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by vlehto 11y ago
My perception is that parks, walkways, fences etc have gotten better. Even bridges are getting beautiful again. It's houses that seem to go downhill. But not single family houses, only bigger buildings.
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by vlehto 11y ago
It's international thing. One of the original breeds of modernist architecture was even named "international style". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Style_%28archite... I have a theory why it
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by vlehto 11y ago
Depends a lot. If you can just install prefabricated elements large elements, steel is not that expensive. On the other hand every brick has to be laid by hand. Good bricklayers are scarce because brick has not been in fashion. And therefor
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by vlehto 11y ago
I don't really disagree. But copper and mortar plumbing from 1915 might not be shabby at all.
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by vlehto 11y ago
The only reasonable way to monetize twitter is to find someone who is already making money out of it. Then get a slice of that pie. They still make a profit, so you aren't wiping out nodes. I think there are two groups doing making som
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by vlehto 11y ago
Not really.. I had kind of error there. It's still often toughness when you wish to study how material reacts to sudden increases in (kinetic)energy. Fracture toughness describes relation between maximum tension and maximum depth of pr
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by vlehto 11y ago
I think the real cut is not responsibility per se. The problem is that the work "Engineer" means both a degree and profession at the same time. Witch was fine when there was lots of overlap. But degrees and responsibilities are of
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by vlehto 11y ago
"Designer" Architecht is crossbreed between civil engineer and an artist. "Software architecht" should logically be front end designer/manager.
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by vlehto 11y ago
"We give you money, but you spend it like we tell you. Now we need a report that tells this thing X is good." Good for scientists is not necessarily good for science.
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by vlehto 11y ago
There is always some kind of "evidence" for vote rigging. How about Egypt? Turkey? You don't vote Muslim brotherhood into power while thinking they maintain democracy. German federal election, March 1933, over 50% of populati
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I don't need 400 arguments. I need single good one.
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by vlehto 11y ago
Tempered laminated exists. But I can't find anything about it being used in car windshields. My bad, sorry. The way I would do it would be chemical tempering before laminating. Then you probably have lot less warping.
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by vlehto 11y ago
Good catch. :) I was thinking about Judith Butler. Philosophist, gender theorist and published author. I read her "Gender Trouble" to a bout halfway. It occurred to me that she might not really recognize that some women might be g
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by vlehto 11y ago
You have ingested different propaganda than I have. My GF studies plant pathology and is most worried about people religiously opposing GM.
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According to Marx, everything of value is produced by human. Some humans (like engineers and programmers) can just produce more valuable stuff than others. If we believe Marx and that jobs are going to disappear, that requires either rich p
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by vlehto 11y ago
The alternative is the Nordic model! Subsidizing farmers so heavily that even our socialist welfare pales in comparison. Here 50% of farms make 80% of produce. The rest just keep the land from accommodating wildlife.
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by vlehto 11y ago
I'd guess we see tractors as the first step. They typically drive so slow the controller only needs to have stop button. If a farmer could simultaneously monitor just 4 tractors, you could make tractors half the size while having twice
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by vlehto 11y ago
>2. Ability to model other people as having really different mind-designs I got recently very good lesson about this while learning about MBTI.[1] It's really not too scientifically rigorous model. But it shows you how some people c
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by vlehto 11y ago
I think it's typical for people to divide other people into two categories. The ones who function just like me, and enemies who are nothing like me. You find that phenomena in surprising places. I'd claim that nobody is completely
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by vlehto 11y ago
It's called "cognitive dissonance". If someone passionately disagrees with you, accusing him of cognitive dissonance works always . So you can assume high ground by being right and being capable of seeing the motivations of
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by vlehto 11y ago
But where does he end up with the "primitive cultures"? To me it looks like it was just imaginary concept used as a tool. Once you understand that development of cognitive abilities are related to environment and that they are not
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by vlehto 11y ago
Interesting. The biggest problem would have been making those gates completely watertight. The design on the video cannot be that.
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by vlehto 11y ago
I thought windshields are tempered and laminated. Not that it significantly changes what you said. Just explains why occasional shards flying away from windshields are not that sharp.
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by vlehto 11y ago
Glass has density of ~2,5 kg/liter. It's made of silica, that has density of ~2,6. This has about 50% of Alumina in it with typical density of ~4. So it's likely it would be around 3,3. More than aluminum, less than titanium.
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by vlehto 11y ago
Yes. That's the reason why it was unpopular to rise it further. But it would still have been the only logical action. It would have fought congestion, as idle running would have been more expensive. It would have encouraged to buy less
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>CO2 is specifically regulated in Europe, separately from fuel consumption It's a joke. They should have increased fuel taxes. But that was too unpopular, so we have mess of regulations. As a result you either want to have new car w
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>One could argue—and not with pride, but deep unease—that global dominance was, if not the only, then an essential ingredient to reducing domestic inequality. History keeps repeating itself. Usually any civil rights have come with the ex
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by vlehto 11y ago
You might find it interesting that toughness and "won't shatter when dropped" are different things. Toughness(G) = slowly absorb energy without fracture. Shattering is more dependable of: Fracture toughness(Kc) = (E*G)^0,5 Wh
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You don't make wind turbine pylons or blades on assembly line either. You don't install solar panels to rooftops by assembly line. If nuclear gets enough momentum, large portion of the parts can be produced on assembly line too. B
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>You can build a lot of PVs and turbines in the same amount of time, and place them closer to where they're being used (reduce transmission loss). You can also place them on top of buildings (reduces AC load by 2%) and on top of par

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