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by tropo 8y ago
One of the truly awful things about SimCity was that transit was unrealistically beneficial. It was some sort of awful joke, the sort you might roll your eyes at and say "oh brother, this is idiotic". It felt like somebody was pus
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by tropo 8y ago
If you do add those things, please don't give them magical benefits. Transit should be outrageously expensive to add. (see the recent subway expansion in New York and in San Francisco) It should be outrageously expensive to operate. Tr
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by tropo 8y ago
I recall the story was that the codes were turned over because some ships had been sunk. That fits. You got the codes late.
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by tropo 8y ago
Doesn't China already have democracy? It appears to, despite two unusual attributes: 1. Only one party is permitted, effectively making that party a part of the government and thus being equivalent to banning parties. 2. You have to be
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by tropo 8y ago
You realize that this and worse (actual death penalty for the wrong religion) is quite common, right? All across northern Africa and southern Asia, particularly where they meet around the Middle East, it is totally normal to take far more e
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by tropo 8y ago
The USA did something about that prison population just yesterday, signing the FIRST STEP Act. Full transcript of announcement: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-pres... Partial video included wit
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by tropo 8y ago
They would have a remote disable ability because the advanced nation making them is hesitant to fully trust the less-advanced nation buying them. You should assume that every weapons system that is on the international market has such codes
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by tropo 8y ago
Employees get their wages. They must be paid the market rate no matter if the business is profitable or not. If they aren't paid that, they leave. The business can't force employees to stay and work for less, even if the business
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by tropo 8y ago
Stigma isn't all bad. It's a motivating factor. Decades ago, the norm was to post grades on the wall for all to see. We lost a lot of motivation when we got rid of that.
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by tropo 8y ago
The problem is hinted at here: "equity meant providing all students equal access" What they are saying is that they refused to keep unqualified students out of the advanced classes. Keeping those students out would have exposed th
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by tropo 8y ago
No, partial differential equations would be the fourth semester. Calculus I is differentiation. Calculus II is integration. Calculus III is vector calculus, with stuff like curvature in 3 dimensions. Differential Equations would be the next
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by tropo 8y ago
No, "fair" is more like a lack of fraud or coercion. It means that you get what you can manage without those, which is generally the market rate. You may be able to trade off pay, safety, respect, and hours. (give up some of one t
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by tropo 8y ago
The implementation was botched, but the idea was fine. You need good quality tests that aren't supplied by book publishers. Ideally you'd test anything, but if tests are unavailable for a particular subject then you have to mandat
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by tropo 8y ago
That would fit nicely with dark matter being perfectly ordinary stuff like chunks of rock that happens to be difficult to observe from afar.
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by tropo 8y ago
I reach the opposite conclusion from your article. It is clear that a single GAU-8 shell to undamaged frontal armor will not cause serious damage. Everything else points to the A-10 being highly effective. Since we don't get to fire at
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by tropo 8y ago
Suggestion: real tools for sewing. Cooking is good too, but she can probably already borrow those tools.
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by tropo 8y ago
No, but cost probably does. There have been a number of satellites flown (GOCE, GRACE, SLATS) with the sort of equipment you'd need. With that equipment, simply measure the strength of gravity in multiple parts of the plane. This gets
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by tropo 8y ago
I think that image shows plenty of room. Remember that the tires don't count, because those would be farther away from the wing. There are other height issues with ground support equipment for luggage, fuel, passengers, maid service, s
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by tropo 8y ago
The engineers were busy with the 777 and 787.
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by tropo 8y ago
A whistleblower wouldn't change anything. The reasoning behind the choices is obvious, and it isn't illegal.
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by tropo 8y ago
Notable clearance rejection decisions you might enjoy reading: 1. There was a man who loved his dog in a way that one is not supposed to love a dog. 2. There were a couple people who liked crotch ventilation while riding around on a motorcy
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by tropo 8y ago
Yes, well, it is rather impossible to friend him at this point, not that I have a Facebook account anyway. That walled garden is rather unfriendly to those of us who dislike having Facebook analyze our lives. If you have the where/how&
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by tropo 8y ago
Him on SoylentNews: https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford/journal/ Him on HackerNews, shadowbanned it seems: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MichaelCrawford How and where did he kill
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by tropo 8y ago
I think the 1973 oil crisis and the 1979 oil crisis both count as hard times. You seem to wish that the Boomers would vote for a self-inflicted oil crisis. It's also hard to keep the lower class employed with a living wage if low-cost
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by tropo 8y ago
If you take "good at their job" to mean "sexually attractive and flirtatious", sure. I'm not pleased that this is nearly a job requirement for waitstaff, but that is what tipping gets us.
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by tropo 8y ago
Consider the possibility that they are wiser, having been through some hard times, and might like to leave a functioning economy for the younger generations.
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by tropo 8y ago
This is Japan . Nobody is likely to have sex at all, or to do anything that is banned. If "allure of forbidden fruit" would actually work though, setting the age of consent to 120 might just be what Japan needs.
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by tropo 8y ago
A swift change in the gun laws is very interesting when you know more of the story. At the first mosque, somebody ran to get a gun for defense. They dissuaded the attacker, firing a couple shots at him, sending him fleeing. With different g
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by tropo 8y ago
Yes, it's really quite a vile racket they have going on there, making people do a BS that is 60% to 80% useless filler gunk. I could understand stating that instructors will not slow down for unprepared students, and that people with a
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by tropo 8y ago
It is somewhat practical if there is no opportunity cost, but there is an opportunity cost. Four years of a normal class is nothing. If you devote 4 hours per day for a decade, sure... but that is a lot of time that could be better used for

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