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by thmsths 3y ago
Nukes are powerful but not that powerful, most modern nukes are under a megaton because more power does not scale well in regards to more destruction, instead we moved to multiple smaller warheads. According to nukemap[1] a Russian SS25 wit
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by thmsths 3y ago
Could you please expand on your point: "like fewer committee assignments (allowing in depth knowledge of subject)". This seems counter intuitive. I am not too familiar with how the committees work in Congress, but naively I feel l
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by thmsths 3y ago
I appreciate your point about the cattle herding. But if we were to increase the numbers of Reps to stay in line with population growth we would need close to 1200 of them. Which in my opinion introduces more issues than it solves.
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by thmsths 3y ago
Thank you for your last point. That's my hunch too. I am more worried about unfair representation than "diluted representation".
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by thmsths 3y ago
I am certainly not saying Americans don't deserve representation. I am saying that when you're governing 330M people it becomes almost impossible to have proper representation. What good is it to add more Reps? So people can have
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by thmsths 3y ago
I keep hearing this, and I think a charitable explanation is that scaling government becomes really hard past a certain point. I would argue that 435 Representatives is already too much. Humans can only keep track of around 100 people. With
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by thmsths 3y ago
I thought there was something like that already (although much softer), if a company is deemed H1B dependent any additional application for an H1B becomes harder.
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by thmsths 3y ago
While it was a really funny scene in the movie, I always assumed that on top of being cruel this seems like a dangerous way to handle the issue. Looks like a pretty easy wrongful termination lawsuit here. Especially if Milton keeps showing
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by thmsths 3y ago
Very naive question: why did Federal law enforcement not get involved?
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by thmsths 3y ago
Fair point on the advertising. Perhaps a good compromise would be to mandate displaying the price with the taxes included in store/on the website so what you see is what you get when you checkout with no bad surprises.
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by thmsths 3y ago
I am glad you shared that link. I always wondered if we could just use plasma to get rid of waste. I figured it would be technically possible but prohibitively expensive, so I am happy to see the economics work out in some use cases. Skimmi
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by thmsths 3y ago
How can they reasonably expect you to pay in these circumstances? They were clear about wanting payment upfront, you agreed to the price, (presumably) paid them, received the service/treatment. That should be the end of the story. What
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by thmsths 3y ago
And yet we make the wealth tax work for the middle class. For most people in the middle class, their house is most of their net worth and states/counties will tax that asset around 1/2% per year. But when someone has Billions in s
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by thmsths 3y ago
Every time the subject of credit card rewards and the associated credit card fees come up, there is a suggestion that maybe this is a hidden and unfair tax on the economy that we ought to eliminate. This is arguably a fair point. But in pra
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by thmsths 3y ago
We can also look at which is the most dangerous to pedestrians (probably the car by a wide margin), or even which is the most dangerous when not ridden/in use. For that last point I would expect the horse to be the most dangerous, whil
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by thmsths 3y ago
I think so too. Motorcycles are the closest thing we have to a very fast horse and according to [1] they are 35 times more likely to result in a fatal crash than a car. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_saf
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by thmsths 3y ago
So cars are roughly 10 times safer than riding horses? And that's without accounting for the difference in distance travelled. The number of injuries for the car are staggeringly high because of how common they are. I bet if we enacted
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by thmsths 3y ago
What I can't comprehend is the scale of the failure of the justice system here. Unless I am mistaken there were hundreds of victims over more than a decade. So 700 trials, in which the judges and the juries failed these people. How can
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by thmsths 3y ago
I am not even sure why CNN bothered converting. Large coke bottles are 2L in the US, I am sure the average reader can grasp 1.5L.
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by thmsths 3y ago
This may be a dumb question, but how do grocery stores store the dry ice they intend to sell? This stuff has to be kept very cold to prevent it from sublimating. Do they just keep it in an insulated box with a vent and just accept that they
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by thmsths 3y ago
I did not know about these systems, thanks for enlightening me. Now I am a bit jealous my own country (France) does not have anything like this (as far as I know).
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by thmsths 3y ago
I am European too and while we have better payment systems than in the US it's far from perfect. If you're referring to a SEPA transfer it is at least an order of magnitude more friction than handing over cash to someone.
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by thmsths 3y ago
What I find really unfair in these situation is that the government is banning something but not really offering any alternative. There are plenty of transactions where using large amounts of cash is perfectly legitimate and the best option
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by thmsths 3y ago
And these garbage men used to have a decent job with good benefits and a salary that was enough to support a family. Contrast that to the people picking up the garbage bags in the hallways that are probably gig workers.
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by thmsths 3y ago
Foundation is an interesting case because while the parts they adapted from the books are atrocious, the original story line about the three emperors is pretty good. It feels like the writers simply wanted to do their own show but were cons
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by thmsths 3y ago
That would still help those regions too, a lot of coastal cities get their water from quite far away, if they can become self sufficient through desalination, that's more water available for other regions.
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by thmsths 3y ago
Nobody uses an app at the gas station because that process was invented long before the smartphone craze and people have gotten used to it. I am pretty sure that if ICE cars were only coming to market now, the gas stations would ask you to
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by thmsths 3y ago
And in an ideal world that would be no big deal. Indeed when I buy alcohol at the liquor store the cashier does a brief check of the ID and inputs the DOB in his terminal. There is a good precedent for using my ID to check my age. But I hav
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by thmsths 3y ago
I am hoping for exactly the same. But sometimes I wonder if I am just being naive and forgot to account for some factors.
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by thmsths 3y ago
I read it recently too and I was actually impressed by how well he described the atmosphere of the quarantine. It made me wonder if he actually lived through one.

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