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by mwint 4y ago
Well, the mainstream media certainly has not exaggerated the adverse events. If you know something is definitely not exaggerated, the distribution falls between “perfectly accurate” and “downplayed”. My money is on some level of “downplay
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by mwint 4y ago
Lightning is anything but stupid. It’s small, has no breakable bits in the phone side of the port, and is pretty ubiquitous. I don’t have to worry about whether this cable and charger support the Lightning 2-a (IIV) Gold standard ala USB-C.
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by mwint 4y ago
Seems like that’s more the BMW solution (ref. heated seats subscription)
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by mwint 4y ago
Nah, we all know that there are dozens of entities out there who would _love_ to publish the "Sunk US sub causing elevated radiation levels!" article. The incentive is high. So the absence of the report does mean something.
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by mwint 4y ago
Yes, without a doubt. Other than messing up a bunch of land, Chernobyl wasn’t even that terrible outside of a certain radius.
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by mwint 4y ago
But in the scheme of things, that’s fine. There are several nuclear subs and munitions at the bottom and there aren’t reports of terrible radiological effects.
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by mwint 4y ago
The “out and about only because of a pardon” bit is false. From Wikipedia: > In 2012, D'Souza contributed […] Two years later, D'Souza pleaded guilty in federal court to one felony charge […] He was sentenced to eight months i
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by mwint 4y ago
Did they end up raising the limit? Curious what the limit was.
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by mwint 4y ago
Link: https://youtu.be/hsCSTO8SaQU
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by mwint 4y ago
If it was seen as a high priority, we could do it. They put people on the moon in the 60’s in less time than people claim it’d take to build a power plant today. Ingredients for a quick transition to nuclear: 1. Gov’t must be willing to ign
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by mwint 4y ago
They don’t have to take that long to build.
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by mwint 4y ago
Has this been tested with silencers specifically? Seems like it’s nasty both directions; if you usually run a silencer on your home defense gun, they’d get you for that. If you don’t, and you take the time to put one on, it undermines your
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by mwint 4y ago
They make pretty decent silencers when affixed to the muzzle of a gun, and suddenly become an NFA item. I know a guy with a diesel repair shop who bought a “suspicious” number of filters off Amazon at once. A couple suits showed up at his d
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by mwint 4y ago
Nope, they’re an NFA item. Highly regulated, you can get men in suits at your door for the offense of buying several oil filters at once.
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by mwint 4y ago
No, it goes KABANG (instead of KABLAAAAAANG). There are a ton of YouTube videos of people testing this, they’re usually a pretty fun watch.
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by mwint 4y ago
But both the M1 mini and M1/2 Air can drive two displays total? I think it’s clear they just took what’s usually the internal display output and routed it to HDMI in the Mini.
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by mwint 4y ago
Shouldn’t we be looking to people who have a track record of making correct predictions? If someone is an expert, but is consistently wrong, I’d stop listening to them.
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by mwint 4y ago
Lay person’s attempt at an explanation: Centripetal force, but no work is done because the motion of the spinning object is perpendicular to the force continually changing the linear motion to follow the circular course?
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by mwint 4y ago
My Leaf regularly gets 4.1-4.5mi/kWh.
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by mwint 4y ago
It doesn’t run at 127hp for an hour, you’d be going stupid fast. My Nissan Leaf (which is decidedly more brick-shaped than a Tesla) cruises at 50mph at something like 10-15hp, or less than 12kW. It takes surprisingly small amounts of power
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by mwint 4y ago
Why would this be any more illegal than kickbacks for referrals?
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by mwint 4y ago
What’s the disadvantage to skipping law school (other than resume issues, I assume)? Could one actually do this and come out a “real” lawyer?
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by mwint 4y ago
Wait, but it’s a ~cone, right? So it must be 16ly across at some specific distance from us?
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by mwint 4y ago
Maybe the forms should be made too complex to be filled with a calculator, to encourage doing things the right way…
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by mwint 4y ago
I’ve found a great way to impress upon people usually supportive of this the importance of not building systems to make oppression easier: “Do you really want the next Trump (who may in fact be Trump ) to have this power at their disposal?
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by mwint 4y ago
Maybe my next move should be to start a consulting shop: “We Fix GPT-3 Code”.
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by mwint 4y ago
The Americas were divided among people (original inhabitants, and later colonies), and many countries & people weren’t recipients. But I’d still say that humanity has reached America.
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by mwint 4y ago
So, how would you define “taking humanity to Mars”? Surely you don’t have to take all the humans to Mars. We’d all agree that Europeans (non-exclusively) colonized the Americas, but not all Europeans went and not all had the opportunity.
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by mwint 4y ago
This comment is like someone saying they’re eating pizza, and responding “you’re only eating a few slices”
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by mwint 4y ago
I couldn’t get mine to type, or even suggest, the word after typing it manually multiple times. Might be related to the EN-US keyboard having a big group of sequential letters on the top row: “ortio” are all up there, so there’s a very high

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