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by vlehto 11y ago
I don't know about postwar planes, but at least some of the WWII war birds had notoriously poor seat adjustments. For example BF-109 had a seat that doubled as armored fuel tank. It's bit tricky to add adjustments to such heavy pi
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by vlehto 11y ago
Ah the good old "national socialism". It worked good for Nazis for a short while. But I don't think we have no long term data? Francoist Spain suffered from trade restrictions and Baathist countries used to benefit "unfa
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by vlehto 11y ago
I've been wondering if stuff like this was the reason for initial growth spur of soviet union. It was easy for Lenin to see in 1923 that the country needed steel, food, housing and railroads. If you just churn out that stuff, you can&#
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by vlehto 11y ago
Currently larger percentage or countries are democratic than ever before. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Number_o... Smaller percentage or world population is malnourished than ever
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by vlehto 11y ago
That's kinda weird thing really. In science the probability for a given theory to be true is usually not very important. Usually you operate with the best guess that you have, or best guesses that you have. Until shit gets proven. You
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by vlehto 11y ago
I'd like to point out that there are three possible stances on a phenomena. True, false and we don't know. People are bad at maintaining the "I don't know" stance. But it's sometimes the only objective.
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by vlehto 11y ago
I'm very skeptical of the "liquidmorphium" frame. For phone frame I would wan't high scratch resistance and high toughness. Especially high toughness, so it doesn't shatter on impact. Liquid metals are high strength
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by vlehto 11y ago
In large scale I'd agree that only using vegetable oil for car fuel seems like bad idea, because we seem to be running out of food at that point. But using electricity conversed to hydrogen with relatively bad efficiency (70%) we are s
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by vlehto 11y ago
Almond milk is not happy cow. Almond milk is no cow.
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by vlehto 11y ago
I think Vegetable Oil Fuel Cells are the future of the automotive world. No range limitations exist now. Adapting infra is like adapting new grade of gasoline. Now chronic fuel leakage exists now. Filling the tank is not rocket science. No
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by vlehto 11y ago
I've worked in construction and I use a Nokia dumbphone. The reason for it is that I need to answer calls quickly while at work. So the phone has to be in a pocket close by. And it's likely that most pockets "close by" a
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by vlehto 11y ago
I'd claim that you don't even need prior art for this stuff to not be enforceable patent. If specialist on the field thinks about shooting an arrow to human being and not injuring him/her, that technical solution they have is
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by vlehto 11y ago
Good points. I guess I was overly sensational. But anyhow just the capability to kill satellites would mean increased tension between the nuclear superpowers.
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by vlehto 11y ago
Missile sub main point is to be second strike. GPS was created because US sub fleet was so inaccurate. Though Russian missile subs worked without such positioning, so they would probably still mean business.
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by vlehto 11y ago
GPS was created for U.S. nuclear subs. The problem is about knowing where the sub exactly surfaces, because after launch, the trajectory is ballistic. Subs have very good inertial navigation, but the accuracy deteriorates with time and move
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by vlehto 11y ago
If USSR would get capability to kill GPS satellites, U.S. nuclear subs could not target their missiles anymore. The rest of U.S. nuclear arsenal is in B2 bombers in known airfields and ICBM's in known silos. So by using their ICBM&#x27
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by vlehto 11y ago
Big data analysis + mass surveillance is just more efficient than previous methods. Let's imagine: 1. citizens have right to fair trial 2. terrorist hunting is not done by police, but by military intelligence organization that cannot a
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by vlehto 11y ago
I would not wan't to ban smartphones from people who find them useful. But personally I don't track calories or training. I would not even with smartphone. I'm just way too incoherent person for that.
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by vlehto 11y ago
I'm not very much computer kind of guy. I've heard an argument "Strong AI will eventually happen because of Moore's law". Now is that bullshit, or can SSD and GPU improvements compensate?
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by vlehto 11y ago
>I don't own a smartphone, because it's a consumption device rather than both consumption and production, is just silly. So is a photoalbum, so is a book, so is a TV, so is a music player. I owned a smart-phone for a year. I di
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by vlehto 11y ago
Well given that large parts of south Asia and Africa are still medieval poor, I'm not going to assume much responsibility. You don't need to beat people into desperation in many places of the world. My great-great-great-great-grea
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by vlehto 11y ago
And the only alternative seems to be to swich the guys who get the money funnel. Or some other guys who get the money funnel. Or some other guys... Yup. Feeling pessimist now.
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by vlehto 11y ago
While pretty hideous sweashops do exist, there is still good chance that the person who sowed your jeans chose to do it. Because the alternative was even worse.
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by vlehto 11y ago
The essential difference between totalitarian state and military junta seems to be popular support. With junta, you can trust that almost nobody is loyal directly to the dictator, they just want money and stay alive. So you can bribe anybod
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by vlehto 11y ago
What parts are do you need? And made out of what material?
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by vlehto 11y ago
"The cost is much higher than a mass production case (likely 50-200+ times more expensive)" Mass production case has two advantages. Big batch size and insignificant cost of design/product. For the CAD-work I would pick someo
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by vlehto 11y ago
Studying mechanical engineering has made me more worried about flying..
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by vlehto 11y ago
>Given the recent developments in the Spratly's and Cam Ranh Bay, i think it is even more clear that the US, losses notwithstanding, gained much from the Vietnam Conflict. I don't understand. U.S. controls neither, Vietnam cont
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How so?
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by vlehto 11y ago
If computers/tablets finally actually "mature" as a technology, apple might have done the best possible thing ever. That used to be the Mercedes tactic. Make sturdy cars for the first half a century of your existence. Then co

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