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by vlehto 11y ago
Wooden houses and roofs have been built for long time. I'd be more worried about leaking plumbing. If you bring piece of wood indoors and let it dry, it's water content will drop to about ~17%. If you take it outside and hang it s
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by vlehto 11y ago
This was my first thought too. MBTI is not considered "scientific", by psychologists. But r/ENTP in reddit is filled with people who seem to suffer from extreme novelty addiction. Other possibility would be ADHD or some weird
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by vlehto 11y ago
John Gruber from Daring fireball is known Apple fanboy. I'm aiming to bee known word-count-dude. This is 2701 words of Apple apologia. For freaking battery case. That's funny, but it's also signal that we are not really talki
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by vlehto 11y ago
Actually first thing seems to be lots and lots of greenhouses. Food production currently relies on relatively stable and predictable weather. The one certain thing climate change is going to do is make weather unpredictable. Bunker for you
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I'm gonna claim that nothing would change if we would get rid of capitalism, but politics remained the cesspool it is today. Politicians like power, money is just a form of power. Greed will find a way. On the other hand, with responsi
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by vlehto 11y ago
The VW scam was actually better for climate. Their engines released less CO2 and more NOx as a trade off. NOx is bad for humans and has slight cooling effect. CO2 is not dangerous and has heating effect. "Less polluting" can mean
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by vlehto 11y ago
What portion of companies should be cooperatives of public for economy to be free market socialism?
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I'd like to point out, that 2 kilowatts is the power AK47 can give as output of kinetic energy when fired at full auto. If you look past the hype, lasers are far from ready.
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by vlehto 11y ago
Hunter-gatherer primitive communism is alive and well. It's called "family". At that scale it's easy to do business without money. Capitalism as in money, trade, loans and private property date back at least to ancient B
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by vlehto 11y ago
Governments already have their AI killer robots. It's called "military personnel" and "policemen". The increase of government lethality towards regular people should be somewhat minimal compared to current tech. Thi
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by vlehto 11y ago
Miniaturization is expensive. And you need some way to get to the victim that doesn't take years. This increases the cost too. Most people would be just "too cheap to kill".
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by vlehto 11y ago
You have point there. No ICE is really balanced, there are 16(?) different vibration modes and the best boxer 6 engines can deal with maybe 4 of them. I have pretty strong gut feeling that the 1st harmonic is more important than the 15 othe
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by vlehto 11y ago
Luckily there are physical limitations. There are practically two ways to arm a drone. Bombs and guns. A small flying drone operating an 9mm pistol has extremely poor accuracy. Especially with multiple shots. If you increase the accuracy, y
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by vlehto 11y ago
Four cylinders is inherently more balanced than three. Fatigue is the second worst killer of mechanisms, right after corrosion. Vibration causes fatigue. The best ideas to balance inherently unstable engine involve balancing axle. But even
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by vlehto 11y ago
>Three-cylinder engines have a tendency to rock backwards and forwards around the middle cylinder. Carmakers have come up with a number of ways to absorb the vibrations and make sure such engines don’t shake, rattle and roll. I'm sk
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by vlehto 11y ago
I skimmed some of the evidence there. Nothing seems to condemn the HCF industry as a whole. Some linked articles about it in Wall street journal and Financial Times are behind paywall. And even if HFC would be bad, it's not significant
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High frequency trading gets shat on frequently. It's stupid. This is only a tool that evens out price differences across geological distance. If someone buys significant amount of AAPL stock in New York, the price goes up in NY. Then s
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by vlehto 11y ago
This stuff seems very gender studies specific? Not that there is anything wrong with that.
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If you are talking about U.S. actually going into Syria, picking orphaned children and maimed people. Then fly them to U.S. proper, provide for them and educate them? I could not agree more. And if U.S. does this to lets say 10k people, EU
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by vlehto 11y ago
First of all, perceived lack of compassion and actual lack of compassion are two different things. Especially over the internet. Secondly, judging comments solely by perceived compassion is obviously going to bias the decisions. Things li
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Also housing, feeding and clothing people in EU right now creates pressure for refugees. Which means means people drowning in Mediterranean. Not taking incentives into account often results exacerbating the problem. Like in India children g
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by vlehto 11y ago
I find it deeply disturbing, that comment dealing with systemic problem is judged by apparent feelings of the commenter.
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This is common misconception probably coming from level flight situation. Commercial aircraft wings are made for adequate lift in takeoff and minimal drag in level flight. Which encourages building wings that generate all necessary lift in
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by vlehto 11y ago
It's also possible that in a study where you ask people "why you did it?" they don't tell the real reason. Significant part of violence could be motivated by emotion and then rationalized as the just thing to do. Either
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by vlehto 11y ago
I'd go bit further. Let's assume everybody agreed with the "Really try hard to not be a jerk!" and everybody would have 100% similar general picture of what is moral. Two people still interpret a situation from two point
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Didn't Sparta get taken down by Macedonia. Who in turn got taken down by Rome? Sparta existed for ~500 years. By that standard, we have extremely few dynasties who could be called "successful" these days. But I do agree that
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Women have tendency to value job security higher. Dealing with mainframes is probably kinda secure job. Dealing with personal computers seems very sensitive to economic fluctuations. Maybe women just kept doing what they have always done. A
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>By 1982, an estimated 621,000 home computers were in American households, at an average sales price of US$530. In a country of 220 million people. If we assume about 4 people could access a single computer, then 1,1% of population had a
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