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by saberdancer 4y ago
Yes but the second poll lasted for 24 hours meaning the ban was effectively at least a day - which is option b) tomorrow I bet he expected to get clear majority for 7 days.
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by saberdancer 4y ago
Get in a ponzi while the going is good?
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by saberdancer 4y ago
I'm no expert but I think when cars are converted, they can run on both natural gas and on gasoline. Gasoline is used to start the car. Wouldn't that solve the range issue? Obvious problem in USA is availability of natural gas at
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by saberdancer 4y ago
I've heard that they no longer accept documents in English meaning you have to pay for translation of business documents/reports/etc. Is this accurate? The guy who talked about it was an angel investor and is not really impre
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by saberdancer 4y ago
This is not fascist. Most countries are made in a way to not allow parts of their territory to secede, even if they "want to do it". Just look what happens in Spain with Catalonia, what would probably happen in Scotland, Texas or
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by saberdancer 4y ago
You are right, I misread. My apologies. Still the whole blog and her various public interviews are wild. I know we are operating with the benefit of hindsight but I find her very unconvincing - for example when asked about math in her job s
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by saberdancer 4y ago
500km orbit. It will be in the dark most of the night. They may lose some early evening/morning observation quality but it shouldn't be that bad for the rest of it.
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by saberdancer 4y ago
This satellite is in a 500km orbit. It is in the shade most of the night. Same applies to Starlink satellites. I have a feeling many people forget about this.
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by saberdancer 4y ago
Did you read comments Caroline made on her blog/tumblr? Not sure of the timeline but she was asking why not double down on a 50/50 bet every time (if you lose) - you can earn "infinite" money but lose only your bet. I am
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by saberdancer 4y ago
Exchanges are not a problem. If FTX kept to their ToS they would have all the funds available and there would be no collapse. But they were greedy, decided to use user funds without authorization, then lost them and the whole thing came com
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by saberdancer 4y ago
I am very amazed that crypto prices have not plummeted after FTX revelations. That looks like a very big condemnation of the whole system and the market barely moved. I am not convinced it will end crypto, a lot of people still want to spec
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by saberdancer 4y ago
Jack was privately talking the same to Elon. You can read more in the discovery documents (Elon's messages). The gist was it that Jack believes Twitter should be not be a company and he believed Musk will take it there. Not sure I agre
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by saberdancer 4y ago
Usually you can get a copy of the article by going to archive.ph and pasting the paywalled link. It may not be most ethical thing to do but if you want to read an article or two behind a paywall, I don't think it is insane to do. This
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by saberdancer 4y ago
What always surprises me why does anyone feel the need to steal from users when you are literally "the house" - you are taking a fee on every transaction. Just like in poker - if you are the house, you don't need to take risk
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by saberdancer 4y ago
The point is that today you are always online on your phone. Whatsapp, Viber or Messenger always work. No need to log onto a mainframe and type forum. I feel that the point made is a good one. Given that we can share what we want directly v
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by saberdancer 4y ago
Ukraine attacked Russia proper (not just Crimea) before. We all remember Mi-24 over Belgorod but there were also Tochkas fired against airbases (IIRC Taganrog and Milerovo). I don't think red lines exist. Maybe for using western suppli
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by saberdancer 4y ago
Firebombing cities was a thing. There is little difference in firebombing Tokyo with 200 planes and dropping one "special" bomb. Second bomb (Nagasaki) was not authorized in some special way. Air force had two bombs available and
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by saberdancer 4y ago
It's a tactic Ukraine used before. They rightly assume that most people will understand what happened so they play coy and mock Russia. It will be interesting to see what Russia says when the "accident" repeats again in anoth
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by saberdancer 4y ago
They had to add more matter in some places and less in others. Estimation would have wrong numbers all around.
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by saberdancer 4y ago
It's not hard to accept existence of dark matter, but it is an extremely flexible, hard to prove answer. If you see a galaxy that rotates differently, you say it has more or less dark matter. It sounds like an easy answer.
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by saberdancer 4y ago
I'm no physicist but if you want to be cheeky, you introduce a "rare dark matter" to a MOND model and explain away those rare instances. My point is, dark matter explains the observations by being very flexible. There can be
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by saberdancer 4y ago
Currency is propped up - easy to fall. They have shown themselves to be blackmailers with energy - no one will trust them again. The war will make Europe less dependent on Russian energy. Steady gains - I wouldn't say so as they had to
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by saberdancer 4y ago
Bazooka would be more like a rifle on a ship. Much easier to aim with the roll and you get your arms to do the stabilization. Howitzer works as a mortar or if they are lucky and can aim low, as a non stabilized gun.
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by saberdancer 4y ago
Russia will collapse.
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by saberdancer 4y ago
Water falls from the sky. 70% of the planet is salt water. Salt water can be desalinated. I also think that water wars seem unlikely as if you have energy, you can get water.
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by saberdancer 4y ago
To fire a howitzer you need to calculate the angle at which you need to fire and amount of propellant. It seems like an incredibly hard thing to do on a ship and with the enemy maneuvering. It's likely you could only guess and hope for
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by saberdancer 4y ago
Also it's likely that an organization called "Navy" usually operates on top of oceans.
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by saberdancer 4y ago
To be fair, Mick West usually finds a very convincing theory that is much more likely than aliens. He said he'd love to see footage of something that is truly unexplainable. I mean who wouldn't.
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by saberdancer 4y ago
This makes sense to me. Surface layer partly evaporates, it immediately cools down remaining surface layer and then convection spreads it around. It would enable quick "forced" cooling similar to AC and due to convection, it can c
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by saberdancer 4y ago
Not intentionally.

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