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by mapt 2y ago
It doesn't seem like an outlandish possibility. That's distinct from making a claim, an assertion with supporting evidence. To make a claim, we would want evidence, and the evidence here would be a genetic isolation (lack of chron
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by mapt 2y ago
Since when does this "Ability to pay" metric have anything to do with "Damages"? A judgement is what happens when the parties fail to come to any agreement about a settlement; A settlement would be where you'd figur
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by mapt 2y ago
The American car industry largely created, popularized, and continues to heavily promote the concept of huge SUVs and impractically huge pickups with high ground clearance, high weight, tall hoods and tall beds. It's almost synonymous
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by mapt 2y ago
At the time, police and courts gave themselves permission to manufacture and sell crack cocaine informally, despite this being very clearly illegal. Currently, police and the courts with formal legislative backing give themselves permission
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by mapt 2y ago
"Using it to". Problematic phrasing. I'm sure they also use paperwork to deny claims. Would you make that into a headline? It's like "using dice to deny claims". Yeah... I guess? But they are the ones perfor
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by mapt 2y ago
* Crash testing & crumple zones. Going up against a "half ton" MRAP in a electric velomobile is suicidal. * Styling & consumer preferences. The SUV reigns supreme. Partly because of CAFE's perverse incentives. * CA
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by mapt 2y ago
*"Debts" + Android Autocorrect, ladies and gentlemen
698.
by mapt 2y ago
Tesla still has a great many advantages. Their problem is that their valuation had the market predicting that they would generate a MAJORITY of all profit in US automotive manufacturing - they were worth more than every other player combine
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by mapt 2y ago
Depending on the thickness and composition of the atmosphere, convection may be sufficient to prevent ice buildup. The thing about a tidally locked planet, and about marginally habitable planets in general, is that whatever the average, the
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by mapt 2y ago
Ha! They think we're getting married.
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by mapt 2y ago
Fortunately for Russia & Israel, not to mention the US, there are no longer any earnest attempts to establish an architecture for enforcing the Geneva Convention, except as vengeance of the victors on the losers.
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by mapt 2y ago
I mean... You'd think? That's definitely the motivation behind a lot of bombers. But one of the more resilient findings of 20th century warfare is that terror-bombing does not work to pacify a people's will from the bottom-u
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by mapt 2y ago
You can assume what you want if it makes you feel better, but assuming that I am both seeing Grandma at 2PM and working for wages at 2PM is going to disappoint someone. One of the ways we seem to be absolutely destroying the social fabric f
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by mapt 2y ago
After Brexit, English is as neutral of a national language for the EU as Esperanto but starts with 10,000x better adoption.
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by mapt 2y ago
Ask what this looks like a solution to. Scenario: Your local town assessor hates $ethnic_minority and starts assessing everything in $minority_neighborhood at 5x its former value so that they get taxed to death. Scenario: Your local town as
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by mapt 2y ago
There's lots of rape inside households. Most, even. The only prescriptive, airtight solution is surgically modifying males so that they can't rape any more. Not a fan, but I suppose that depends on how certain we have to be that
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by mapt 2y ago
What are you talking about? Most social media networks base their entire business model on selling your data. On practically none of them does privacy exist. And most of them would close up shop or sell out overnight if banned by a govern
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by mapt 2y ago
If you are defending digital free speech and privacy, against the wishes of governments, you are defending the opportunity to spread CSAM. Necessarily. Data is data. You may not like that, but you have to choose which is your higher priori
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by mapt 2y ago
So... No. That's almost certainly a dumb idea. Always was. A red herring from the fossil fuel companies. Obviously digging 1000kg of coal out of the ground, burning it to make electricity, and using that electricity to _synthetically
710.
by mapt 2y ago
What is that supposed to mean? According to their calculations, they're getting 1-2mmol/g adsorption. That means 44-88g of CO2 captured per kilogram of adsorbent.
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by mapt 2y ago
This. We have a worked example for geologically stable carbon sequestration without any novel chemical bonding, and that's storing carbon in compounds that are mostly unhydrogenated carbon by mass, deep underground: Charcoal. If you a
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by mapt 2y ago
"Basically every criminal in the country" without regard for charging them with any particular crime. Guilt by popular reputation, guilt by association, guilt by tattoo, guilt by suspicion or dislike. Indefinite sentence. No tr
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by mapt 2y ago
This guy doesn't get to say shit to us about literally anything after what he did. 2020's John Ioannidis stood on the shoulders of giants (2005's John Ioannidis) and was one of the first "Experts" to proudly procla
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by mapt 2y ago
People who don't interact a lot with other people. Hrrm. It would be really weird if they thought and talked in accordance with the current social pablum.
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by mapt 2y ago
Yeah, China tends to classify aerial survey photos as strategic intelligence assets. Did a scientific project there. It was a whole thing. The local/city/regional CCP branch was not cooperative with even the most innocuous low alt
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by mapt 2y ago
"More than enough power" There's no such thing anymore. Dams are more important than they were in decades past. Existing dams are by far the easiest and cheapest source of on-demand peaking power. 10GW that you're not
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by mapt 2y ago
Add a copy of Library Genesis in a rack in a closet.
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by mapt 2y ago
The approximate-GEO belt involves far fewer satellites than projected megaconstellations, in a far larger volume of space, travelling at far lower orbital velocities, with a much tighter orbital plane distribution (so even lower relative ve
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by mapt 2y ago
It is even worse than the analogy, because every bit of mass from that sunken ship becomes drifting naval mines.
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by mapt 2y ago
Your link talks about how this is an unexpected result, and only occurs at specific inclinations. It's new information to me, though. Thank you.

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