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by vlehto 8y ago
China could attack India via Myanmar. They already have military bases and naval bases there. Pakistan does not have even puppet state as hindrance.
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by vlehto 8y ago
I've noticed that thing too. People are incredibly sensitive to assumptions. If you order someone to do X, they might, if you ask, the might. But assume that they will do X and you do it aloud, they more likely to do X than in any othe
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by vlehto 8y ago
Lead has infinite half life and it's very dangerous when ingested!
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by vlehto 8y ago
There is also more annoying version of this. Previously people with stupid ideas didn't get much practice in rhetorics. In live conversations you get demoralized very quickly when people don't respond in any way. Today people with
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by vlehto 8y ago
If soviet union would have done that to west Germany, they would have had full load of US made ICBM's raining on Moscow about one hour after first detonation. Nuclear weapons (like almost all military weapons) are about A. threatening
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by vlehto 8y ago
If advertising costs go down because of AI, then advertising prices will go down too. That money then goes somewhere else entirely, but anyhow gets spent. If there seems to be more money around for various causes than before, that looks to
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by vlehto 8y ago
I was cutting corners a bit. Here's more in depth: You can always read very accurate position with pneumatic actuators. You just can't keep it very accurately in place in dynamically loaded situation. You can also read the force o
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by vlehto 8y ago
Elastic materials are often avoided if you need either linear movement or accurate position control. Elastic materials are favored if you need shock absorption or no seal system. Both hydraulics and pneumatics suffer from incredibly shitty
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by vlehto 8y ago
Why would AI cause deflation?
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by vlehto 8y ago
Problem with that line of thinking is that it doesn't seem to lead to anywhere. Or am I missing something?
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by vlehto 8y ago
You have had some pretty good responses already. Few things adding to the number: Finnish municipalities often hire people with disabilities and pay them fraction of the pay a normal person would get. Then more specific to Helsinki: city of
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by vlehto 8y ago
I think you're onto something here. A person who graduates from technical program of good university, but then falls for the first Ponzi scheme and starts selling vacuum cleaners? Not very smart. It's like he has very good process
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by vlehto 8y ago
Do I detect sarcasm here? I'm pretty sure I detect sarcasm here.
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by vlehto 8y ago
I'm nitpicking, but there is not even a chance that this could be "science" with any coherent definitions of science and future. For example there is Karl Poppers falsification standard. Future is never falsifiable as long as
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by vlehto 8y ago
In Finland we have these things called "Pönötys" and "kursaileminen". I'm half kidding, but half serious. Pönötys means awkward formal standing when you are wearing a suit or can of beer, but don't know where t
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by vlehto 8y ago
Finns know that phrase. Just like Americans know the words "your majesty" despite not having any royals. Finns use it exactly in same way as American would say "your majesty". It would likely be a sarcastic remark coming
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by vlehto 8y ago
Are you sure that the stacking height is driving the tare weight? I would guess that it could be retaining longitudinal stiffness even after some corrosion. Also theft protection is driving the material selection more than anything else.
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by vlehto 8y ago
You don't get many good carpenters out of unemployed truck drivers. Good carpenters are born to be good carpenters. That's the problem with most difficult to automate jobs that don't require college degree. They sound like an
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by vlehto 8y ago
...responsibility of Chinese state to adopt capitalist strategies of generating wealth. Thats the big thing they did different from soviet union. Everything else they do is pretty run of the mill geopolitical selfishness.
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by vlehto 8y ago
Maybe Orwell was just social democrat later on. I read "why I write" and Orwell was for equality and against aristocratic two tier society. It's a stretch to conclude anything further, as he even supported Churchill's wa
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by vlehto 8y ago
I'm clearly somehow not communicating my stuff well enough. I'm not into dividing people into categories by IQ. I'm frustrated how people use their limited resource of attention.
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by vlehto 8y ago
What bothers me more than anything in that article is superficially smart people pouring all of their concentration onto stupidity of obviously stupid people. With my university educated 25 - 35-year-old social circle, I can easily generate
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by vlehto 8y ago
Patents last 20 years only if you keep paying the maintenance fees. Edit: Here's and idea: The yearly fees for copyrights ought to be something like X = years from publication, fee is X^X. So the first year would cost a dollar and the
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by vlehto 8y ago
You're right. Money doesn't flow too easily from the most rich to the most poor without government intervention. But state finance is separate issue from that. And money flowing to the most poor would not do much to state finance,
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by vlehto 8y ago
Puerto Rico now has rich consumers who pay the salaries of poor Puerto Ricans. Who then pay income tax. Small slice from a big pie is better than big slice from non-existent pie.
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by vlehto 8y ago
It's weird how easy it is to be shitty manager. If someone is otherwise excellent, but blames you for stuff you didn't do? Instantly shitty manager there.
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by vlehto 8y ago
That would be "word" in finnish
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by vlehto 8y ago
That was interesting, thanks. But you might be pleased that the most modern system at least in Finland actually has little of the same features than the romans had. If you look at the same membrane I posted earlier, it has little knobs that
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by vlehto 8y ago
Sounds like the water comes just from capillary action. That is very good situation compared to actual ground water pressure pushing moisture through the walls. You should be good if you keep there good ventilation and avoid putting any woo
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by vlehto 8y ago
Would not be the first time saving lives ends up being less important than avoiding responsibility. So I agree on your prediction.

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