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by neuronic 7y ago
Spent 6 years in the US as a European. By far the worst part on a daily basis was the missing public transportation due to the enormous focus on cars. Many towns didn't even attempt to be accessible to anyone without a car. I sometimes
902.
by neuronic 7y ago
How many weeks of entertainment will it provide when you are trying to make people notice that your left blinking eye is morse code?
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by neuronic 7y ago
> I wouldn't say it's that stable or that the rest of Africa is instable, especially compared to Europe. It's just that Europe industrialized earlier and got to reap rewards that can only come from most simple needs being
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by neuronic 7y ago
> 0.0000x% chance of a major issue Which might be okay if it wasn't for certain states whose prime directive is to cover up mistakes and issues. Otherwise this article wouldn't exist and we'd be discussing ways to improv
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by neuronic 7y ago
With free market he means that the FAA outsourced certification to Boeing. They did it in order to cut costs and save resources.
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by neuronic 7y ago
But caring for anythings else than money is socialism!
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by neuronic 7y ago
From all over the world. Germans cannot recycle most plastics - it's simply not viable at scale at this time. Therefore things are shipped to Asia. The plastic created and received in Asia often lands in landfills and subsequently in r
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by neuronic 7y ago
This fails to mention that German recycling of paper, biowaste, cans and bottles is excellent . Plastic is a huge problem because it is a different beast and technology isnt there to efficiently recycle a lot of different plastics economic
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by neuronic 7y ago
> The problem is that once you start to appreciate the immense complexity in a single, most basic cell, you realize how far away we are from understanding how life got started. And we have massive issues with simulating single molecule i
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by neuronic 7y ago
Communicating just fine is not the same as communicating at optimum. In the analog world, you could just hand over a white, plaintext birthday card. Or you could give one with a motive, color, some doodles and maybe a memorable photograph
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by neuronic 7y ago
So the Switch cannot... switch anymore? Not criticizing this system but that got really nonsensical with the naming pretty fast.
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by neuronic 7y ago
My colleague doesn't use the dock anymore because it is nothing but a glorified USB-C power adapter combined with an input for the HDMI signal. However, due to Nintendo messing up the USB-C standard, this is dangerous and can brick the
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by neuronic 7y ago
Noise is another point. Diesel engines are louder and if there's one thing you want to be as a military submarine it is silent.
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by neuronic 7y ago
Let's pick EPA for a second here. It's a bit rich to claim they have no idea what they are doing and should be abolished because the free market would fix the world around it. For example, let's cherry-pick the Clean Air Act
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by neuronic 7y ago
Oh right, the free market should fix this! /s
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by neuronic 7y ago
I stand corrected.
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by neuronic 7y ago
If a software system has to be designed to make up for aircraft design problems, namely the too large engines that break the limits for ground clearance in the normal 737NG config, then the mentioned issues are not "entirely false&quot
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by neuronic 7y ago
Also from your source: > As for Audi, I think that they are intentionally giving up their efficiency in order to protect the battery pack and get a higher charge rate.
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by neuronic 7y ago
This is the real problem that needs to be addressed instead of churning out different cars.
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by neuronic 7y ago
Except people who sat in a Tesla right after and wonder how cars with interiors like a Fiat Punto can cost more than the 1 series you just got out of.
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by neuronic 7y ago
Why does anyone need Elsevier, especially so in 2019? Get rid of them! Publicly funded science needs to be open access at ALL TIMES.
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by neuronic 7y ago
And if the biological Homo sapiens is 250,000 years old or even older that leaves at least another 200,000 years for sapiens or other Homo x species to have built a boat. Just because the fossil record lacks evidence we are pretending
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by neuronic 7y ago
It is still controversial [1]. However, newest data on permafrost melting suggests that we will find out the validity of this hypothesis quite a bit sooner than expected. [1] https://doi.org/10.1146%2Fannurev-environ-102017-
924.
by neuronic 7y ago
I also really like the butterfly keyboard but Apple has to invest in improving its reliability. I run a 2017 MBP with the second butterfly iteration and stories online have me worried that any day will be the last day of my keyboard. So far
925.
by neuronic 7y ago
This is not the most money a nation has ever spent on any singular object. I am not saying that. I also firmly believe that it was worth it! But the difficulty is in a) allocating this money b) convincing the public that removing this money
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by neuronic 7y ago
What I always find massively baffling is, that any transmitted and recorded history is less than 15,000 vears old. First hints at sedentariness appear around the construction of Göbleki Tepe [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by neuronic 7y ago
Pay $1200 for the card and get a monitor stand for free!
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by neuronic 7y ago
If you look at what APOLLO has cost back in those days maybe then you'd understand why we didn't. Landing a few people and picking up a few rocks and taking a few selfies cost, inflation-adjusted for 2019, a whopping $288.1 billio
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by neuronic 7y ago
Blocking of ad-blocking?
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by neuronic 7y ago
Case in point: "China Unveils New Armoured Vehicle Capable Of Launching 12 Suicide Drones" https://www.defenseworld.net/news/24744/China_Unveils_New_Ar...

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