AlgorithmicTime

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by AlgorithmicTime 2y ago
> dead industry with the last indoor mall built in the US in 2006 Well that's straight up false. The American Dream mall in East Rutherford, NJ opened in 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream_Meadow
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by AlgorithmicTime 2y ago
Literally the entire population of New Jersey would revolt. Everyone's doing a minimum of 10 over unless there's traffic.
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by AlgorithmicTime 2y ago
Luna 9 used an airbag system, not a soft landing system.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
I don't think most TSA employees are vets... I'm a veteran and it's relatively easy to identify a fellow vet most of the time.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
Half the point of special forces is to be covert, which is made hard when your transportation is a giant rocket streaking through the suborbital zone.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
> SSDs in the cloud are attached over a network, and fundamentally have to be. No they don't. I work for a cloud provider and I can guarantee that your SSD is local to your VM.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
At the core, it's all military technology. Canned food was invented for Napoleon's Grand Armee.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
Some SUVs qualify as trucks under the definitions written into the law.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
Most fuel mixes for rockets are just Kerosene and Liquid Oxygen, at least in the USA. Seems like most of the next generation are aiming for Methane and LOX. Burning plastic incompletely would most likely produce more noxious stuff than Kero
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
Are they wrong? I would say they're right, oil is in fact vital to global security.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
That's absurdly cheap... I pay about $900/mo per child.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
Color me skeptical... people have been drinking for thousands of years. I would be terribly surprised if moderate drinking had a statistically significant effect. Either way, this is an irresponsible recommendation at a time when birthrates
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
A strike is between a company and its workers, or maybe an industry and its workers. Postal employees, the fire department, transit employees, they don't work for Tesla.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
They're pretty much in every recently renovated housing unit... not just rich people houses.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
My experience with international trains between the US and Canada is that the customs checks happen on the train.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
Jets don’t use leaded aviation gas.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
That seems absurd. People often have no idea that a product would be useful or desirable beforehand. Perhaps our current level of consumer choice is somewhat absurd, but that brings you to a Soviet style system.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
Some state and local judges are elected. The Federal Judiciary is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
>Can't pay your rent? That's a crime, and the sheriff will be knocking on your door in 30 days. What on Earth are you talking about? There was an emergency order during COVID that prevented anyone from being evicted for about t
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
Most of those are probably honeypots for the feds.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
I have environmental and health concerns about used motor oil. Cosmoline is specifically formulated for rust prevention and forms a waxy coating, and doesn't have the additives and pollutants motor oil does after being in an engine.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
I mean a gallon can is $90 plus shipping. It's not too bad.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
I've just taken to applying Cosmoline to the underside of my truck each summer.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
They're not, really, though. US freight rail is remarkably efficient and cheap.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
Fascism is very specifically about about the subordination of all competing spheres to the State. "All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
It came from reality.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
That’s definitely the best price you’re going to find for a serviceable Garand.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
Which is just as much a pipe dream
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
Meanwhile my son is almost 3 and already approaching a size where he legally only needs a booster seat.
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by AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
Well, fix government oversight of public bureaucracies and then we can have a discussion. As it is now, it's pretty clear that elected officials have little control and oversight into the bureaucracies that they nominally control and d

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