mech998877

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by mech998877 1mo ago
Gorton does strike me as very similar to Century Gothic which is the default font for a lot of CAD software I've used (Creo, maybe others).
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by mech998877 2mo ago
fair enough. I'm probably still in disagreement with the friends I mentioned earlier!
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by mech998877 2mo ago
I woulda thought they learned from their great great granddaddies warning them about the tulip bubble!
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by mech998877 2mo ago
Your concluding example doesn't make sense to me but I think that it's because we have different definitions for what friction means here. It's also kind of hard to define in context. I would say that, within the Wright Broth
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by mech998877 2mo ago
I disagree with this, and I've been spending time thinking about it because some of my friends had a similar conversation. The friction itself does not add value. The time spent thinking on the problem does. Friction should be minimize
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by mech998877 2mo ago
I wonder how much teflon wears off the die into the spaghetti on pasta extrusion machines.
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by mech998877 2mo ago
Reminds me of 'I don't think a computer will ever beat a human at chess'.
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by mech998877 3mo ago
So if you buy a lawnmower and use it for your business to cut your neighbor's grass (instead of tearing it apart by hand), that should be illegal? You've used a capital investment to increase your productivity. Your productivity g
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by mech998877 3mo ago
Robots (and other tools) are capital. A way I think of it: if you formed a co-op of sorts, with let's say 20 people, starting with no land ownership and hardly any tools, they could try to make a business. Whatever they end up starting
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by mech998877 3mo ago
History has shown that having a multitude of roughly-equal competing powers results in more per-capita death from war than when there is 1 or two dominant nations. The 1800's and early 1900's were bloody. Post WWII has had less d
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by mech998877 3mo ago
>But nowadays, most loans are for zero-sum ventures... That's an enormous claim and I really doubt it.
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by mech998877 3mo ago
Look at GDP growth in the US vs EU over the last 10 years or so if you want to talk about innovation. Europe has been stagnating economically and real productivity growth is critical to a modern economy. The large hadron collider does some
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by mech998877 3mo ago
The replication crisis in science is particularly bad within the social sciences, and also particularly bad within sociology. When experts within a field are unable to converge on a result, it's pretty decent evidence that the field ha
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by mech998877 3mo ago
Maybe they've got a big ol warning sticker. or maybe not. Automative maintenance is generally dangerous anyway.
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by mech998877 3mo ago
I've had the same thought and it's been a topic I've been this close to talking about at parties. If I did I'm sure I'd bore everyone to death. Considering the difficulty of sustaining 700 watts vs 350 watts, we c
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by mech998877 4mo ago
The argument that letting people invest their own money leads to a distortion of asset markets is the most amusing thing I've read today.
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by mech998877 4mo ago
Whean and soybeans are often grown on the same land. Your 1st and 5th sentences seem to contradict eachother, I might not be understanding.
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by mech998877 5mo ago
Yes I did mean litigation (didn't know that that term was a distinction learned something today). To my understanding the case outcome is pretty much what I would expect, even considering the first amendment raising the bar. It's
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by mech998877 5mo ago
With regards to defamation law, the first amendment does result in the USA having a higher bar for prosecution than most countries- GP still has a valid question.
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by mech998877 6mo ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10641525/ The moralizing parts of the conclusion of this article rejects it's own evidence. There are multiple studies cited by the article where the population averag
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by mech998877 6mo ago
There is considerable evidence that trans girls and women have a competitive advantage over women in many sports.
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by mech998877 7mo ago
The massive amount of production-oriented research in solid state and semi solid state batteries indicates to me that this stuff is coming soon in a big way. I've been curious about buying an electric car recently, and if I buy one rig
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by mech998877 7mo ago
90%+ chance the person you are replying to has health insurance that will cover them in case of medical disaster.
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by mech998877 8mo ago
The tata nano is an example of a low-featured car that sold in India for the equivalent of $2500 in 2008 dollars. You can make a car for pretty cheap if you strip down a lot of the hardware. I think one of the reasons new cars are designed&