speedybird

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by speedybird 5y ago
A grown blue whale weights about 1/50th of the submarine (~200 tons vs ~10k tons) and is quite a bit squishier. But maybe that would still be enough to knock some submariners around and cause some injuries? I'm not sure.
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by speedybird 5y ago
The Drive says > As for what the submarine hit, details remain limit. U.S. officials have reportedly said that there are no indications at present that the "object" was another submarine. "No indications at present&quot
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by speedybird 5y ago
When you say G-Code is Assembly-like, you just mean superficially right? I would expect G-Code to be interpreted, not assembled.
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by speedybird 5y ago
If the allegations are true, I think crazy goes without saying.
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by speedybird 5y ago
> Reddit is an amazing platform for niche hobbies and tech forums. I tried this for a while but the flagrant low-effort karma farming even on those subreddits drove me away. The last subreddit I still read towards the end was r/s
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by speedybird 5y ago
My read of captainmuon's comment is that captainmuon once considered themself addicted to facebook.
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by speedybird 5y ago
"Addiction is a biopsychosocial disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences." "Despite adverse consequences" is a key component of addiction. For instance, many pe
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by speedybird 5y ago
A FAANG going down for hours is interesting even to people who don't associate with that company. You're trying to frame this as a contradiction, but it isn't.
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by speedybird 5y ago
If quitting facebook is framed as impossible, then those who want to quit will feel helpless. Posts like the one above are helpful because they tell people that there is hope. You can quit facebook. Should we tell alcoholics that the
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by speedybird 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse_by_UN_peace... Edit: Who flagged this article?
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by speedybird 5y ago
They'd track her friends instead. She'd need to live like an isolated hermit and avoid contact with anybody who carried a phone, which is everybody. Short of hermitage; at the very least she'd need to adopt a new identity a
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by speedybird 5y ago
I agree that sometimes some people deserve to be insulted; particularly for their own good (for instance they were carelessly doing something risky and need to be reminded to take themselves off autopilot and pay attention to what they&#x27
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by speedybird 5y ago
Fundamentally, impugning somebody's intelligence is an insult. All the side-eyeing and inventive euphemisms in the world won't change this.
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by speedybird 5y ago
> For some reason, school boards are terrible at the use-mention distinction. School boards are mostly comprised of average enough people, who are generally quite bad at this distinction. Although with school boards it's a bit wo
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by speedybird 5y ago
> The latest judgments will increase scrutiny on Britain’s relationship with the UAE Pressuring NSO's customers is well and good, but I fear this madness will continue until America and Israel's other allies find the political
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by speedybird 5y ago
The coded messages were handwritten. To my eye, they have the same handwriting. Occam's Razor is just a rule of thumb, but I think it applies here.
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by speedybird 5y ago
When people get hungry enough, they become willing to eat even their friends and family.
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by speedybird 5y ago
My father picked up smoking when he joined the Navy so that he could participate in the smoke breaks. Fortunately he managed to quit when he got out. I wager many started smoking for the same reason, and never quit.
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by speedybird 5y ago
5) Towns tax the pipeline company like they would any other business that attracts crime? Am I missing something here? These pipelines pay taxes, right? If so, why is a special funding arrangement parallel to taxation needed? And if not
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by speedybird 5y ago
What the hell is Mozilla doing? If they want to protect peoples' privacy, they need to ship Firefox with an adblocker by default, not ask people to install spyware to surveil ads.
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by speedybird 5y ago
> The actual press, WaPo, NyTimes (which does great docs, so does Vice imho) have rigid editorial process. That hasn't stopped them from publishing complete bullshit to start wars and similarly abominable shit. The New York Time
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by speedybird 5y ago
Bookmarking, history and unloaded tabs are three disjoint systems that all solve the same problem for me, each inadequate for different reasons. The solution to this mess is to unify the three. Also two of these three, history and bookmark
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by speedybird 5y ago
They tell you to buy a bunch of gift cards at the grocery store and then read the number off the card over the phone. How do you successfully sue them with that information?
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by speedybird 5y ago
> Wasn’t TU-144 just a pissing contest entry with retrofitted engines of another aircraft? Pissing contest, maybe, but the Tu-144 was its own aircraft. The airframe was designed from day one to be exactly what it was, a supersonic air
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by speedybird 5y ago
But afaik all the airplanes used for the earliest demonstrations of airmail were privately funded/constructed. The minimum viable airplane for airmail was within grasp of skilled fabricators working out of their garages; the big gover
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by speedybird 5y ago
It simply means that marines, sailors, etc get bent out of shape when you call them "soldiers." In their lingo, soldiers are in the Army. In common parlance, a 'soldier' is anybody who is part of a military and an &#x2
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by speedybird 5y ago
Unless you're trying to go to space, there really isn't much reason to go this fast in the first place. Even relatively modest supersonic passenger flight has proven to be a commercial failure (good luck to Boom Tech inc... y
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by speedybird 5y ago
> This makes air-breathing hypersonic devices a much bigger challenge than air-breathing supersonic ones. Indeed, and the Virgin Galactic vehicle isn't even either of those; it uses a hybrid rocket engine instead of breathing air.
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by speedybird 5y ago
> It really sucks that there's a 'D' for 'Defense' at the front of the acronym. Time for a new euphemism? The U.S. Department of Defense was called the U.S. Department of War until the end of the 1940s.
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by speedybird 5y ago
You seem to be suggesting but not outright saying something that is a misconception: The SR-71 did in fact have a pressurized cockpit, which was also air conditioned as well (it had to be, because the aircraft would cook the crew otherwise

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