mech987987

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by mech987987 2y ago
Globalization generally crushes small languages. I consider it a blessing and a curse- the more people speak a common language, the more they can communicate and collaborate together; unfortunately they tend to forget their traditional lang
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by mech987987 3y ago
Even if two different aircraft have the same space constraints for the hook (which is a pretty big if), they have different mass and deceleration characteristics (i.e. minimum and maximum approach velocity) during landing- changing the forc
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by mech987987 3y ago
More mass inside the wheel increases unsprung weight and worsens some ride/suspension characteristics of a vehicle- that being said the tradeoff might not be too bad in this case.
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by mech987987 3y ago
As far as I can tell marijuana ticks all those marks but junkies still go for harder drugs anyway.
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by mech987987 3y ago
I would suggest the following explanation: You could break people up into political and wealth-based quadrants: 1. Conservative and rich 2. Conservative and poor 3. Liberal and rich 4. Liberal and poor Consider the typical expressed beliefs
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by mech987987 3y ago
Among the people that care about cultural appropriation, there are so many different interpretations of which acts are offensive that it is a minefield of uncertainty. A lot of it feels to me like a vocal minority trying to railroad the dis
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by mech987987 3y ago
If you want it to last longer than 20 minutes it would weight about 250 pounds. Chainsaws are at the very corner of tools that have to be both portable, handheld, and very powerful. This means that their energy source should very dense. Lit
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by mech987987 3y ago
If supply and demand don't set the number of surgeons, then who does? Currently, the American Medical Association limits the number of new doctors being trained in medical school. The AMA judges this to be enough to attend to the popul
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by mech987987 3y ago
To give a visceral example- There's an episode of Clarkson's Farm where the customers that parked in the grass at his farm shop need to get their cars pulled out of the mud by a tractor.
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by mech987987 3y ago
Hasn't the midwest host large herds of grazing buffalo for millenia? I think the last I read about this stuff, most cattle farmers want their grass to still be the old school deep-rooted stuff, if other grasses take over it is a sympto
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by mech987987 3y ago
I think that the article is a countervailing idea against the idea of the "paradox of tolerance." If you accept the paradox of tolerance, then the truly intolerant are the ones you should not tolerate. Taken to its extreme, you ca
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by mech987987 3y ago
I disagree regarding how much overlap there is between low voltage skill sets and high voltage skill sets. Even though the consequences are different, understanding when the circuit is energized and not is important, understanding the path
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by mech987987 3y ago
Another mechanism promoted by the same trend the article mentions- corn ethanol yields increasing.
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by mech987987 3y ago
I figure that there is no binary distinction between what is ancient and what is modern enough to matter. Would you agree that older wrongs are only different from newer wrongs as a matter of degree, rather than a matter of kind?
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by mech987987 3y ago
If you had really given them the benefit of the doubt, you would not have implicitly shamed them for using the language they chose to use. Or explicitly shamed me for defending their choice of language.
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by mech987987 3y ago
You are assuming the intent of the poster. Your "civil rights" example does not capture the same (ambiguous) spirit that the poster's use of "woke" captures. 1. Did they use scare quotes to make it seem like "w
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by mech987987 3y ago
There was a period of time where self-described woke people identified themselves as woke, and now there's a period of time where people that don't like woke people mock them as woke, and other people just use it as a descriptor,
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by mech987987 3y ago
Demand for cheerios is elastic- people can substitute by buying oatmeal. Demand for salmon fillets is elastic- people can substitute by buying tuna, beef, beans, tofu, etc.... for just about any given food item there are substitutes to prov
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by mech987987 3y ago
You two are talking past eachother. You did not address his argument.
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by mech987987 3y ago
He might be able to use the defense of "they did the unlicensed securities operations against every piece of advice I gave them". If he tried to stop it but was unable that could be a legitimate defense.
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by mech987987 3y ago
$100/MWh is pretty cheap. Around here the retail rate I pay on my power bill is something like 12 cents per kWh which is $120/MWh. But on your broad point I agree. I couldn't see it being economical for anything other than em
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by mech987987 3y ago
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...
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by mech987987 3y ago
I think the simple answer is that there is a disconnect between what caramelizing onions means for serious applications (i.e. french onion soup) and not-so-serious applications (your average philly cheesesteak or omelette). Just cook '
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by mech987987 3y ago
Is there really anything substantive in arguing over the terminology? I'm fairly certain you understand the intention behind his statement. Markets ebb and flow in accordance with forces of supply and demand, and the government pumping
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by mech987987 3y ago
They are referring to a cylindrical hole or any non-tapered hole (i.e. "square" in the sense that the walls are perpendicular to the bottom). I've also heard that a "keyed" hole works well- a hole that flares outwar
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by mech987987 3y ago
for point #6, the fact that getting kids around town using public transportation is slow, expensive, and difficult makes me wonder if the anti-car people even have families in mind when they advocate for their alternative solutions. The dow
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by mech987987 3y ago
Where did you read that the carbon cycle is coming to an end?
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by mech987987 3y ago
When a company liquidates, bondholders are paid out before stockholders. This is to prevent moral hazard from companies going deep into debt and running off with the cash by liquidating the company.
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by mech987987 3y ago
It will successfully punish facebook (the payout will happen). It just won't reward individual consumers very much.
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by mech987987 3y ago
>At sampling location A (highlighted in image above), which simulates conditions at the intersection of SW 5th Avenue and SW Yamhill Street, a key location in the 2 June protests, the IDLH value was continuously exceeded for a period of

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