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by stretchcat 6y ago
The nuclear winter theories I've read all involve the injection of soot into the stratosphere by nuclear-ignited firestorms. Buried nuclear blasts can dig pretty big holes (Sedan crater and all the other craters in the Nevada Test Sit
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Nuclear winter seems unlikely to me, and from what I understand I'm not alone. Cities are no longer prone to huge firestorms like they once were. Furthermore most nuclear strikes would probably be airbursts to maximize blast effects,
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Being seen is consequence of working in a physical space, not the objective. Not unless you're a stripper. Phone meetings worked just fine for decades, video chat is pure narcissism. If there were somebody deaf on my team then I supp
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Narcissistic managers demanding everybody on their team use webcams during meetings hardly refutes clairity post.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
I viewed all of the examples in the article and they all look adaquate. The worst of them is fit for purpose, unless maybe you want to stare up somebody's nose and count their boogers. Personally, I've been thinking about how to
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Consider the assassination of Mahmoud Al-Mabbouh. It was intended to look like a natural death, without raising suspicions. To do this, they snuck into his hotel room, injected him with a muscle relaxant, then suffocated him. It took loca
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by stretchcat 6y ago
China isn't a democracy, is it?
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by stretchcat 6y ago
In the past there have been companies that had their own navies. Maybe in a few years..
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Moderation of this sort of content is so far away from any slope, it may as well be Flatland.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
I suppose that's a valid way of looking at it. Either way though, there's no risk of the crew experiencing decompression sickness in a typical military submarine.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
I suppose my point and probably the point of the other commenter above is that social media companies utilizing content recommendation systems are not merely distribution channels, by virtue of recommending content. Those recommendations
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by stretchcat 6y ago
It's the individual users who create the posts, but it's the social media companies using software to select posts to display to others. 'Sow' means to spread or disperse seeds, or when used figuratively, to spread ar
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Whether any impressions somebody walks away from this article with are 'true or false' is likely a matter of subjective opinion. Maybe they think twitter is doing enough to moderate their platform already, or maybe not enough. N
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by stretchcat 6y ago
I use Firefox and have for about 15 years now. I still use it, but I no longer have hope. Not since Mozilla rolled over on EME. Mozilla is googles' lapdog, little more. At least the browser still has enough technical merit for me t
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by stretchcat 6y ago
This is a ridiculous argument; blackmailers can and routinely do blackmail people over matters that are legal but embarrassing. This could have happened in any country. Similar things do occur in every country.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
True... maybe if they could get buzzers in the fingertips of the gloves... maybe. You're probably right though, the vibrations of the aircraft would drown it all out.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
I am not disputing that the NYPost is disreputable, do I need to say this more? I am saying the deservedly poor reputation of the NYPost is irrelevant in this case because the reported facts are easy to independently verify. The reputati
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by stretchcat 6y ago
There is no clear demarcation line between journalism and propaganda. Every journalist has biases, every last one, and every journalist aspires to report on matters they care about (e.g. "want to grind an axe on" , which is just
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by stretchcat 6y ago
> In any case: it should be blatantly obvious that the Twitter representative did not know or agree that the person in the video was a minor Or the moderator was [pick as many as you like]: Lazy, overworked, incompetent, or a scumbag.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Suppose the NYPost has an axe to grind and went looking for a lawsuit that makes twitter look bad... so what? The lawsuit exists as they claim. That wouldn't mean they're lying, it would only mean they have a different idea of w
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by stretchcat 6y ago
I wonder if they've considered wearable haptics. A little buzzer somewhere in their flight suit might provide pilots with 'a button was pushed' confirmations. Maybe that would be too distracting though.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Why would they waste their time in court bringing a lawsuit that would immediately get tossed? They'd hardly be able to conceal the age of a child from the court. The court will know who the child is, even though journalists will (of
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Why is that worth noting?
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Do you think the NYPost fabricated the existence of the lawsuit? As far as I can tell, the lawsuit really does exist. Given the nature of the lawsuit, concerning material that is illegal to view, I don't think any journalists, whether
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Submarines like that do not use pressurized atmospheres. They hold back the water pressure using the strength of the hull alone. (Also the aircraft would be launched when the submarine was surfaced.)
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by stretchcat 6y ago
The article mentions they were VTOL, e.g. vertical take off and landing . They were to land vertically on their tails. It's not a very good idea, particularly with the technology of the time, but a few projects were experimenting wi
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by stretchcat 6y ago
The Germans also had the Fi 103R which their test pilots flew a few times but was never put into combat. As for the reuse of drones, the first drone was a radio controlled de Havilland DH.82 (named Queen Bee .) This drone, and most subseq
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by stretchcat 6y ago
They were to be VTOLs, so very carefully .
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by stretchcat 6y ago
To be fair to Wyoming, they have the potential to have an excellent amount of wind power per capita.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
The whole premise of a 'vertical farm' seems bunk to me for this reason. If you want ultrafresh local food in a climate which doesn't support it, with precise control over the growing conditions.. well that's precisely

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