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by yyyk 5y ago
>HTML to PDF is also a pain: you have to set up an instance that is running headless Chromium, which can be quite slow... There are at least 6 non-Chromium alternative that I can think of in a moment's notice, and also LGPL wkhtmlto
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by yyyk 5y ago
A few years ago, $COMPANY had similar needs for a client. I ended up creating an in-house solution, which has a surprisingly close API (well, there are only so many ways to do this). So I asked myself: if this kit existed at the time, would
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by yyyk 5y ago
>Yet you may have to enforce that, because subgroups that grow faster rapidly dominate. We don't see this in developed states today. Unless increasing costs of childrearing is its own way of creating a limit. >Still only a finite
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by yyyk 5y ago
>Pick a population growth rate and I can tell you when the minimum possible power used to keep each person’s consciousness running at 100% speed I'm not sure which definition of 'growth' you're referring to here. If i
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by yyyk 5y ago
Active defence has limits, sure. There's a long dance between attack and defence. My point was that the tank isn't doomed there - if vulnerability to anti-tank missiles was the only issue, armies would research and deploy active
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by yyyk 5y ago
Everything is bad? Sorry, since you asked I'll explain. He's basically using an infinite timescale on one end (going as far as 1,400 years in the future) but bans quite a few futuristic technologies on the other end. This is super
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by yyyk 5y ago
Against badly run T-72 tank divisions maybe. Against a modern tank with an active defence system and infantry cover? I strongly doubt it. There are more than a few known cases of tanks getting hit by Kornets and surviving and Javalin is con
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by yyyk 5y ago
The soldier's anti-tank missile also has costs, and it usually misses or hits without destroying the tank (or taken out by anti-missile active defence). When you add all these up, it turns out the tank/missile cost equation is clo
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by yyyk 5y ago
This link is so extremely unconvincing I just upped my percentage of belief in unlimited growth (which was 0% before, but now I'm not so sure). If that's best he can give then he has no good argument against it. I should write som
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by yyyk 5y ago
>That's quite normal in western democracies. Well, there are a lot of things one can say about these countries, but we're talking about the Soviets here. The Western flaws don't excuse the 'idealistic' Soviets. &
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by yyyk 5y ago
Soviets had no power by design. 'Democratic centralism' and banning all opposition when Lenin was still alive show how meaningful their democracy was. >It's also the case that leftists simply have a different definition of
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by yyyk 5y ago
>With the old Bolsheviks,... you tend to get the feeling of ruthless, dedicated, but ultimately idealistic people. Pretending that they were always just an evil clique... Idealistic is not an antonym to evil. Ruthless and idealistic is a
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by yyyk 5y ago
Regretfully too optimistic. 1) I can see the Russians being bogged down indefinitely, but outright defeat in the manner Fukuyama suggests requires either a counteroffensive or mass mutiny. Ukrainian forces have proven they could defend and
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by yyyk 5y ago
>Ultimately, I think the Tsar's Russia was a deeply sick system that had to go, one way or another Note that it already went away by the time the Bolshevik's staged their 'Revolution'. Also, there's an argument (
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by yyyk 5y ago
>a fairly sane if shaky revolutionary party Lenin started the Checka. Trotsky's complaint was that Collectivization didn't go far enough. We can go on and on. This party was rotten from the beginning.
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by yyyk 5y ago
They're part of the same anti-Western axis with the same enemies and similar enough goals. The Cold War has returned. Western politicians may refuse to see it, but reality has a way of making itself felt.
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by yyyk 5y ago
>fracking to extract much of the oil in the United States, as opposed to less destructive techniques that can be used in other oil fields Is fracking really worse overall? One can screw up non-fracking oil methods too, e.g. Nigerian oil
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by yyyk 5y ago
>But the researchers concede that the result will make no difference to anyone who believes in Many-Worlds, Copenhagen, or Pilot-Wave Theory. It only reduces the range of options by one, at most. This is a bit too pessimistic. There&#x27
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by yyyk 5y ago
Oops, didn't notice that. I guess they did not update this part of the article?
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by yyyk 5y ago
We're just seeing a real live demonstration that the real cost of oil produced by the typical non-US oil producer has its own externalities and they're not pretty. With the money saved by preventing these issues one should be able
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by yyyk 5y ago
>comes from environmentally destructive practices, which is a damn good reason to prefer imports. I'm sure Russia, Venezuela, Iran, Saudi, etc. really care about the environment and their reports about environment sustainability* ar
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by yyyk 5y ago
According to archive.org, this page was written in 2016 or earlier (their earliest entry is for dec. 2016). The mp3 patents expired in 2017, so at the time it was not patent-free.
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by yyyk 5y ago
That's the Syria playbook - which was quietly supported by the US/Europe. Our sins come back at us.
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by yyyk 5y ago
This isn't something a regular person can easily decide using test results. Because vitamin D accretes over time, it's possible to overshoot. A possible scenario: you get a test, take the supplement, take another test, see no diff
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by yyyk 5y ago
In our modern lifestyle, there's a good argument for a vitamin D supplement, but it's also important not to take too much - the suggested dose in the article is IMHO the max I'd take (I am very far from being a medical author
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by yyyk 5y ago
It's somewhat of a false myth. First, as the article notes, the reason was related to coal transport in mines, not wagon wheel width. Second, different mines in the world use different widths, many mines being narrower. Third, the vict
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by yyyk 5y ago
There's still time to prevent this risk. Get the Moldovan government to invite a deployment of troops from a NATO country. That is, not joining the alliance - just invite troops. It is better to delay publicizing the invitation after
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by yyyk 5y ago
These days MS makes way more from Azure, hurting Linux support will hurt Azure, and they can't afford it.
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by yyyk 5y ago
That's easy because the only check for solvability is item availability, so by setting a dependency chain you can ensure it. We can't do this in StS, since the main obstacle is being able to do enough damage while staying alive, n
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by yyyk 5y ago
You'd never reach this on a regular Ascension run, and it would probably still die against the Heart.

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