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by vlehto 10y ago
Hopefully it's not enforceable.
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by vlehto 10y ago
I'm expecting anti-tank weaponry being sent to Myanmar by U.S. The bay of Bengal can't be shut down like china seas.
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by vlehto 10y ago
Sounds absolutely perfect idea for Eraknoplans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_vehicle Typically these vehicles have 4X as much engine power for liftoff as they need for cruising. The reason is high water
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by vlehto 10y ago
Some of the most productive varieties of traditionally bred plants are sterile already. Patent laws are completely different set of problems. They don't necessarily need to have anything to do with GMO as process.
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by vlehto 10y ago
Patenting and privatizing is different from GMO itself. Food surplus means nothing if it can't be distributed reliably . It matters nothing if you can spread food nice and even in 2017 if we get famines in 2018. Transporting and tradi
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by vlehto 10y ago
So the only thing we can anymore effectively do to racism is to take children to foster care? Alternatively we just accept the current levels. Maybe express disappointment on Facebook.
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by vlehto 10y ago
In Aalto Uni there is popular legend about Erwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwise I don't know what to believe.
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by vlehto 10y ago
Legal racism has been dealt with and schools teach students that racism is bad all over the west. Apparently this is not enough as there is this fuss about racism in the western world. If we go further fighting racism, what are those effect
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by vlehto 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-to-air_missile I know the train of thought. Once I spent hour thinking of "design dirt" that sticks to machine parts and protects them from real dirt and oxidation. Then
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by vlehto 10y ago
Or missile. There is terrific range advantage if you only fly half of the round trip.
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by vlehto 10y ago
I'm not gulf war specialist, but most recent analysis predicts pretty consistently that if you pit decent to great pilots in F35 vs F35 with similar missiles, you get mutual kill every time. Same goes for any single plane that has BVR
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by vlehto 10y ago
I've wondered for some time this weird logic of accusing someone from "populism". It's two things in one package: 1. Admitting that your opponent is better at rhetoric. 2. Accusing his voters for stupidity. Neither of th
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by vlehto 10y ago
Scapegoat? (Ironically term with Jewish origin.) If this scapegoating phenomena is somehow built in feature of human beings, what/who would be the healthiest possible target for it? If it's not built in feature, how can it be erad
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by vlehto 10y ago
"New Zealand's crime statistics are compounded by the over-representation of Māori. Though Maori make up only 12.5% of the general population aged 15 and over,[28] 42% of all criminal apprehensions involve a person identifying as
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by vlehto 10y ago
There has to be some reason for Xenophobia. Plain "stupidity" might allow it, but doesn't explain it completely. This is global phenomena that has occurred over and over again for at least two millennia across all cultures. W
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by vlehto 10y ago
"UK's image to the rest of the world" British tourists have already ruined it. For anybody who is consistently anti-imperialist, Scotland breaking of UK is just cherry on top of the cake.
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by vlehto 10y ago
"anti-EU sentiments running high in eastern Europe, Scandinavia and France." "Greater Germany" all over again? Makes perfect sense actually.
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by vlehto 10y ago
Nah. It has almost all the problems of Wankel. Low torque, difficult sealing, weirdly shaped expansion chamber (where part of the burn happens at high RPM, this might get you impurities in the burn). This seems to be kinda "sleeve valv
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by vlehto 10y ago
The gyroscopic effect makes you lose energy only if you turn. Of course you turn a little all the time while cycling.
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by vlehto 10y ago
Bunch of small racially homogenic nation-states with relatively even income distribution vs. large country where racial and very poor minority shoots itself. Latter also has gang culture. Something most Europeans only see in movies and foot
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by vlehto 10y ago
The reason for that increased reliability is probably because of pump pressure, not controls. Direct injection has several hundred bar working pressure and a separate filter can be used because of such pressure. Traditional float controlled
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by vlehto 10y ago
You can't do airbags with analog electric launch?
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by vlehto 10y ago
I'm not OP, but with my car? The battery dies every winter, then nothing works. (diesel with hand crank for the win!) The break in alarm sometimes starts to blink the lights on its own. You have to do some "open the doors, lock th
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by vlehto 10y ago
This is HN, let's take the intelligent conversation up a notch: If we look at firearm homicide, there is ratio of legal guns used to kill people and illegal guns used to kill people. What ratio is the saturation point, after which you
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by vlehto 10y ago
Or why doesn't he look at India? Why didn't you ask about India? Or Sri Lanka. Or anything. You respond to his cherry picking by suggesting a different cherry picking.
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by vlehto 10y ago
DoD is not to actually going to do it often. It's preferable to have carriers based on both sides of continent anyhow. In defense in general, it's often lot more important to have capabilities and possibilities. Those alone can ac
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by vlehto 10y ago
The alternative is not that much better, Drake passage at the tip of south America is stormy and "only" 1000km across and very stormy. This makes it very difficult for carrier to safely operate aircraft. Which makes it difficult t
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by vlehto 10y ago
For anybody interested in geopolitics: the new canal is big enough for Nimitz and Ford class carriers. Cutting travel time from NY to LA from 17 days to 7 days. NY to Taiwan strait is now only ~14 days, previously ~20 days and LA Taiwan str
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by vlehto 10y ago
I actually studied one mind-numbing material science book with medieval swords in mind to keep interest. Seems like the vikings got it right with high carbon steel. The only good improvement to it would be boride or hard chrome coating. But
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by vlehto 10y ago
It's suprizingly poor for many things. We don't actually care about any single material property, we care about ratios. For structural component you want high tensile strenght, high stiffness, high toughness, low weight and low pr

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