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by jtrip 2mo ago
It wasn't more fuel efficient than the standard plane? Was it because of the propeller up front?
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by jtrip 2mo ago
Once they have enough airframes flying with the military, the logistics side of the equation should solve itself in quick time.
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by jtrip 2mo ago
This is an issue, a question of an issue, with the maximalist position. By simply using trains wherever possible and avoiding 'frivolous' travel a huge impact can be achieved on one's carbon footprint.
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by jtrip 1y ago
The scale of deep body trauma that has been done to the US will not seem clear today, but it will have dire consequences for the future trajectory of US. I am sad for this, for the current status quo I was born under, but I suppose History
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by jtrip 1y ago
>That is a great and underused method of evaluating moral judgments and I believe that it’s very suitable in this particular case. It also dilutes the current and very real responsibilities of the 'effectors'. In saying 't
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by jtrip 1y ago
It would be different materially. The rallying cry would be different for one. No matter who did it, it would still be 'evil'. There would be 'good guys' and 'bad guys'. Specially when the labels would be appli
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by jtrip 1y ago
I wonder what would have happened if the Americans had taken the same approach with the Iraqis and the Afganis. As someone said, if your enemy is carrying a baby, you don't punch him through the baby, you punch around it. The staggerin
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by jtrip 2y ago
>Fundamentally, China and Vietnam were able to succeed at pushing people into factory work because these kinds of subsidies didn't exist, forcing people to choose between working at a factory or starve. Also, factories in China and
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by jtrip 3y ago
I wonder if the Regulatory bodies and the NGOs can sufficiently express the necessity and severity of these new regulations to the high levels of radioactivity in the metal nodules. There is also the concern that mining companies may not be
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by jtrip 3y ago
This and other recent similar articles honestly sounds like someone paid a big bag of money to a very high profile PR agency, the one used by the Middle east dictators and BP, to rehabilitate ocean mining's image and lobby the public z
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by jtrip 3y ago
Their archive.org link ( https://archive.org/details/@noclipvideo ) and a link to the 2009 Microsoft E3 demo in 1080i ( https://archive.org/details/microsoftE32009PressConference ).
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by jtrip 3y ago
Meaning.. people prefer bluesky to mastodon?
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by jtrip 3y ago
From the above article. >Hergé met Chang Chong-Ren for the first time in Brussels in 1934 at the urging of one Abbé Gosset. Gosset, the chaplain to a group of Chinese Catholic students at Louvain University, had been concerned about the
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by jtrip 3y ago
Development costs of what? The trashcan? What could possibly have cost them 50,000xplane frames to develop it in the first place? The reading of the article implies the contract set prices for commercial items and Boeing simply started char
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by jtrip 3y ago
Can someone tell me the answer to the problem in plain english? I have no idea what a beta is.
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iOS Games Emulation Finally Cracked Thanks to Super Monkey Ball(youtube.com)
2 points by jtrip 4y ago|1 comments
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by jtrip 4y ago
The emulator and code is available here - https://touchhle.org/
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Breaking Free from the Shackles of Terrestrial Time(spaceaustralia.com)
2 points by jtrip 4y ago|1 comments
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by jtrip 4y ago
Thank you for sharing this. It was a wonderful read. I truly hope one day LLMs (or something else) can write something with this much heart. That would be a day I'd like to see. Part 2 of the above story by Suzanne Palmer - https:&#x2
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by jtrip 4y ago
I present to you Tu-128, the USSR's dedicated NATO balloon buster [0]. US found it quite funny to send in hundreds of balloons to reconnoitre and send a message[1][2]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-2
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by jtrip 4y ago
>Basically, space will be inherited by our successors. Artificial intelligences. Ha ha, I love this. The sentiment has been there for a while now in the zeitgeist but had been overshadowed and outperformed by the lesser idea of 'Rob
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by jtrip 4y ago
So, people are suggesting UTC and such. Someone on masto suggested using Pulsars. https://mastodon.social/@CosmicRami@aus.social/1097534349342... > Why build a timescale that ONLY works for the Moon? Then, we need a
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by jtrip 4y ago
So, India inherited the British civil services system wholesale. The formal pseudo legal language used in the system, instituted by the British, continued. It was different enough from the language taught in schools that when someone was ex
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by jtrip 4y ago
> since Google's rise to mapping dominance, it has put the screws to developers with anti-competitive terms and rising prices. In 2018, Google Maps hiked the price by more than 1,400 percent, and many developers were forced to stop
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by jtrip 4y ago
> (if people from outside the UK can believe it, some local councils are introducing rules which mean you will be fined if you exit your neighbourhood in a car to go to another part of the same city). Can you give an article or city name
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by jtrip 5y ago
His intent was not to suggest that the USSR was always backwards, but rather that due to it's history the development was not undertaken until the war. The Tsars didn't do it because they were busy being feudal masters and the com
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by jtrip 5y ago
What you suggest shows that individuals within the Google organisation do not have blatant open access to personal information. What do you think about the access of personal information to the organisation Google itself? Today the data is
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by jtrip 5y ago
There is a thriving art community that shills their NSFW art and services on twitter through fan engagement and community building. Through this clout they shill their Patreons and only-fans. I don't think their behavior will change. T
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by jtrip 5y ago
There is a huge community of artists, podcasters, video content creators who can now use this to ear an income from the public. I don't think this feature is only for conversations, though it will effect them. How? I can only speculate
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by jtrip 6y ago
>Inertial reference Can we really do inertial reference with current phone hardware? I would imagine our usecases don't really even give inertial reference a nice playing field.

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