subs come from Russian bases. US and NATO submarines (and airplanes and ships and undersea sonar arrays etc.) pay a lot of atten
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by mandevil 6y ago
It was (at least when I looked at this circa 2012, it might have changed since then) largely an artifact of Boeing and Intel: both produced fantastically expensive physical items from factories that were highly sought at by the rest of the

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