mmustapic

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by mmustapic 2y ago
Latin America is very big, I don’t think you can generalise your experience to a whole subcontinent.
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by mmustapic 2y ago
Let me tell you about my mother
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by mmustapic 2y ago
Wait, so the Department Of Government Efficiency spent time and money recruiting a millionaire who left after just 4 weeks? Talk about inefficiency…
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by mmustapic 2y ago
N-1 failed because of a lack of time/funding, not because the design was inherently flawed.
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by mmustapic 2y ago
It was easy for me to work in Belgium, but I didn’t have a car or a company from a different country.
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by mmustapic 2y ago
Yes, of course, of course. CEOs just follow the laws strictly. That's why Thompson is accused of insider trading, because of legislation.
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by mmustapic 2y ago
Ah, right, it’s never the CEOs blame for bad things, that’s why they get they are paid so little. Or was it the other way around, they are paid a lot because of their responsibility? Anyway, it’s the State’s and regulations fault, as usual.
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by mmustapic 2y ago
And yet, without the funding for CRS from NASA Spacex would’ve gone broke or at least wouldn have built F9 much much later.
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by mmustapic 2y ago
What I do like about those paintings is the techniques used: relief to give some parts more volume, simple strokes to portray glass or metal reflections, other kind of simple strokes for textiles. As you say, now we have photographs, but it
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by mmustapic 2y ago
If you are implying that the city banned e scooter rental because it competes with the bike sharing company you are probably wrong. I live in Gent, Belgium, and there is no e scooter sharing, while we have several bike sharing companies.
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by mmustapic 2y ago
> The main concerns were that the Japanese government was simply not in a place where it could surrender That’s the horrifying thing, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians so your enemy surrenders.
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by mmustapic 2y ago
Exactly. Populism usually means "the people vs the elite", and in this case is just taxes.
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by mmustapic 2y ago
All taxes are taking money from others. In this case it's taking it from corporations and giving them to every citizen. In other cases you take it from citizens and give it to other citizens, the military, corporate subsidies, etc. Als
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by mmustapic 3y ago
Would Israel blow an israeli hospital if Hamas took the basement?
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by mmustapic 3y ago
If you feel closer to Charlie, yes
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by mmustapic 3y ago
Cheaper how? NASA doesn’t fly their own rockets or spaceships, so there’s no comparison.
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by mmustapic 3y ago
> Compare that with an earlier building like the empire state building and we see the exact opposite. > More complex forms. More craftsmanship required to create the overall decor and trim designs, and no doubt more cost compared to a
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by mmustapic 3y ago
Alzheimer is not aging, it is a specific disease. Same as cancer. Sure, advanced age can make you more susceptible to some diseases, but aging itself is not one.
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by mmustapic 3y ago
Many incurable diseases come with an awful quality of life, like CF. Even cancer, treated or not, is a terrible experience. Just aging, what you call “a disease”, is nothing like that.
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by mmustapic 3y ago
> What was the relationship then? In a New Hope, it’s known that Anakin was Vader, right? From a certain point of view.
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by mmustapic 3y ago
You know that under Tatcher poverty went up, right?
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by mmustapic 3y ago
"Who would know these specific individuals?". Hola!
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by mmustapic 3y ago
Why?
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by mmustapic 3y ago
This is useless technology that goes nowhere except this specific use case
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by mmustapic 3y ago
GP is correct, there is no path from the current Virgin Galactic launches to something that is not a very expensive space ride for rich people. They can't launch satellites, they can't make it into orbit, nothing. Only the dream o
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by mmustapic 3y ago
It is true that it's very accurate. I was on a trip that predicted 22% battery on arrival, and I had 21%. The last 5-10km were mostly descending down a valley, so lot of regeneration. Thus, when I arrived, 22%, as predicted.
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by mmustapic 3y ago
Starship not separating, launch stand disintegrating, 5-6 raptors not working, HPUs exploding, all of those were failures. That doesn't mean the test as a whole was a failure, but you cannot say that everything worked fine.
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by mmustapic 4y ago
The Pol Pot view of intellectuals is to kill them, along lots of people. This was just some text in a website.
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by mmustapic 4y ago
Children learn much more than morals when they are small. Even "nothing happens" stories have some value for them, they teach them other normal things (bread making?), or trigger some thoughts (you need to investigate sometimes).
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by mmustapic 4y ago
The energy needed to move millions to a different planet is enormous with current physics. So, until you solve that, the obsession with Earth is not toxic, it's realistic.

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