rtuulik

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by rtuulik 10mo ago
Its free at the endpoint for user. That's what the "free" means here. No one is pretending that resources for things like roads, police, firefighting, primary schooling and others come out of nothingness and don´t have any co
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by rtuulik 1y ago
He is a small guy. He did say that same list would take up to 20L of space if you are larger.
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by rtuulik 1y ago
Its not. For the US, energy use per capita has been trending downwards since 1979. For the developing worlds, increase in energy usage is tied to increasing living standards.
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by rtuulik 1y ago
Roundabouts are a one way road, you don´t need to signal when driving on it. But you do need to indicate when you are leaving the roundabout.
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by rtuulik 2y ago
> When did the soviets deny physical phenomena like the photoelectric effect? I believe they had issues with the kind of non-falsifiable metaphysical arguments put forward to try to explain or understand quantum mechanics. There were man
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by rtuulik 3y ago
> I'll never understand why China spent so much time and money finding the perfect remote karst for radio astronomy and then built a radio-loud amusement park around it. Because it is a prestige project for Chinese government. Any s
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by rtuulik 3y ago
The claim is that Kissinger sabotaged peace talks thus extended the war in order for his guy to win the elections.
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by rtuulik 3y ago
Kissinger is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands people. They had families. They were real people who died. Death doesn´t absolve someone from committing crimes against humanity. To claim that people should only talk about t
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by rtuulik 3y ago
Using drugs is decriminalised.
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by rtuulik 3y ago
The "tiny hands" joke isn´t funny because Donald Trump has tiny hands, no one cares about that or if it is true. The part that makes the joke funny, is its origins. In the 80s journalist was writing a story about Donald and mentio
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by rtuulik 3y ago
For the last 20 years battery cost per kW/h has fallen around 10% average every year. ICE engines have thousands of moving parts driving up the complexity and price, while electric engines have what, 3 moving parts? It is inevitable th
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by rtuulik 5y ago
Do you mean tripwire force? The idea behind them, using your example, is that when the invasion happens, it will kill a number of American troops, whose death will act as a tripwire to triggering full size war. Its one of the methods for de
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by rtuulik 5y ago
Tripwire troops have been in Baltics for a while now. You don´t need to set up a permanent base for that.
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by rtuulik 5y ago
I think "reverse culture shock" covers it somewhat.
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by rtuulik 5y ago
Its not the first female majority parliament in the world, its the first female majority parliament in europe. Right now, there are five countries where there is a female majority: Rwanda(61%), Cuba(53%), Nicaragua(51%), Mexico(50%) and Uni
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by rtuulik 5y ago
> You might think that just because you're a beta male that chastises everyone on every internet forum about 'muh sexism' to win points with the girls, even though they'll never fuck you cause you're beta, you&#x
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by rtuulik 5y ago
Wind is caused by the sun. In a single hour, the amount of power from the sun that strikes the Earth is more than the entire world consumes in an year. Humans are currently using nearly as much energy, as 0,011% of sunlight.
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by rtuulik 5y ago
Estionian Personal Code number works just as a unique identifying number. American Social Security Number work both as an unique identifying number AND as a verification of identity. Basically its similar to estonian ID number, but instead
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by rtuulik 5y ago
Economy size tends to shrink, when nearly half your population decides to leave.
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by rtuulik 6y ago
> "After large-scale political changes I want there be no changes that might affect me personally." .eu domain has certain registration requirements: - A Union citizen, independently of their place of residence. - A natural per
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by rtuulik 6y ago
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-soviets-invented-the-internet...
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by rtuulik 6y ago
If you spend more time with your child, you will also develop this "magical" power.
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by rtuulik 6y ago
Core i3 is fanless. Moving to 5nm should help to give them a decent boost.
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by rtuulik 6y ago
According to Soviet penal code, paragraph 58-1, betrayal of motherland, aka treason. Punishable by death or 25+5 in prison camp. True and proper communist wouldn't have let himself be captured.
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by rtuulik 6y ago
EULA doesn't define legality. That's stated by the state.
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by rtuulik 6y ago
Besides United States, Papua New Guinea and Suriname also do not require employers to provide paid time off for new parents. So US isn´t the only country in the world that doesn´t have paid parental leave. Its one of the three countries in
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by rtuulik 6y ago
Even Dropbox got bashed here for asking money just for linking some hard drives together.
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by rtuulik 6y ago
It already is. People are: A) Wearing masks in public and more avoidant of contact with others. B) Getting Flu vaccine much more popular. It has sold out in the country. and C) Lot of people in the risk groups(where largest share of flu mor
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by rtuulik 6y ago
I don´t know why people overvalue Musk an Tesla that much for reducing emissions. When I ran the numbers last year, a single city in China(Guangzhou) was enough to reduce emissions more than entire Tesla sales, just by replacing all of thei
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by rtuulik 6y ago
What head start in driverless tech? Right now, Tesla isn't even among top companies developing self-driving car technology. Also, it's would pretty naive to think that governments would allow a single company to have such sort of

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