ovi256

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by ovi256 5y ago
The fact that you, one individual uses CCs for everything does not contradict the facts that he gave.
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by ovi256 5y ago
> As a society, we do a shit job of ensuring everybody has access to quality education. Is there any society that does a good job with that ? The US richly rewards education in the most important aspect - great salaries for the jobs that
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by ovi256 5y ago
I think you mean history of generalized (applied to all products and services) price controls, especially in a planned economy. That definitely did not bring the hoped prosperity. They seem to mean price controls for a limited number of ess
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by ovi256 5y ago
Did you mean Josh Rogin ? He's a geopolitics writer that was, ironically, interviewed by Rogan about the lab leak hypothesis, but he's not banned from Twitter: https://twitter.com/joshrogin Neither is Rogan, btw,
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by ovi256 5y ago
Amazon could deliver a wide range of goods using this. Pallets of groceries, furniture, household appliances. 200kg is a good payload.
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by ovi256 5y ago
Because if it protects elections well enough, it gains tremendous political power than it can later profit from. What politician will propose legislation hurting FB when FB is the gatekeeper to a fair election ? The FB election protection g
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by ovi256 5y ago
It's the same in the Culture series. Near-God AI motherships manufacture combat psychopath AI ships by the thousand, which fight lower tech ships by overwritting their CPU caches with EM effectors (very advanced versions of phased arra
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by ovi256 5y ago
IQ predicts income too.
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by ovi256 5y ago
> Seems to more closely follow tax breaks and tax income It follows feasibility, AFAIK. All new manufacturing is in Southern US states because they're the ones that allow new plants to be built. The others tie projects down in long,
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by ovi256 5y ago
> First, the mechanic wanted to replace the fasteners, but he did not have any. He also did not speak English very well. Allegedly, the mechanic asked one of the boiler room personnel for new nuts and bolts, and was given permission to l
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by ovi256 5y ago
That shouldn't be an issue because nobody should eat fertilizer! It's plant food, not people food.
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Because without it, they'll end up with inevitable outraged news posts "New AI coding tool Copilot generates offensive text" killing the project for no good reason.
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> The number of garments produced annually has doubled since 2000 and exceeded 100 billion for the first time in 2014: nearly 14 items of clothing for every person on earth That may not be as outrageous as it seems. The world population
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by ovi256 5y ago
I've always liked OSS games, for the big reason that they're usually multi-platform, so you can play them on Linux and Mac OS too. I also recommend: Spring RTS (amazing RTS engine, clone of Total Annihilation) UrbanTerror (unfortu
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by ovi256 5y ago
> At the peak of the whaling industry, in the late 1800s Yeah, if you start your article with a falsehood that you could have easily fixed with a cursory read of any history of whaling, I can't trust you enough to know what you&#x27
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by ovi256 5y ago
You can still do that today! Start ipython (or the interactive interpreter for your language) Enter: print("Hello World!") See the result!
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This has been depicted in The Expanse TV show, FWIW. It's a neat horror scene.
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by ovi256 5y ago
If you need to meet customers in person, in their offices, they'll most likely require visitors to be vaccinated against Covid too. So you'd have to meet remotely only, which is a different market (it seems to put you in competiti
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by ovi256 5y ago
> storing a lot of dense, pressurised CO2 In my understanding, there's only enough CO2 to use as a working medium in the closed loop. No storage as such.
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> the moment a gun is reported it causes a massive response. As a criminal, bringing a gun massively increases your risk, as without one you're unlikely to run into anyone with a lethal weapon. It also causes a risk of a far longer
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by ovi256 5y ago
That's exactly why I sought out an induction model which has a "scale" control where all intensity levels (1-12) are available with a single touch. This issue in foreseeable, and we should vote with our money for usable devic
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by ovi256 5y ago
Switching airplanes to hydrogen has a much higher cost than replacing fossil fuel with carbon-neutral biofuels in the existing planes and engines. This is by far the easiest way forward. Still tremendously difficult - it does need electrifi
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by ovi256 5y ago
> Interestingly, some of these geofences do not seem to have a clear connection to SpaceX. While we will not disclose these locations here, I will say that the SNOW_RANCH looks like a nice location to play with development hardware. Most
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by ovi256 5y ago
Simo Hayha, nicknamed "The White Death", was not just a successful sniper, using a rifle, but also a successful ambusher, surprising enemy small groups like patrols and devastating them using an automatic submachinegun.
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by ovi256 5y ago
> I split time between at least two cities Please don't bring up minority use cases when discussing the average or modal use case.
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by ovi256 5y ago
Your phrasing "fuck-ups by automotive" brought to mind something: if automotive didn't fuck-up, would that have reduced the shortages ? In the automotive sector, yes, of course, but not the general shortages, surely ? Would w
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This is how you get the "Making Europe shut up about it Act of 2021" that has toothless penalties and doesn't provide any funding for enforcement anyway.
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Probably nothing at all, the mRNA vaccine will just prompt the body to make even more antibodies against the variants from the vaccine. I expect having stronger flu-like side-effects on the first injection instead of the usual second mRNA i
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With those unusually severe storms covering such a huge area, I don't think it's safe to say any US or EU state would have done better that Texas. Heck, once energy distribution fails because cables have broken, even no-fuel-input
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by ovi256 5y ago
> Deserts are complex ecosystems full of life They are the least full of life of usual ecosystems, so if you want to minimize harm when building large infrastructure, they're the logical place to put the infrastructure. OTOH, you ma

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