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by zardo 5y ago
> The US public needed some more important foreign blood to be spilled than Afghani. And that's the way the cookie crumbled... I really don't see how you can reach that conclusion that prime mover on the Iraq invasion was the U
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by zardo 5y ago
We'll have plenty of time to develop hyperscience before we can watch any known black hole start shrinking.
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by zardo 5y ago
> Whatever it is I am sure it's not as bad as what the other party did in 2003. Democrats don't get to wash their hands of that invasion. Both parties supported it. Sanctions and sporadic bombings on critical infrastructure und
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by zardo 5y ago
> QoS: Quantum-on-Silicon may very well scale; but how can we store un-collapsed output qubits? Aren't all current programmable quantum processors essentially made of qubit memory cells capable of certain in-memory operations?
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by zardo 5y ago
You can sit down for a game of Go or StarCraft against an AI, and it will wipe the floor with you. But if you want it control a robot that's going to bring out a pot of tea while you play, you'll be wiping the floor.
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by zardo 5y ago
NASA is a pretty small budget item compared to national healthcare.
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by zardo 5y ago
No US servicemen sexually assaulted women in Okinawa, and if they did, they were brought to justice. Don't even waste your time looking it up because there is nothing to see here.
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by zardo 5y ago
The kind of thing where you're fine unless you're "a problem" for one of your neighbors A problem as defined by your nosiest, most uptight, or most xenophobic neighbor.
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by zardo 5y ago
> Iran wants nukes to further destabilising and terrorise the ME. NK wants nukes to keep it's nation sized prison under total control. Sounds like a cartoon villain.
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by zardo 5y ago
What's a CIA paramilitary?
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by zardo 5y ago
Then you can use a helpful little notational shorthand and write matrices of the form [[a,-b,],[b,a]] as a+bi.
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by zardo 5y ago
A lawyer if you can afford to pay one.
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by zardo 5y ago
I suppose they have to flare off the H2. Or the plane itself has the capacity on board to capture and cool boil off.
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by zardo 5y ago
Could it lead to a new storage method? Helium lasts for microseconds, perhaps other atoms can store it indefinitely. Could that enable bulk antimatter storage? E.g. 1 mol of mercury that contains 1 mole of anti-protons and doesn't anni
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by zardo 5y ago
I don't see why LH2 would need to be kept at 700bar. The STS LH2 tank was operated at ~1.6 bar.
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by zardo 5y ago
Nothing special about helium if you want to make a rocket, any matter will do. The difficulty is in the creation and storage.
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by zardo 5y ago
Practical applications, a laser that explodes if you turn it off.
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by zardo 5y ago
What's going to prevent that? Do you think hydrogen planes would be cheaper to operate?
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by zardo 5y ago
A sticking point for biofuels but in all likelihood one they share with hydrogen.
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by zardo 5y ago
Of course being consistent with an explanation doesn't mean it definitely is that thing. But being consistent with a mundane thing means it looks the way it would look if it was the mundane thing . It's very normal to not be able
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by zardo 5y ago
> its the radar data Did the Navy release the radar data, or an analysis based on it?
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by zardo 5y ago
We have what appears to be a shiny floating object. What data do we have that can't be explained by a shiny balloon?
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by zardo 5y ago
> The stance referred to was that of Cornell University, given that one of their students exercised their right of free speech and was abused for it. They can't dodge their responsibilities on that. Does the 1st amendment come with
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by zardo 5y ago
He roots Russia's claim to Ukraine in the Russian Empire, not the USSR.
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by zardo 5y ago
The fact that one side of 'The Cold War' collapsed and no longer exists seems relevant.
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by zardo 5y ago
I'm not sure if 'face' is actually something that motivates Putin. But it essentially means an option he can spin as a win, or at least not a loss.
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by zardo 5y ago
Driving a Prius for fun on the weekends is less damaging than driving a Viper. You might not get as much fun done though.
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by zardo 5y ago
The cost of the pollution is it's effect on the environment and everyone living in it. Just collecting taxes does not address that. The tax would have to actually undue the pollution to eliminate the externality.
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by zardo 5y ago
It's not really accomplished unless the gas tax pulls that CO2 back down from the atmosphere.
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by zardo 5y ago
RT reports on the details here. https://youtube.com/watch?v=lbvPNI7nYJ0

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