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by saberdancer 7y ago
Problem with that is that pre-agriculture you cannot sustain a large number of people, so it is very doubtful that the population could sustain themselves better than with agriculture. Why would a super healthy pre-agricultural society move
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by saberdancer 7y ago
I always thought it happens because we tend to use the identifier that is the most unique. We had a CS professor (male) who had an unusual first name, everyone referred to him by using the first name. Obviously not in a formal way but when
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by saberdancer 7y ago
I'm not sure if this exists in EU. Does anybody know of a similar situation in EU?
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by saberdancer 7y ago
I think that the advice is that just because you know you are innocent that is not enough, they will still assume you are guilty (regardless of innocent until proven guilty) and that you need to come at it from the point of how can I change
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by saberdancer 7y ago
I have doubts about whether this is true. While libraries are probably optimizing for popularity, I doubt that libraries 100 years ago had very good expert level book collections, at least an average library. Reason why it may be more visib
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by saberdancer 7y ago
Copy and distribution costs for movies in a digital age are non existant. Are movies using artificial scarcity?
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by saberdancer 7y ago
If you click on a number it expands the list.
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by saberdancer 7y ago
Does anyone know of a cheap IoT type sensor for CO2? It can be any type, even RasberryPi or Arduino based. I'm not interested in sensors without connectivity options. About the levels, I'm working on an IoT project and I've s
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by saberdancer 7y ago
Yes, you are correct. My phrasing was unclear, especially in terms of "minimum". The numbers are for the highest angle of Sun toward the horizon in a single day. This happens at solar noon (solar noon is the moment that Sun passes
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by saberdancer 7y ago
Perhaps you are aware, but it is very simple to calculate. (90-your latitude) + tilt of the earth (23.5 degrees) = maximum height of the sun during the year (90-your latitude) - tilt of the earth (23.5 degrees) = minimum height of the sun d
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by saberdancer 7y ago
There is no difference between a comet and a asteroid in this kind of situation, both would cause tsunamis. On the other hand, having a huge fireball in the sky, earthquakes, ash falling from the sky, would probably leave an impression alon
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by saberdancer 7y ago
Railways can be privatized if you keep the infrastructure (rails) public. Public railway infrastructure then charge the rail companies for usage of the rails. This should work in theory. About affordable inter-city buslines, I feel that the
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by saberdancer 7y ago
I was trying to talk in laymen terms, not everyone knows poker lingo. Exactly, either Postle has superhuman mind reading skills or he gets info from outside. It's not certain whether he knows exact hands, maybe it is just "AHEAD&#
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by saberdancer 7y ago
He is not playing just against less skilled players, he is playing with very good players as well. Regardless of the opponent he can always make the right decision and only time he loses is if he bluffs and someone makes a extremely tough c
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by saberdancer 7y ago
This kind of analysis is really reaching. I'm not going to adress each point but talk in more general terms. Iran is not going to play by the book, they've shown multiple times they are willing to escalate things when it looks lik
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by saberdancer 7y ago
It's important to allow protection for ideas/products/software/drugs that take a large amount of investment to develop. If you spent 10 years and millions developing a better video compression algorithm, why there should
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by saberdancer 7y ago
It depends on the mass of the planet and the diameter. Since planets are usually sphere shaped, it effectively means that the gravity grows with diameter (for same density) and vice versa (for same diameter, grows if density grows). Moon is
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by saberdancer 7y ago
Few other benefits of induction are easier cleanup (you can wipe it down) and no long term "soot" accumulation around the stove.
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by saberdancer 7y ago
This is very misleading. In fact, neutrinos are not going faster than speed of light (c), they are going faster than photons that are emitted from the supernova. Not just that, but lights when it passes through a medium slows down depending
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by saberdancer 7y ago
In the all cars I've owned, rear fog light is brighter than regular rear lights. Not sure if they are brighter than braking lights, but brighter than "position" lights for sure. https://content.icarcdn.com/sty
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by saberdancer 7y ago
You may be watching later at night. Low Earth orbit satellites are in the shadow if you watch later at night. As a child you probably only watched the sky shortly after sunset while satellites still catch the sun.
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by saberdancer 7y ago
Those 100m are not destroyed by burning them in an HFT furnace but rather used to pay developers, hardware, factory workers etc. Sure, it's not going directly into infrastructure but it is not lost. In fact, it's quite possible th
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by saberdancer 7y ago
It's not that simple. Launching an nuclear weapon from the deep is very hard, normal nuclear missile subs do not launch from deep. There are multiple reason for this. One of them is that they eject the missile by using steam/gas,
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by saberdancer 7y ago
Exactly. It's much better to say they died valiantly saving everyone than to say that for example, someone lit up a cigarette that started a fire and then they realized half of oxygen masks wasn't working. Losharik is a type of a
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by saberdancer 7y ago
Not sure if when the knowledge about it's design was made public, but name Losharik gave everyone a hint. It is a cartoon character that's made from spheres/balls connected with a wire. This is a logical way to create a subma
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by saberdancer 8y ago
I think it depends. When I got married, we had the option of having tiered one with lower levels fake and sheet cake cut behind the scenes for the majority of the guests, or full tiered cake. We had a full tiered cake, no fake parts involve