lapsed_pacifist

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by lapsed_pacifist 3y ago
Please demonstrate, then.
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by lapsed_pacifist 3y ago
bean used to post long and in depth posts into the SlateStarCodex Open Threads, then someone helped him set up his own site, and here we are. He organizes meetups at Naval History sites too.
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by lapsed_pacifist 3y ago
There are accounts which do not allow you to change the email the account is registered to.
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by lapsed_pacifist 3y ago
These safety groups seem to be mostly concerned with making sure LLMs don't say bad words, not with preventing FOOM!.
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by lapsed_pacifist 3y ago
The 5 rules of dry stone: https://thestonetrust.org/5rules/
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by lapsed_pacifist 3y ago
Look at the Dry Stone Wall Association of Great Britain, or The Stone Trust in the United States. These organizations still teach traditional methods of dry stone walling which cover a lot of these techniques.
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by lapsed_pacifist 3y ago
This isn't really a proper wall though, it's a single thickness stack. I don't think it could handle any lateral force at all without toppling. If this machine could build a double skin wall with batter, wall heads, and heart
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by lapsed_pacifist 3y ago
Not true. A well built fieldstone wall is massive, we estimate around .5T per linear yard when we build one to 4ft. with cope stones. Sheep will not knock it over, but cattle can. For that reason, through-stones are allowed to protrude a fe
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by lapsed_pacifist 4y ago
That city has a tiny fraction of the population density, commercial activity, and industrial transport of Chicago, they're really not comparable. Transporting people and goods over large distances by bicycle doesn't scale very wel
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by lapsed_pacifist 4y ago
Without for profit, for export, weapons, smaller entities that cannot support the industrial base to produce the means for their own defense would be at the mercy of any power who could. Self defense is a right, and the means of self defens
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by lapsed_pacifist 4y ago
Much of this has to do with Russian tank doctrine and the lack of sufficient infantry to provide mutual support to armor.
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by lapsed_pacifist 4y ago
A soldier is tens of thousands of dollars of training and gear. A bullet costs pennies. Thus soldiers have no place on the battlefield? I think you should watch Chieftains video and read some military theory. Simply being vulnerable to less
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by lapsed_pacifist 5y ago
It's been a few years since I did any framing, so I could be wrong about the current state of the industry.
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by lapsed_pacifist 5y ago
As someone in the trades, I really disagree. Most applications that require a hammer could not be accomplished with a nail gun. Nail guns are great for attaching thin materials over thicker materials, like putting MDX onto a frame or attach
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by lapsed_pacifist 5y ago
Baumels' Cost Disease.
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by lapsed_pacifist 5y ago
It looks pretty bad when the husband of a union boss was paying workers off the books, which denies worker protections to employees. And they may not have reported the income because it didn't come from legitimate sources.
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by lapsed_pacifist 5y ago
It's a real hazard that is well known in the trades, but might not be appreciated by people who are attracted to the idea of an exotic metal ring but are not in situations where they will be warned about it. The warnings here seem reas
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by lapsed_pacifist 5y ago
The difference is the consent of the governed. I cannot refuse to consent to being governed by the State. Plenty of democratically elected governments have oppressed and abused their citizens. I can refuse to exchange goods and services wit
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by lapsed_pacifist 5y ago
I'm interested in reading more of your writing. I worked with TANF recipients, many of whom were homeless (although few of them were unsheltered) and would like to hear more of your perspective because I have some exposure personally,
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by lapsed_pacifist 5y ago
Print a house out of what material? Will that material stand up to sub freezing and very high temperatures? Can it withstand a temperature variable between indoor and outdoor temps? Does it have lateral strength against wind and snow? Does
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by lapsed_pacifist 5y ago
"Why are workers unhappy? We asked three university professors, a senior policy analyst, an executive director... and one worker."
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by lapsed_pacifist 5y ago
I don't know how your can say that an LVT avoids all economic and ethical issues with land ownership, that seems like a personal moral opinion. Especially since there's very few instances of an LVT on the wild. I'm sympatheti
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by lapsed_pacifist 5y ago
Zoning which prohibits or heavily restricts multi-unit housing in cities, and material shortages and high prices for steel and lumber which impacts new single family homes.
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by lapsed_pacifist 5y ago
>Tyranids giant biological hive mind that rapidly adapts to new environments consuming or infecting existing species to plunder their genetic advantages. Sounds like GW copied that from Heinlein's Starship Troopers, or maybe Enders
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by lapsed_pacifist 5y ago
It's quite the other way around: threats must be very specific in order to not be protected speech in the United States. Saying 'let's burn this mother down' during a protest is protected speech, for instance. In gener
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by lapsed_pacifist 5y ago
An excellent example of overzealous prosecution over internet blog/article comments is the Reason magazine 'woodchipper' debacle. This WSJ article is a good place to begin reading, although Popehat did a lot of great work, an
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by lapsed_pacifist 6y ago
The Eurozone (NATO) is protected from Russia and other aggressors by US military spending, and trades along sea routes which are kept open by US military spending, to list only two ways in which the EU benefits massively from our tax dollar
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by lapsed_pacifist 6y ago
"whales" is the free-to-p(l)ay/ freemium games industry term for this sort of power user, who will spend vastly more than the average user and carries the lions share of the profit for the developer.