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by nocoiner 1y ago
In fact, East Germany was so anti-fascist they erected the “Anti-Fascist Barrier” around East Berlin.
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by nocoiner 1y ago
I hate how much I agree with this assessment.
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by nocoiner 1y ago
Hell yeah. That’s another good one.
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by nocoiner 1y ago
I have “human behavior is economic behavior” permanently etched into my brain.
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by nocoiner 1y ago
God, I love pre-1976 copyright. So many formalities and intricacies. I’m kind of amazed that there’s so much from that era that remains in copyright.
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by nocoiner 1y ago
Gripen uses an engine subject to US export controls, so unfortunately not totally free from dependence.
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by nocoiner 1y ago
You should see their billboards around here. They lean into the pun very heavily.
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by nocoiner 1y ago
They were. Now newspapers in 1995 and 2010 - that’s definitely after the post-2000ish changes had started to bite.
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by nocoiner 1y ago
You would probably enjoy the book “Backroom Boys” by Francis Spufford.
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by nocoiner 1y ago
FSD has been promised every year for the better part of, what, a decade? I’m dubious that a six-month sprint would be make or break for this finally happening.
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by nocoiner 1y ago
I wonder if it’s actually straight though? In the chart on the page, Colorado is described as having 7000-something vertices, where I would have expected it to have … 4.
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by nocoiner 1y ago
The first mileage program was introduced only a couple years after deregulation, so it probably made a lot more sense at the time as a rough proxy for revenue, and revenue management at the airlines wasn’t nearly as sophisticated as it is t
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by nocoiner 1y ago
It really was. It worked incredibly well. MD truly was the light that burned twice as bright for half as long.
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by nocoiner 1y ago
Ideally I think the ability to come up with a quick off-the-cuff guess that is correct to one order of magnitude and then find and verify the specific answer are nicely complementary.
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by nocoiner 1y ago
I read that sentence three times. Pretty sure he was trying to hide the ball, but still not sure where he was hiding it or what exactly the ball was, to be honest.
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by nocoiner 1y ago
I feel like on the surface this may seem like kind of a facile comment, but this really gets at what makes NYC a special place. There’s a whole day-to-day experience that may be technically replicable in other large cities in the course of
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by nocoiner 1y ago
To this day, “Sun E10000 Starfire” is basically synonymous in my head with “top-of-the-line, bad-ass computer system.” What a damn cool name. It made a big impression on an impressionable youth, I guess!
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by nocoiner 1y ago
> So why go meet the enemy in an hour on the frontlines of a battlefield they have picked? > Why not instead point your Starships at their capital city? Can’t think of a single thing that could possibly go wrong with sending a few doz
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by nocoiner 1y ago
I went down a rabbit hole a couple years back, and it blew my mind to learn that many modern bus routes just replicate streetcar service that was discontinued (and the tracks torn up) 70-80 years ago.
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by nocoiner 1y ago
And simply take a break from your $500k job to launch your $100k side hustle. Ez pz!
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by nocoiner 2y ago
I bought it from my college computer store for like $5 for the CD and an endlessly reusable license key. Truly the good old days.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
A home generator capable of powering an AC system for at least part of a large home is probably going to be several thousand dollars, so that may be the source of some of the estimates that you’re seeing.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
The author’s response was just perfect though in both tone and substance. “As you have raised the possibility of legal action, I think it is best that we terminate this conversation.” Once someone shoots off about getting the lawyers involv
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Love how the person who did a “AI-powered code snippets manager and generator and … Mod CSS framework” just casually dismisses millions of people around the globe who ensure safe drinking water, distribution of vaccines, maintenance of nucl
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Can you elaborate on the use of photovoltaics in shipping? After a few searches, I haven’t been able to find anything that suggests the marine industry was an important sector for its development. Also, I feel extremely confident predicting
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Was the XB-70 capable of inflight refueling? On a quick look, I can’t tell if that was the plan, or if it was going to be a one-way trip (optimistically landing in Turkey or something to refuel, but realistically…).
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by nocoiner 2y ago
When Neal Stephenson himself characterizes something as a lengthy digression, I wonder how it compares to the three-page description of the milk-sodden texture of Captain Crunch.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Eh, it sounded to me like it might be more of a Shelbyville thing.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Hell, forget printing - it can just beam a picture of your documents onto a nearby wall. Chalk up another patent from Imran!
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Are you referring to space disasters that occurred more than 20 and nearly 40 years ago as “recent”? Or are you talking about the design of the space shuttle, that literally occurred during the Nixon administration?

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