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by qball 8y ago
>a piston gun is generally much better than impingement. The AR-15 is a piston gun, though: the piston is the bolt itself (the bolt carrier acts as its cylinder walls- this is the reason why the back of the bolt has piston rings). And b
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by qball 8y ago
>Personally I believe that the reason that the AR15 is so popular (at least in the civilian world) is more that it's lego for adults who like guns, and less because of its utility as a platform. At least in the US and Canada, the pr
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by qball 8y ago
>So, I'm struggling with how the M16 would have been even a paper improvement over being "outgunned". The round it fires is more suited for the reality of combat, which is that 90% of combat takes place within 100 meters a
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by qball 8y ago
>You should tell the porn industry so they adapt their business model. Where have you been the last 50+ years? Porn has been and continues to be under constant attack by society. In the United States, even the First Amendment hasn&#x27
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by qball 8y ago
It's completely arbitrary and inconsistent everywhere (it probably initially stems from how many males of that age can be drafted and yield a net benefit). Societies routinely violate this through their justice systems ("tried as
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by qball 8y ago
> You're always in charge of driving the car appropriately, the "AP" can only provide tentative assistance of a very rough sort. It can "tentatively assist" you in killing yourself and potentially others, but we
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by qball 8y ago
>The First Amendment didn’t prevent our genocide of native peoples. Democracy didn’t prevent 100 years of slavery. ‘The marketplace of ideas’ didn’t keep us from torturing people to death or killing a million people in a pointless war. Y
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by qball 8y ago
>I expect this kind of stuff from the Moral Majority, but it’s painful to see it from the Former Underdog Turned Moral Majority. This is the nature of power, and an example of the Iron Law of Bureaucracy. Once a particular version of an
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by qball 8y ago
>China is one example of that and there are several others in Asia. Keep in mind that China has a heavy incentive to lie about their prison population and/or play games with the definition of "prison population"; after all
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by qball 8y ago
I'm not so sure about that. The Intel playbook has, for the last 8 years, been either "same architecture, same clock speed, less power draw" (remember, Sandy Bridge [2011] and Broadwell [2014] perform within 10% of each other
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by qball 8y ago
> No. Nuclear power creates the most dangerous waste known to mankind and we have no way of mitigating or eliminating it. You can't have this both ways. Either CO2 is the most dangerous waste and must be dealt with severely, or it
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by qball 8y ago
>I believe the issue might be that while the US has enjoyed the surpluses of globalism, it has not redistributed that surplus well. Note that with respect to globalism, it has also allowed a significant amount of companies to dodge both
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by qball 8y ago
>Doesn't mean it won't be misused. To add to this, though genetic information may be protected against defining a pre-existing medical condition for insurance purposes today , there's zero guarantee that that law protecti
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by qball 8y ago
>Aside from that thing called radiation Have you heard of "unexploded ordnance"? It's fallout that all conventional weapons become when they fail to explode, and unlike fallout it never actually goes away until someone di
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by qball 8y ago
>In traditional farms, everybody worked. There was gender split in both power and tasks, but nevertheless, there is no entitlement to be idle. You don't seem to understand the implications of that statement. In a country where the
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by qball 8y ago
>Since there is no alternative to inefficient software, products such as the 2019 iPad are praised because they can bludgeon through these tasks and still appear fast, but only due to their sheer power. The iPad is the alternative to in
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by qball 8y ago
>8 year olds used to find gainful employment. By 15 or 16, these "children" were relatively self sufficient. To add to this (and because of the education bubble making higher education effectively compulsory), children aren&#x2
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by qball 8y ago
There was a project that did something like this for Windows 8: https://www.afterdawn.com/software/system_tools/system_tweak...
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by qball 8y ago
Good. Maybe Microsoft should be taking note since it was doing the same thing earlier: ( https://www.howtogeek.com/243581/windows-10-may-delete-your-... )
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by qball 8y ago
As I understand it, you need to provide a functional way to opt out of tracking, and access to a service must not be blocked if you do not opt into the tracking. There's a bunch of other stuff (i.e. if you request the data a website h
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by qball 8y ago
As opposed to what, being a beta tester for life _and_ paying 200 dollars for the privilege like you apparently do with Windows now?
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by qball 8y ago
>Assuming a well-functioning democracy, they have whatever rights The populace wants them to have, including deciding what types of speech are acceptable. So... mob rule. That seems like a very stable and restrained society. I can'
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by qball 8y ago
>From an economical point of view it makes no sense to put legislation in place that will strengthen the market position of mostly US, non-EU companies. The EU is failing in both the tech sector and the media sector. This is just sacrif
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by qball 9y ago
>His vision where everyone's opinion and speech has equal weight doesn't come close to the reality of the situation in America today, where those with financial wealth can effectively pay to amplify viewpoints they favor. That&
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by qball 9y ago
>Perhaps he'll experience it peering in through someone else's phone. And better yet, once the child is free of their parent's influence, they'll probably just get sucked in because they never developed the mental mec
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by qball 9y ago
>they need to be able to understand and reason critically about the world. The problem with that, however, is that there's a large proportion of the population that quite simply isn't capable of doing that (or who are located w
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by qball 9y ago
>They seem to solve a good portion of the problems. The problem is that human beings generally hate them. For a good example of this (and why), check out ( http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-se
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by qball 9y ago
>Information diving on subjects you're interested in is one of the greatest boons of the modern age, and I think it's a terrible thing to deny a curious child. Yes a kid can spend all day every day on facebook or twitter or wat
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by qball 9y ago
>Maybe because I am from different culture... it is more mature financially reasonable arrangement then paying more just to prove yourself adulthood I don't believe your claim that your culture doesn't seem to understand the va
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by qball 9y ago
>Their peers are expected to live like adults. Interesting perspective, considering many of them today still live like children (living with one's parents is the polar opposite of living like an adult). As such, the age of majority

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