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by vlehto 11y ago
But there is a risk of reverse Ikea effect. That happened to me. I bought a bed from Ikea, but it came incomplete. And it never was exactly as I wanted it. So I threw away most of the parts and made my own bed around few of the side boards.
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by vlehto 11y ago
As a Finn, those reasons don't seem too noble. Every economist and their dog agrees that Finland should lower cost of employing so we could get out of seven year long downturn. But unions have choke hold of this country. My opinion is
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by vlehto 11y ago
The psychology is the really hard part. I think it should mimic tried and true real life coins. The spychological cost is managed by having limited number of different coins available. And the value of coin is small, but meaninful enough to
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by vlehto 11y ago
In real life all things are seldom equal. In many cases less moving parts is more reliable. Thats if the parts we're there to give you more features. But sometimes they are there to give you more reliability. My favorite counter exampl
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In Finland they have envisioned somekind of transmitters to all cars that would signal if the car passes certain border close to Helsinki. This passing would cause 20 cent traffic payment to be billed from that driver. Costs of the system m
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by vlehto 11y ago
Sorry to nitpick, but it's not about "simplicity". It's mostly about lubrication and temperature gradients. Wear and fatigue have nothing to do with out brains ability to comprehend the system. But it's usually easi
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My bike has parts from several different companies. It has separate warranty for every part, insurance company doesn't mind anything and resale value doesn't differ from package deal. What's so different? In the example all a
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by vlehto 11y ago
But Samsung is still making profit. Samsung smartphone market share has been growing and Apple going down. No wonder you get fat profits for a while, if you overprice your products. But customers seem to be catching up.
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You are kind of conflicting yourself in your argument against modularization, by noting that different manufacturers already share major sub-assembly. The electric systems have been going towards bus-like approach with microcontrollers. Whi
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There are some "standards" like Ford Escort turned out to be in rally circles. But there is no Socket 7 of cars.
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by vlehto 11y ago
Nobody is arguing against radar altimeter, weather radar, gyrocompass and artificial horizon. I'm very doubtful that the actual autopilot has saved any lives. It's more likely to just allow captain to nap.
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>example of Apple and Nokia. Only Apple successfully built a broad customer experience and robust ecosystem. “You can become extinct when you only focus on the hardware,” he said. I'm pretty certain Nokia's problem was never fo
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by vlehto 11y ago
I'd like to respectfully disagree. Statements like that do come from lack of conscious definition of identity. Which for a nation is only possible if there is very strong emotional identity. Then there is no need. About 86% of Vietname
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by vlehto 11y ago
Best classes usually have multitude of manageable last nights at regular intervals. *Best as in most learning happens to the majority of students.
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by vlehto 11y ago
This goes to bit of tangent: "In my opinion, we are, unfortunately, a people who define ourselves not by who we are but by who we are not." That's the only recipe of identity that I'm aware of. Personal identity seems to
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by vlehto 11y ago
In the military, there are three options. 1. You know you fucked up and you are going to get shouted at. 2. You did something forbidden and you might get shouted at if you get caught. 3. You did something OK, still got shouted at and now yo
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by vlehto 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiment_%28website%29 This sounds like excellent idea.
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There seems to be sex divide coming in future social media. And I can't blame them. Girls need some girl time, boys need some boy time.
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by vlehto 11y ago
Yeah, that is only easy reason I can imagine. You can cross the wood grain and turn it into "veneer". That would quickly average out natural wood grain out of it. But you can't cross the glue planes. Now if you scale that up,
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by vlehto 11y ago
It's would be very good guess, but that problem occurs with small scale wood too.
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by vlehto 11y ago
That's wrong too in a way. Projections are always compromises. I prefer waterman butterfly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterman_butterfly_projection#...
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by vlehto 11y ago
From the article: >The declining birth rate elsewhere has brought the world to the verge of what Hans Rosling, a Swedish demographer, calls “peak child” But then: >The revision of population predictions for Africa partly reflects the
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by vlehto 11y ago
It was probably more about vaccinations. Vaccinations in Africa started around WWII and that's also when the population started to climb.
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by vlehto 11y ago
I'd like to nitpick a little. I'm bit of history buff and weapons buff and as a result military history buff. "Lethality" of weapon could be defined in many ways. You could claim that lethality has not increased signific
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by vlehto 11y ago
I've got a tough one for you. Some guys from material science lab claimed that with massive wooden structures the strength doesn't scale when size goes up. But they were unable to explain why. They just claimed that welded steel i
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by vlehto 11y ago
Old adage of construction, if you think "but how could this ever get wet?" you're fucked. Everything will get wet at some point, so everything has to be self drying. The plastic film stuff has been tested pretty well for curr
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by vlehto 11y ago
You have good points. My only counter point is that rescuing people from ruble is easier if there are not much fires around.
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Historically the fires have been often even more hazardous than the quakes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake#... Something like 30% wood might be the best. But it creates interesting problem,
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I'm bit worried with this getting too popular, because of fire safety. Fire safety of a material is about two things: Fire load(kJ) and fire-resistance(hours). Wood increases fire load, but it has surprisingly good fire-resistance. Be
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by vlehto 11y ago
Reinforced concrete is not that good either. The best floors are made so that you have separate floor and ceiling and some foam in between. It's called "floating floor". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floa

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