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by pluto9 6y ago
> An electric motor doesn't really _need_ all the electronics These ones do. You're probably thinking of brushed motors, like the kind you can buy at Radio Shack as "hobby motors". EVs typically run brushless or induc
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by pluto9 6y ago
Nobody said it was safe. They merely pointed out that some people have to choose between safety and feeding their families.
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by pluto9 6y ago
> The researchers expected that the best programmer would outperform his average counterpart by a factor of two or three. But it turned out that the most skilled programmer far outperformed the worst. He was 20 times faster at coding, 25
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by pluto9 6y ago
What happens when the ship has to turn around to decelerate, with its engines facing the front?
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by pluto9 6y ago
> Think mafia. Sure the thug did illegal crap and you know it, but he isn’t worth arresting. You want the boss. I can't imagine a scenario where blowing up an airplane full of civilians would fall into the category of "not wort
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by pluto9 6y ago
There's a conspicuous number of young dudes who were emperor for a few years or less and stopped being emperor because they died. It seems that emperorhood is bad for one's health.
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by pluto9 6y ago
> marriage is between families too I think that's highly culturally dependent. It may be the case in India, but I know someone (an American) who got married ten years ago. His family and his wife's family met at the wedding, bu
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by pluto9 6y ago
> “There was an expectation when we launched this that it was not a law-enforcement system, Says Erik Caldwell, deputy chief operating officer for the City of San Diego. “That’s true; that’s not the primary purpose,” he adds. “The primar
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by pluto9 6y ago
While this may be a reasonable use case (though personally I might dispute that), what's to stop them from using the same system to fine everybody with expired registration? One crime is obviously more serious than the other, but how s
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by pluto9 6y ago
> They are typically a role model for high school bullies who want to continue to bully after graduation Are you saying that bullies are more likely to become cops if there's an SRO around? I'd really, really like to see a sour
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by pluto9 6y ago
Kind of like how I can't buy an M9, because when it's sold to civilians it's called a Beretta 92F. Must be a totally different weapon.
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by pluto9 6y ago
> And don't try to tell me an AR-15 is the same thing as an M4. For all intents and purposes, they are the same. An M4 has a barrel that is 1.5" shorter than most civilian AR15s and it has a 3-round burst setting that is almost
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by pluto9 6y ago
I wouldn't have the opportunity, because none of my professors ever used such poor reasoning. I'm not surprised to learn that yours do, though. Also, psychology and theology have nothing to do with any of this, and you clearly hav
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by pluto9 6y ago
> hunting riffles, even if there are extremely common in most countries, specially in rural areas, are hardly in the same class of weapon as a bolt action Hunting rifles are almost always bolt actions.
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by pluto9 6y ago
You're making my point for me. Every single one of those is a stupid argument. There are plenty of good arguments to be made for all of those things, but "everyone else does it" is not one of them. Look, if every other countr
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by pluto9 6y ago
I'm gonna rob a bank. In the best case, I'm an instant millionaire and I never get caught. I'm a glass-half-full guy.
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by pluto9 6y ago
I'd never heard of the R51, but after Googling it...good lord. I'd never buy it just based on its appearance. It looks more like a hot glue gun than a pistol.
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by pluto9 6y ago
The Remington 700 is an excellent platform and used to be highly regarded for precision rifles. It was the basis of both the US Army and Marine Corps' bolt-action sniper rifles for many decades (M24 and M40, respectively). Remington&#x
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by pluto9 6y ago
I've never understood the "most developed nations _______" argument. So what? "Most" parties doing something doesn't make it the right choice. In any other discussion this would be rightfully called out as an &
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by pluto9 6y ago
They often won't show up in a timely manner in the city, either. I once called them because I had broken up a fight and one of the people involved ran back to his apartment to get a pistol and was out in the parking lot with his friend
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by pluto9 6y ago
> It seems that what happened is they didn't so much as glance at the pitch deck when "Nerissa Zhang" sent it to them. But then did when "James Zhang" sent them the same deck. You're right, that's exact
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by pluto9 6y ago
Sounds like the vacuum cleaner guy from Breaking Bad.
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by pluto9 6y ago
There could be a small "future tourism" market for people wealthy enough to afford it and willing to leave behind everything and everyone they know. As a way for people to escape a bad present in hopes of a better future, I don&#x
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by pluto9 6y ago
This seems like banning laughter at a comedy club. If this is necessary, maybe they shouldn't be open at all.
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by pluto9 6y ago
An unknown man with her qualifications? No. A man, woman, or rhinoceros with a stellar résumé like her husband's, who I may also know personally, considering that I was on their contact list? Maybe. Let us please stop pretending that t
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by pluto9 6y ago
Surprised no one has mentioned learning a second language yet. I'm currently learning Spanish (one of the easier ones for native English speakers like me to learn, especially being from the American Southwest) and finding myself sudden
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by pluto9 6y ago
> Take a look. It baffles me that people constantly make this low-effort "read the article" remark as if (A) it's not explicitly against the rules here, and (B) it's impossible for two people to read the same article
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by pluto9 6y ago
> She is asking for a fair chance. Where is the evidence that she didn't get one? A fair chance is not a guarantee of funding.
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by pluto9 6y ago
Both strategies are inappropriate because they assume that anything less than funding her startup is an act of bigotry. I wouldn't have responded to her because I don't think her startup is particularly interesting or likely to be
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by pluto9 6y ago
If they were reversed, you could take offense to Alice being the head-in-the-clouds, undisciplined, and unreliable one while Bob is focused, hard-working, and gets the job done. Of course that would be equally silly, because an example is j

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