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by sfifs 4y ago
Thanks for the explanation!
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thanks for the explanation!
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by sfifs 4y ago
So such an expansion phenomenon should affect everything uniformly right? Are we (people /animals) then getting "bigger"? Over time innthe extreme will it cause problems in signal transmission in our own nervous systems (sinc
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The mafia used to steal dresses from New York garment factory delivery trucks and hawk them door to door in poorer neighbourhoods. The users (poorer households) definitely got value out of this by being able to obtain dresses they could not
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Definitely about to happen as soon as lawyers can establish reasonable damages can be assessable to be worth the effort - or they piss off some rich artist who will be willing to underwrite the cost ala Theil did with Gawker. There was a ru
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You could make this kind of "just" and "bog standard" argument for anything. Just using an image for educational or illustrative purpose, just using a song for a political rally etc etc. The fact is as a society we have
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by sfifs 4y ago
Thanks for your thoughtful reply. Yes indeed the treaties prevent "privateer" operations. They don't prevent major nation state level economic operations backed by millitary force it one decides it needs the resources. You ca
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No. It's because it's not economically worthwhile yet to do anything significant in Antarctica given the costs of doing something. Treaties will get renegotiated if there is enough economic value and in any case, treaties need to
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by sfifs 4y ago
Dump 3 large solar arrays at 120 degrees on the moon. Run a large power cable 11k km around. You have continuous power.
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The basic problem is that in highly un-regulated & legalistic economy & polity like the United States, failures such as these are not easily corrected especially where everyone except the weak make money. Everyone who could stop th
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Not really. We tend to anthropomorphize countries in general conversations but this is really about lessons that political leadership needs to be taught. There are several current lessons leaders world over have already learned from this c
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actual sustainable peace requires denuclearization (and possible fragmentation) of the Russian federation because a precedent has to be set for the international order that threat of weapons of mass destruction cannot be used for annexatio
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Life expectancy is 2.5X what it was when these laws were first conceived and the majority of creative people have a relatively short peak creative period where most of their valuable output comes - eg. Typical recording artists last no more
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Very interestingly, this seems similar to the strategy used by plants to absorb energy from sunlight in the red and blue parts of the spectrum with pervoskite absorbing the blue and silicon the green. However there is no indication this is
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> There is no one single entity with enough power to clearly oppose it so people making the models can get away with "questionable copyright", "legal gray area", etc. kind of talk. Never underestimate the power of a s
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They are currently reusing the first stage which is sub orbital - ie. Much slower, less re-entry forces. Still a major economic benefit for overall rocket cost. That said, Starship is planned to land from orbit & be reusable - let'
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Rocket books are written by scientists, not economists or MBAs. Elon Musk's major innovation with SpaceX was to look at it from a business & economic angle rather than the angle of scientists or millitary industrial complex which t
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These shenanigans with refills and unscrupulous and buggy apps is pretty much why I changed to a different brand ink refill tank based printer after buying HP for the longest time - never buying HP again.
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You should consider doing research. Even Wikipedia gives a good start. As everywhere, maintaining power is a balancing act and has flowed between factions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Principlists https:&#x
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It fact the reverse is true if you critically examine how power works. At a most fundamental level, the ability to maintain a state is a matter of (1) maintaining a monopoly on violence inside your jurisdiction so you can collect tax revenu
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Refer to Indian states. The languages across most states are actually mutually un-intelligible and cultures probably much more dramatically different than anything in Europe. In most of Europe, the majority culture have common elements of e
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You do realize I assume that in the whole of middle east, Israel and Iran are the only reasonably functional countries where people get to elect their government to some extent and the people leading the government actually change based on
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Europe basically needs to federalize and become a fiscal union like the US or India to stay powerful and get rid of these inefficiencies but are too divided by bad blood from about half a century ago and by vested interests of it's le
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For those of us living on the right side of a relatively stable rules based society where we have reasonable expectation of personal property rights, it is not useful. For those either on the wrong side of the society (eg. Source of income
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The episode "Power To The People" in the satirical comedy Yes Prime Minister deals with exactly this. It also looks at the trade-offs, which explains why this will almost certainly not actually happen. Well worth a watch :-) http
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There's Line, Kakao Talk, Viber, WeChat, SnapChat... all very popular in different countries & with different demographics. WeChat is of course the most sophisticated in terms of ecosystem beyond just messaging. None of these may h
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And this decision gave them the US mobile market (very profitable) but basically lost them the messaging and ancillary commercial services enabled by messaging market in the rest of the world.
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> likely far simpler to just stick to stereoscopic vision data (the same thing the human genome decided!) Yeah and till we had reliable and powerful artificial lighting, it was highly unsafe to journey in low visibility/ darkness. W
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If you want to eliminate Carbon emissions, you do. The electricity supply network is always built for overcapacity or else bad things happen with frequency and device damage
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Seconding this. Markdown w/ code blocks is practically second nature to technical folks.

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