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by vlehto 10y ago
Patents and sometimes books and old magazines. I like guns and I found "weird old gun concepts" book from local library.
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by vlehto 10y ago
I'm just reading Dawkings Selfish gene and it attacks pretty fiercely against "group selection". But I find it impossible idea that any part of human behaviour could be completely detached from genes. And especially weird if
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The good: Scifi demonstrates how outsider perspective is often valuable. The bad: Faster horse problem. You don't leard what people actually want or need. You learn what people might think they might want. For "new" ideas I l
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by vlehto 10y ago
Personally I read Leahy-Smith America Invents Act in completely opposed way. The old system was only used in U.S. and Canada. Which is pretty shitty thing for any patent system. Global coverage is beneficial on it's own right, both for
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I was born in 86
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S/He was just one integration off. Let's not be too harsh.
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I used to study construction engineering and now I work in construction. "Waterfall" is still in use and going strong. Applying that directly to coding seems bit stupid. I then swithed major to mechanical engineering, and there &q
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During WWII there was somewhat surprizigly unified ship classification and there was hardly any civillian submarines at the time. It was based on tonnage, speed and main gun calibre. Anything smaller than 1000 tons was a boat. Interwar Germ
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To me 90's top of the charts simply sounds more one dimensional and less skillfull than music before or after.
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I think all of these could be used to justify why music has gotten better: 1. Only the most passionate musicians do it as a profession. 2. A producer doesn't have to chase that perfect accordion sound and manage to record it withouht d
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by vlehto 10y ago
Interesting how some themes changed completely. You would never expect to hear "ballad of green berets" as top song anymore. I think there is noticeable deterioration in music quality of the top hit during the past millenia. I gue
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Not really: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_battleship#Combat_Experie... In skirmish you can do the "dreadnought" thing: outgun anything smaller, outrun anything bigger than you. This was the idea behind c
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You do have choice to go completely against your government. If some unpopular dictator enacts draft, there is going to be loads of guerrilla fighters around. Because now they have to fight anyhow, why not fight for themselves.
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Construction is still mostly manual labor. Tech on that field has not kept up with progress of other fields. Add Baumols disease to the equation and you don't need "balance of power getting worse" to explain high house prices
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Maybe war is studied more as anomalies in diplomatic history? Add bit of geopolitics and economic history and you probably can get lot closer to the underlying reasons. Why did the winnig party win? Why did they use their wictory the way th
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>Nobody really has much incentive to innovate in this space because it's so niche. http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/industries/technology/publications/... Siemens makes CAD packages. Dassault too. A
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In rape cases about 1,5% proven guilty, about 1% proven false. But I guess ~97% failure rate can be considered OK in such situation?
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Flanged mace should be pretty decent too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_(weapon)#European_Middle_...
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No personal armor (so far) is good against blunt trauma. The reason for that is conservation of momentum. Blunt weapons often rely on large amount of momentum. Only thing you can do is to make the armor bouncy. So you can try to turn it int
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by vlehto 11y ago
...in the framework of your country. If you are U.S. citizen, you probably would prefer Obama over Enrique Peña Nieto. Personally as a Finn I like Sipilä and Niinistö over Putin. In a way any Finnish party head would suit me better than Put
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The reason why nobody has sortition, is because deep down democracy is about being as agreeable as possible to the median citizen. If you have vague feeling that you decided who is prime minister, you are more motivated to pay taxes and f
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by vlehto 11y ago
I did some ballpark calculations on the subject. You would need about 800kW laser to reach parity with M61 Vulcan autocannon. I compared how much you need to melt aluminum with how big volume dent you can make to steel with 20mm round trave
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by vlehto 11y ago
Iowa can be classified as very fast battleship or very large battle-cruiser. So in a way the concept was not discredited, but expanded. The battleships really didn't need more speed for line of battle. But Iowas needed speed to keep up
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by vlehto 11y ago
Being UAV has relatively little to do with anything. Background: Typical 4th generation fighter is about 20 tons. 5 tons fuel, 3 tons engines, 30% structures = 6 tons. 2 tons payload. ~400kg internal cannon with rounds and mount. Ton of avi
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If you have just one country, you have to accept that there is big likelihood that it's going to be shitty. End of the day you have fallible people in charge. If you have less cohesion among voters, then you have less cohesion among le
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by vlehto 11y ago
Economic immigrants who work are completely different breed than economic immigrants who come for unemployment benefits. Currently in Finland if you can ~800e/month from the government if you get asylum. That's not "rich&quot
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b-b-but I like unions and McJobs. I just don't like them having too much power. The crux here is that I'm a person. Union member is a person too, many of them probably would genuinely like UBI. As group they would probably not adm
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by vlehto 11y ago
I thought peer review and consensus should have nothing to do with each other. Peer review is about how solid the research is, no matter the results. (At least it should be.) Consensus is averaged educated guess of the experts in the field.
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"if we’re going to organise for a better world, we need to know who we’re organising against" Most vehemently against UBI are the trade unions. Their existence depends on unemployment being nasty ordeal. If unemployment was OKish,
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by vlehto 11y ago
As citizen of nordic country, I would rather kill some people than accept someone taking the independence of my nation. Our politicians are clowns, but they are our clowns. And they care about us lot more than EU clowns or U.S. clowns. So f

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