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by yholio 6y ago
People don't cut the rainforest to produce palm oil. They cut it to make money and improve their livelihood in a political environment that places no value on rainforest. If palm oil prices drop tomorrow to zero, those people will beco
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Yes, you need to double the speed and construct an artificial trafic burst to notice a marginal increase in capacity that is strictly due to the increased delay (and storage capacity) of the slower road. That was my point. In practice trafi
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The capacity of a sufficiently long road section does not increase with speed because the safety distance must also increase with speed. A good rule of thumb is to keep a 2 second (or 3 second) distance between vehicles, and that means that
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> the cost to the nation of traffic arriving 5 minutes later? Traffic delays are dominated by congestion and road capacity does not increase with higher speeds. Once you hit the peak for that road section, trafic grinds. If, for example,
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Inattention is hard to measure and results in accidents that are made much worse by excessive speed, which is easy to measure. If the goal is to reduce overall traffic victims, then investing in speed control seems like the low hanging frui
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A similar issue exists with metal coolant reactors, which conceptually would be very simple, and would use proven technology, fuel rods and cladding and have similar or better operating characteristics to molten salt: low internal pressure,
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Well, half a second is quite gentle compared to ramming a fluid with a speed in the tens of m/s into a surging turbopump, especially one that is designed to minimize mass and exactly handle normal operating load and not more.
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Once you hit a propellant bubble, the combustion temperatures are the least of your worries. The turbines are designed to ramp up gently, work fully loaded and transfer the energy from the hot side to the liquid propellants; the power densi
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> the evidence points to repeatedly creating a dangerous situation (by them) What evidence is that? Have you gathered the data, performed a statistically significant analysis or can you point to one? Or perhaps you are inferring your co
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> In contrast, 44 police officers were shot and killed in 2019 in the US. Police in turn, killed about 999 people. At least about half of the victims were armed with guns* and it stands to reason that a peaceful and unarmed police would
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> What, this was so time-sensitive that we couldn't pick her up with a traffic stop when she was out of the house? It is standard operating procedure to catch online criminals in the act, with the computers booted, terminals unlock
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Yes, american gun culture has little to do with the background of the case: the alleged hacking, the perceived need for a raid etc. We can debate those points, but let's suppose for the sake of argument the cops had no idea if they dea
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> "going into dangerous situations" thing - plenty of professions get required to do that (paramedics, firemen) and manage to be both unarmed and not shoot people all the time. Firemen, in fact, take every precaution they can b
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American gun culture has little to do with this case. Cops behave like this because behind door number one there could be a guy with an assault rifle ready to take them down. In 99% of the cases there isn't, but if you do 100 of these
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Being very persistent and calm can go a long way when dealing with organizations in person: most customers, when confronted with a negative answer from a company representative will become irritated, frustrated and will want to terminate th
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The end game of such a strategy doesn't sound too bright. Recreational cocaine will be still ilegal in any other country and the internal and medical markets are not significant to the problem. So you are legalizing an export industry
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> an unprecedented moment in the history of cinema. I really disagree with calling it cinema. It's on the big screen and it's entertaining, in the same way a boxing or football match would be. People would cheer and enjoy those
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Opinions vary. We walked out of the cinema when cars starting traveling in reverse. Simply unwatchable, utter crap. For reference, I liked Interstellar very much. I'm almost sure it would have bombed in any year, in fact, because every
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Their major accomplishments were economic, not technological. Their crown jewel Raptor, applies full-flow staged combustion principles that were known and demonstrated on soviet test stands since the 60s. Fusion power still needs to overcom
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Reusable rockets were at "They most likely would work, but it's pointless since governments are willing to spend billions on rockets; in fact, lowering price to space would be very bad for our business". Compared to space tec
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To elaborate on this, the white marble statues decorating the Parthenon and Acropolis are believed to have been painted very bright colors in their day. Not a single one of those dazzling pigments survived exposed to the elements after a me
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DRAM is already commoditized for decades. Highly competitive and pushing prices and margins low, with occasional crises that allow some manufacturers to get a windfall. Apple has no interest to be in that market, unlike the CPU market, whic
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> I wouldn't be surprised to hear they make more from iOS users. So in that scenario, you think their response would be to kill alternate revenue streams they control, and become fully dependent to Apple? Google can make money off i
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Electron is not merely a HTML5 renderer for GUIs, though; it's a whole OS abstraction layer that translates native paradigms to a platform independent format that can be scripted. An Android subsystem would be exactly that, and more, w
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Monstrosities such as Electron ar the simptom of the problem, not it's solution. Competition in this context means that the end user is free to select any device from any manufacturer, and can expect his applications to run roughly in
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We badly need more competition in the OS space. Perhaps Android can become an open standard for application delivery, with commercial vendors and non-profits competing in providing runtime environments.
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It's absolutely clear that Canon made the camera work like this deliberately, to not canibalize their line of cinema cameras with a body intended for stills that is half the price. So yeah, it's a nice hack to force the design to
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In reality, that would throw forgery of such evidence in the hands of regular people, as opposed to those politically connected, the secret services, and nation-state hacker squads. While I sympathize with your political plight, I don'
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It's not Yelp who is charging them. They have a pre-existing business relation with Grubhub that generates leads for them for a fee, and, according to Yelp, allows Grubhub to charge them for any lead generated on any partner platform,
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Apologies to the author but this seems like a pointless effort. Buyers of iPad/iPhone have renounced by contract their desire to run general purpose software, and have accepted an application jukebox with a vendor-approved catalogue. T

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