bubuga

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by bubuga 10y ago
> As usual, mostly western commentators sitting on their high horses pointing and pontificating with no idea of local context or understanding. Pray tell, what context justifies arbitrary lynchings, summary executions, extrajudicial capi
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by bubuga 10y ago
> So I just wanted to say it's an engineering issue at this point. It's far more than a mere engineering issue. It's primarily an economic issue. The engineering issues are mitigated by throwing cash at them, but in the
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by bubuga 10y ago
> But hyperloop? Nothing new really needs to be discovered. This isn't true. The concept of a moving load travelling over the rayleigh wave speed on heterogeneous soils is something that's very new, very problematic, and very e
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by bubuga 10y ago
Capacity is a problem, but not a significant one. The problem is the cost to build, maintain and operate the infrastructure required to comply with the speed requirements, the fact that most of the technology doesn't exist, that the p
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by bubuga 10y ago
> It seems like you are much smarter than the rest of us. I'm not smarter than the rest of us. I just happen to be a researcher in the field of railway engineering, specifically in the design of high and very high speed tracks for
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Does it matter? He's seriously stimulated a market that has been fairly stagnant for decades, What market exactly are you talking about?
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by bubuga 10y ago
> A successful tube transport system could be technologically ground breaking. Theoretically they'd be faster than airplanes and use a fraction of the fuel/energy (once they're constructed of course; not counting developme
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by bubuga 10y ago
> The thing about hyperloop is that none of the technology is new...or even recent! ...or even works. It's quite clear that all this hyperloop hype is a publicity scam targeted at states with deep pockets and whose governments are g
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by bubuga 10y ago
> (...) but the heart of the matter in the Dallas case is whether the suspect posed an imminent threat which could not be addressed any other way besides lethal force. At that time, the assailant already stated his purpose of killing as
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by bubuga 10y ago
My guess is that Venezuela was a theme during the elections because Maduro's regime has been caught bankrolling Podemos, the anti-establishment socialist party that managed to become the second most-voted party in the last two election
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Oh, come on. Such activities happen the world and history over regardless of the ostensible public political veneer. Socialist/communist regimes are founded on a system devised to take away any and all wealth away from the people
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Virtual inheritance means you have a diamond pattern and haven't separated your components properly. I've seen this argument pop out time and again as if it was a mantra of sorts, and more often than not it comes from someone
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by bubuga 10y ago
This, and it appears it's between 2 to 5 times more expensive than other well-established boards.
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Then they got on Patreon for the wrong reason. You're supposed to back someone because you like what they're creating, and want them to continue doing so Sounds like you're admitting that patrons do expect something spec
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Sure. You could say precisely the same about a politician who accepts money from a mafia or large corporation. ...except that is illegal and an absurd example, and the "artist" explicitly sought patrons to provide him money i
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Flow Batteries[1]! From the wikipedia article, it appears that typical flow batteries only reach 10% to 20% of lithium polymer's power density. That means that it would take a flow battery that weights 5 to 10 times as the standar
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by bubuga 10y ago
Bootable drives already let you do that, and they exist for decades now. Heck, just access the HD where you boot your OS from and reimage it.
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Does this means that you are ok with breaking the law if some ones offers you something convenient? The goal of business regulation is to protect the clients. If a regulation does nothing to protect the clients and only hinders their
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Is Uber useful ? no doubt they are, but so are any other illegal taxi service. It is my understanding that Uber only has a problem with a single service of the many they provide: the rideshare one, where unlicensed and unregistered peo
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by bubuga 10y ago
> If anything, it's a lack of rigour More specifically, some people do a poor job following basic best practices to reduce and manage complexity, such as encapsulation and the tried and true separation of concerns, and then proceed
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by bubuga 10y ago
> why isn't the fact that the U.S.A has even more lethal weapons troubling? Business Insider is an US publication. In their POV, they aren't threatened by the US armed forces. Armies of an antagonist state do represent a thre
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by bubuga 10y ago
> to suck people in before you ratchet up It's an image hosting service. You upload cat pictures, you pass the link around. That's it. Once the hosting service stops being a hosting service, you move on and upload the picture
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by bubuga 10y ago
Precisely. A single tractor is the sole responsible for eliminating the need for hiding a small brigade of farmhands or construction workers. Efficiency shouldn't be taxed.
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Correct. It's also the problem with taxes. Corporations move to where taxes are cheaper. Not just corporations. All tax payers try to pay the least they can. There are professional accountants who make a living by filing personal
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Yet somehow most countries are able to tax labor, income, land, and so on, without losing their entire populations. That's because most of the population aren't free to give everything up because a government gradually makes
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Machines have been taking human jobs since the late 1800s I would add that humans have been paid to do repetitive, automated, routine work for ever, and they do so inefficiently. It's not human nature to stand in a production lin
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by bubuga 10y ago
Wasn't Haskell formed by a committee of academics originated in an academic conference on functional programming, to try to merge competing functional programming languages into a base line from which to conduct research?
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by bubuga 10y ago
Shame on imgur for providing a service that was sought-after by everyone, and provide it for free by serving ads. While we're at it, let's demand the end of free TV, free email providers, free forums, and even youtube.
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by bubuga 10y ago
If you can measure or evaluate something, you can make a competition out of it.
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Not groundbreaking but they do make steady, consistent progress. Not where it matters, which is the price/performance ratio. It doesn't matter if Intel is able to put in the market their Formula 1 chips at a Formula 1 price,

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