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by pavelrub 1y ago
The common approach is to take a photo of an object from above together with a ruler or something of a known size for scale, then import that directly into the CAD software, scale according to the scaling object, and create a cutout along t
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by pavelrub 2y ago
What do you mean? The previous iPad Pros didn't have a home button either. The last iPad with a home button was the 9th generation iPad, released in 2021.
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Human or Not? - A Social Turing Game(humanornot.ai)
7 points by pavelrub 3y ago|5 comments
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by pavelrub 4y ago
(2014)
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by pavelrub 5y ago
No. Because you have to consider: 1. Current or future means of intercepting hypersonic missiles. 2. The ability to disable or reduce the enemy’s ability of launching hypersonic missiles, or of pinpointing and accurately tracking the exact
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by pavelrub 5y ago
Yes — discussing the actual motivations for the law, as provided to us by Israeli politicians and previous Supreme Court decisions, is a good and valid starting point for discussion. Claiming that the law is bad simply because it disproport
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by pavelrub 5y ago
It targets people who sleep under bridges. If, for example, there is a major safety hazard associated with sleeping under bridges, it would make sense to prohibit it, and it would be bizarre to criticize the law just because it affects most
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by pavelrub 5y ago
There is a fundamental difference between a law that prohibits a specific ethnicity from doing X, and a law that prohibits everyone from doing X, but a specific ethnicity/minority is more affected by it than others. The former is prett
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by pavelrub 5y ago
The restriction applies to everybody, not just Israeli Arabs. However it is true that Israeli Arabs are the ones most affected by it.
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by pavelrub 5y ago
> this is about Arab or Christian Israeli citizens This is incorrect. There is no distinction in the law between Arab Israelis and Jewish Israelis. The law applies equally to Israeli Jews who wish to marry a resident of the WB/Gaza
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by pavelrub 5y ago
Israel has neither an authoritarian nor a semi-authoritarian regime. From your analogy I think you are misunderstanding NSO and its relation to the Israeli government. NSO is not a civilian cover for government operations. It’s an Israeli a
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by pavelrub 5y ago
In my experience people who dislike subtitles are mostly native English speakers living in English-speaking countries, who are used to the fact that almost all the media they consume is produced in their native language, and so they’ve neve
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by pavelrub 5y ago
They have a very limited amount of hydrazine, used for small course corrections for drag compensation and debris avoidance. It's not used, nor can be used, to "change orbit" in the sense of redirecting the satellite to look a
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by pavelrub 5y ago
Satellites in general aren’t maneuverable. The camera angle can be changed to point at, and capture, a region of interest when the satellite passes over it, but the satellite’s orbit is determined on insertion and doesn’t change on demand.
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We Got Here Because of Cowardice. We Get Out with Courage(commentary.org)
15 points by pavelrub 5y ago|2 comments
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MIT Abandons Its Mission. and Me(bariweiss.substack.com)
109 points by pavelrub 5y ago|59 comments
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by pavelrub 5y ago
The argument you are addressing is a strawman. Nobody claimed that anal sex is limited only to sex between men. Anal sex is, however, far more common in frequency among homosexual men than between heterosexual couples, and significantly inc
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by pavelrub 5y ago
HIV transmission is partially related to attributes that are correlated with sexual orientation, the most prominent of which is the fact that the chance of transmission is much higher for anal sex than it is for vaginal sex.
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by pavelrub 5y ago
The “instruments” are direct visual sighting by several pilots. It’s unclear how you’ve reached the conclusion that #2 is unlikely without knowing how widespread the use of this technology is, and in what circumstances/locations it’s b
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by pavelrub 6y ago
I think this is in general how NASA often operates. Dr. Robert Zubrin has made the same criticism multiple times. Missions are invented in order to provide rationale for previous decisions, instead of it being the other way around.
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by pavelrub 6y ago
You should stop spreading misinformation. The agreement Israel signed doesn't allow Pfizer any access to the "country's health-care database". That's complete nonsense. Nor is there anything even remotely "shad
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by pavelrub 6y ago
The main unknowns aren't around short-term efficacy, but long term immunity. If it turns out that a single dose provides ~80% protection but only for 3 months, whereas the second dose provides strong long-term protection, the one-dose
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by pavelrub 6y ago
The physical Esc key was already added in the previous generation
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by pavelrub 6y ago
I think the larger point is that the goal of vast majority of intelligence gathering programs - and judging by the slides this seems to include PRISM as well - has nothing to do with stopping terrorist attacks, which is a tiny subset of wha
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by pavelrub 6y ago
As I said - assets are routinely called "spies" in colloquial use and in the media, as is evident even in the story that this post links to, as well as countless other media references. > A case office is not an handler, a fie
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by pavelrub 6y ago
That's possible, but your previous comment is still incorrect.
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by pavelrub 6y ago
In everyday colloquial use, the term "spy" applies to what you are calling "embedded assets", whereas the term "trained spy" isn't used professionally at all. A "handler of assets" is a case offi
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by pavelrub 6y ago
> What are the chances of an actual spy being able to beat a lie detector? I'd say not even remotely close to 100%. What is an "actual spy"? Those people are often regular employees with zero relevant training, that are si
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No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s UFO Unit Will Make Some Findings Public(nytimes.com)
67 points by pavelrub 6y ago|11 comments
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by pavelrub 6y ago
The claim that "it's a real thing" doesn't mean anything other than that some people exhibit certain behaviors that some other people decided to group together, give them a name, and put it in DSM-5. None of this refute

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