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by asd4232 5y ago
You can always move away from that dense city. With booming property prices you should even profit in case you own the apartment, just sell it. I would also argue that small apartment can be very limiting also for living. I mean, sure, if y
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by asd4232 5y ago
A typical pilot switches aircraft type multiple times in their career. It's all about the cost and convenience ultimately, allowing same pilots to fly both 737MAX and the older 737NG as most 737MAX customers operate both. As far as MCA
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by asd4232 5y ago
Yeah, toxic workplaces are usually toxic to also people other than those belonging to particular minorities.
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by asd4232 5y ago
"Facebook is the best site in the world for dating and for expanding your social horizons/circle" Maybe for boomers and some emerging markets. It appears to be losing popularity very fast among younger folks in most Western c
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by asd4232 5y ago
Bruh here in Europe there's a thing called welfare state. The gov can pay poor people to compensate.
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by asd4232 5y ago
It would already have a significant impact if people stopped (most likely against their own will) buying anything they don't really need. Brainless consumerism, buying material stuff simply because it makes you feel good for a while sh
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by asd4232 5y ago
Sweden quite simply took way more poor migrants (many of them for humanitarian reasons) from developing world than it could effectively integrate, and that failed integration resulted in hopelessness, high crime and unemployment in these co
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by asd4232 5y ago
That's why individuals should not have the freedom of choice. China's actions against the virus proved rather effective because the government actually has authority there. Western democracy is clearly weak when it comes to dealin
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by asd4232 5y ago
This. I like WFH as a concept, but I feel like it would require a separate office room to really work, and right now I don't have the space for that. Working from living room just mixes up work and leisure really badly.
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by asd4232 5y ago
Or, instead of burying cut trees underground you could build houses from it. That's what we do in Finland where forests are plentiful. This way you effectively capture the carbon for 50+ years, and reduce use of cement which causes sig
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by asd4232 5y ago
If exporting freedom involves bombing civilians you're supposed to free and spraying their country with herbicides, then perhaps you should rethink your strategy. The Vietnam war was a lost cause all the way from the start, just like m
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by asd4232 5y ago
That is true. Not a major concern for most shorter people though. As a teenager I once did a 12 hour flight (with refuel stop) on a charter 757 with 29" seat space. Didn't find it terribly uncomfortable back then to be honest. App
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by asd4232 5y ago
Many plants are still pretty easy to grow from seed, as long as you use good soil and find a spot with plenty of sunlight. Tomatoes and chili seem particularly easy, even some commercial varieties not optimized for hobbyists seem to grow ok
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by asd4232 5y ago
Yeah, it's one thing to question how historical figures are portrayed, and another to support actively erasing historical figures who did bad things by present day's moral standards. I think it's best to remember history as i
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by asd4232 5y ago
Cherrypicking only parts of history you like to be remembered is something totalitarians have always enjoyed. It's always a bad idea if you believe in freedom, human rights and democracy, no exceptions.
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by asd4232 5y ago
I think buying new expensive laptops for personal use is waste of money anyway, unless you do something like heavy video editing or gaming where you really need the power. For my daily use (programming hobby projects, studying, browsing) a
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by asd4232 5y ago
It's safer to invest both in green power and nuclear. As long as we get rid of fossil fuels ASAP it's a victory, we can always replace those nuclear plants with solar/wind in 50 years if that seems to make sense by then.
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by asd4232 5y ago
Nuclear is still better than coal and gas. At this rate we will never limit temperature below 2.1C pre-industrial, so anything that gets helps getting rid of fossil fuels ASAP is a good deal. Also, even worst-case scenario like Chernobyl ul
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by asd4232 5y ago
More energy in absolute terms, or per financial transaction? I mean, what matters is whether replacing the entire financial system with Bitcoin would produce more emissions through mining than the system currently does.
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by asd4232 5y ago
Your argument is like claiming that a private jet is more economical than a 747 jumbo jet, because it burns less fuel. Energy consumption per transaction is what really matters, and Bitcoin really sucks there.
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by asd4232 5y ago
The ER vs LR thing is easy to explain. The most realistic Boeing 777 simulation addon available for Microsoft FS at the time included only 200LR and 300ER models, so using 200LR would have been pretty much the closest option to 200ER availa
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by asd4232 5y ago
Humans have been pretty good at improving their lives, but not so good at doing it sustainably. I'm not very impressed until we get the climate change under control and build an economy that isn't dependent on fossil fuels.
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by asd4232 5y ago
Nuclear power has its issues, but I think burdening future generations with old nuclear plants is better than burdening them with a catastrophic climate change. I would much rather see developing countries building nuclear than building coa
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by asd4232 6y ago
Some more modern aircraft indeed have such protections, but this was an old 737 without any such stuff. Simply pushing the control column fully forward would send the plane into a dive pretty quickly.
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by asd4232 6y ago
Even if another pilot was present, from that altitude a suicidal co-pilot could easily cause an unrecovable dive and crash. If two pilots pull/push controls to opposite directions they kind of neutralize each other, and obviously the s
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by asd4232 6y ago
Usually when a plane "falls apart" you'll have an accident scene with larger pieces intact compared to a plane nosediving to the ground in one piece.
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by asd4232 6y ago
If the weather was bad it could also be caused by a pilot getting disoriented, or perhaps an instrument failure. Plenty of aircraft with perfectly working flight controls have been nosedived to the ground either due to spatial disorientatio