vlehto

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by vlehto 7y ago
That would be the exactly same conclusion Machiavelli made. And I'm not trying to mock anybody here. Machiavelli was very smart dude.
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by vlehto 7y ago
Wind turbines are currently over 100 meters high and installed into places that see lot of wind. It's a rule of thumb that you should keep the natural frequency of any large steel building above 20 hz. Swiching to heavier magnets will
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by vlehto 7y ago
Because with modern nutrition a woman can get pregnant again very soon after giving birth. But that is not healthy for the woman or her babies.
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by vlehto 7y ago
My understanding is that you claimed that education does not help one bit to social mobility. On national level, to big groups of people. I still think that is false and I still have not seen any one example that would even rise a suspicion
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by vlehto 7y ago
>Education doesn't lead to social mobility, redistribution of wealth does. I cannot name a single example that would prove this. Having little education and redistribution of wealth has led to whole nation simply getting poor in eve
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by vlehto 7y ago
If you use the formula for thick walled cylindrical pressure vessel, you hit practical limit with outside diameter being twice the inside diameter. When this happens and you also take into account fatigue, usually about half of the yield st
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by vlehto 7y ago
Nah. The real problem was the Marian reforms. With professional army the imperium was able to expand to a size that was impractical to rule. Also success was so thorough that there were no strong enemies left to practice your troops against
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by vlehto 7y ago
In mechanical engineering the definition for good quality == fills the spec. Nothing more, nothing less.
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by vlehto 7y ago
I think the problem is totally different for those who live to see their projects finished. Then there are people like me who have no such urge. If a person like me can get into the routine of writing (which would be very difficult trick) t
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by vlehto 7y ago
You get exactly the same benefit if government only backs 70% of each student loan. Then it's not profitable loan if the student cannot pay back. But if you keep significant government backing, then the student loans would get lot love
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by vlehto 7y ago
The old school "production lines" are pretty much automated away these days. Most production requiring human labor is custom or small batch jobs. And as a result the real amount of work done is relatively small.
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by vlehto 7y ago
All metals have that property. Aluminum just happens to have relatively low melting energy requirement. Zinc is probably even better for recycling.
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by vlehto 7y ago
>I fear that any savings in CO2 emissions will be useless, due to an increasing world population. Not having kids would help, but suicide would help more. Many things matter, but big things matter more than small things. Electricity, tra
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by vlehto 7y ago
Could you share some typical red flags?
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by vlehto 7y ago
From aviation it could be the De Havilland Comet. But that brought the whole company down. So let's hope this will not go there. Airbus having a monopoly is no ones interest.
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by vlehto 7y ago
>Otherwise you wouldn't know about the effects of climate change. Well actually we don't know. We have maybe a sophisticated guess at best. Knowledge requires data, that by definition cannot be gathered from future. At least no
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by vlehto 7y ago
If we talk about future, everything is random stuff pulled from someones ass. Future cannot be researched, calculated or predicted. You can just be worried about stuff and bet on some solutions to give your children a decent place to live i
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by vlehto 7y ago
Of course. I'm not arguing to get funding here. I'm arguing that if you believe the IPCC storyline about climate change , then nuclear is the only viable option. Building should have started yesterday and the voting public of dem
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by vlehto 7y ago
Predicting the future is always very imprecise. Take a look at the work of Thomas Malthus for taste. If you want accurate numbers, could you first give accurate numbers of future dangers of nuclear? I want precise calculations based on real
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by vlehto 7y ago
It's not about cost, because there is not enough wind, solar, tidal and geothermal energy combined on the British isles to satisfy power consumption. If you take single fuck up, that's been shown in court to be fuck up and then de
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by vlehto 7y ago
Are you doubting nuclear or are you doubting climate change?
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by vlehto 7y ago
If you take climate change stuff seriously, then the answers are these: >How many? As many as you can build. You run out of engineers and carpenters before you make too many reactors in time. >What timeframe? Now. >Costs? Doesn&#x
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by vlehto 7y ago
"Climatic changes already are estimated to cause over 150,000 deaths annually." https://www.who.int/heli/risks/climate/climatechange/en/ Ten fold increase over the next century seems belie
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by vlehto 7y ago
http://withouthotair.com/ "A vital tool agains global warming" means that it's our only possibility. It's not about cost, it's about what is physically possible.
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by vlehto 7y ago
If you are interested in some numbers about the subject, there is very good resource for the case of British isles. The situation is of course different for USA the people per area is different. But you anyhow can get a grasp why renewables
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by vlehto 7y ago
56 year streak to be accurate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War
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by vlehto 7y ago
Another way of looking at the matter is that the invasion route also involves fighting off Indian Defense forces. Independent countries have military for a reason.
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by vlehto 7y ago
The problem with arguing about capitalism is that it has multiple overlapping definitions. You have one definition that any system that has private trade is capitalist. One definition that says any system that has any market intervention is
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by vlehto 7y ago
As mechanically inclined person: "Designed to narrower tolerance" usually just means it's more expensive and accurate. For bearings it's great idea if you want longevity. Allowance on the other hand is completely differe
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by vlehto 7y ago
>Another way of saying this is they've been successful in maintaining strong ties via diplomacy and trade, to the benefit of their peoples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–Pakistan_relations#Milit...

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