mech765

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by mech765 4y ago
Would you figure that if the population increases by 10x that the number of people living in extreme poverty increases by 10x? That's what I would assume if the world was not getting any better or worse.
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by mech765 4y ago
Can you show me examples of it being recruitment mechanism for reactionary politics?
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by mech765 4y ago
I think that the most virtuous third party platform is the one that allows it's users to associate with each other with the least intervention probably with some limit such as the explicit threat of violence being moderated away. Seein
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by mech765 4y ago
Freedom of association captures the idea of freedom of speech better than freedom of speech itself, I think. Private parties are (with some number of government constraints) free to pick who to work with, who to play with, and who to talk w
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by mech765 4y ago
IIRC, generally speaking a beam with a transverse point load (think like a diver on the tip of a diving board) deforms into a parabolic curve, and beams with more point loads end up taking higher order polynomial curves. Engineering beam ma
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by mech765 4y ago
Now I'm wondering how the steel tracks get bent- I figure it's done on site rather than at the factory. Dunno what sort of equipment they use to bend them though. Maybe they can just use bigger "spline weights" and pin t
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by mech765 4y ago
How much do y'all pay per kilowatt hour for electricity? IIRC you guys have lots of cheap hydro power.
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by mech765 4y ago
Even a staunch defender of meritocracy will admit that life isn't fair if they are honest. The important thing to consider is the benefits afforded by meritocracy. When we have adequate filtering mechanisms to help put competent trustw