peterfirefly

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by peterfirefly 5d ago
Of course it was devasting for some families. That is never the same thing as saying that it affected China's birth rate much (which it didn't). There were forced abortions (sometimes very late), there was forced contraception, f
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by peterfirefly 5d ago
The official one child policy didn't actually have much of an impact. Birth rates had already fallen a lot, despite the official "lots-a-children" policy. The one child policy is gone now but birth rates haven't really
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by peterfirefly 5d ago
And they are more about sounding good than about reality. They also affect a much smaller share of the economy than they used to -- which is very good! The original five year plans caused nothing but misery and starvation.
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by peterfirefly 15d ago
Mostly, yes. They didn't really apologize for the abuse they sent towards Muratori but they did essentially wind up with the architecture he proposed.
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by peterfirefly 15d ago
In other words, it's because of the greater lift.
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by peterfirefly 20d ago
Becoming French was an amazingly good reward for being pirates and slave traders.
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by peterfirefly 20d ago
Ireland is not part of Schengen because the UK never was (and they wanted to keep the Common Travel Area).
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by peterfirefly 20d ago
They mostly died from European diseases without ever meeting a European. It wasn't even planned or known by the European "visitors".
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by peterfirefly 20d ago
Germany also has a crazy Communist party that is more in the pocket of Russia than AfD is -- but somehow that is almost never mentioned, not even in German media. It's quite big and influential.
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by peterfirefly 20d ago
Did the Sami compensate the Indo-Europeans they displaced?
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by peterfirefly 20d ago
Something they might have is a lot of strain gauges around the rocket. They can tell if the rocket is bending and compressing (and how) -- but they are also essentially high-speed microphones. Valves make sounds (cause vibrations) and the
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by peterfirefly 20d ago
Norway is as close as you can get without formally being a member. It's not just the EEA, it's also a member of essentially all EU programs that aren't closed off for non-member states. That Norway is European is not a matt
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by peterfirefly 20d ago
The Soviet Union was far worse at the time (both before and after the existence of Nazi Germany). It got a lot better after Stalin's death.
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by peterfirefly 20d ago
> Vietnam The US was actually on the right side in that one (just like in Korea). The Communists were not exactly the good guys and their "agricultural and personnel reforms" lead to drastically reduced food production and sta
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by peterfirefly 21d ago
And do it with enough solder on the iron to get good thermal transfer. "Enough" really isn't a lot but it's also not a tip that's been wiped entirely dry. How you hold the tip relative to the via/component le
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by peterfirefly 21d ago
Germany does not look "solidly democratic" from the outside.
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by peterfirefly 23d ago
This was a scary one to read: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/years-of-salt-and-metal-... It baffles me that that airlines can run so well on check lists and procedures instead of thinking and understanding. This is a
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by peterfirefly 28d ago
It sometimes happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_II
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by peterfirefly 1mo ago
If your antisocial protagonist chooses to destroy something then he or she is not "giving the finger to the man" or anything like that. He or she is making life worse for other people, most likely normal people who have not done
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by peterfirefly 1mo ago
> I wish we had capital punishment for corruption like in China. The selective enforcement is insane. If it really applied to everybody then China would be a free country because the entire CCP would have been executed. In practice, it&
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by peterfirefly 1mo ago
> post-2008 wave of poverty ruined it but the US is not poor. The US has the richest "poor" people in the entire world. There is a massive social security net with massive redistribution. There was no "post-2008 wave of
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by peterfirefly 1mo ago
Novopens have existed for a long, long time (40 years). Syringe disposal units are not for the diabetics and they never were. Where I live, they are commonly found in public toilets with awful yellowish lights that make it really difficul
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by peterfirefly 1mo ago
> hey should be imprisoned for an appropriate period of time as a deterrent to crime, a punishment for their actions, and to facilitate rehabilitation (even though evidence shows this doesn't really happen). And to prevent them from
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by peterfirefly 1mo ago
Weren't both the Benin and Mali empires based on conquest, exploitation, and slavery?
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by peterfirefly 1mo ago
Thank you! Will watch the presentation later. It'll probably be my next "laundry video". I recently had shingles so I wouldn't be needing the vaccine for quite some years, anyway, whether it protects against Alzheimer&#
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by peterfirefly 1mo ago
> The recent recognition of iatrogenic amyloid β cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) and Alzheimer's disease, caused by inadvertent seeding of amyloid β pathology following historical medical procedures That doesn't explain why s
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by peterfirefly 1mo ago
> It can use very little memory (target <100mb for reasonable projects). We live in a strange world.
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by peterfirefly 1mo ago
I am very happy that the many glass shards and the inevitable cuts have been replaced by essentially zero plastic trash in streets/forests/seas in my country and all other civilized countries. The problem is not Europe (outside of
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by peterfirefly 1mo ago
> It also shifted the onus from the producers of a wildly harmful material to the consumers. "It's those litterbugs!" It mostly is those litterbugs in Asia.
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by peterfirefly 1mo ago
1024 is stretching it a bit but several hundred are normal for high-end CPUs -- while pretending to have 32 (+ usually 32 SIMD registers that may or may not overlap with the normal 32). "[...] and pretend that it only have [sic] 32&quo

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