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by mapt 2y ago
I contend that every judge, politician and law enforcement officer who's ever signed off on this idea is involved in a criminal conspiracy, in every colloquial sense of the term. The whole idea would moot the fourth amendment.
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by mapt 2y ago
I'd imagine there are. In Shenzhen.
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by mapt 2y ago
Of course it would. Because copyright is a dystopian death-pact intended to serve as a deterrent, not a functional system of regulation. If copyright was strictly litigated by all aggrieved parties the damages would exceed the global annua
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by mapt 2y ago
CA's central valley is missing ~140 million acre feet of groundwater relative to historical norms, and is pumping an additional ~15 million acre feet a year. Ban that and desalinate 30 million acre feet of oceanwater at $2000 per acre
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by mapt 2y ago
Imported American almonds maybe?
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by mapt 2y ago
California right now has an endorheic basin which is rapidly subsiding due to groundwater draws, and that doesn't really work for agriculture in the long term. We need to re-establish a gradient to the ocean, and a limited wetland sys
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by mapt 2y ago
Space applications of all sorts are screaming out for mass production approaches. With so much design work and verification the actual manufacturing cost tends to be trivial by comparison, the work readily adapted to concurrent manufacturi
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by mapt 2y ago
The Lancet suggests that the difference between very poor nutrition and great nutrition adds up to roughly 8 inches (20cm) of adult height. Height remains very genetically heritable, aside from that. https://www.weforum.org&#x2F
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by mapt 2y ago
While President Camacho is shown in a more theatrical light, what this character actually does on screen is * find an expert who has apparently superior knowledge about a widespread problem afflicting his people * immediately seek guidance
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by mapt 2y ago
Much of Finland and Estonia are currently being jammed per https://gpsjam.org/?lat=58.53948&lon=24.82400&z=4.9&date=202... Finland is reintroducing DME: https://www.reuters.com/business/aero
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by mapt 2y ago
To improve instrumental accuracy by 5x in a single dimension when fighting against random uncorrelated drift/noise, from what I recall of statistics you require 5^2 = 25x as many instruments.
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by mapt 2y ago
Yes, because we interpret "da Vinci" as a surname, which it isn't, at least not exactly. But in fact, the man your college friend-group calls "Johnny from the Bronx" in English would not be shortened to "from t
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by mapt 2y ago
We have legal structures with which to make statements like this about nonprofit status, structures which bind the promise so that we don't have to take your word on it.
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by mapt 2y ago
Ukraine began the day expecting Trump to seriously attempt a settlement of the conflict by signing an agreement; Security guarantees were discussed before the agreement was formulated. 1 hour before, they learned they had nothing to gain be
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by mapt 2y ago
Commercial air travel is very risk-averse. Best practice is that if something unexpected occurs, and you have plenty of fuel to spare, you go and and find someplace else to land.
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by mapt 2y ago
Chip-scale atomic clocks based on cesium were demonstrated in 2003 with DARPA/NIST funding, and entered commercial production in 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip-scale_atomic_clock Apparently they're
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by mapt 2y ago
The agreement was essentially "You promise to give us 50% of the proceeds of any new mines you open. We promise you absolutely nothing, but maybe we'll try and negotiate a ceasefire." This was revealed to be the formal agree
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by mapt 2y ago
You don't need one. You need hundreds.
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by mapt 2y ago
Cutting off imagery and Starlink are going to seriously ream the performance of the Ukrainian front, which is arguably even more heavily dependent on that than on US military hardware. Ukraine has used these advantages over Russia to excee
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by mapt 2y ago
It would be a start, though, if we reintroduced keystone species, allowed less problematic predators free reign, and adopted a policy of generally consigning river floodplains to nature as much as possible rather than making rivers into sew
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by mapt 2y ago
The equable climate problem reminds me of the exoplanetary curiosity of the tidally locked planet. For a long time, people expected that all such planets would have an atmosphere that inevitably crashed out as ice on the cold side, renderi
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by mapt 2y ago
The sort of trip it would need to go through to make that journey doesn't make survival of the fossil very plausible.
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by mapt 2y ago
Real estate cost (the opportunity cost of human occupancy) is capital cost. So is the material and labor for any of the more elaborate frame systems required to work on a non-flat surface. Only about half of Africa has any home access to e
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by mapt 2y ago
It's about altitude and mass. A very small drone (call it 500g AUW) can deliver a pill bottle at maybe 30 meters altitude without you hearing them. Delivering a can of soda (5kg AUW), we're talking a bigger, heavier drone and mayb
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by mapt 2y ago
What benefits?
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by mapt 2y ago
Yeah, this highly optimized passive solar design is one of those things that seems very obvious when energy is too expensive to waste on international transportation or excessive heating in a cold climate. Citrus production in 40 below zer
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by mapt 2y ago
The Drive in the Expanse is _nonsensically_ powerful; Turning it on at mass fractions that seem compatible with their ship designs would be akin to a nuclear exchange for anything within thousands of kilometers of the rear end. Talking abou
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by mapt 2y ago
This is like the potential of High-Speed Rail. It isn't a theoretical, it's something China is 30+ completed projects deep on. The technology existed decades ago. We just treat infrastructure like it's an impossibility here
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by mapt 2y ago
Land near energy demand is not scarce almost anywhere. Where "near" means "Within 1000km". And it doesn't need to be near. Transmission lines are cheap and highly efficient infrastructure if you have a sensible p
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by mapt 2y ago
VASIMR is one of the few test articles with flight hours of this category (or maybe a sibling category), and when you factor into account the thruster and the power supply, its thrust to weight ratio for the VX-200 prototype was unworkably

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