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by pasabagi 6y ago
Blender is not really designed for accurate modeling. I can recommend solvespace - it's quite basic in terms of features, but it's really well designed software, so it's nice for designing simple stuff.
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by pasabagi 6y ago
There's a simple logic to this. The center is left of the conservatives, so a woman or minority candidate allows them to capture swing voters. Racists and sexists will probably vote for them anyway. It's why Angela Merkel is such
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by pasabagi 6y ago
Do they? I'm only familiar with the IPCC in the UK, and they are basically worthless. Germany, for example, doesn't even have something like the IPCC. Are there any examples of working police oversight bodies?
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by pasabagi 6y ago
Is it minor? From my perspective, making security guarantees about a product is the same whether that product is software or hardware. If somebody guaranteed that their ferris wheel had x safety feature, then it turned out to be untrue, nob
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by pasabagi 6y ago
Construction projects are inherently unpredictable, because it's building something large, bespoke, and in constantly varying conditions. Nuclear plants are very complex, so that obviously raises the level of unpredictability. Every ma
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by pasabagi 6y ago
Nothing says 'fearless' like taking 'risks' where you're safe, but other people are endangered.
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by pasabagi 6y ago
>there wasn't as much to eat. Do you have any citations? I was always told that the average level of nutrition often increased once the Romans were no longer in charge - since less tax was being levied. I think the idea that the Rom
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I think maybe I was thinking of 'the democracy' as a by-word for 'modern european state'. On second thought, this isn't all that reasonable. I think the modern european state is nationalist first, liberal second, an
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I think the french revolution turned republicanism and nationalism from fringe idea into mainstays of european political thought. I'm not sure if those trends led to democracy, but they certainly led to a democratization - even with th
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by pasabagi 6y ago
>crimes against non-jewish germans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_homosexuals_in_... makes for interesting reading. Particularly the line: "some homosexuals were forced to serve out their terms of
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I think it's more that Germans, unlike most nationalities, had great psychological and political incentives to imagine themselves as the victims of human rights abuses, but unlike real victims of human rights abuses, didn't face a
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by pasabagi 6y ago
Except... there are very few genetic clusters in humanity, aside from a few island populations. Race is used to describe something completely different. If it was like dog breeding, you'd say that the people who come from Pitcairn Isla
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by pasabagi 6y ago
Well, that seems cool, but isn't indexing from zero simpler? I don't really remember if zero-indexing was a big deal when I was learning to program. Are there big advantages for non-programmers? I figure that's why Lua went t
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I also didn't think it was a big deal - I write a lot of lua, and I love lua - but every time I have to do anything involving modulo maths and arrays it's a pain in the ass.
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I guess the point is, the 100m sprint is about as objective as you can get when it comes to testing short distance running ability. A shorter time means a faster person, no exceptions. There is no such academic test, so there's always
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by pasabagi 6y ago
Is this a common view of european history amongst Americans? To me, it seems very idiosyncratic and strange. Here's some doubts off the top of my head: 1. Has the peace in europe been unusually long-lasting? 2. Are internal politics ac
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I think in the immediate post-war era, the US was obviously the guarantor of european peace. That's very different to saying the EU exists because of the US. That's also very different to your claim that interventions in the ME we
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by pasabagi 6y ago
>rebalanced Middle Eastern power This is totally absurd. Do you seriously see Iraq or Afghanistan as balanced? Or are you using 'rebalancing' in the same way I could use 'rebalancing' to describe flipping a table? The
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I find this idea totally weird. Can you look at the last decade of US military actions and say this has increased European security? I think most people would say no, of course not. Sure, the US pays a lot for defense, but is that money wel
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I think universities have a sort of impossible position. One direction, heavily pushed by industry and government, is that they should be a sorting mechanism, identifying the best and most capable students so they can be discovered by indus
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I actually agree with almost everything you've said. America is not responsible for the ME's ills. However, I do think that many states in the ME are classic client regimes, much more interested in keeping foreign sponsors happy t
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by pasabagi 6y ago
My read of Islamic extremism is that it's largely funded by arab dictatorships, either the elites, or the governments themselves. At the same time, the basic recruitment pitch is usually grounded in popular dissatisfaction about these
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I think there's a difference: the sentence is basically a reading list so you can get familiar with the school. You can't really read Napoleon or Caesar, because the first didn't write much, and the second only wrote PR fluff
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by pasabagi 6y ago
Was there a potato monoculture? I just ask because, I thought crop monoculture was a relatively modern thing, and because a new disease (like p. blight) are usually pretty broad spectrum, and very capable of skipping between species. Banana
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I think the argument you cited is a bit of a strange one. They are arguing that Ireland was not a net exporter of food because a large portion of Irish crop exports were oats, and oats are not food. The supporting arguments are worse. For i
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by pasabagi 6y ago
>The Irish potato famine was the result of a lack of biodiversity and an over reliance on a monocrop. Not so. Ireland was a net food exporter for the duration of the famine. The problem was political and economic.
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I think there are two axes at play here - simplicity/complexity, and familiarity/alienness. Maths might be simple, but it's also incredibly alien. Things that are alien to conventional thought processes are always disliked an
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I wouldn't say I hate goodreads, but it is probably the worst-designed website (with some tough competition) that I semi-regularly use. The book categories are nonsensical, the books that take up most real estate are either random, o
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by pasabagi 6y ago
> pearl clutching with everything COVID related is quite concerning, moreso than the disease itself. At the high points of the peak in the US, COVID 19 was killing more people per week than cancer or heart disease in the US. If everybody
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by pasabagi 6y ago
Lead is soft - you're definitely leaving traces of lead on your hands when you handle it. That then goes onto your clothes, your skin, and everything you touch. But anyway - it's not really the point. The point is, I can confident

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