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841.
by samus 3y ago
The loss of not making contact with friendly aliens is probably not very high. Attracting aliens whose presence would have negative impact for us would be catastrophic. The aliens would not even have to be that aggressive - there's ple
842.
by samus 3y ago
The chip foundries are just one factor in the importance of Taiwan. What matters more is that control over Taiwan would vastly simplifies to exercise control over what China perceives as their territorial waters (not just as their Exclusive
843.
by samus 3y ago
With "false positives" I mean people mistakenly identified as deceased. Anyways, since there is an SSN, such problems happen less often to begin with. And once it is resolved, then it should stay resolved as the record is associat
844.
by samus 3y ago
That would still leave us with the problem of reaching them. We know now that the solar system is right out.
845.
by samus 3y ago
Have they changed again in the last 12 years apart from the higher importance of cloud solutions and privacy legislation?
846.
by samus 3y ago
Is it? And even if it was, is it worth the expense to track them and annoy the "false positives"?
847.
by samus 3y ago
Carl Sagan can go breathe vacuum if he really thinks those generals and emperors spilled all that blood for nothing. That fraction of a dot is a very special part of the universe: it is so far the only known planet that is able to support h
848.
by samus 3y ago
What about a public registry of deaths that can notify parties with justified interest (pension providers, maybe insurances and banks) about such events? That should work for domestic cases at least. Tracking deaths for people living abroad
849.
by samus 3y ago
The fabs don't really have strategic value because the pace of development has slowed down. The fabs are presumably rigged for easy sabotage, so if something... happens to Taiwan, neither China nor the West can make use of them. It wou
850.
by samus 3y ago
*the classifiers
851.
by samus 3y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Yes, there are exceptions, but they really don't seem to be such a big deal. Chinese is even more regular. Only three classifiers and 兩 vs. 二 are confusing at first.
852.
by samus 3y ago
I wonder whether the floor has been "debugged"? In the picture of Obama inside a SCIf in Rio, the floor seems to be the one of the hotel room...
853.
by samus 3y ago
Yes, and a lot of them introduce features that only later get later standardized into core extensions. Some of them remain proprietary, but it's still useful to have them in Vulkan so that they can be used in special circumstances.
854.
by samus 3y ago
A sibling commenter mentioned that there is a special word for "age of twenty"
855.
by samus 3y ago
> Depends on who you ask. What’s the region in question? What counts as a standard? Is Nynorsk codified by ISO? Et cetera. A government regulating it by teaching it in school and actively using it in public would be a strong criteria. Al
856.
by samus 3y ago
The comparison is a bit flawed since there is no dialect continuum between spoken Mandarin and Cantonese, and there might have never been one. A crucial difference is that there is no standardized form of written Cantonese. There is a commo
857.
by samus 3y ago
English has special words until twelve. Until nineteen it follows a pattern. The few exceptions to that pattern also apply to the multiples of ten. twelve-twenty, thirteen-thirty, fifteen-fifty, and that's it. It could be much, much wo
858.
by samus 3y ago
Not being decimal is not the issue. The irregularity are special rules for certain numbers or ranges of numbers for which another pattern has to be used.
859.
by samus 3y ago
Khronos is inherently unable to be ahead since it is a consortium of vendors with stakes in computer graphics. Khronos APIs are standardizations and/or abstractions on top of the platform-specific APIs, and new APIs and features usuall
860.
by samus 3y ago
Of course, later "castles" like Schloss Neuschwanstein were dedicated showpieces. I think the argument is about whether nobles built such purely representational castles already in the, let's call it Castle Age. But I'd
861.
by samus 3y ago
It is also said that the TV was more harmful to Italian dialects and had more long-lasting effects than the efforts of the Fascist Party. Also in German-speaking countries, which normally have a much more friendly attitude towards their dia
862.
by samus 3y ago
This seems like a "see three, pick two" problem. Compulsory education in the standard language will eventually solve most of these concerns. Ready understandability by elders seems quite hard to achieve, and might only possible if
863.
by samus 3y ago
The browser UI is missing. There might be extensions that scratch that itch.
864.
by samus 3y ago
Project vs. protect actually doesn't make a difference here. It's a fortified base from where sorties can be sent out into the surrounding area, projecting the noble's power. To stop that from happening, one has to capture th
865.
by samus 3y ago
I also find that the author should have covered the horse nomads a little more, and how their logistics worked. It would deepened the otherwise excellent points of TA.
866.
by samus 3y ago
Also, animal fat for such uses can be made out of any meat. Rats, dogs, diseased animals, horses, and in principle even human corpses.
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by samus 3y ago
It was primarily built to create a geographical barrier where otherwise there was none. Even though all such barriers can in principle be crossed or bypassed, they can still cause considerable tactical and logistical issues for any attacker
868.
by samus 3y ago
You're contradicting yourself. Building them to protect local leader's power and influence and national defense are very much the same thing in feudal societies.
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by samus 3y ago
// In case it's not clear: I am not suggesting you *actually* do this!
870.
by samus 3y ago
I find it unlikely as well that they said it would just work in all cases. But since it's going to work out eventually and a workaround exists, they would actually not be that wrong with that statement.

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