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by redis_mlc 5y ago
What's fascinating in China is the extradjudicial repossession of residential land. Normally one gets a 99-year land lease to build a house, but the CCP has been repossessing the land after 30-40 years as it increases in value. The CCP
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Just to express the parent more bluntly, this CNC project is junk. I've seen stronger window frames than this. I wouldn't even expect to cut several pieces of wood with this toy CNC machine. It's like something you'd cob
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
What you can do is run powertop periodically to see what's consuming the most power, or running frequently thus waking up your cpu from sleep modes.
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
No mention of "nuclear", "family", or "marriage" in the article. It's not a redlining issue in 2021. Most adults have Internet access via smartphones, regardless of income or background.
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Yup, SQL Server performance and licensing (!) consultants came out of retirement after MS doubled the licensing costs in 2012. Managers don't like paying for optimization consultants, but it's the easiest way to both improve curre
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Monarchs have migrated for thousands of years between remote locations, long before humans had a large impact on the environment.
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
1) No one died, mostly because civilian fire departments refused to board it in case they got lost. There's some interesting parallels with the HMS Stark, which burned after being hit by an Exocet missile in the Falklands War. Their el
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
There's likely trace elements in fuel. In the case of that area, the Capitol Expressway is a very busy highway system. If RHV air quality is monitored, then so should some locations around the highway. In fact, there's enough cars
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> recent pressure to close airports (namely KRHV) with leaded fuel It's always been a real estate issue with KRHV. The nearby busy highways emit vastly more emissions than trainers, likely including lead. What city councils refuse t
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
There were some truck driving reality shows a while ago that centered around shipping app auctions. The biggest problem was that whether the bid showed who was responsible for loading/unloading or not, whenever the truck pulled up the
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> Beckerman also testified that TikTok's U.S. user data is stored in the United States, with backups in Singapore. Why are backups in Singapore? Never heard of US companies doing that.
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Both the Capitol protest and antifa/BLM riots involved Democrat politicians shirking their sworn duty to provide security and policing. The 2 people in charge of adding Capitol policing were the House Manager and Nancy Pelosi. Note Pel
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> rumors sit in the new for months on Trump It's much worse than that. Virtually all news stories in 2020/early 2021 about Trump have been retracted by cnn.com since then. Almost all sound bytes from the White House and Squad t
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
So far it has held up in the court of appeals, but there's another hearing upcoming. Note that a defendant is in a much stronger position if they have maintained complete silence even before the password is requested - you can't j
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
You can view videos of a charter service, Buffalo Airways, maintaining and operating DC-3's here: https://www.youtube.com/c/MikeyMcBryan/videos They have their own DC-3 parts inventory. His father discusses
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> 1B is very impressive Those are Sino* vaccines, which are only about 51% effective. (WHO considers 50% to be ineffective.)
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Actually, Innodb, which supports transactions, has been bundled with MySQL since 2001, but existed before then. It became the default storage engine in 2010.
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
The author appears to be a CCP mouthpiece. Note three things not mentioned in the article: - the Sino* vaccines are only 51% effective, so 85% vaccination rate means nothing - Xi is a clone of Mao, who once said that 50% of the total popula
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Note the Americas already had civil and external wars long before the Spanish arrived. When you know the full history of the Conquistadors and their relationship with the local population, things are not so clear. For example, the Spanish:
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
1) jet engines are interesting because of the continuous flow and also that all the rotating parts rotate in the same direction, a huge advantage over reciprocating engines. So jet engines can do 50,000 rps, while piston under 20,000 rps. N
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> China is a lot more open this time around. Their silk/belt-road initiatives, span across continents. Where to start ... You realize that BRI doesn't have grants, just debt, right? The purpose of BRI is to build ports for the
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Most US pilots could not fly an NDB approach using a simple ADF today, and would end up dead in mountainous terrain. The reason is that you have to practise doing relative bearings and wind corrections in your head, or else you fly in a spi
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
What is being learned in Surfside is this: - according to two recent independent structural model calculations based on the original plans, the building that collapsed was deliberately designed to meet only 100% to 115% of the original stat
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Yet another screed from an impostor. Many SV startup applications were written by one programmer - I've met several. QED: those are 10x programmers.
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Despite HN being a tech-oriented forum, most members are completely ignorant of science. I understand that kidney donation risks are not well-understood, but ignorance permeates virtually every topic here. Off the top of my head, I'd s
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
After battle in most countries in the past, you either lived or died as one cohort. However, the Romans had enough patients over a continuing period of time to perfect plastic surgery. So I think you're confusing emergency surgery and
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Bronze worked well for weapons, but was rare. Iron democratized the making of weapons, available almost everywhere on Earth except Japan. But watch modern people try to smelt iron on Youtube in their backyard. Very difficult and time-consum
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
They knew that wearing silver or copper rings corrode, and gold didn't.
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Romans perfected plastic surgery because of gladiators. (Owners take care of their slaves, which are valuable.) They even used obsidian blades, which reduces scarring. That skill was lost for almost 2,000 years. So it's not a big leap
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Note that donating a kidney is not free of long-term complications for the donor. This was not emphasized in the pioneering days of donations, but is considered now. Essentially you're halving your kidney capacity, which is not noticea

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