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by mapt 2y ago
Wait, what? So I can buy my carton of 120 iphones if I pay a $100 package fee, instead of $200,000 at the 120% rate? Alternately: My Chinese excavator only costs $100 in tariffs? Can someone give me pseudocode here?
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by mapt 2y ago
This was/is a kidnapping. Not a deportation. We have processes for deportation. Miller is attempting to cover up evidence of a kidnapping, and impede justice (not to mention Justices). This is a crime.
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by mapt 2y ago
WP: (2019) "In March 2019, Prince George's County, Maryland, police arrested Abrego Garcia with three other men in a Home Depot parking lot where they were seeking work as day laborers.[2][8] One of the men claimed Abrego Garcia w
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by mapt 2y ago
Ain't but 20,000 police in the whole town. Can you dig it? - Cyrus
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by mapt 2y ago
In many countries, the refusal to pass budget authorization automatically removes the current leader. In ours it merely robs them of resources. It's very difficult understanding what Schumer was thinking a few weeks back, beyond per
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by mapt 2y ago
I'm not expecting the average German to rise up against Hitler. Unfortunately. But the average German Jew? Maybe they have more incentive to be prepared? If guns are readily available? This isn't in the category of "to save
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by mapt 2y ago
Are the demographics of gun sales going to suddenly shift dramatically? We are evidently deep into 'tree of liberty' stuff. We have been the most well-armed nation in the world for less actual material reason than most countries
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by mapt 2y ago
The question is how much of that carbon turns to methane in organic decomposition. If that fraction isn't negligible, we'd be better off burning it. Determining that fraction, across a range of conditions, is nontrivial.
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by mapt 2y ago
The logistics of the rats are cheaper. But the cost basis is probably always going to be the trainers. A trainer's time is much more costly than a dog's needs.
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by mapt 2y ago
For offensive work, yes. If you control the ground, though, and are policing a defensive perimeter against air attacks on targets in the interior of your territory, you can make and distribute the camera stations cheaply enough that it doe
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by mapt 2y ago
There are a million cat & dog owners out there using Talking Buttons, borrowed from nonverbal human assistive communications. Mostly to make funny Tiktok videos, to be fair. It's rarely clear what is random, what is Clever Hans t
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by mapt 2y ago
Ultimately this is an economic argument. With about $10k you can buy a few dozen machine vision cameras [I would say "webcams" if I knew less about webcam compression], a PC with mobile modem, and a self-contained solar power sup
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by mapt 2y ago
Aerodynamics & engineering dictates that not many things can move at the speed/agility of a stealth fighter. If you've got a radar system already in place, "Stealth" is just the ones that don't also pop up on th
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by mapt 2y ago
Additionally: If you want to _mass_ mass produce these things, an injection molding setup is going to be your goal. You can sort of hack one together for plastic molding using a pneumatic/hydraulic cylinder and some mold plates that a
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by mapt 2y ago
Resin prints are production quality, but a messy/toxic process. We need a resin printer tuned for mass production of tiny pieces, just like belt FDM printers are tuned for mass production. FDM prints are either slow or have obvious lay
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by mapt 2y ago
That often depends on the structure of the subsidy. "We will pay you 5 euros per kg of fish sold in supermarkets to consumers" is different from "We will pay you 500,000 euros a year to keep fishing". There is a very rea
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by mapt 2y ago
> If you completely give away a capability to other countries (in this case, fishing knowledge and labour) it is much harder to bring back than just coughing up the money I feel like money is overwhelmingly how we denominate value, effor
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by mapt 2y ago
> The UK stepped on its own rake because it was obsessed with tiny, already vanished industries like fishing. [US-wise] Coal and cereal grain agriculture automation have also seen ~98% drops in employment while raising production levels.
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by mapt 2y ago
tldr: These guys suffered rapid, progressive failures of their thruster control loops in orbit. They were close to either being stranded in space or impacting the station, in what might have been a lethal circumstance. Rebooting regained th
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by mapt 2y ago
I always thought there was a very basic intelligence proof that the biologists & neurologists overlooked. Engineering. What are humans? If we focus on early-noticed similarities with Great Apes, people often took to saying "We a
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by mapt 2y ago
How much of this is variation between farms and how much is variations between batches? If the taste of every batch (a given farm's crop in a given season) were effectively random we would also see large variations from farm to farm.
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by mapt 2y ago
They will be inherently toxic when the politics are inherently toxic. You can be banned from /r/Conservative permanently for showing the slightest deviation from the current propaganda line, but there are such a ready supply of ne
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by mapt 2y ago
I blame daily economics headlines.
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by mapt 2y ago
Every interaction you have with a social network nudges you into one mode of interacting or other. The biggest deviation from the norm with Twitter is the ideas of quote-tweeting and subtweeting, making a new post rather than replying to so
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by mapt 2y ago
There are also more than 7 billion people that aren't in the US or EU. Text microblogging is one of the lowest-bandwidth-requirement, and therefore least-capital-intensive, internet startups.
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by mapt 2y ago
You should direct some of these comments to the accounts you're following on Twitter. I assume there's some convenient way to cross-post?
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by mapt 2y ago
> What you're looking for is a town square where everyone can protest to their hearts content. You're not looking for a place of quiet contemplation and study. The university quad, a multipurpose public space designated for stu
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by mapt 2y ago
A significant number of Columbia students are Jewish and were largely protesting the genocide. Almost the entirety of this movement had zero issue with Jews, only with the actions of Israel and Zionism. A significant number of outside agita
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by mapt 2y ago
Columbia has an endowment that stands (pre- Liberation Day) at 15 billion dollars. They kowtowed to some of the militant Zionist interests involved in that endowment in order to attain a fractionally higher return, and betrayed their studen
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by mapt 2y ago
> I will say a huge number of problems in our society right now are caused by a prioritization of profit over social stability which is inherent to capitalism. I totally agree. I would prefer harnessing capitalism for our means and regu

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