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by manicdee 6y ago
The history of edits is of no use to the people whose minds have been poisoned with the original propaganda.
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It gets worse: 1. Plug a monitor and external mouse into your MBA. 2. Now close the lid. 3. Open Safari, navigate to Tesla.com. 4. Open the hamburger menu, click the country down the bottom. 5. Try scrolling the "Select Your Region&quo
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by manicdee 6y ago
I'm not sure how you expect content creators to create content when they're not creating content anymore. How do they "adapt" to putting food on the table when they're not getting paid for the work they do?
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The simpler explanation is that drivers familiar with the feature aren't task-saturated managing the feature. It's like learning to drive for the first time: you're task saturated just keeping the car driving straight and at
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I'd really prefer it if the people loaning me money weren't betting against me paying it back and expecting to make more money off my failure than my success.
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That's no comfort for the people trying to make a living from their work.
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I'd prefer monks or normal people over ruthless lobbyists for vested interests. If we don't insist on completely absolving themselves of vested interest, there's no way we can get close to ensuring our politicians are free of
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by manicdee 6y ago
For most people, $400k in the bank feels like a lot, and that's assuming you aren't also milking travel allowance, food allowance, Comcar, etc. Also our pollies get a very generous superannuation contribution of 12% of their salar
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by manicdee 6y ago
> Average lifetime of those batteries are about 7 years before a full replacement. Based on what? > Everyone also seems to clearly ignore how detrimental they are to the environment. There's huge swathes of toxic wastelands creat
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> if you accrue a 17k bill for a service then that's what's due Au contraire: every time I have had a large bill it has been because the biller stuffed up. Water utility couldn't read the water meter because of the dog so
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by manicdee 6y ago
"Illegal immigrant" is quite plainly an anti-refugee phrase that was invented to criminalise people seeking refugee status. It's never been used otherwise. "Undocumented immigrant" does technically describe a person
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by manicdee 6y ago
Don't need particularly large antennas at the Mars end. Basically if you double the size of the antenna at the Mars end you can halve the size of the antenna back here on Earth. So to establish a link comparable to the Earth-MRO link w
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The author views these rules as upholding white supremacy because someone needs to make decisions about cutting off speakers or allowing extensions of time to speak. The author extends from that to assume that taking turns in speaking neces
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by manicdee 6y ago
It's the same basic idea: you take turns to speak, rather than all trying to speak at once or the person with the loudest voice simply talking over everyone else. In the context you describe it sounds like they had not had to deal with
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Regardless of the type of graph, it's important to understand whether a difference of 5 units between one measure and the next is meaningful. For example if you are measuring the length of optical fibre and the difference between the l
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Noting that decentralisation requires a lot of effort, otherwise monopoly is a natural outcome in any competitive field. So regardless of the egalitarian ethos of the Web, the natural result of leaving the environment to invent itself is th
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by manicdee 6y ago
More like the headline has nothing to do with the story, and often relies on a particularly convoluted perspective or pun on the actual content.
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by manicdee 6y ago
Because they are stressed from an unexpected and public termination, you think they're "activists"? Activists for what? Or is "activist" the new "communist"?
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by manicdee 6y ago
Vietnam closed their borders, kept kids home from school, had a month-long lockdown in April, and stopped COVID in its tracks. No magic immunity required, they just did the few things that were necessary to top the spread of an infectious a
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by manicdee 6y ago
Australian here. The reasons are quite simple from our perspective: socialised health care, closing international and state borders where required, having leadership that provides consistent and sensible advice, and accepting that along wit
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by manicdee 6y ago
The propellers are huge in order to get this tiny helicopter to fly. A quadcopter would be larger than Perseverance, unless you devise some zero-mass hinges to make the entire thing fold into the same space that was available for Ingenuity.
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by manicdee 6y ago
That's great if the entire river system is continually receiving decent amounts of rain. In most real world scenarios there's a rain-rich area in the top of the watershed, then a less rain-rich but flood-prone area, then a bit mor
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by manicdee 6y ago
I'm sure they will, especially if they ever get to research nuclear thermal propulsion. For the meantime that Lunar transfer ship is Orion with a small boost stage.
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Gateway makes heaps of sense in a reusable spacecraft future. You have vehicles specialised for certain tasks such as ferrying crew from Earth to Lunar orbit and back, and specialised vehicles for landing crew and cargo on the surface. Star
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It's been in development longer, and will not carry tourists to space before SpaceX has tourists in orbit. BO's development pace is glacial.
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There's a lot more to ULA than just assembling old-space rockets. There are people there with the experience in designing, testing and launching rockets and all the equipment required to support them. There's also the real estate
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My 2011 MacBook Air still works fine. My Windows-using friend is on their third laptop in the last decade, not including the Chromebook they inherited from work. If you want to find the "new shiny every year" people, look for the
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by manicdee 6y ago
If you collect the rain coming down, someone downstream ends up with no water. Water is not free.
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Veritasium did an episode 'Mars Helicopter' containing some interesting discussions with the team that built it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhsZUZmJvaM nm it was already linked elsewhere
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Slowing down the timeline did an awful lot to prevent a heap of deaths. By preventing an ICU from being overloaded, you buy more time for treatment (and rest for the staff) which means less likelihood of death. Now you just have to deal wit

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