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by steve19 11y ago
I presume this means anywhere the general public can read it (twitter, Facebook, youtube) or infer "it" from secondary sources (campaign contributions). It refers to anything that the mob disagrees with. This is the most scary de
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by steve19 11y ago
Has a sovereign state selling off land to another sovereign state ever been considered profitable in hindsight?
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by steve19 11y ago
What environmental damage? It's dangerous to just assume that Any Development == Environmental Catastrophe
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by steve19 11y ago
I don't know how relevant comparing Oslo with a desert city is. in any case, why is Oslo reducing water usage if it is abundant?
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by steve19 11y ago
That was the promise of thunderbird 2 (or 1)...
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by steve19 11y ago
China is churning out cheap mini-segways that are not much bigger and have larger pneumatic tires. This is just the first one I found on ebay for $370 (including shipping): http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Mini-Smart-Self-Ba
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by steve19 11y ago
I disagree. it took a weekend to build my reprap from a parts kit imported from China. it took another weekend to tune it. easy.
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by steve19 11y ago
Can someone explain what it means to carry current at room temperature without any heat loss. As a layman I interpret this as the material not having any resistance. If it does have resistance, what is that resistance generating if not heat
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by steve19 11y ago
> Electric vehicles last longer. Do they? Because ICE vehicles last decades and they don't have expensive battery packs that need replacing.
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by steve19 11y ago
> Ok, but then what happens when a ship gets too old to use if not scrapped? The old fashioned way is to scuttle a ship. I would guess that scuttling a ship so that it descends into a deep sea trench would have minimal environmental impa
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by steve19 11y ago
yes, but consider the political environment. there are already people who complain bitterly about the military incentives (after they have taken and spent the money or gotten the education they wanted)... but no political groups are going t
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by steve19 11y ago
The problem arises, as explained to me by a woman when I made the same point, is woman could be coerced to get an implant in order to get cash for her partner or parents etc.
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by steve19 11y ago
I don't think that is the main divide. The divide would be life at contraception vs. life at some point in time during the pregnancy/fetus development. Where that line is seems to differ from country to country.
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by steve19 11y ago
IUD prevent fertilization, they may also prevent implantation but this is only likely to happen if it has been inserted after sex.
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by steve19 11y ago
Way to play the victim card, after first playing the everyone-else-was-doing-it card! "Los Angeles based MBA..." Makes sense, I guess you learnt this two card trick in MBA 101 :)
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by steve19 11y ago
According to the article they generate three lasers from the same silicon. I think the benefits are size and/or simplicity, cost etc.
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by steve19 11y ago
I hate the term "activist investor", "robber baron" or "corperate raider" is more apt in so many cases.
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by steve19 11y ago
If Hitler that gotten the bomb first he could have dropped it on London and the war would have been over.
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by steve19 11y ago
There needs to be an internet "law" about how all news reporting websites eventually tend towards populism and "fluff" (Ten X About Y That Will Shock|Terrify|Amaze You), rather than unbiased reporting, over time. Edit: A
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by steve19 11y ago
I was excited then read this: "A bed net is more effective than this vaccine, but nonetheless it is a very significant scientific achievement... " Seems like like I will still be taking that damned medicine when I visit materia re
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by steve19 11y ago
Scrabble is not about words,anymore than monopoly is about business. Scrabble is arranging a random selection of tiles into combinations in such a way that score is maximized. The tiles could have hexadecimal numbers on them and could be pl
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by steve19 11y ago
Only cutlery/kitchen knives is limiting your market. The custom tactical and custom outdoor knife market is huge and the customers can never get enough. The best "pocket knife" I own sells for $500, and this is considered mid
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by steve19 11y ago
People don't seem to like it when something they cherish is reduced to symbols. I got a good laugh out of this comment at the Guardian: "I think it renders the whole thing pointless. It ceases to be a word game. I think that, as i
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by steve19 11y ago
so just business-as-usual for a Perl5 programmer?
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by steve19 11y ago
Rational wiki points out that it is vaugly possible they do work, although not by the mechanism claimed. if they were heavily coated with chemicals they might work... while possibly poisoning the pet they are being used on.
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by steve19 11y ago
Georgia fucked up by invading thier breakaway regions. Putin had massive justification to invade/defend, unlike in Ukraine which was an opportunistic land grab
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by steve19 11y ago
... or worse, use somebody else's name and create a realistic profile (do these sites have profiles?) that makes it look like the person you are impersonating.
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by steve19 11y ago
Seems like an easy way to get your neighbor (and his or her extended family) thrown into a political concentration camp for life. Just copy the watermark from an existing file into a subversive document, put that document on a USB drive and
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by steve19 11y ago
Interesting, I did not know that about Nigeria. it sounds like you are focusing on importing West African cinema into the USA, which does make sense. Good luck. BTW, what is one Nigerian firm you would recommend?
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by steve19 11y ago
If it were that simple we would have unlimited free energy by simply using heat pumps to power steam turbines. I don't think heat pumps can generate very high temperatures efficiently. Resistive heating is 100% efficient by definition.

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