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by robonerd 4y ago
> The USA had a strong hand in blocking domestic aviation projects in countries that lost WWII And in those who were on the winning side too.. Likely in large part due to pressure from America, Canada killed the Avro Arrow and bought
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by robonerd 4y ago
Almost all of the USAF's cargo and tanker jets are made/supported by Boeing. Big jets are not Lockheed's competency; the C-5's development was a mess, and Lockheed hasn't been in the airliner business since the Tri
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by robonerd 4y ago
The dogs are banned but the bans are flagrantly flaunted and because of that, the dogs are still killing people.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Yeah, but sometimes friendly looking dogs aren't so friendly. There are some general signs you can look for in a dog's body language and behavior, but unless you've spent a lot of time with that dog you just don't know
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by robonerd 4y ago
> spongy, weird texture, bad flavor. That describes every store bought frozen meatball I've ever had, sponginess particularly. But if I make meatballs myself and freeze them, they come out fine. Something about the way factori
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by robonerd 4y ago
I miss landline telephones. For whatever reason, the audio clarity of video conferencing still has not touched the quality we used to get out of old fashioned analogue over copper.
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by robonerd 4y ago
If the public official had been on the board of a private company, would that have been okay? The article seems to suggest that 'state-owned' is a key factor in this scenario. That's a bit of a head scratcher to me, but I
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by robonerd 4y ago
> along with the Milgram experiment that people should lookup Don't bother, the experiment was so unethical it cannot be replicated properly. Furthermore, the way it was presented to the public was deceptive; only some of the res
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by robonerd 4y ago
> No idea how they got into Nature, I thought it was supposed to be a respectable journal? Prominent journal is a better way to describe it. They have a well known sensationalism bias (as does Science . This is the reason both journ
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by robonerd 4y ago
Agreed, that statement completely ignores the qualitative difference between dog bites. I was once bitten by some sort of yellow lab or golden retriever; it bit hard, but it let go before the pain signals even reached my brain. On the ot
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by robonerd 4y ago
I suppose I should give Fennel another chance, since I have similar feelings towards Lua. Lack of quasiquoting particularly does sting though, using quasiquoting to construct lua tables seems like it would be nice.
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by robonerd 4y ago
I don't know how republican lawmakers will react. But I think this information has the potential to hurt far more innocent people.
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by robonerd 4y ago
I haven't gotten into Hy, but what you say about a 'false promise' of lisp reminds me of the impression Fennel left me. No cons, compile error for '(), no quasiquoting.. it left me wondering where the list processing w
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by robonerd 4y ago
I get that you're looking for a silver lining to this, but what you've found is micron of silver in a metric ton of pig shit.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> It comes at the cost of lower power production Lower electrical production, not lower power production.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Considering this data is dangerous to far more innocent women and abortion doctors than Republican lawmakers, it doesn't seem very wise to gloat about it.
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by robonerd 4y ago
What's to say that demand needs to be met with waste heat? Couldn't a plant tap off and sell some of the steam that would otherwise be sent to the turbines?
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by robonerd 4y ago
You can pipe steam for a few miles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating Though for industrial purposes (rather than just heating buildings) you'd probably have to be closer.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Of course. To somebody in Zuck's position, shoring up the power of the status quo is common sense.
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by robonerd 4y ago
But they'll consider requests from government and industry.. both greater threats in the information war than any private individual.
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by robonerd 4y ago
I own the copyright to some GPL code. Nothing major or very important, but it's out there nonetheless. If I find out that a company has taken my code and is violating the license, here are the two outcomes I'd want, in order of
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by robonerd 4y ago
If the developer owns the code: The violator may offer to make things right by releasing the code. The developer may choose to accept this offer, leaving the lawyer with little. If the lawyer owns the code: The violator's offer to s
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by robonerd 4y ago
> They aren't saying Linus's goals are stupid. They're saying the methods he's using to achieve the goals are. Which makes sense. So if lawyers were in charge and rampaged around suing the shit out of every company
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by robonerd 4y ago
> They never resulted in a single line of code added to the busybox repository. This is why you don't want lawyers calling the shots. Lawyers are looking to get paid, they'd rather get a cash settlement than get the code. I
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by robonerd 4y ago
> unsourced low-information content Pot, meet kettle. > From the lawyers I've spoken to about this, Linus's view on the GPL and the chosen enforcement strategy has long been known to be nonsense. Unsourced. Low informat
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by robonerd 4y ago
Cardboard straws definitely work for shakes. I've been to a few retro-style icecream shops that use cardboard straws for shakes.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Many kinds of plastics can't be recycled at all, not even downcycled. Thermoset plastics particularly, which includes almost everything made out of fiberglass (glass fibers in thermoset plastic matrix.) That stuff either gets thrown
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by robonerd 4y ago
Related; In mid 19th century, Entire neighborhoods of Chicago were lifted up on jackscrews to raise the street above the swamp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
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by robonerd 4y ago
Reporting on tweets is the modern version "man on the street" interviews from television news. That is to say, essentially worthless. They never tell you how many interviews they did or how many tweets they read before they fou
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by robonerd 4y ago
Opponents of desalination in California most often cite the cost of desalination, and the environmental toll of the energy required to run desalination plants. They also don't like the idea of putting salt back into the ocean. General

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