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by knaq 6y ago
It wouldn't have to be slow. Print on the inside of a spinning drum. That way, you don't have to reverse direction. Print from a whole row of nozzles or lasers or whatever. That way, yet another dimension doesn't require reve
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by knaq 6y ago
If we really wanted to stop it early, we could have. It's about the right size for a nuke. (and no, an iceberg is NOT anything like a hurricane, which is a heat engine phenomena -- you can definitely shatter an iceberg)
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by knaq 6y ago
1. new rifles with selective fire 2. lawn darts 3. scanners that can receive 824 to 849 MHz and 869 to 894 MHz 4. acetic anhydride 5. phosphorus 6. Moon rocks 7. good pesticides: DDT, diazinon, endosulfan, chlorpyrifos, etc. 8. gasoline can
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by knaq 6y ago
Two key quotes from the article: 1. "Race had no statistically significant effect on any group. Both conservatives and liberals, however, changed their views based on how they would vote. Only conservatives were affected by whether the
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by knaq 6y ago
Pigs also have 62 troublesome viruses embedded right in their germline DNA. Some other company fixed that with CRISPR... would they cooperate? Fixing the PERV genes in pigs: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08&
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by knaq 6y ago
The article's most important quote: "All this is denied me in this stale marriage to an elderly, sickly, complaining, nagging wife. Let's get rid of her, start life all over again with another woman." Even if a person
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by knaq 6y ago
At my house, Trane lost a sale because of that incompatible proprietary protocol. I really wanted to super modern heat pump with fully variable compressor. I refuse to be stuck with one vendor. I'm also not putting my system on the int
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by knaq 6y ago
I hope that's just how you believe the majority of the electorate to be uninformed. Some is opinion, but some is just wrong. Calling the wall a "repair" is far from reality. It is different in size and structure. The new wall
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by knaq 6y ago
You missed the point if you thought Trump was about a personality cult. Lots of Americans tolerated his personality because they like the policy and the results: He built over 500 miles of crime-stopping wall, raised tariffs on China, didn&
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by knaq 6y ago
You can buy the car for the car, or as a display of wealth. This is independent of having wealth to spare. If you do have plenty of wealth to spare, maybe you don't worry about dents. Just tell your people that you spotted a dent, and
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by knaq 6y ago
It's not just the VP. In 1983 Biden introduced the Comprehensive Forfeiture Act, which became law in 1984. That's the main piece of law that enabled civil asset forfeiture. That's how cops take property, alleging it to be dru
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by knaq 6y ago
At this point in time, it's too late. Step 1 of the steal was the intentional security reduction. It prevented most evidence from being collected, and this made it easier and less scary to commit the crime. (we did get a horrifying Geo
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by knaq 6y ago
Causation goes the other way. Nobody thought felons should vote until democrats realized that it would tip elections. Oh, my mistake on the law and order. I should go Burn Loot Murder, rioting every night. Seriously? Portland is not a repub
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by knaq 6y ago
Nobody sane would waste money on a lawsuit in a state that doesn't matter. It's just plain racist to suggest that black citizens don't have ID. It is required for guns, which are actually a constitutional right unlike voting
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by knaq 6y ago
Overall, yes, but not for all seats. New Hampshire was untrustworthy in 2016, both for the presidential electors and for the senator. Some of the house seats, particularly in California, were untrustworthy. Florida was nearly stolen via Bro
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by knaq 6y ago
Likewise, a lot of us are hoping that a significant number of Democrat voters know the truth and are just playing hardball politics, not that it is much better. You didn't want this result? You should have thought about that when you
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by knaq 6y ago
Sure. Many millions of Americans are satisfied by the evidence presented, and the arguments against it have been weighted. They believe that an illegitimately elected person is about to seize power. They believe that you are gleefully danci
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by knaq 6y ago
More and more, I realize that I've been fed a warped view of the past. Here in the USA, history book authors and history instructors are almost exclusively on one side of the political spectrum. The people that they glorify and vilify
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by knaq 6y ago
Uh, well, I don't know that. Let me turn it around for you: How will we continue as a nation if this comes to pass? How will you, knowing in good conscience that fraud changed the results, claim to represent the people when you have d
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by knaq 6y ago
This happening, right now, is a consequence of the US election. In a matter of months, Taiwan might go down like Crimea.
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by knaq 6y ago
Sure, it's easy. Count how many lines of code they write per day. Likewise, aeronautical engineering productivity can be measured by counting kilograms of mass added per day. The real underperformers go negative.
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by knaq 6y ago
"more walkable and friendly to the elderly" are very separate things, usually in conflict. The elderly face disability like arthritis, poor body temperature control, uncertainty about lower leg position or pavement contact, bad vi
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by knaq 6y ago
I think at this point, you can say he is not conservative by the typical meaning. What happened? By mid-2017 every American should have loved Trump. (understandable to have doubt before then) Was your dad just following the anti-Trump news
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by knaq 6y ago
The pro-America types want tariffs and less immigration. The business types disagree strongly. The religious types have had complaints about LGBT. Again, the business types disagree strongly. So there you have the business types being almos
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by knaq 6y ago
By definition, a conservative is a slow-motion progressive. Ignoring that technicality, there are 3 types of republican: 1. religious 2. business (likes outsourcing and unlimited immigration to drive down wages) 3. pro-America They often ha
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by knaq 6y ago
It's a great insight that "You cannot defend a system by destroying its foundation." Continuing along that line of thinking: the "good side" can't possibly be the one participating in a cover-up, trying to brus
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by knaq 6y ago
I see that nobody here (currently: czep, froasty, throwaway0b1, chaganated, core-questions) has any contact info in their Hacker News profile. Usually for political stuff that means a conservative working in the Bay Area, hiding in fear, th
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by knaq 6y ago
Meat is hypo-allergic and free of prions if you cook it enough. It should be black in the middle, white on the outside.
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by knaq 6y ago
It got used for school computer labs. Four of each: student, keyboard, mouse, screen, chair Just one: table, computer
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by knaq 6y ago
The case the right cares about is Roger Stone. He's an old man, no threat to anybody, who was involved in normal legal proceedings. Somebody decided to make an example out of him. He got a heavily-armed pre-dawn raid, and CNN was right

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