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by vlehto 11y ago
I believe the point was that usually every foreign intelligence agency plays exactly as nasty game as diplomacy allows. As we are living the era of U.S. hegemony, we can assume CIA is playing as nasty as humanly possible. So the news in thi
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When computers was relatively new to me, I used to suspect naked domains of phishing. So there's that.
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>How? It's unlikely that one would be corrupt against ones squad members. So as squad member, you only have to worry about corruption of outside shit. People who affect you and are not member of same in-group are the problem from an
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by vlehto 11y ago
The "egalitarianism of sexes and races" is based on bible. West didn't agree on many single issues, but for couple millenia west agreed on bible as moral authority. In the future if there is something that deviates west from
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I don't really care if religions didn't create moral frameworks. The point is that a religion can justify one. "Why can't I kill Joe, he is an asshole! - Because God said murder is wrong." Philosophy might be able t
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by vlehto 11y ago
Problem here is that we don't have "scientific" viable moral framework. Western values are built on the fading influences of Catholicism and Protestantism, neither is coming back. Utilitarianism has been trying to break into
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So that you are lifting with 90 - 100% of your strength. Then you are developing your strength. I try to stay away from the 100% end by always gradually working my way up there. "warm up with weights"
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For small enough organization that "loyalty uber alles" prevents corruption. What is small enough? For a military company it's around Dunbar number. Squad that actually works together on single issue is often optimal around 8
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by vlehto 11y ago
Quick, hurry. You can listen through 65 years of pop music made so far. Then, if you live 80 years, you only lose about 45,8% of all pop-music you could have heard during your lifetime. That's not half bad. If you include some blues, j
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Mechanical engineering is my field and the first two paragraphs would be hebrew to me without a good drawing.
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Aluminum, magnesium and austenitic stainless steel are also non-magnetic. But they also have worse strenght/weight ratio than titanium. All of the above are difficult to weld. This increasest the cost, which means fewer subs. So curren
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Not really good reasons. It's just difficult to find them in Finland. All available shafts and chucks are about 30e individually. You can buy decent looking electric drill with that same 60e, so it sounds like ripoff. Meanwhile any yan
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Thanks for trying. 20$ shipping for 30$ tool, while they are mostly two jaw versions. So it's 50$ for something that might be crap and at very least would require me to hunt for vintage set of drill bits. Despite the fact that I alread
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by vlehto 11y ago
I slightly disagree. About half of the creative people with math knack can't code. When I was in high school, the advanced math class had ~two types of people. People good at arithmetics and functions and people good at geometry and fu
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by vlehto 11y ago
>Hand braces have remained in use ever since, although they can be difficult to find today. As bushcraft enthusiast/scout located in a Nordic country, this would be ideal. During a week long camp you might not be able to charge your
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by vlehto 11y ago
Personally I'm waiting for the moment when someone notices that you can burn pretty much anything in fuel cell. Then long distance travel could be fueled with vegetable oil or biowaste extracted methane. Once you step away from hydroge
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>>Each car is designed around the battery since it's such a large piece of the car. This is not exactly true. Battery is heavy piece, so it has to be low for low center of gravity. The bottom mount is going to happen anyhow. Tesl
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I think the best situation would be formation of W3C of car batteries. Then they could design a limited set of interfaces. The thing we need is not specific implementation of technology, but somewhat boring specification to work between tec
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by vlehto 11y ago
Good electric car battery standard would solve almost all of the problems of electric cars. 1. The battery is where most development happens and where it's most needed. So you don't have to worry about your car getting too old too
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by vlehto 11y ago
This is one of those "listen to your body" things I'm doing. I've done pretty physical construction work during summers. Drinking 6L of water during the day in the process. After three weeks, sucking grains of sea salt t
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Some decades ago some architect said "why do we need a facade? Isn't it redundant?". Noww I can't find main entrances to buildings. Please stop this experiment.
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The point was that if you simply cut parking lots, the situation changes. Because then you need time for the "hunt a parking lot" while busses start to be on time as congestion decreases. In Helsinki, especially before 550, certai
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by vlehto 11y ago
Helsinki: with bus and train 45min to work. It's a lot, but it's never more than hour. By car? 30 minute drive because of the congestion. Then I either hunt 15 - 30 minutes for parking lot or pay 170 eur/month in a close by c
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by vlehto 11y ago
The interesting question here is why you have that attitude? And why you are passionate enough to write it down as comment?
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Death years of these guys: Maxwell (1879), Darwin (1882), Newton (1727), Mendeleev (1907). So it seems he was right. We have been just applying the science of the giants for the past 122 years.
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Nobody ever gave shit about territory itself. Just that economic power used to come mostly from arable land. War has not gone away. We just happen to live an age of global hegemony, so it seems distant right now.
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Country is essentially a political tool. Historically borders have been drawn so that tax collection and defense is easy. There is no reason to assume anything else for the future. With rising costs of defense tech and automation allowing s
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"A mirror much larger than eight meters, made of a single piece of glass, would be too expensive and too hard to handle." Glass was used 20 years ago because it has favorable stiffness to weight ratio. Change to carbon fiber was s
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You could tax big incomes in excess of 50%. Give them low inflation, no inheritance tax and pour all that extra money to defense. Congrats, you have fixed the position of a rich caste.
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by vlehto 11y ago
May I present you Wiio laws of communication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiio%27s_laws

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